Fun TV Horror thriller bout dark scandals behind a bright star of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Lorna Love, the biggest screen siren of her time was also muse and mistress to Joel Gregory's (Robt Wagner) father, and now writer Joel, with wife (Kate Jackson) have returned to write the real story beneath the glitz and glamour by interviewing her old-time movie industry contemporaries: her housekeeper (Sylvia Sydney}, suspiciously mum as housekeepers always tend to be in these things; the Director (John Carradine) she loved and tossed away; her main Love Goddess competition (Dorothy Lamour--what a coup to get her cast in this part!) and her Biggest Fan (Joan Blondell, at 70 still the firecracker she was 17 starting out in the biz--and she went on to rack up 13 more credits in the next 3 years till her death at 73 in 1979!)
Bizarre over-the-top occult plot finds Joel seeming to fall in love with the ever-lovely ghost of his father's mistress while someone or something makes attempts on his wife's life to get her out of the picture, literally, at one point.
Some nice camerawork chasing up and down staircases and thru passageways. A lovely waltz, I call it Lorna's Love Theme, stolen straight out of Sondheim's "Night Music", but where better to steal from? And an impressive score that perfectly evokes the lush soundtracks of Hollywood in the 30's and 40's
Fun.
Lorna Love, the biggest screen siren of her time was also muse and mistress to Joel Gregory's (Robt Wagner) father, and now writer Joel, with wife (Kate Jackson) have returned to write the real story beneath the glitz and glamour by interviewing her old-time movie industry contemporaries: her housekeeper (Sylvia Sydney}, suspiciously mum as housekeepers always tend to be in these things; the Director (John Carradine) she loved and tossed away; her main Love Goddess competition (Dorothy Lamour--what a coup to get her cast in this part!) and her Biggest Fan (Joan Blondell, at 70 still the firecracker she was 17 starting out in the biz--and she went on to rack up 13 more credits in the next 3 years till her death at 73 in 1979!)
Bizarre over-the-top occult plot finds Joel seeming to fall in love with the ever-lovely ghost of his father's mistress while someone or something makes attempts on his wife's life to get her out of the picture, literally, at one point.
Some nice camerawork chasing up and down staircases and thru passageways. A lovely waltz, I call it Lorna's Love Theme, stolen straight out of Sondheim's "Night Music", but where better to steal from? And an impressive score that perfectly evokes the lush soundtracks of Hollywood in the 30's and 40's
Fun.