Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)

Oh Em Gee, OP! I love this movie! I have it on my TIVO from February 6th!

My favorite scene is when (shirtless) Pat Boone falls into a gem-laden cave!

My favorite scene is when hes hiding his naked body behind the sheep - it had this gayling in a frenzy!!!

Oh yes: Pat Boone for the win. I was, what, 9? And found Pat disturbingly attractive....

Loved the giant mushroom scenes. Delish'! Arlene Dahl was a fishy smelly whore. Glad James Mason hated her. I did too!

I kinda preferred the Scandinavian guy over Pat Boone.

There is an old granny gay in Bel Air who has a celluloid copy he shows in his screening room from time to time. Fabulous to see it in full wonderful color on a big screen.

This has always been a favorite of mine, especially the crystal cave and the duck!

I wonder how they handled going to the bathroom under the earth during all that time?

What happen to the duck? Eaten?

While the others are asleep, a hungry Saknussemm catches and eats Gertrud.

Agree, OP, very good film. And yes, Pat Boone is cute in this.

I was struck by Lindenbrook 's line to Alec: "You make my mouth water."

This film should be a hot mess, and yet it’s wildly entertaining.

Is that the one where they used lizards in costumes for the dinosaur effects?

OP, was the other thread closed or zapped? I love this movie..

That Arleen Dawl was such a limp creature.

But Pat Boone had good buns.

It's a lovely cheapie film. There were several Jules Verne inspired films in this time frame and this is one of the more entertaining. I love the idea of the group walking 4000 miles downhill with the gear they were seen to carry.

James Mason couldn't have been paid much for this but he gave it his all. He's great, BUT I'd love to have seen Clifton Webb play the role as was originally planned. Webb's deteriorating health forced the producers to replace him.

saw this at a revival drive in -- what a blast! My friend said -- the dinosaurs are lizards in Jurassic drag!

Yes, I've always been a fan of this movie since it was first released when I was 11. I saw it on a big screen in an old movie palace and yes, when Pat Boone had to carry the sheep in front of him because he lost his "pantaloons", that gave this boy strange feelings that were confusing yet pleasant. Entertaining movie.

It was the first movie I saw a second time. Then a third. Then a fourth. And so on. I just loved it.

If we could have our WWs back, I would WW r9.

Yes the rhinoceros iguanas with large, glued-on make-up appliances added to their backs. Of course one has to wonder how the giant Dimetrodons survived, apart from eating each other, given there was little else to eat. I love the shot one of them sneaking a peak at the humans. And the Bernard Herrmann music for them that I think was someone blowing into a goat's head.

I haven’t seen this since I was a kid, a blanket on the floor two feet from the tube with a tub of popcorn twixt my sisses and me. What fun!

[quote]Is that the one where they used lizards in costumes for the dinosaur effects?

Now THAT'S a concept if ever there were one!

Love this movie. And all the other 'fantasticals' from the 50's & 60's, especially the British sci-fi movies.

I watched this on The 4:30 Movie on Channel 7 in the late 1970's. I liked this movie then. I too was turned on by the scene with Pat Boone naked covered only by the sheep. I was a gayling of 12.

[quote] If we could have our WWs back, I would WW [R9]

What are you talking about? There's still a WW button right next to the FF button.

....

And sadly the formerly hot Pat Boone turned into a loony religious nutcase.

r27, did you receive the WW I just sent you?

None of you boys were turned on by hot daddy James Mason?

Pat & his crazy wife and a band of her loony church nuts showed up at Rock Hudson's house the day before he died to pray for him. They were actually let inside and they surrounded poor Rock on his death bed and chanted their hoodoo voodoo over him. After they finished their blathering Rock lifted his head up and smiled at them (probably in thanks that all that caterwauling was over) and they took that as a sign his body was being rejuvenated. One of his nurses (another loony evangelical) was so sure it had worked she laid out clothes for him to wear the following day. The Boones and their band of freaks left with high hopes for a healing.

The next day Hudson died. When the Boones heard Shirley Boone raced over to Hudson's house with her band of fools. They got there 20 minutes after Hudson had died. Again they all surrounded his bed and Shirley grabbed Rock's legs and prayed for God to purge his body of the disease and then began speaking in tongues.

This is the kind of crazy Pat Boone and his wife are.

Why doesn't Diane Baker have a Scottish accent?

