***BREAKING*** Carol Lynley is Dead

She looked like HELL for decades.

Must have been broke

Oh no! So sad!

What will Larry King do?

Carol, how hard was it to keep on singing while the boat was upside down, and did Mr. Roper ever put out?

So young.

Eldergay thread alert

How fares Carroll Baker?

Met her just a few years ago at Chiller. She was an old woman and looked like an lovely old woman. You know damn well that was harsh lighting in those photos. Seems some of you queens expect every celebrity to look like Joan Rivers who actually looked like an alien. 70 + year olds have wrinkles. You will too, if you're lucky.

She looked fine. She was old, whaddya want?

Both my MIL and mother died of heart attacks. I hope for a nice massive coronary, too. Pretty quick and a lot less suffering than languishing in a nursing home with disgruntled Jamaicans snapping at you or smacking you. Or dying painfully of cancer.

RIP, Ms. Lynley.

RIP, Carol

Pretty

I thought she was dead.

She was in Otto Preminger's thriller "Bunny Lake is Missing" in 1965; when promoting the movie, she praised the famously temperamental Preminger to the press, and he later told her, "You're ruining my reputation!" Like Michael Caine on a later Preminger movie, "Hurry Sundown", she said she managed fine because she wasn't afraid of Preminger and he knew it.

RIP

I guess there won't be any more morning afters.

Someone had to remember it, first.

I remember being 5 years old and seeing Carol Lynley as Rapunzel in a 1958 "Shirley Temple Storybook" episode. The witch who imprisoned her was played by (who else?) Agnes Moorehead.

Did we ever find out if she thought Red Buttons was a good lay?

Her performance in "Bunny Lake is Missing" remains one of the most amateurish performances I've ever seen. She was just astoundingly bad in it.

Smoker, I'll bet. Those are some nicotine stained teeth.

Bunny Lake is Missing, but Carol Lynley is dead.

She was the other Harlow in that crappy, low budget version. It was Ginger Rogers last film. Why she agreed to do it, who knows? It couldn't have been for the money. It was so cheaply made.

Carol Lynley's cheap-ass "Harlow" movie was cranked out to beat the big-budget Carroll Baker version to movie theaters. Angela Lansbury plays the mother in Baker's version, and is so much better than the material. She's actually rather moving. Luckily for Angela, she had better projects in her future. She packed her bags and headed for Broadway.

I resented her. She got a lot of killed on that fucking ship by being a scared nitwit.

She said she was relieved she was in England when Harlow was released in America because the reviews were so scathing.

She was not broke. She was worth $10 million when she died.

Some 70+ year olds manage not to lose their looks so thoroughly.

I hated her character in Poseidon Adventure. I was hoping she'd be one to be killed off.

I didn’t hate her in The Poseidon Adventure, but I always thought she was the weak link acting-wise.

I liked her. She deserved better than an obituary filled with sloppy grammar and word choice (at OP).

"she played 15-year-old Janet Willard tasked with figuring out how to undergo an illegal abortion." "TASKED WITH" has gone too far. Tasked? Who assigned her the task?

Perhaps my favorite non-sequitur in "The Poseidon Adventure":

Red Buttons: "Your brother is dead."

Carol Lynley: "Did you like his music?"

R17

Carol did NOT like Red Buttons.

R27

Me too. I'd rather Ninny have died instead of Linda.

R31 always found it funny she called him a cunt. I guess they’ve resumed their dislike on the other side by now.

[quote]I guess they’ve resumed their dislike on the other side by now.

Goodness knows what role Shelley Winters is playing in all this.

R27, I hated her character, too. All the gals were admirably spunky, except her. She couldn't even swim and had to be helped by Red Buttons of all people!

Roger Ebert interviewed Carol back in 1972, and you can just imagine him rolling his eyes throughout the whole ordeal, especially when she mentioned the possiblity of scoring an Oscar nom for her performance! She also made some bitchy remarks about Shelley.

There is a heart of cruelty in that photo of her. Someone has lovingly zoomed in. I don't even know her, but I saw the Poseidon Adventure on Netflix. Old white fags on Datalounge love to obsess and worship dead monsters like Joan Crawford and Judy Garland, but have no compassion for an actress who looks like them. Lynley's biggest misfortune is to resemble you.

Matthew Rettemund is an unabashed gay fangurl, and his write-ups of meeting various celebrities at various autograph shows are very honest, but warm and appreciative. He liked Carol when he met her.

