Sunday 25 December 2011

DR WHO AND THE DALEKS: UK FRONT OF HOUSE STILLS: PETER CUSHING JENNIE LINDEN



PETER CUSHING: CAROLINE MUNRO DOUG MCCLURE PHOTOBUSTERS AND IMAGES FROM AMICUS 1976 AT THE EARTH'S CORE









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: WOMAN'S WEEKLY VINTAGE FEATURE 1975



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!

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

PETER CUSHING CHRISTOPHER LEE THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN HFF PROMO

PETER CUSHING: HAMMER FRANKENSTEIN FRIDAY TODAY. GREAT PHOTOBUSTERS FROM 'REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN' 58



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