Wallace Wood ’s cover illustration for the pre-Comics Code Strange Worlds (above) appears to be modeled on the face and form of Anita Ekberg (below).
[Thanks to the legendary Bhob Stewart for posting the Wood cover at his Potrzebie site.]Thursday, May 14, 2009
When Women Had Waists - Part 3
[Thanks to the legendary Bhob Stewart for posting the Wood cover at his Potrzebie site.]
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No if only the suits at Columbia can be convinced that the time is overdue for a DVD release of Screaming Mimi, cited by some as the proto-Giallo film.
Agreed re Screaming Mimi.
The same director, Gerd Oswald, did another film with Ekberg called Valerie. I've never seen it, but it sounds fascinating. An IMDB user comment describes it as "an interesting western about a husband (Sterling Hayden) who shoots his wife (Anita Ekberg) and her parents. The story is told in flashback from both husband and wife, each story contradicting the other" - in short, an American Rashomon!
A third Gerd Oswald film that I would like to see released on DVD is Brainwashed - his masterpiece - starring Curt Jurgens as a neurotic chessmaster.
I prefer the way female movie stars looked in the 50s. Kim Novak in The Man with the Golden Arm, etc. The only contemporary actress who could've given those women a run for their money is Charlize Theron in 2 Days in the Valley. Have any of you seen that turd of film recently? She might be the hottest actress in the history of cinema in that movie. For real.
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