tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post6464785534535230920..comments2024-03-17T12:16:42.048-07:00Comments on Civic Center: Joan Leslie at the Noir City Film FestivalCivic Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-30083918349291926132008-11-30T06:00:00.000-08:002008-11-30T06:00:00.000-08:00I'm glad I came across this blog on Joan Leslie. ...I'm glad I came across this blog on Joan Leslie. I've been a fan of hers for almost 20 years after seeing Sgt. York. I would love to be able to meet her someday. <BR/><BR/>I started up a group at http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/joanlesliefan/<BR/><BR/>Feel free to join.Chris F.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03781201496761690072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-45042009290142964812008-08-22T22:41:00.000-07:002008-08-22T22:41:00.000-07:00I saw REPEAT PERFORMANCE on TV on New Year's Eve a...I saw REPEAT PERFORMANCE on TV on New Year's Eve around 1971 and I've never forgotten it, or that Joan Leslie was its star. It's a movie I check online for now and then to see if it's come out on DVD, and that's how I found this site and this story. What lucky people you are to have got to see it on a big screen, with Joan Leslie in attendance. And on a rainy night, too. Thanks for the story and the pictures. Joan and Marsha look classy.allitwantedbythunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13970096184658799264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-11850632764641642112008-01-26T20:00:00.000-08:002008-01-26T20:00:00.000-08:00Dear rootlesscosmo: The movie was awesome, sorry t...Dear rootlesscosmo: The movie was awesome, sorry to say. It takes place in the Broadway backstage of the late 1940s where wealthy society characters slum it up sexually with the artists. Lots of alcoholism and lots of fabulous apartments and gowns, not to mention a Cornell Woolrich style plot where dear Joan tries to set fate right by reliving a year and not spending New Year's Eve shooting her husband in self-defense. As my friend Bill Selby described it, "It's sort of like 'It's A Wonderful Life IN HELL!'Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-75512497506742106882008-01-26T16:47:00.000-08:002008-01-26T16:47:00.000-08:00I had tix but the rain kept me home. How was the m...I had tix but the rain kept me home. How was the movie?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-2399617192668980122008-01-26T13:07:00.000-08:002008-01-26T13:07:00.000-08:00Great picture of Marsha Hunt!sfcelticcroneGreat picture of Marsha Hunt!<BR/><BR/>sfcelticcroneJanet Kathleen Tandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13713144358218371100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-7119633568301689542008-01-26T12:01:00.000-08:002008-01-26T12:01:00.000-08:00Some say it's just nostalgia, but I think it's gre...Some say it's just nostalgia, but I think it's great that film fans get together and salute these performers.<BR/><BR/>I remember a story told by Yvette Vickers, a gorgeous b-movie starlet of the 1950's and 1960's, whose most memorable role might be as the town tramp Honey, the other woman in the skewed triangle that is <I>The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman</I>. (I wonder why I remember this story? Hmmm, no matter.)<BR/><BR/>There was a showing of Aot50FW in Los Angeles in the early 1990s and Miss Vickers was invited to attend by the movie house. There was a line of well wishers who wanted to take a picture with her, and she particularly remembered this huge tattooed biker trembling like a leaf. He stammered something about how he was hardly able to believe that he would have a picture of him and Yvette Vickers to treasure for the rest of his life.<BR/><BR/>Rod Stieger said, though I doubt it's original with him, that people who make movies make memories for millions of people, and that's why they want to connect with them.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this post, Mike.Matthew Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17769958949302039878noreply@blogger.com