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| "Merry Christmas Mama" |
I could watch this over, and over.
How did Sandra Dee end up with a hairdo that made her look older than her mother (Constance Ford) in 1959's A Summer Place?
And the lines they gave her!
"Am I a bad girl, Johnny?"
If you have to ask, then you're too good for your own good.
My friend Clark, whose mother roomed with Suzanne Pleshette during Suzanne's only semester in college, recalls getting to meet Constance Ford on the set of Pleshette's movie "Rome Adventure", a cheap knockoff of Three Coins in the Fountain in that both movies deal with American young women living in Rome and finding themselves mixed up with the wrong guy.
Upon being introduced, Clark's mother said that enjoyed Ford's performance in A Summer Place.
"I love playing a bitch," said Ford. Clark mom said that she found the Christmas scene between Ford and Dee very intense. "I loved almost slapping Sandra," said Ford with a twinkle in her eye.
Evidently, there was a nylon thread tied to the top of the fake tree that would pull the tree back so it would not injure Sandra's face. If you notice the tree flies up a little. Can't have the star's face damaged by a cheap tree from the five and dime.
Had the tree actually hit her and messed her hair, it may have helped.
ReplyDeleteEven in the next seen, there is no red mark on her face from the slap. Even Continuity and Make Up dropped that ball.
Deletewow, you are absolutely correct, cookie! "look at me, I'm sandra dee, lousy with virginity..."
ReplyDeleteCo-starring, I might add, with America's newest leading man, Troy Donahue, WHO by the way went onto marry and divorce Suzanne Pleshette.
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