Showing posts with label grandmother. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandmother. Show all posts

Sunday 18 September 2016

#ONSETSATURDAY: NEW CANDID CUSHING AND LEE CHAT : BLANKETS FOR VAMPIRES AND DRAC'S ON ICE!



#ONSETSATURDAY : LAST MEETING: Here's a NEW CLIP from our 'The Last Meeting' footage of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee meeting for the last time in 1994. This is a clip is a cracker, were Peter asks Christopher Lee to tell him some of his favourite anecdotes. Lee of course obliges with impressions too! So, here for the last time, Peter giggles at the stories of actor Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir John Gielgud ,Sir Noël Coward...and Chuck Connors!!!! Enjoy. More clips HERE at our PCAS YOU TUBE channel!


#onsetsaturday : Here is quite a commonly seen behind the scenes still from Hammer's 1958 Dracula, but no one ever seems to notice that the 'un-credited actress' playing Valerie Gaunt's aged vampire, is in fact snuggled up all toasty-like with a blanket around her LEGS! The stories of Bray studio's stages being like a arctic winter are well known, the elderly lady was obviously feeling the chill...despite vampires..already being DEAD!


When we interviewed Michael Gough in the early 1990's he remembered the actress quite well shooting her scene, and that she was also shocked and a little upset when she arrived at the studio that morning, having been told, the job was 'no lines playing a sleeping grand-mother'! She wasn't happy at all! But after a comforting cup of tea, decided to carry on...... Hammer were obviously spoiling her..blanket, cups of tea...


#ONSETSATURDAY : STILL ON THE DRACULA THREAD, but minus Peter Cushing and his Van Helsing, here is a rare on set colour transparency shot from Hammer's 'DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE', with actor Ewan Hopper as a 'faith-faltering' Priest, about to resurrect, the 'Lord of the Undead', Dracula who lies just under the ice! One trickle of blood from the holy father's head, is all it's going to take!



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Sunday 10 May 2015

MOTHERS DAY : SO WHO INTRODUCED YOU TO THE FILMS OF PETER CUSHING?


Come and join in with YOUR story over at our  Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page FEATURE right NOW! https://www.facebook.com/petercushingblog

So, WHO introduced you to Peter Cushing and his work..his films, his name? And why are we asking that question on Mother's Day in the US? Well, there's a simple answer. Through out our time here on facebook, many of you tell us about the first Cushing film you saw, usually as a kid 10 13 maybe, some caught them on the US Horror Movie Hosts shows, some of you here in the UK caught your first Cushing moivie during the double bill seasons that ran on BBC tv during the 70's and 80's....but there is one factor that comes up in most, not all, but many....You watched your first Hammer horror or Horror film featuring Peter Cushing with your MUM / MOM/ MOTHER even grandmother...and sometimes with your Dad too, curled up wide eyed...but loving it! So, tells us was your Mother the monster kid in your home? Maybe it was your Mum AND your Dad? We'd love you to share your stories...C'mon someone held your hand...


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