I wonder if this scene of Pat Boone and the sheep inspired the scene in Sam Shepard's "Curse of the Starving Class" where the son character enters totally naked with the sheep? There, of course, you can usually see all of the guy. Among the actors who played this on stage were Bradley Whitford and Bill Pullman in the 1980s in NYC!

I saw a play that was all about a man who never got over the murder of Gertrud.

It's a great children's movie, but holds no interest for me as an adult.

It's no Fantastic Voyage!

[quote]None of you boys were turned on by hot daddy James Mason?

Yes, in fact, every time I had mother drop me off downtown to see it, I shrieked "Gotta see that hot daddy, mama."

Another fan of this wonderful film that I saw as a kid in its original release. I was so pleased when I rewatched decades later and felt it still held up so beautifully.

I was in love with Diane Baker who I'd seen earlier that year as April in The Best of Everything and disappointed she's in so little of the film. But I was turned on by Pat Boone, no doubt about it.

I wish I could understand what Arlene says in this interview after the film's screening.

I've always loved those Jules Verne movies from the 50s and 60s, Mysterious Island, Around the World in 80 Days, the other James Mason movie 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon.

Leaks?

Shelly Winters was fabulous in 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea

Here's Arlene Dahl's 1959 appearance as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line? advertising the picture!

You'll also see Dorothy Kilgallen make an absolute fool of herself.

And Arlene is still with us at age 93.

James Mason died in 1984.

So she wins?

Yes, r47, an Amana Radarange and a dining room set from the Ventura Collection by Keller!

I think Pat was wearing this behind the sheep.

Yup if you look quickly you can see Pat's BLUE undies in one of the shots with the sheep.

Speaking of Pat I am amazed that his falling onto the rock in the sand pit didn't break a few ribs.

R41, there was also "Five Weeks in a Balloon". - Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Richard Haydn, Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Barbara Luna.

Pat's pits were nice as he was hanging on for dear life before falling into the sand.

I'm watching it now. Cheesy fun.

Arlene Dahl did the occasional musical for MGM.

Here she is in Three Little Words singing the delightful "I Love You So Much" with a gaggle of MGM chorus boys who can't take their eyes off her.

Arlene Dahl was wonderfully bitchy as the pushy wife in WOMAN'S WORLD..... Everyone thought she was getting away with it, but Clifton Webb had her number.

Another bitch role for Arlene is Wicked as They Come, made in England. A working-class gold digger ruins her life as she uses men to get what she wants. A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.

R56 wow that dress is painted on her.

R54- I hope you like my guest appearance.

I remember as a kid watching this movie and in the big scene where the group comes upon the cave with all the chunks of glittering jewels, and of all the different colored jewels, ruby, sapphire, blue diamond, emerald, etc., they chose.....the amber one.....and I thought "oh, what bad taste!" And they plucked it out and the big flood gushed out.

They deserved it.

I found an interview with Arlene about the film. She says: We went on location for three months to “the center of the earth”, to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. I had a part not only with James Mason and Pat Boone, but also with a duck named Gertrude who had two understudies. The duck got tired so we had to rush in another duck. That was a very tough shoot, because I had just given birth to Lorenzo. He was about six months old. I left him with a nurse, who had originally been our cook. I hated to be away from them for such a long time but I kept in touch, of course with telephone and so forth. That film wasn’t an easy shoot. It was dirty, and difficult also to tread down every day to “the center of the earth”. And then up the mountain — it seemed like a mountain anyway, coming up from “the center of the earth”. And I almost lost my life — I was hit by one of these big water “sloppers”. That was when we came back. We did a scene at the 20th Century-Fox studio. They had rigged up 25 gallons or 50 gallons of water. They were supposed to hit my back with the water and instead they mistimed and hit me in the face and I got a bit washed. It was quite a scene! My grandchildren all loved that film.

R58 I know....it's a great dress, but I still can't figure out the neckline and where those straps go.....under her arms? What good does that do?

Re the Woman's World dress on Arlene at r56: Though it's difficult to see because the dress seems so effortlessly constructed, there is a completely boned and shaped understructure, giving it support so that the halter straps perform no function other than decoration.

It's essentially a strapless dress not unlike Rita Hayworth's Gilda gown.

"Woman's World" is one of my favorites.

One of those big glossy Cinemascope all star cast movies done by 20th Century Fox in the 1950s.

Thanks, Edie!

