Sunday, 25 December 2011
PETER CUSHING: FRANKENSTEIN / CUSHING CREATED PUPPETS VINTAGE MAGAZINE FEATURE 1967
VINTAGE MAGAZINE FEATURE ON PETER CUSHING'S HOBBY OF WAR GAMES WITH HIS TOY SOLIDER'S COLLECTION AND HIS VERY IMPRESSIVE TOY THEATER'S. ALL MADE BY HAND. THIS FEATURE AND IT'S TITLE TIES IN HAMMER FILMS 1967 FILM 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN', NUMBER FOUR IN THE HAMMER FILMS FRANKENSTEIN SERIES. IT STARRED CURVY BLONDE EURO STARLET SUSAN DENBURG AS THE CREATION AND THORLEY WALTERS.
AN EARLIER 1950'S PHOTOGRAPH, PETER WITH THE 'WAR GAMES' BIBLE WRITTEN BY WAR GAMES GURU, H.G. WELLS.
PETER CUSHING AND HELEN. THE LONG GRIEF. VINTAGE MAGAZINE FEATURES 1974
WEEKEND MAGAZINE COVER AND NEW REVEILLE VINTAGE UK MAGAZINE COVER MAY 1974. ONE AS PUBLICITY FOR TYBURN FILMS 1974 'THE GHOUL' AND MARKETING FOR PETER'S APPEARANCE AS GRAND MOFF TARKIN IN 'STAR WARS' 1976
DURING THE MID 70'S STORIES LIKE THESE APPEARED MORE AND MORE IN THE RED TOP NEWSPAPERS AND HOME STYLE MAGAZINES. OFTEN AS PART OF A MARKETING AND PUBLICITY DRIVE FOR HIS CURRENT FILM OR TV PROJECT, WHEN PETER WAS INTERVIEWED, INEVITABLY THE STORY ALWAYS RETURNED TO HIS LATE WIFE, HELEN.
PETER CUSHING: PETER AND HELEN'S KENSINGTON HOME LONDON 1960'S
PETER AND HELEN LIVED AT THIS HOME UNTIL THEY MOVED TO THEIR COTTAGE IN SEASALTER. WHITSTABLE, KENT. THERE'S AN INTERESTING HAMMER FILMS/DRACULA CONNECTION WITH THIS 17TH CENTURY HOUSE. IN 1966 HAMMER FILMS RELEASED THEIR SEQUEL TO THE 1958 BOX OFFICE SMASH 'DRACULA' WITH PETER AND CHRISTOPHER LEE. PETER WAS NOT CAST IN THE SEQUEL, BUT THE PROLOGUE SCENE TO 'DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS' DID INCLUDE PETER, BEING THE CLIMAX FINAL SCENE OF THE 58 'DRACULA'.
WHEN IT CAME TO THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PETER'S APPEARANCE PAYMENT, IT WAS SETTLED THAT HAMMER WOULD PAY FOR THE RE ROOFING OF THIS HOME IN KENSINGTON!
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Friday, 23 December 2011
PETER CUSHING: RARE 'VIGIL IN THE NIGHT' PCASUK PROMO PETERCUSHINGBLOG.BLOGSPOT.COM
THE 1940 RKO FILM 'VIGIL IN THE NIGHT' IS A VERY EARLY ENTRY IN PETER'S LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER. STARRING CAROLE LOMBARD, ANNE SHIRLEYAND BRIAN AHERNE, PETER, IN WHAT WAS ONLY HIS FOURTH FILM APPEARANCE PLAYS JOE SHAND. A ROLE THAT HAD HE NOT RETURNED TO THE UK, MAY HAVE PAVED THE WAY TO THE POTENTIAL OF A VERY DIFFERENT CAREER IN HOLLYWOOD.
'ONE SCENE DOES NOT MAKE A SCREEN STAR, BUT MORE THAN ONE HOLLYWOOD LUMINARY RECEIVED HIS FIRST IMPETUS TOWARD STARDOM BY A SINGLE STARKLY DRAMATIC SEQUENCE.
SUCH A SCENE AS THAT.... MAY WELL LAUNCH ENGLISH NEWCOMER PETER CUSHING ON A TOP FLIGHT CAREER. CUSHING, WHO LANDED IN HOLLYWOOD WITH LESS THAN ONE DOLLAR IN HIS JEANS, PLAYS ANNE SHIRLEY'S HUSBAND IN THE STORY. SO HIGHLY DID THE PRODUCER/ DIRECTOR GEORGE STEVENS REGARD PETER' WORK IN THE EARLY SCENES THAT HE HAD A SEQUENCE WRITTEN INTO THE SCRIPT WHICH GIVES CUSHING THE CHANCE EVERY ASPIRING YOUNG ACTOR DREAMS ABOUT. IT IS THE SCENE WITH THE YOUNG ACTOR RANTING AND RAVING AT CAROLE LOMBARD AS A NURSE AND BRIAN AHERNE AS THE DOCTOR.
MORE THAN ONE MALE STAR HAS HIT HIS STRIDE WITH JUST SUCH HIGH KEYED HISTRIONICS!'
PRESS RELEASE RKO PRESS BOOK. 1940
Thursday, 22 December 2011
PETER CUSHING AND INGRID PITT: CANDID SHOT ON SET OF HAMMER FILMS 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS'
A WONDERFUL CANDID SHOT OF PETER CUSHING AND INGRID PITT ON THE SET OF ROY WARD BAKER'S 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS' HAMMER FILMS 1970
OUR THANKS TO DAN DORMAN FOR THIS SHOT!
PETER CUSHING INTERVIEW: VINTAGE CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN MAGAZINE
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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