Monday, October 13, 2014

WOMEN OF HORROR: BEVERLY GARLAND

IF THERE WERE EVER A TOP GRADE MOVIE MONSTER FIGHTER, IT WAS BEVERLY GARLAND. 

Every bit the equal of her fellow fifties monster fighters John Agar, Richard Carlson or Kenneth Tobey, Beverly Garland could kick hell out of any monster that came down the pike!  And she often did.  She's face up against alligator people,  hook-armed hate-maddened Cajuns, beasts of the amazon, cucumbers from outer space, Neanderthal men and even middle-aged men from outer space!  When did she ever find time to run a hotel chain?!?!  Beverly Garland earned her stripes with:
  • THE NEANDERTHAL MAN (1953)
  • SCIENCE FICTION THEATER "The Negative Man"  (1955)
  • SCIENCE FICTION THEATER "The Other Side of the Moon" (1956)
  • IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956)
  • CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON (1956)
  • NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)
  • THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE (1958)
  • TWILIGHT ZONE "The Four of Us Are Dying" (1960)
  • THRILLER "Knock Three One Two"  (1960)
  • TWICE TOLD TALES (1963)
Yikes!  It's an Alligator People . . . person
 
with John Bromfield vs CURUCU, BEAST OF THE AMAZON
 
with the cucumber from IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
 
Here Lies A Man Who Was Not Of This Earth
 
fun on the set of THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE
 
Not sure she should've accepted a ride from Lon Chaney Jr. in THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE
 
menaced by Paul Birch in NOT OF THIS EARTH
 
a meeting with Vincent Price in TWICE TOLD TALES
 
 
TODAY'S "WOMEN OF HALLOWEEN" SONG ON MY AUDIO BLOG "BATHED IN THE LIGHT FROM ANDROMEDA" IS "THE AWFUL TRUTH" BY CAROLE KING
 

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