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<blockquote data-quote="Brian Kinney" data-source="post: 347263" data-attributes="member: 3219"><p>Whose career was worse than Dunaway's after the 70s?... But I agree she was one of the best in the 70s because she made two films which were considered instant classics, <em>Network</em> and <em>Chinatown</em>. <em>Three Days of the Condor</em> is excellent too. <em>Eyes of Laura Mars</em> isn't good but entertaining and a bit campy. However there was also a series of failures between 1979 and 1984: <em>The Champ, The First Deadly Sin, Mommie Dearest, The Wicked Lady, Ordeal By Innocence</em> and <em>Supergirl</em>. That's a lot and it didn't start with <em>Mommie Dearest</em>. With <em>Barfly</em> in 1987 she begun a second career in independent or foreign productions, occasionally good as <em>Don Juan de Marco</em> or <em>The Rules of Attraction</em> but mostly uninteresting. As good as she was in <em>Chinatown</em> where she had at least some warmth I found her often too distant or cold as a person which was perfect for <em>Network</em> though.</p><p></p><p>I liked that too. Indeed one of the better episodes and one in which she showed a gentler side.</p><p></p><p></p><p>There were also Jill Clayburgh and Liv Ullman for arthouse films. Catherine Deneuve was a star not just in France from the 1960s until recently but especially in the 70s.</p><p></p><p>But you all forgot the biggest female star of the 1970s: Mrs. SHEILA ALLEN! Not the British actress but the one who appeared in everything her husband, producer and director Irvin Allen filmed. Starting in his 1960s schlocky TV series <em>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space</em> and <em>Land of the Giants</em> as Sheila Mathews she was a living casting couch for him I guess. She was Allen's muse and the 1970s disaster movies are not imaginable without her: <em>The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno </em>(<a href="https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-towering-inferno-1974.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">as </span></a>"the mayor’s way-too-many-close-ups-for-the-size-of-her-role wife") <em>When Time Ran Out... </em></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41987[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>If you think about how would Miss Piggy dress as Lana Turner think of 1970's goddess Sheila Mathews Allen (1929-2013) in <em>Towering Inferno</em>. Perfection!</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Sheila also appeared in one episode of <em>Falcon Crest</em> as "Michael's Secretary" (boring Ranson not hot Sharpe) but at that point Dunaway had to fight Supergirl - so who came out as the winner?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]41988[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>F.l.t.r: Jennifer Jones (trying to look like Liz Taylor in 1981) , Faye Dunaway knows her dress can't compete with the pink tornado that fits Sheila Allen.</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think <em>Ghostbusters</em> and <em>Supergirl </em>are both boring but the FX in the latter are worse. I love <em>E.T. </em>and <em>The Lonely Lady</em>. Pia Zadora's award speech scene should be in the Oscar clip reels with other masterpieces as Henry Fonda in <em>Grapes of Wrath</em>, Bette Davis in <em>All About Eve</em> or Divine in <em>Polyester</em>. I don't know why the haters doubted Zadora's Golden Globe win for another movie. She was great in <em>Butterfly</em> where her acting impressed Orson Welles. Can anyone imagine Meryl Streep doing a better job than Zadora did with that part in <em>Lonely Lady</em>? No! That was a powerful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Lady" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(84, 172, 210)">manifesto</span></a> ("adapted from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Robbins" target="_blank">Harold Robbins</a>' 1976 novel of the same name, believed to have been based on Robbins' memories of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Susann" target="_blank">Jacqueline Susann")</a> before the hashtag for metoo was invented.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brian Kinney, post: 347263, member: 3219"] Whose career was worse than Dunaway's after the 70s?... But I agree she was one of the best in the 70s because she made two films which were considered instant classics, [I]Network[/I] and [I]Chinatown[/I]. [I]Three Days of the Condor[/I] is excellent too. [I]Eyes of Laura Mars[/I] isn't good but entertaining and a bit campy. However there was also a series of failures between 1979 and 1984: [I]The Champ, The First Deadly Sin, Mommie Dearest, The Wicked Lady, Ordeal By Innocence[/I] and [I]Supergirl[/I]. That's a lot and it didn't start with [I]Mommie Dearest[/I]. With [I]Barfly[/I] in 1987 she begun a second career in independent or foreign productions, occasionally good as [I]Don Juan de Marco[/I] or [I]The Rules of Attraction[/I] but mostly uninteresting. As good as she was in [I]Chinatown[/I] where she had at least some warmth I found her often too distant or cold as a person which was perfect for [I]Network[/I] though. I liked that too. Indeed one of the better episodes and one in which she showed a gentler side. There were also Jill Clayburgh and Liv Ullman for arthouse films. Catherine Deneuve was a star not just in France from the 1960s until recently but especially in the 70s. But you all forgot the biggest female star of the 1970s: Mrs. SHEILA ALLEN! Not the British actress but the one who appeared in everything her husband, producer and director Irvin Allen filmed. Starting in his 1960s schlocky TV series [I]Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space[/I] and [I]Land of the Giants[/I] as Sheila Mathews she was a living casting couch for him I guess. She was Allen's muse and the 1970s disaster movies are not imaginable without her: [I]The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno [/I]([URL='https://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-towering-inferno-1974.html'][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]as [/COLOR][/URL]"the mayor’s way-too-many-close-ups-for-the-size-of-her-role wife") [I]When Time Ran Out... [/I] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Sheila.jpg"]41987[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3][B]If you think about how would Miss Piggy dress as Lana Turner think of 1970's goddess Sheila Mathews Allen (1929-2013) in [I]Towering Inferno[/I]. Perfection![/B][/SIZE] Sheila also appeared in one episode of [I]Falcon Crest[/I] as "Michael's Secretary" (boring Ranson not hot Sharpe) but at that point Dunaway had to fight Supergirl - so who came out as the winner? [ATTACH type="full" alt="towering.jpg"]41988[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3][B]F.l.t.r: Jennifer Jones (trying to look like Liz Taylor in 1981) , Faye Dunaway knows her dress can't compete with the pink tornado that fits Sheila Allen.[/B][/SIZE] I think [I]Ghostbusters[/I] and [I]Supergirl [/I]are both boring but the FX in the latter are worse. I love [I]E.T. [/I]and [I]The Lonely Lady[/I]. Pia Zadora's award speech scene should be in the Oscar clip reels with other masterpieces as Henry Fonda in [I]Grapes of Wrath[/I], Bette Davis in [I]All About Eve[/I] or Divine in [I]Polyester[/I]. I don't know why the haters doubted Zadora's Golden Globe win for another movie. She was great in [I]Butterfly[/I] where her acting impressed Orson Welles. Can anyone imagine Meryl Streep doing a better job than Zadora did with that part in [I]Lonely Lady[/I]? No! That was a powerful [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Lady'][COLOR=rgb(84, 172, 210)]manifesto[/COLOR][/URL] ("adapted from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Robbins']Harold Robbins[/URL]' 1976 novel of the same name, believed to have been based on Robbins' memories of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Susann']Jacqueline Susann")[/URL] before the hashtag for metoo was invented. [/QUOTE]
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