Folks can say what they like, but Arlene was stunningly beautiful and a pretty good actress when she got the chance.

And she believes in astrology!

I used to get her and Rhonda Fleming mixed up; they were both quite beautiful and, I believe, similar types. I think they're both still alive.

I saw it first run when I was 8 or so. It was the best movie I had ever seen. I watch it at least once a year. Great score, mostly good special effects (hate lizards with horns etc. glued on). The matte paintings are wonderful. Whee!!! By the way, I believe it is listed as one of the worst movies on some worst movies lists. I disagree.

Arlene and Rhonda co-starred as sisters in the disappointing Slightly Scarlet , both hot for a faded John Payne.

Arlene is mistaken for Rhonda Fleming in the WML clip at r44 above when the panel narrows it down to a redhead.

Then Dorothy mistakes her for Maureen O'Hara and all hell breaks loose when Dorothy tries to apologize and backtrack by telling Arlene she will surely get an Oscar for Journey to the Center of the Earth (!). Arlene looks like she wants to kill her.

LOL - a great example of the apology being worse than the original insult.....

[quote] I used to get her and Rhonda Fleming mixed up

Dahl said in an interview that they are friends and that she and Rhonda would sometimes sign autographs as each other as a joke.

Some of the set are great. The chamber of crystals appears to have crinkled aluminum foil pasted in stripes around the cavern. Looks pretty lousy.

Well it was Irwin Allen - the only cheaper producer was Sam Katzman.

It would appear to be a blistering drama, r69.......

The most blistering is Ted de Corsia who slaps some people around.

Irwin didn't produce Journey, R74. You're probably thinking of Allen's production of The Lost World. He glued stuff on lizards too:

I love this movie a lot and I love those 50s and 60s Jewels Verne films. I watched this films years later on TV and I just adored them and I still do. My brother and sister are 13 and 14 years older than me and they got to see these films when the movies first came out in the movie theaters when they were just little kids.

I like Arlene Dahl a lot in film and I always will. Also I think she was just stunning! However, when someone posted that interview of Arlene trashing Lana Turner's daughter claiming Cheryl Crane lied about being molested by Lex Barker, that pissed me off. Arlene said that it was impossible for her ex-husband Lex Barker because his penis was so big, that he would have split 12-15 year old Cheryl Crane in half, uh? really? Good Grief. The interviewer should have asked her, were you there? I posted part one of the interview.

I once read that Arlene Dahl give Red Skeleton a BJ in his dressing room. There was an explosion near the film set Arlene and Red was acting on ,and it rocked Red's dressing room. Red said, WOW! that is a good girl! you do an incredible job!!

thanks R77 you are correct......it was a Fox film so I just assumed......

Arlene was married to Fernando Lamas who had dated Lana Turner and would later marry Esther Williams. Lana was also married to Lex Barker, after Arlene, so there appears to be a pattern here.

If you like Jules Verne type adventures, here is an excellent steampunk animation called The Mysterious GeographicExplorations of Jasper Morello, about 26 minutes.

In a similar vein to my post above, there was a Czech animation/live action film from 1958, which is a lot of fun, if you can find it.

While I am not a forensic expert, and Arlene's argument seems illogical, I am not convinced that Cheryl Crane's accusation against Lex Barker was true.

"Five Weeks in a Balloon" was one of Irwin Allen's.

No cheesy monsters, though.

BTW, it's on Youtube.

I saw it as a kid at the movies.

...and Barbara Eden and the always annoying Red Buttons.....I like Balloon, too.

Journey was produced by Charles Brackett who had also produced Sunset Boulevard. He wrote both screenplays too,

It's funny that this thread has veered predominantly into posts about Arlene Dahl and not the nut case that Pat Boone became (after his very fetching beginnings and adorable performance in this film).

That Pat.....

For all you fans...

She should have gotten the Oscar for this picture.

Arlene said of James Mason that while he was extremely crusty on the outside inside he was as soft as a marshmallow.

John Tristram was James Mason's boytoy.....

But still talking! Did you ever seem me on tv with Virginia Graham? Four constantly moving lips, though I guess we must have alternated and taken turns at some point.

Was James Mason a tortured homosexual? Or did he make peace with it and live happily with a bit on the side?

Is the Center Of The Earth anywhere near the Island At The Top Of The World?

I can't tell you how comforting this is--knowing that other little gay boys adored the early 60s Jules Verne movies. I was not alone!--this is DL at its best.