RIP, Carol.

She was a doll.

Delightfully atrocious actress - best enjoyed in her guest spots on The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.

That's a marvelously bitchy interview, R35. Thanks!

R35 Don't get my wrong - a love Shelley Winters but she was a notorious difficult person to deal with. So sad about Carol's passing - she was a favourite of mine. Of The Poseidon Adventure cast members only Gene Hackman (pushing 90), Stella Stevens (ill with Alzheimers), Pamela Sue Martin and the annoying kid that played her annoying brother are still with us.

I first saw her as Rapunzel on Shirley Temple's Storybook.

I'm assuming she had to fellate Daryl F Zanuck and Harry Cohn.

She had all the charisma as a glass of water.

I thought it was insane in 'Bunny Lake' that such an uninteresting person should waste our time in the main role while the most important man in 20th century theatre was playing the servant.

I loved her so much. Stunning depth and so pretty. She cried well. Sob

She started out as a model. I found a stack of old American Girl magazines in the attic that belonged to my sister. These were from the late 50s/early 60s. A fascinating time capsule, Andy Warhol did the the illustrations. Anyway, she was a top teen model, she had a very appealing, fresh-faced look in those back-to-school spreads. Her look was very distinct so I guess it's not surprising that she went into acting.

A Larry King thread about Carol's death has been started.

She never quite made it to the A Stars list. But had decent run in the material she was given.

She was a satisfactory alternative to whiny baby doll Sandra Dee or wound up Tuesday Weld.

Trying to look sultry back in the day.

Looking a tad frightened during The Poseidon Adventure.

Here ya go, r16 and r42!

Was she pregnant?

Don't worry, r52, they saved the baby.

Just watched “Return to Peyton Place” this week. Did I jinx her?

I watched it, too, R54. As Allison, Carol Lynley was no Diane Varsi. And as Constance, Eleanor Parker was no Lana Turner, but that was probably for the best. In the sequel, Carol has an affair with Jeff Chandler, who is at no point seen wearing polka dots.

BTW, Barry Coe, who played Rodney Harrington in the original "Peyton Place" movie, died last month. He was 84. After that auspicious role, his career never really took off.

R55, I didn't know Barry Coe died. He was a handsome fellow. He appeared in a lot of movies and tv shows, but never became a big star nor even an RJ Wagner type of career.

Barry Coe died July 16. I mistakenly said last month.

[quote]Looking a tad frightened during The Poseidon Adventure. '

That's why "The Poseidon Adventure" is a classic, it was all real, real water, real fire, and real danger, controlled danger, but real. And she really did lose her breath in that shot underwater where Red Buttons covers her face.

Carol Lynley’s daughter Jill Selsman worked for “Interview” many years ago. I think she’s still NYC-based. I wonder how their relationship was.

There's a nice post on her daughter's IG.

The first thing I ever saw her in was the thriller The Mad Room on TV . . .

Carol Lynley was in The Mad Room?

At the Castro.

Giving the gays a little slice of nirvana.

Carol and her knockers.

Another celeb death ignored by TMZ. Gotta save room for first round losers on American Idol and rappers from Atlanta.

That’s a lovely photo and charming tribute at R60 — thanks for sharing!

The daughter says her life was complicated....

Oh I did don’t know Barry Corbin had died. He was gorgeous in Peyton Place, although he kept his pants on in the skinny dipping scene. He wound up playing Mr. Goodwrench in the TV ads.

^^^ Coe not Corbin

That was Stella Stevens in THE MAD ROOM, not Lynley. It's a lousy quasi-remake of the 1940's thriller LADIES IN RETIREMENT.

And I agree that Lynley is poor in BUNNY LAKE, which is too bad because it's a generally well-made film (especially compared to the dreck that Preminger put out during most of the 1960's). She's a woman who's child is missing but she never manages an emotion more intense than mild irritation, as if she lost a handbag. A few rather unfortunate scenes with Noel Coward could be excised as well.

Here's a photo of Lynley with Ann-Margret and Pamela Tiffin from THE PLEASURE SEEKERS, a bad remake of THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN.

I also recall two thrillers she made - neither much good: THE SHUTTERED ROOM (from an H.P. Lovecraft story) with Gig Young (!) as her husband, and a cheesy remake of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN called ONCE YOU KISS A STRANGER, where she plays the psycho and Paul Burke in the Farley Granger role.

All together now.....

