Claudette Colbert, a true Movie Star, Oscar Winner (It Happened One Night) was cast in this movie Directed by Delmer Davis. Colbert was Class personified.
Ms. Colbert plays the Mother of Troy Donahue who got first billing top billing even over Colbert. Karl Malden who was cast in WB movies with other veteran actresses such as Bette Davis, Roz Russell and Merle Oberon co stars as a ruthless tobacco farmer who marries Ms. Colbert in the movie and crates tension between Malden and Donahue.
Jack Warner groomed Donahue and cast Troy with other WB stars such as Sharon Hugueny, Diane McBain and Connie Stevens. Hampton Fancher is excellent as a spoiled rich young man.
WB with Donahue, Stevens, Hardin, Povine, Brown, McBain, Byrnes,etc and MGM with Chamberlain, Pentiss, Peppard, Mimieux, Hamilton, Patten, and Columbia with Callan, Powers, Darren,Armstrong did a good job in creating movie stars with good training. Movies such as Breakfast At Tiffsmy's, Where The Boys Are, Parrish, Rome Adventure, The Interns, Die Die My Darling gave these stars great PR.
Lush photography and a Max Steiner score make this a great movie to watch.
Connie Stevens became a big star with roles at WB as "Susan Slade" Palm Springs Weekend," Two On A Guillotine" an "Never Too Late." Diane McBain has a "tremendous "entrance" in this "movie and plays the sassy debutante. One would have thought Diane Mc Bain would have become a big star but had to stand behind Natalie Wood, Connie Stevens and Dorothy Provine at WB. Diane did star in "Claudette English" which another WB actress was considered Shirley Knight, and had a featured role in Troy Donahue's western" A Distant Trumpet" directed by Raoul Walsh. Diane left WB when she was cast in "Sex And The Single Girl" not as the star which went to Natalie Wood but in a supporting role. Big mistake for the director of that film directed by Richard Quine also starred Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer. Quine is the talented Director who made all those great Kim Novak movies at Columbia and a reason Kim became a worldwide superstar. Sex and the Single Girl was a big budget would have been a good Dfor for Diane.
Parrish is one of my fave movies, and is awesome to see Claudette Colbert in her last theatrical film. Troy Donahue was a huge star at WB and after he left WB his career fizzled. He was for a time a great movie star and wonder if someday someone will write a book on the rise and fall of Troy Donahue.
Ms. Colbert plays the Mother of Troy Donahue who got first billing top billing even over Colbert. Karl Malden who was cast in WB movies with other veteran actresses such as Bette Davis, Roz Russell and Merle Oberon co stars as a ruthless tobacco farmer who marries Ms. Colbert in the movie and crates tension between Malden and Donahue.
Jack Warner groomed Donahue and cast Troy with other WB stars such as Sharon Hugueny, Diane McBain and Connie Stevens. Hampton Fancher is excellent as a spoiled rich young man.
WB with Donahue, Stevens, Hardin, Povine, Brown, McBain, Byrnes,etc and MGM with Chamberlain, Pentiss, Peppard, Mimieux, Hamilton, Patten, and Columbia with Callan, Powers, Darren,Armstrong did a good job in creating movie stars with good training. Movies such as Breakfast At Tiffsmy's, Where The Boys Are, Parrish, Rome Adventure, The Interns, Die Die My Darling gave these stars great PR.
Lush photography and a Max Steiner score make this a great movie to watch.
Connie Stevens became a big star with roles at WB as "Susan Slade" Palm Springs Weekend," Two On A Guillotine" an "Never Too Late." Diane McBain has a "tremendous "entrance" in this "movie and plays the sassy debutante. One would have thought Diane Mc Bain would have become a big star but had to stand behind Natalie Wood, Connie Stevens and Dorothy Provine at WB. Diane did star in "Claudette English" which another WB actress was considered Shirley Knight, and had a featured role in Troy Donahue's western" A Distant Trumpet" directed by Raoul Walsh. Diane left WB when she was cast in "Sex And The Single Girl" not as the star which went to Natalie Wood but in a supporting role. Big mistake for the director of that film directed by Richard Quine also starred Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrer. Quine is the talented Director who made all those great Kim Novak movies at Columbia and a reason Kim became a worldwide superstar. Sex and the Single Girl was a big budget would have been a good Dfor for Diane.
Parrish is one of my fave movies, and is awesome to see Claudette Colbert in her last theatrical film. Troy Donahue was a huge star at WB and after he left WB his career fizzled. He was for a time a great movie star and wonder if someday someone will write a book on the rise and fall of Troy Donahue.