Mysterious Island was a favorite - with Michael Callan - although that croaking British bitch was a bore.

Back in the mid-'60s one of the local channels aired 'Horror Movies' at 11:00 pm. (I know, right?)

I loved this movie, along with "Attack of the Mole People," "Attack of the Mushroom People," "Attack of the Puppet People"

pure beefcake!

was he versatile?

"I'm blushing already"

James Mason was gay?! Whaaa? This is new to me. Where did you read this from a Darwin Porter book? Just asking?

That incredible Adonis, John Tristram was gay?

No wonder he didn't want women in the expedition ! Then he couldn't be alone with young, devoted McEwan and Beefcake Hans !

Chapter 9 of this book called "Male Beauty" is devoted to John Tristram. Quite an accomplished guy. The chapter starts on page 275.

He got a doctorate and was a professor? In/of what?

French language, which he taught at UCLA until his death. Unfortunately, the Google books preview is a bit wonky, when I found it I was able to read the whole chapter, now I can only see a few pages.

Very cool. Good for him.

Fond memories of this film which remains very "watchable" and in no small part to Bernard Herrmann's score - so many films owe their "atmosphere" to his talents, notably Psycho, Cape Fear, Vertigo, and the Ghost and Mrs Muir.

I never heard that Mason was gay. I did, however, pass him a couple of times in his later life taking walks in St. James Park (I was much younger then) - quietly distinguished looking, always formally dressed, and leaning slightly on a cane by then. My favourite of his film roles was the IRA man on the run in Odd Man Out (it's a wonderful film), the tyrannical guardian of the piano prodigy in The Seventh Veil, the wacky rich widower in Georgy Girl, and I thought his Brutus in Julius Caesar wonderful.

I always assumed James Mason was homo. I'm surprised that people think otherwise.

He's just British, R110. They all seem that way.

R102 - Darwin's book on Brando claims this, but then Brando and Mason are said to have despised each other on Julius Caesar. Darwin also says Joe Mankiewicz was having an affair with both Mason and his wife, but I have not otherwise heard Mankiewicz having gay relationships.

R112 - Most of this got by me, thanks for the gossip. I never heard that Mankiewicz was gay, either.

From what I know of the film, which I think is very workmanlike, with a good many cuts some of which I agreed with, and some not, Brando got a good deal of help from the one well-known homo on the film, Gielgud, especially on the big speech. Gielgud recorded it for Brando to help him with it.

Alhtough I thought Brando did very well for a first outing with the Bard, it is the scenes between Brutus and Cassius that stand out in memory: two experienced hands giving their best at something they knew and loved.

Alex is an idiot. What young scientist immediately chows down on mushrooms encountered in a cave in the centre of the Earth?

R114 - A very hungry one, and it's "Alec".

They still had dried beef! And Hans' copious loads.

But he said he was fed up with dry beef !

As for Hans' loads, well there is the language barriere. So he never understood what he was offering. Carla did, but didn't bother translating.

Brando wanted the part in Julius Caesar badly and sent a tape recording of himself doing Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." speech to Joe M.

Joe called in producer John Houseman and asked: "Why is June Allyson sending me this tape?"

Pat Boone was paid more than James Mason for the film because in order to get Pat to do it he was promised a sizeable percentage of the gross.

Well Pat also had more hit records and fan base fro that than James Mason did.

Hard to imagine now, perhaps, but Pat Boone was almost as big a rock 'n' roll star as Elvis Presley in the mid-1950s, though his star was waning a bit by the time this film was made.

R92 I'm figuring that you are not relying on any Darwin "Mendacity" Porter info. But I read something about John Tristram living with Jim and Pam in CA and wondered about that...Any more info?

love james mason

He was the best.

I am surprised just how good looking Pat Boone is in this, and also how he's much the two young men are shirtless. Meanwhile patrician Thayer David's fat ass looks terribly squished and panty-lined in his way too tight trousers.

*how much the

[quote]Mysterious Island was a favorite - with Michael Callan - although that croaking British bitch was a bore.

Thanks for the Michael Callan reminder

Pat Boone had beautiful skin. So creamy!

R127 I'll take the grown-up Michael (Craig), thank you very much!

More Arlene on James Mason. She said he always seemed to be an unhappy man who found consolation in his work when it went well, though he was very private about that too. He was furious when the company came back to the Fox studios to shoot interiors and they had to stop work the day Krushchev visited. Mason didn't want to be polite to him just because he was a world leader because the actor had a deep mistrust of most politicians.

