Didn't like the scene at the party where Pamela Tiffin and Carol Lynley bad mouth Gene Tierney's looks. Sure, she was older in this picture, but in her hey day she would've wiped the floor with Carol Lynley. Don't think it was very cool to diss one of the legendary Fox beauties. JMO
share"Didn't like the scene at the party where Pamela Tiffin and Carol Lynley bad mouth Gene Tierney's looks. Sure, she was older in this picture, but in her hey day she would've wiped the floor with Carol Lynley."
Me, neither. I was going to watch the whole movie, never having seen it before, but I quit watching after that party scene. I thought the dialogue was really tacky. They could have had the girls saying something, "Sure, she's attractive but you'd think a man would get tired of his wife" or something similarly frothy and swinging 60's ish. That would have fit in fine with the whole spirit of the times without disrespecting one of Hollywood's greatest beauties.
Just to put things in perspective, Gene Tierney, born Nov. 1920, was almost exactly twice as old as Carol Lynley, born Feb. 1942, when this movie was made in 1964.
I just googled "Carol Lynley" and got 165,000 hits.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Carol+Lynley %22&aq=f&aql=&aqi=g10&oq=
Then I googled "Gene Tierney" and got 249,000 hits.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Gene+Tierney%22&aq=f&a mp;a mp;aql=&aqi=g10&oq=
I totally agree. Gene Tierney was beautiful: it seems like such a cheap shot.
shareDon't forget Gene was playing a shrewish wife who neglected her husband, when she saw that risked losing him she started to appreciate him, she even embraced Carol at the end of the end of the film, which was a thank you for making her realize what she had; AND, remember the dazzling scene in the bathroom when Gene takes a good whack at Carol verbally and PHYSICALLY!? lol
shareSorry, but that is still no reason to insult the physical attributes of one of the great Fox beauties. Not cool of the screenplay writers to put that in.
And I did not see any evidence that she was neglectful, just that Brian Keith's character was bored and attracted to the younger Carol Lynley.
Gene was an actress first and foremost, I think she liked to be thought of more as an actress than a beauty, she was playing the role of an unlikable woman, she was not playing GENE TIERNEY; I think you also need to re watch the film, part of Brian Keiths CHARACTERS attraction to Carol's CHARACTER was the fact that his wife was neglecting him and he was unhappy at home, thats why he did not take things past casual dates and flirting because HE STILL LOVED HIS WIFE and wanted things to change between them.
Older women and younger women have those kinds of disparaging things to say about each other all the time, why should Gene Tierney be exempt just because she was beautiful in her younger days? lot's of women are.
It was as another poster said, a cheap shot. Not cool to insult physical attributes, especially when the character making the shot is inferior and has no room to talk. But again, I blame the writers.
I've seen the film and the scene where Gene asks Brian Keith's character if he'd like to have a nightcap with her right after he hangs up with the young secretary indicates she did not neglect him but wanted to reach out to him because she knew he was emotionally straying from her.
Don't blame Carol Lynley, don't blame anybody. The script was written before the film was cast. Gene Tierney herself found nothing wrong with that scene; otherwise she wouldn't have bothered with the movie or maybe she would have had that scene rewritten.
And I found nothing wrong with the way it was written. It was a product of its own time with the younger set seeing everything wrong with the older generation. The scene was not about the actors, it was about introducing the situation of the character played by Lynley.
Don't take it personally. Gene Tierney didn't.
As markedjuan states the script is a product of its time. Maggie appears superficial as she is always combing her her, always. So it made sense that she would attack her competition like that. Maggie is the most poorly written character of the friends, in my opinion.
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I just caught this one on YouTube and I was shocked when I heard the crack about Tierney's appearance. This is one of the most beautiful women in film history and they dismiss her with that? It was the 60's and a changing of the guard was running the show, and anything "old" was out, out, out, but still, they could have done without that.
Tierney is wasted on the role anyway. The character could have been given some direction. In all fairness by then Tierney could have been difficult to direct due to her mental health issues.
The Pleasure Seekers was a film of the moment, and it's dated as hell today, but I guess it was scandalous in its time.
It could have done with a little more Tierney and a little less Margret or Tiffin or Lynley just IMHO, and maybe been considered a good movie today, worth watching.
I just caught this one on YouTube and I was shocked when I heard the crack about Tierney's appearance. This is one of the most beautiful women in film history and they dismiss her with that? It was the 60's and a changing of the guard was running the show, and anything "old" was out, out, out, but still, they could have done without that.
Tierney is wasted on the role anyway. The character could have been given some direction. In all fairness by then Tierney could have been difficult to direct due to her mental health issues.
The Pleasure Seekers was a film of the moment, and it's dated as hell today, but I guess it was scandalous in its time.
It could have done with a little more Tierney and a little less Margret or Tiffin or Lynley just IMHO, and maybe been considered a good movie today, worth watching.