R64 Wow -- she looks like Betty White with ginormous knockers there,

Betty has a bountiful bosom, r73.

Under the Yum Yum Tree, now there's a movie that would never get made today, unless reworked as an ironic feminist messsage movie. Jack Lemmon as a libidinous landlord of an apartment complex full of shapely young women is lecherous and annoying. He spends most of the movie ogling virginal Carol, sexually harassing and stalking her... for comedy!

By coincidence, TCM is showing Bunny Lake is Missing and Blue Denim on Sunday night. I thought it may have been a reschedule to honor her, but no, the two movies were scheduled for this Sunday from the start.

She was quite virginal and girl-next door type - they tried to morph her into being another blond sex tart but it didn't work out too well.

Did she lip sync "The Morning After" in the Poseidon Adventure or was that actually her singing?

She was dubbed by Renee Armand for the song.

R79 And Maureen McGovern had the big hit single from the movie which really put her on the map.

[quote]Here's a photo of Lynley with Ann-Margret and Pamela Tiffin from THE PLEASURE SEEKERS, a bad remake of THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN.

That's Academy Award Nominee* THE PLEASURE SEEKERS, a bad remake of THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN to you.

Anybody remember The MOW, The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin? It's kind of a mini-classic. I think that was the last decent movie Lynley was in.

She was a something of a blond Diane Baker.

More gossip about Shelley Winters being difficult on the set. I always thought she was beloved in Hollywood. Carol makes it sound like everyone on the set hated her.

[quote]More gossip about Shelley Winters being difficult on the set. I always thought she was beloved in Hollywood.

WHAT!?!

"There's a name for her. God bless her. But, she was a first class bitch." -- Ernest Borgnine on Shelley Winters

The cast of PA were filming under rough conditions and doing shit no actor should have to do. I’m sure EVERYONE was bitchy on that set.

[quote]Anybody remember The MOW, The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin?

It became the TV series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker"

Oh, no!

First Roddy McDowell, and now THIS!

The Gone with the Wind curse is far worse, they're ALL dead.

Excuse me, R90???

I liked The Mad Room more than Ladies in Retirement (it's on youtube).

Mad Room has a twist ending. Ladies in Retirement just sort of peters out at the end.

There's got to be a morning after

She was gorgeous when young, and then when she got old she looked like an actual old lady. Which is, after all, what she was.

I’ll take that. Scary-monster old as per Faye Dunaway, Goldie Hawn or Donatella? No thanks, I’ve had sufficient.

Not sure what you mean, R92. Both films have the same twist at the end re: who the killer actually is. MAD ROOM is just more violent in a way you couldn't be in 1940.

LADIES is much better acted.

[QUOTE]RE: Carol Lynley She was a something of a blond Diane Baker.

For Fucksakes don't tell Diane that. Diane sees herself as belonging in the same acting echelon of Bernhart, Duse, Hayes.

That Ebert interview is a hoot:

[quote] Shelly Winters really looked awful. She SAYS she puts on weight for her roles, but actually she's that way to begin with. She lost a little weight on this picture. I defended Shelley a lot to everyone who hated her.

Carol was a year ahead of me at Professional Children's School. Brother, Danny, was a kid actor.

R97, someone should have invited Carol Lynley to the DL to gossip with us

Agreed, R97. I met Carol Lynley at an autograph show years ago (don’t judge DL!). She was very nice and a lot of fun. It was great to chat with her about Otto Preminger, Lawrence Oliver, Brandon de Wilde, and her teenage girlfriends Tuesday Weld and “Sandy” (as she referred to her) Dee.

I bet Lynley's relatives are sad, but no one else is, because no one else knows who the hell she is.

r101, she was a pretty famous starlet in the 60s and 70s. Granted, her heyday has been over for a long time, but film buffs and people over 50 will probably know her. But this is the datalounge, where people will mourn the death of some obscure feminist just because she bashed transgender people.

Agnes Moorehead's performance in the film of Rapunzel (thank you R51!) is one of the campiest things I've ever seen.

R101

You're obviously young; Otherwise, you'd know that Lynley was well known young actress in the 1960s. She was bordering on major stardom in the mid-60s but for whatever reasons it didn't pan out. She made several movies with Preminger. By the 70s she was mostly on tv in guest starring roles.

Please ignore the "I'm stupid and proud of it!" troll at r101. He pops into every death thread with his tired-ass shtick.

That’s a lovely, timeless photo at R104.