Loves my Jimbo!

Digression, but if you want to see a steamy shirtless Pat Boone, watch "State Fair" and his scenes with Ann-Margret.

Why didn't Pat Boone happen?

the aforementioned shirtless Pat Boone

Michael Callan = MAMBO!

Boone was under contract to Fox, how would he get a percentage? I'm not saying he didn't, I just don't understand how it would happen when I he was a Fox employee to begin with.

Was that really Boone's penis and balls in that box? He looks thick.

The exposed penis looks too high up on his body to be believable anatomically. I'm guessing this was really just one of those raunchy toys one could buy from a joke store like a plastic pile of shit.

You know, "Penis in a Box."

No it's real....he's holding it UP with the box.

R89 she has multiple orgasms in that scene.

I like the Pat was "all in" for that shot. ALL the junk in the hole.

Pat told Fox he only wanted to do musicals which is why he initially turned down the film but they wanted him so badly they agreed to give him a percentage of the box office, and he is glad they did, because he has received royalties ever since.

Good for him! He's good in this.

Ah......thanks R142, interesting.

"I asked Boone how he happened to be cast in the film.He explained, “I did not want to be in the film. It was science fiction and I wanted to do romantic comedies, with music. The producer promised to add a song for me to sing (My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose) and even offered a percentage of the movie’s profits, but that was not my deciding factor — my manager and agent said they would ‘strangle’ me if I didn’t take the role! And I’m glad I did. It was the best part and some of the best singing I did in my whole career.”

“The Fabulous World of Jules Verne” (U.S.title) was created by Czech animator Karel Zeman, who made a number of similarly designed, period adventure films.

Other films based on books by Jules Verne include:

“Master of the World” (1961): A creditable performance by Vincent Price as a Captain Nemo of the skies, with a fabulous airship and decent effects. Co-starring hunk Charles Bronson as a rescuing hero.

“Valley of the Dragons” (1961): b&w adventure based on Verne’s “Off on a Comet.” Essentially a B-movie, with effects shots lifted from the 1940 “One Million B.C.”

“In Search of the Castaways” (1962): Disney’s Ven e movie, with a few good effects, but also singing from Maurice Chevalier (!), and a teenage Haley Mills.

And we can’t forget the films based on H.G.Wells books, like hunky Rod Taylor in “The Time Machine” (1960), ir Gene Barry in “The War of the Worlds” (1953), and the kind of stodgy , but with decent Ray Harryhausen effects, “The First Men in the Moon” (1964).

I saw all of these in theaters in my youth, and mostly loved them. They were all great fun.

r146, you left out the biggest Jules Verne film of all time, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, a huge hit in its time and the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture over some formidable competition, including GIANT, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS and THE KING AND I.

OK, I agree, it doesn't hold up very well.

In spite of Pat's reluctance to make the film, it's by far the best film he ever made.

Does anyone remember Pat in THE MAIN ATTRACTION?

I saw that one in my youth, around 1962/63, and he played a seedy circus performer (or was it a roustabout?) opposite Nancy Kwan. And he's so seedy, he even smoked cigarettes!

"Journey..." is one of my favorite movies.

Isn't it nice that we don't have to wait for movies to be shown on television as we did in the 70s and 80s?

This movie was a regular on the "Family Classics" movie feature show on WGN Channel 9 in Chicago.

The Alive Magazine interview had this anecdote but I think the link is stinky. "In the climatic scene in which James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Peter Ronson and I were on a raft, caught in a giant whirlpool. It was a tricky thing to shoot — the raft was on a revolving platform that tilted when it went around. It had to look like we were being tossed violently. Hundreds of gallons of water were being dumped on us to simulate a stormy sea. The noise was deafening, but not enough to drown out Dahl, who started screaming as she held on for dear life. She screamed at the director, Henry Levin, ‘Get me off this thing. Get me down. I’m going to pass out!’

She kept yelling. Mason had little patience for it. He thought Dahl had already overplayed the role of a dainty creature when we had to wear very heavy parkas, feigning winter amid very hot July weather, for another scene (Dahl complained then of heat prostration). Mason was not amused as this time he yelled back at her, ‘Shut up woman! We’re going to have to do this ten times if you don’t keep quiet.’ We were going to have to dub dialogue anyway, and they got the shot.”

