Roddy McDowall's Dinner Party's- Page 3

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 9:08am

Yes. That's who it looks like, both times you see him.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 11:52am

These are the greatest things ever.

[romantico]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 12:35pm

Be sure to check out Labor Day at Rock Hudson's house. SO many familiar faces. I spent way too much time on that guys channel and according to one of his posts,all of these home movies are going to made into one movie.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 12:53pm

Really super interesting, romantico. Thanks for sharing these stories and videos. I never knew anything about this, and it does show a cool Algonquin-like side to Hollywood. Roddy always had such a stolid, kind presence whatever he did.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 1:20pm

These made me fall a little more in love with Julie Andrews. She's practically perfect in every way.

[Q]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 1:54pm

JG2 - me, too! And I love her station wagon

[romantico]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 2:07pm

Life appears so simple back then. Their fancy homes were rather modest. Drinking beer and eating sandwiches instead of having food catered in.I bet Roddy called that morning and said I'm having people over,drop by if you can.Wonder how meany deals were made at these backyard luncheons. Julie's car was awesome. No fancy sports model just a practical vehicle. I was born in the wrong decade!

Dominick Dunne wrote a book about how they lived back then that has some great pictures. I highly recommend it.

http://www.amazon.com/Way-Lived-Then-Recollections-Well-Known/dp/0609603884/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315245971&sr=1-3

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 4:30pm

They have a re-recation of Roddy's bathroom at the Hollywood Museum that I just saw last week. Very cute!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 5:15pm

I love Julie's manner with her little naked child running around. That's exactly how I would hope she would be.

And my HEAVENS does Paul Newman not look like a sun kissed god?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/5/11 at 5:18pm

Newman is stunning.

Here's Sal Mineo in the swimming-pool scene in Who Killed Teddy Bear, which was made the same year as those Malibu home movies and which also co-starred Elaine Stritch.

http://youtu.be/dK-zilnKh5c

[Eris0303]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 1:10am

I love the scene in the second linked video where Julie is pointing to the camera. You just know she's saying "Say thank you to Mr. McDowall for having us, dear"

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:06am

Thank you, romantico n' all.

I am gonna get jackds**t done today.

What's remarkable is the color hasn't faded a bit.

[Q]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 11:14am

An in-depth interview with Courtney Burr, Sal Mineo's partner, which includes some rather unsavory annecdotes about Roddy. It's something very different from what I've ever heard about him.
Link to article.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 2:46pm

Having had some connection to this, I would suggest taking anything Courtney Burr says, about anyone, with an extremely large grain of salt!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 3:12pm

I'm not surprised to hear that about Roddy.

There was almost a class distinction in the two decades before Stonewall between men like Roddy (and Rock) who believed that being gay meant never saying it out loud and men like Sal Mineo who developed the startling notion that it would be better to be gay openly and honestly.

In many ways, it was also one of the earliest and most fundamental of the disagreements between Arthur Laurents (who, like Sal, didn't care what people thought) and his West Side Story colleagues, who struggled with shame and guilt. But each side felt passionately that the other side was wrong. In the end, a lot of people behaved very badly toward each other.

And then the whole world changed.

Updated On: 9/6/11 at 03:12 PM

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 3:52pm

Actually, now that I've read the interview, I must say he came across as incredibly honest in it.
However, if I read the Natalie/RJ thing, correctly, it seems his implying homophobia? That would be ridiculous. Perhaps they knew and didn't like him? Updated On: 9/6/11 at 03:52 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:18pm

Holy crap. Judy's lighting a cigarette in this one, at 5:15.

http://youtu.be/NJzsryffz5s

[Q]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:30pm

PJ - that didn't surprise you, did it?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 7:54pm

I was surprised to find even a moment of new footage of her.

I wasn't surprised that she was there--or that she was smoking.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 9/6/11 at 8:19pm

Trying read people's lips in these videos, but you don't have to be a lip reader to know what Anthony Perkins is saying to the camera in the Judy video (I'm calling it that even though she's only in it for 3 seconds).

[TulitaPepsi]

Posted: 9/7/11 at 1:11pm

New ones are up this morning.

A rare snippet of the fabulous Lizbeth Scott:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQ9VIgaU0w&feature=feedu

And Tuesday Weld solo, looking just a little hung-over:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AT1fUH9K5w&NR=1


I love Roddy's flar for inventive 'titles'.