THE LOVE GODDESSES - "A Documentary" (1965)

 Here's a great Saturday Night Special for you, a documentary from 1965 called "The Love Goddesses!"

 "The Love Goddesses" is a wild ride not unlike this slide which was one of my favorite rides as a kid. I'm not sure where this one was, maybe Pacific Ocean Park, or The Pike in Long Beach, or the one I remember the most, on The Boardwalk in Santa Cruz!

 "The Love Goddesses" is the story of sex in the movies," or at least that's what the tagline says! 

It's really more like the story of women's sexy roles in the movies from the 1920's to the 1960's, starting with the innocence of Lillian Gish!

 They all had their place in cinematic history, but some you might not have ever heard of like Louise Glaum, but "The Tiger Woman" as she was known, was one of silent screen's most infamous and exotic vamps!

 

 Theda Bara is considered to be the very first vamp in film, and along with Claudette Colbert, and Elizabeth Taylor, she shared the role of the notorious Egyptian Queen, "Cleopatra!"

Unfortunately Nita Naldi is not a household name any more, but she certainly could be again if enough of you watch this movie! Her first film was the 1920 version of "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde," but it was the 1922 feature "Blood and Sand," when Nita starred opposite Rudolph Valentino, that her career really took off. "Blood And Sand" is considered the last of the vamp roles filmed after Clara Bow showed that good girls knew about sex too!

 Clara Bow is hot in "Hula."

 "The Love Goddesses" is a documentary, so almost every shot would be worth showing you, and since we try to limit these things to about twenty photos, many actresses got left out, but Claudette Colbert is not one of them!

 Jeanette MacDonald was a singer who has more credits for soundtracks than she did for movies, and in 1939, she was voted "Queen of the Movies" by 22 million fans in a New York Daily News survey.
She had even further popularity later as a singing duo with Nelson Eddy.

Louise Brooks or 'Brooksie"was born in Cherryvale, Kansas, and was quite the trendsetter in the 20's because of her bobbed hair style.

The very independent Louise epitomized the flapper age and when finished acting, she became an accomplished author!

With this massive array of talent in one film, it was very difficult trying to figure out who to include, but when you use a term like 'Love Goddess,' there's no way you can't include the always delightful Mae West..............

.............Or the amazing Marlene Dietrich!

From 1932, here's a 24 year old Bette Davis as Madge Norwood in "The Cabin In The Cotton."

The list of Goddesses goes on and on and includes the likes of the ravishing Rita Hayworth!

Sophia Loren starred in "It Started In Naples," with Clark Gable, and is the only color film used in this documentary.

 Elizabeth Taylor is on everybody's list of the greatest everythings!

French sex kitten Brigitte Bardot can never be forgotten!

And then.......Of course there's Marilyn!

The names and photos of all the beautiful "Love Goddesses" I've left out like Ingrid Bergman, Anita Ekberg, Greta Garbo, Betty Grable, Jean Harlow,  Audrey Hepburn, Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Lamour,  Carole Lombard, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner etc. is magnanimously sinful, so to make up for it, here's a link to The Internet Archive where you can watch this cool piece of history for yourself. Just in case you don't know, you'll be either shocked or pleasantly surprised how much nudity there was back in the 20's before everybody got so damn uptight!

"THE LOVE GODDESSES"

MR. HYDE / Dan Schies - Monster Kid Home Movies - 1973

Welp, here we go again, another Monster Kid Home Movie from the past. This time we have a cool little story where a stupid kid makes a monster cocktail that turns him into the notorious Mr.Hyde... Hey, great title, but, I had to make a title card for them.

This is what's his name, he drinks down his brew, glug, glug, glug...

Hory Clap, I don't feel so great. Gimme a few minutes here...

Low and behold, his effort paid off. He looks pretty scary, only, he's wearing a 'shock' mask he bought from Captain Company in the back of a Famous Monsters!

Whoa! The first thing he does is find his sister and chokes her out until she's dead!! The guy's a maniac, his little sister, kaput.

Then, he goes to the mall and attacks a bunch of people there before he escapes outside.

He pushes this kid down at the grammar school, and apparently he's dead!

This girl is telling her friend that there's a crazy person coming their way. The girl runs away and her friend is caught by Mr. Hyde and she goes down for the count.

Then, he pushes a kid off his bike, picks the bike up and brings it down hard on the little guy!!

Some little guy with a freakish wig shows up and pushes a stake into the crazed maniac...

Here comes the big one Elizabeth!!

As the boy watches, Mr. Hyde changes back to his regular self! And it's his friend.

Well, at least they made an ending card, of course it has a question mark. Will Mr. Hyde ever recover from being killed? We'll never know!! So like, we're back tomorrow with something special for you, here at The Dungeon!!..

YOU ASKED FOR IT - "Episode Six" (1951)

Well, you didn't really ask for it, but you're gonna get it anyway!

Time for another journey down the dusty trail of TV history on this Weird Wednesday in The Dungeon!

 "Television's Greatest All Time Request Show!"

And I believe it's true. I know one thing, I sure looked forward to watching it when I was a kid!

 Lot of puns and lots of funs!

The host of the show from 1951 to 1958 was actor Art Baker. Art's last appearance on the silver screen was as a mortician in "The Wild Angels."

 And all brought to you courtesy of Skippy Peanut Butter, creamy and crunchy!

 "You Ask For It" was just what the name implies. Viewers would mail in questions, and the show would try and give answers. The first question on this particular show was what was faster, an Abacus, also known as a Chinese adding machine dating back centurues, or a modern electric adding machine!

 These were the equations presented to the contestants!

 The modern adding machine that looks antique by today's standards won the contest by a mere six seconds!

 The next question posed was if the show would expose the faker spiritualist mediums that were bilking the public out of 125 million dollars a year!

The old "switcheroo" like with this blackboard was one of several things exposed!

Another was this horn-like device that could make the medium's disguised voice sound like it was coming from different parts of the room!

 Life used to be so simple!!

The next question was "I have heard of calypso singers and dancers from Tinidad who can make up a song or a dance about any subject at all, but I'm never seen them, are there any in this country?"

 So out come Calypso Joe and Coco-Te, who the host says introduced American theatre to Calypso!

 Coco-Te sings a song with lyrics like "Oh, the atom bomb make big explosion, let's hope it's not for world destruction, we've got to have peace and harmony, so our children have peace and prosperity!"

 Believe it or not, but it is total coincidence that Tabonga just wrote up a calypso movie!

 "If you like peanuts, you'll love Skippy!"

 Virginia Hull from Salt Lake City sent in the last question for this show, and it's a good one!

"My husband says that wrestlers are just big gorillas with a lot of muscles and no brains, but I just think he's just plain jealous and I tell him so, but I'm asking to see one of my favorites do something on your show that takes brains outside of the ring"

 So for this segment, they bring out one of the most famous wrestlers of all time, Gorgeous George to do some card tricks, and he's pretty good!

 Years ago I read that in the 50's, Gorgeous George was the main reason that people bought TV sets!

That's how popular or unpopular, however you want to look at it, that he was!

You can find lots of episodes like this one on the always cool Internet Archive,

and there are also episodes that have Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr. on them, and it's all free!

You can't lose!!