Boone said that Dahl was hauled away to the infirmary on a stretcher. Boone added, “I got along tremendously with James Mason. I was in awe of him as an actor, and he was very helpful to me and very friendly. I liked the way he hummed a lot before a scene would be shot. He never hummed any tune I could recognize, but I think he was making sure that famous voice of his was warmed up and ready. He was thoroughly professional.”

How much time had elapsed between Arlene giving birth to Lorenzo and her starting this picture?

Lorenzo born January 20, 1958. Journey began production June, 1959.

So was Pat Boone the father?

James Mason was extremely handsome. His speaking voice as fantastic as well.

Do DL Queens think James Mason was HOT in the pants for Pat Boone?

Because of this thread I paid $2.99 to watch Journey To The Center Of The Earth on Amazon with my father who so far is not too impressed with the movie. He says it's just a movie.

No. But Pat could barely keep his mitts off Jim.

What's he expecting, R157? The Rapture?

Pat Boone batted/bats for the gay team?

Arlene Dahl was only about 30 in this movie. She looks about 15 years older.

Arlene Dahl reminds me of Ava Gardner.

Wasn't it good of Professor Goteborg to admit to his theft of Lindenbrook's discovery in his diary?

In spite of a rather silly-sounding Hollywoodish surname, Dahl is Arlene's real name. She comes from hearty Norwegian stock and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was well-suited to play Carla in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

I think it was in the mentioned The Main Attraction that there was an actor in the movie who was on the Blacklist.

He went to Boone and said: "You might not want me in the picture because I'm on the blacklist and it could cause trouble for you."

The guy said Boone told him: "I don't care about that stuff - forget it. Who cares. You're in the movie."

Pat Boone gets a lot of crap because of his wacky religious beliefs and political stances.....but he was an all right guy in most ways.

Ah....as reported in Tender Comrades- the actor was Jeff Corey. Boone was in his acting class (!) - and the movie was The Yellow Canary - starring Boone and Barbara Eden.

Pat was an enormous star in the 1950s and was considered the safe antidote to Elvis' X-rated pelvis, as difficult as it might seem to even consider them in the same sentence. He had a very popular Sunday night variety hour, made some mediocre and forgettable but very profitable films and had many hit records that were enjoyed by teenagers as well as their parents.

But his clean-cut and happily married good looks were a bore by the early 1960s and considered even worse by the sexual revolution of the later 1960s (that awful toupee!). Attempts at edgier material like The Main Attraction were ignored or reviled. His only alternative seemed to be to make an all-out appeal to conservative Christians and his repertoire became more religious and self-reverent.

I guess he did well enough financially. He's still alive and singing somewhere, which is more than many of his generation can say.

Don't forget that Pat also popularized white buck shoes which were an enormous fad for kids and college boys in the mid to late 1950s. You don't see celebrities having that kind of clout over men's fashion trends much any more.

It helps to have songs to publicize them, r169!

I always liked this song.

From the movie "April Love" also starring Shirley Jones.

do we smell cookies?

This is a nice clip where Pat Boone talks about the first time he met Elvis Presley.

I've always loved Pat's Love Letters in the Sand. Was that featured in one of his films?

That was a fun interview R173

Yes, nice interview at r73. Thanks for posting. And Pat still looks sexy, especially for an 80-something.

Pat Boone hosted his Chevy-sponsored NY-based variety show from 1957 to 1960 while he was a student at Columbia University. At the time he was the youngest person (at age 23) to host a network variety show until Donny and Marie appeared.

In 2015 Arlene was said to be working on a autobiography but it doesn't appear to have been released yet.

Her Transcendent Spirit is still working on it.

Even Lorenzo wrote one, out in 2014.

I look forward to it R179; she'll discuss all the huge cock she's encountered.

There'll be HUGE chapters on Lex Barker and Fernando Lamas!

R182, yes, "Journeys to the Center of Arlene"

That title is perfection, R184!

Oh Arlene was interviewed in 2007 and she was writing her autobiography back then too.

I wish she would write her autobiography ,but I doubt it because she is 93 years old and still there is no book.

Maybe there is, just waiting for her to kick off.

Here she is.

And her ad for Toni.

r190 see r165

Oops, sorry for the duplication. Here's Arlene in a 1974 What's My Line?

The music for the climax for the lizards is not a goat's head but the medieval serpent.