Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Tuesday Weld Love Thread
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#1Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 5:08pm
"Dear sweet simple minded Barbara Ann. Barbara Ann whose deepest and most heartfelt yearnings express with a kind of touching lyricism the total vulgarity of our time." - Roddy McDowall in Lord Love a Duck (1966)
Lord Love a Duck clip
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 5:10pmFondly remember her as Thalia Menninger on Dobie Gillis.
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MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#3Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 5:39pm
God I love Tuesday Weld. I love her so much it almost hurts. My favorite Weld performance? As Sue Ann Stepanek in Pretty Poison,the definitive Tuesday Weld movie. Playing the beautiful but deadly high-school majorette to Anthony Perkins twitchy, creepy fire-starter, she is the deliciously deviant underbelly of America’s heartland. Where blondes are supposed to be good girls but, in her case, are most definitely not. Made in 1968 and directed by Noel Black, the picture was something of a dud upon release (too sexually disturbing? too strange?) and has achieved cult status ever since. And deservedly so. With it’s violence, pitch black comedy and sexy viciousness (watch Tuesday commit murder and immediately want to have sex after) the picture is wonderfully subversive and deeply strange. And Weld…she is charming, scary, beautiful and sickly erotic. Need I explain the plot? The manipulation of Perkins (who thought he was doing the manipulating)? The killing of her mother? The crazy, beautiful, psycho intensity of Weld? No. You really should watch it for yourself. Again, Tuesday, Tuesday. As Tiny Tim sang, “If only Tuesday Weld would be my wife.” - Kim Morgan
http://altscreen.com/02/03/2012/thursday-editors-pick-pretty-poison-1968/
THE STUFF OF FANTASY:
Every film that sets out to offend (as most black comedies do) needs at least one setpiece moment of sublime vulgarity. Lord Love A Duck boasts an irresistibly over-the-top shopping spree for cashmere sweaters that erupts into a father/daughter consumer orgy.The screwball/suggestive colors of the sweaters provide as many laughs as the incestuously orgasmic reactions they elicit: Grape Yum-Yum, Banana Beige, Lemon Meringue, Pink Put-On, Papaya Surprise, Periwinkle Pussycat, Turquoise Trouble, Midnight A-Go-Go, and Peach Put-down. At this point in the film I was aware that I liked Lord Love A Duck, but after this scene, I knew I LOVED it. This sequence is the absolute best in mainstream cinema weirdness!
http://lecinemadreams.blogspot.com/2013/01/lord-love-duck-1966.html
One would hope that Tuesday’s renaissance might include a movie worthy of her talent. "You’re crazy! Do you think I want success? I refused to do ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ because I was nursing at the time, but also because down deep I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of ‘Bob & Carol & Fred & Sue,’ or whatever it was called. It reeked of success. I may be self-destructive, but I like taking chances with movies. I like challenges, and I also like the particular position I’ve been in all these years, with people wanting to save me from the awful films I’ve been in. I’m happy being a legend. I think the Tuesday Weld cult is a very nice thing."
http://www.moviecrazed.com/outpast/tuesdayweld.html
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
#4Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 6:06pm
I love Tuesday Weld as well but one movie she was wasted in was THE CINCINNATI KID. She played the good girl - - - Steve McQueen's sweetheart, which was odd at the time. She rarely played the good girl. Ann-Margret got to play the "bad girl" and walked away with the film.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#5Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 8:22pm
She was excellent in a tv remake of MADAME X she played the lead and Eleanor Parker played her mother-in-law (the villain).
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972) based on Joan DIdion's novel she was again excellent as Maria (an unhappy woman living in Los Angeles). It was probably the first and only movie where the Santa Monica Freeway played a leading role. It's too bad this film isn't available on DVD.
She was nominated for an Oscar for playing Diane Keaton's sister in LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (another movie not available on DVD unless you are willing to pay outrageous prices from bootleg dealers).
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#7Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 10:58pmForgotten classic: WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN with her and Nick Nolte. Utterly compelling with Tuesday as a middle class heroin addict.
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~ Muhammad Ali
#8Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/3/14 at 11:42pm
I like when she beat up Geraldine Fitzgerald in that TV movie!
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#9Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/4/14 at 10:39am
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA.
G O R G E O U S ! ! !
#10Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/4/14 at 10:55am
One of my favorite movies when I was a kid:
Heartbreak Hotel
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#11Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/4/14 at 11:21pmGreat is small role in FALLING DOWN. Underrated actress.
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
#12Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 4/5/14 at 8:49am
Immortalized on the cover of Matthew Sweet's album, GIRLFRIEND
#14Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:08am
She stole Soldier in the Rain from Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen. Tuesday was fantastic in this movie!
Updated On: 1/28/15 at 10:08 AM
#15Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:12am
^ I love that movie. I had forgotten about it. I have to re-visit it. Can't get enough of Tuesday Weld.
#16Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:16am
Thief with James Caan back in the early 80's.
#17Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:20am
Of course, Thalia Menninger from Dobie Gillis. The role that really made Tuesday Weld popular. She was only on the show for one season. A sponsor pressured the show to release her because she was "too sexy"! But, she did come back a couple times to guest star. Tuesday and Dwyane Hickman never liked each other. Argued all the time on the set. But, he admitted Tuesday was a great talent and was very important to the show's initial success and popularity.
Updated On: 3/16/15 at 10:20 AM
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#18Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:22am
"She was excellent in a tv remake of MADAME X she played the lead and Eleanor Parker played her mother-in-law (the villain). "
A reunion! They had both appeared in Return to Peyton Place way back when.They did a good job with the material --- of the same nature as Madame X ---but Mary Astor stole the movie.
#19Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/28/15 at 10:28am
Walter Egan of Magnet and Steel fame. He did this Tuesday Weld tribute back in 1980.
According to the liner notes of The Last Stroll, later reissued; Walter Egan says about the song "Tuesday Weld", "This was and is still my favorite track on the album. A pure dose of power pop longing for the dream girl of my young life. I also imagined it would lead me to a meeting with the blonde bad girl. Alas, no."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXE4a5t6leQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXE4a5t6leQ
Updated On: 3/16/15 at 10:28 AM
#20Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/29/15 at 5:41am
Tuesday Weld was the inspiration for this alternative/rock/swing band; The Real Tuesday Weld:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPTs7D0tBHA
#21Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 1/29/15 at 8:01am
"I like when she beat up Geraldine Fitzgerald in that TV movie!"
That was Circle of Violence from 1986. Tuesday played River Phoenix's mother! It was about family abuse passed down from mother to daughter. Tuesday is great in the movie.
Updated On: 2/25/15 at 08:01 AM
#23Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 2/2/15 at 11:31am
From 1970, I Walk the Line with Greggory Peck! Tuesday Weld amazes me when she turns in such great work! Love when she drives that big hook into Greggory Peck. That took me by surprise! lol
Updated On: 2/2/15 at 11:31 AM
#24Tuesday Weld Love Thread
Posted: 2/3/15 at 6:03am
1962 - Bachelor Flat - Tuesday Weld! Not a great movie. Has its moments but sort of falls apart especially towards the end. A victim of its own zaniness. However, Tuesday Weld is a hoot in the movie and carries the film with her charisma and comic flair. They should have spent more time cementing her relationship with the Richard Beymer character. But, a must for Tuesday Weld lovers.
Updated On: 2/3/15 at 06:03 AM
