Bonus Video! Angela Lansbury's Foot Fetishist, Revealed!
Added 2022-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTCHello there! Oh wow do I have a fun clip for you in this week's bonus video. An interview with Angela Lansbury where she reveals the director who cast her because he had a THING for pretty actress' feet. Would you believe it was Cecil B. DeMille??? I guess now we know why he made all those sandal pictures. Also this week -- another reading from the works of Joan Crawford, and Angela performing a goofy song at the Oscars with Joan Collins and Dana Wynter. And then Angela performing a goofy dance with Barbara Walters. Plus a little peek at my bookshelves and at the timeline I put together to assist with my recent Lansbury video. And a call for folks to send me their favorite Leslie Jordan videos!
Backup link if the embed isn't working:
https://youtu.be/4k2_8uNBzUg
Here's Joan Crawford reading her book: https://youtu.be/RXDPQmLit8w
Here's the 1958 Oscars song: https://youtu.be/ta-0orf0j7g
And the 1959 song with Angela et al: https://youtu.be/CKJdPqOMGkA
Comments
Oh wow that's so wonderful! Glad to hear he was such an enthusiastic letter-writer. And thank you for the links Karin, I'd never seen Stanley Baxter before so I'll definitely go back and watch more!
Matt Baume
2023-03-10 12:54:22 +0000 UTCHi Matt - glad you have discovered Kenneth! He was a prolific letter writer and I wrote to him myself when he was due to do the Wogan show and he promptly replied! I have a about 5 letters (just notes really often only a couple of sentences) in reply to me and he also sent me one of his books! Karin, i don't think being interviewer really suited him - he was much better as a guest - in fact an interviewer's dream guest as could rattle off a recolection or story - as interviewer he was a bit stiff! Pete x
Pete-UK
2023-03-10 11:45:25 +0000 UTCHi Matt, My compliments for your interesting videos, I recently joined Patron, and I am working my way through all bonus videos. Nice that you mentioned Kenneth Williams. Although English is not my native language, I am very fascinated by this man and his works. You compared him to Stephen Fry. Stephen actually made one of his early appearances on television in a show called "Wogan" for which Kenneth was the guest host for 3 nights (Terry Wogan being the original host) in April 1986. Here is a YouTube clip of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8oyS_LS920. (I don't know what to make of the dynamics between these two men, what do you think?) Another entertainer associated with Kenneth Williams is Stanley Baxter, they first met during post WW2 days in the army. Stanley Baxter is "worldfamous" in Great Britain for his elaborate TV shows in the 70s and 80s - with lot of drag. He is 96 years now, and came out in 2020 as gay. Here is his spoof on Towering Inferno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhff2VuEUNE. Great legs!
Karin Storm
2023-03-06 13:03:26 +0000 UTCMy mother had one of those as well. I remember being fascinated by the βbonnetβ and the case for it as a young boy. LOL
QueBijoux
2022-11-16 14:29:58 +0000 UTCI agree with Grace. In my house growing up in the early 70's, my mother had a for-the-home bonnet-style hair dryer, and she after styling my grandmothers' hair, she would dry both my grandmothers' updo hairstyles with that thing. It wasn't until the latter part of the 70's that we got a gun-style blow dryer like we know today, and even then, for my grandmothers, she continued to use the kind they used to stick their heads under, drying their hairdos slowly while reading a magazine.
David A. Diaz
2022-11-13 20:35:52 +0000 UTCI must shout out Southern Baptist Sissies, Leslie Jordan had a very touching performance that I loved. Here's a clip I found from his IG after he'd passed: https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYnPgGgZ6b/
Justin
2022-11-07 23:11:30 +0000 UTCThe link works fine
Nicole Brett
2022-11-07 21:58:05 +0000 UTCMuch. I mean, regular people didn't have them in their *homes*.... Any hotel she stayed at probably had an on-site salon, though, and could take one from there, I guess. Riders are sometime quite ludicrous.
E Grace Noonan
2022-11-07 03:47:48 +0000 UTCI know!!! I wonder what other gossip she and Edith shared.
Matt Baume
2022-11-06 22:36:52 +0000 UTCOh wow just imagine demanding one of those for a hotel room. Then again maybe they were more common then than they were today?
Matt Baume
2022-11-06 22:36:30 +0000 UTCArgh, sorry about that! I added the link -- and if you can, let me know if you're getting an error message so I can keep troubleshooting with Patreon/Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/mattbaume/angelabonus2
Matt Baume
2022-11-06 22:35:34 +0000 UTCHi Matt could you add the link the embedded video still doesnβt work for me
Nicole Brett
2022-11-06 22:01:27 +0000 UTCI love how more clips keep being added on to the end, it's getting just like your crowded livestream screen!π
Gillian
2022-11-06 20:17:23 +0000 UTCI am almost certain Joan Crawford meant a salon-level stand dryer. Hand held dryers were very uncommon even in the '70s. Would love to see you a bit on Leslie Jordan in Sordid Lives. He was a very good dramatic artist.
E Grace Noonan
2022-11-06 20:09:39 +0000 UTCAnd I was thinking it was because it was such a great role, even her *mother* would have been nominated.
E Grace Noonan
2022-11-06 19:57:02 +0000 UTCI love how casually she dropped the foot fetish in that interview. π€£
Kyndra Maddox-Buster
2022-11-06 19:51:27 +0000 UTCIn your timeline, you left out Angela's appearance in Mary Poppins Returns. She had her own song, and it was a nice parallel to the Bird Woman in the original. Plus Angela passing the last balloon to Emily Blunt is sort of a symbolic passing the torch. In the original, the Bird Woman was played by Oscar winner Jane Darwell in her final film role, and Walt made sure to treat her like Hollywood royalty during the shoot even though her glory days had long passed.
TBoneSF
2022-11-06 19:50:27 +0000 UTCFor those on iPads: https://vimeo.com/767687380/6b7e308ba4 I remember the Barbara Walters interview with Angela. It was a thing that Walters would ask questions no other interviewer would ask for her ABC specials, and she really leaned into it and tried to get people to cry. Personally, I thought that she and Larry King were overrated as interviewers. If you look at the clip from The View that you showed, it seems like Angela kind of brushes over her greeting with Barbara and doesn't really look at her. Angela was a true pro but I don't think she ever forgot a slight.
Trevor
2022-11-06 19:35:11 +0000 UTCRosalind Russell played Mame in the 1958 movie version of the play Auntie Mame and originated the role on Broadway. (She got nominated for an Oscar and a Tony respectively but didn't win either one). Maybe the read is in line with the idea of "you've done the role so much that even your mother could do it"? Not that great of a read either way.
Jackie Schneider
2022-11-06 18:37:21 +0000 UTC
