Little Jill killed her husband!!!
Read the bio of Tammy Marihugh, the little girl who played Stack's daughter. By the way, terrific performance.
shareAnd got away with it. Probation. He was apparently an abusive jerk, probably because as a body builder his brain was fried on steroids.
I was more interested to learn she became an exotic dancer and later a Vegas showgirl. Prostitute, in short. Before she married a body builder ten years her junior for target practice, that is. I wonder what she looked like in her 20s and 30s. (Born June 7, 1952, she's 62 now, and called "Tamra".)
I was more interested to learn she became an exotic dancer and later a Vegas showgirl. Prostitute, in short. Before she married a body builder ten years her junior for target practice, that is. I wonder what she looked like in her 20s and 30s. (Born June 7, 1952, she's 62 now, and called "Tamra".)
... imagining that shrill scream, roughened by years of booze and cigarettes. *shiver* share
Yeah, but I bet she could still cry real convincingly for the jury. Stack should have just let her drop.
Great name for a guy on an ocean liner, though: Stack. Add "-ed" to it and it no doubt describes little "Tamra" in her stripper years.
I couldn't help but think of the contrast to how a couple years ago, Angela Dorian aka Victoria Vetri, 60s playboy model, King Tut moll on "Batman" and star of "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" got nine years in jail for attempted murder of her husband (and is still in).
Tammi had also been in the classic Twilight Zone episode "Death Ship" as Ross Martin's daughter.
That's right, I read about VV's brush with the law, as it were. I liked her in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. For her thespian abilities, of course.
Remember the 1960 film The Crowded Sky? One of the supporting actors in that was a guy named Tom Gilson, who played a method actor on his way to Hollywood with his agent (Patsy Kelly). He did a few TV episodes and had an uncredited bit as Burt Lancaster's first cellmate in Birdman of Alcatraz -- a young, blond guy who didn't seem to have much range. Anyway, one of the minor actresses in The Crowded Sky was a girl named Sandra Edwards, who played an uncredited part as the other stewardess (opposite Anne Francis). She and Gilson apparently met on the set, married not long after and had a child. But things fell apart quickly and they separated in 1962. In October that year Gilson came back to their house, apparently drunk and threatening, and Sandra shot him to death (which kind of explains why I never saw him in anything made after 1962). She was deemed to have acted in self-defense and was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the scandal ended her acting career.
Of course, little Tammi, little Vicki and little Sandra weren't the only Hollywood performers to knock off their significant others and get away with it, but in some cases it's a little disillusioning.
Right, Tammi Marihugh was in that TZ episode "Death Ship". Seems a clear case of typecasting if you ask me. What was next? A role in a revival of Vessel of Wrath? No wonder she turned to stripping. Much more fulfilling.
Of course, little Tammi, little Vicki and little Sandra weren't the only Hollywood performers to knock off their significant others and get away with it, but in some cases it's a little disillusioning.
Yes, how could we forget the ultimate example in Claudine Longet? share
Do you remember back in 1976 (or whenever Claudine was yelling "Pull!" at her husband), SNL had a skit involving the broadcast of "The Claudine Longet Ski Tournament"? In it they ran stock footage of skiers falling when they lost their balance or fell somehow. A "narrator" offered commentary on the event, and right at the split second when a skier tumbled, you'd hear a rifle shot on the soundtrack, and the narrator would exclaim, "Oh, what a beautiful shot! Claudine is in good form today!" (or words to that effect), the goal of the tournament being to see how many of the skiers could get past her without being gunned down.
On the up side, Andy Williams stood by her.
Speaking of which, Robert Stack was a champion skeet shooter. He was even supposed to be on the 1940 U.S. Olympic team but something intervened to stop the games. Maybe he taught Tammi the finer points of marksmanship 20 years later.
The only reason I saw that SNL bit was because that was in the episode Raquel Welch hosted and I of course must have everything she did (except Myra Breckenridge) :). I read that it was Andy Williams who forced them to apologize for it the next week.
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