ANGELIQUE IS DEAD TO ME!

I'm shocked.

Here ya go.

Angelique never dies dear!

She wrote that after Dark Shadows and the two big screen versions she came to Hollywood and really thought she was going to be a "big star".

Lara Parker was always a joy to meet at the DS conventions. She lived in the Valley and was a teacher for years. Would see her at Gelsons on Ventura. Wrote some Shadows novels based on her Angelique character. Unfortunately they were unreadable.

Bitch could never be a big screen star with those bunny teeth.

Dear Angelique.... Dear Angelique....

As a 10yo boy I really thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. But she didn't make my little gayling heart flutter like this one....

Dark Shadows was a big part of my formative, gayling years. So many hot guys and beautiful, powerful women.

RIP, Lara.

Rumor was that the piggy Dan Curtis hired her because she did anal.

^ No that was me.

With Jaclyn Smith in 1968.

I have to assume she will come back to life again.

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Parker got the role on her second audition ever. Turned out it was the peak of her career.

Dan Curtis gifted her the huge portrait they always had hanging in Angie's boudoir. Tres Joan Crawford.

Wasn't the entire plot of Dark Shadows based on this really hot blonde trying to get laid in a creepy house filled with old queens?

Almost, R17. It was about this really hot blonde who wanted to get laid by the owner of a creepy house, and the revenge she exacted when she found out he was one of the old queens.

I was there too, forever frowning and struggling to get more than five words out in a row.

The casts last reunion was for Johnny Depp's execrable remake in 2012 in London.. Parker and Frid had a walk on. They all knew Frid was on his last legs. Creepy that this snap looks like the aging portraits they did on the series.

Lara was very beautiful and not a terrible actress (at least by Dark Shadows standards), so I always wondered why she didn't do more. Meanwhile, dull as dishwater Kate Jackson had a bigger career.

Reply 8! Your comment regarding Lara's beauty as well as David Selby's handsomeness are my sentiments exactly!

So who's left from main cast? David Selby, Alexandra Isles, Nancy Barrett, Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Henesy and Jerry Lacy? Anyone else from the core troupe?

Parker helping Frid to walk and hit his last mark. Depp knew better than to give him any lines.

Dark Shadows also had the ever-lovely Virginia Vestoff, who died much, much too soon. It really was one of the most beautiful casts on television.

David Selby at 82 is still trodding the boards. Thank goodness he's resisted having cosmetic surgery. He still looks like a 82 yo human being.

^^^ He makes 82 look damned good!

R21 Lara Parker was very "theatrical" . If your character is a 200 year old psycho stalking witch it pretty much requires an over the top performance. Unfortunately that style of acting does not readily transfer to more prosaic roles. Kate Jackson's acting was as prosaic as it gets so she proved to have the more adaptable technique for a successful small screen career.

R20 The Witches held up better than the Warlocks.

Angelique takes Barnabas from Josette!

David Henesey aka David was another one as a young gayling I got all tingly about. We are about the same age. Apparently he dropped out of acting after DS and became a successful restaurateur in Central America. He never attended any reunions and would not even give an interview on his recollections about the show. Bit strange.

[quote]If your character is a 200 year old psycho stalking witch it pretty much requires an over the top performance.

Dark Shadows was the original Fatal Attraction.

[quote]He never attended any reunions and would not even give an interview on his recollections about the show

He did in 2020.

Fucking finally! I’ve been waiting over 200 years for this bitch to kick the bucket!

Was David victimized by any of the older men in the cast?

But my condolences to the family. ☹️

R35 You rang?

She was still trying to get a rise out of the ole poof.

David was the character I hated the most on the show. I also hated Jamison and Tad.

[quote]Mary Lamar Rickey (October 27, 1938 – October 12, 2023), better known as Lara Parker, was an American actress known for her role as Angelique on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows, which aired from 1966 to 1971.

Both Parker and Selby aged very nicely

For a moment, I thought the OP was about Angeline, the L.A. fake celebrity who drives a hot pink Corvette and sells t-shirts and autographed photos out of the trunk. I thought, briefly, well she decided to embrace her authentic self.

Me too r42. Angelyne has got to be in her 80s by now.

Hah, r43, I went back and forth between the "i" and the "y." I also wasn't sure about gender at birth so I used feminine pronouns.

She's 73 per Wiki, though I'm sure she's whittled her age down over the years.

r43 - Angelyne looks like she lives on Sunset Boulevard. In her car. For those who watched it or were curious, the biopic starring Emmy Rossum wasn't nearly as terrible as it could and truly should have been.

As a 6 year old little gay boy, loved all those young ladies on DS, Vicki, Carolyn and Maggie. Then Angelique showed up and amped it up, but never camped it up (bless you Grayson). Lara was so beautiful and wicked. I don't think the audience ever hated her. When she showed back up in the black wig as Cassandra, I was thrilled they brought her back and it was obvious the character would never really die. She and Nancy Barrett were far and away the best actresses on the show.

Angelique was my sister's idol. Her name is Angela so she fancied herself a teenage witch.She once tried to stick pins in a doll with my sock tied around the neck. My mum found out and started taking her to church every Sunday. Wish I could have burned her at the stake.

A friend claimed to have tricked with David S in the late 70s, just before his FC days.

[QUOTE]Wish I could have burned her at the stake.

Which one? Mother, sister, or Angelique?

R48 - Although he's long-time married with children, that somehow doesn't surprise me. What did shock me was to find out that the recently deceased Geoffrey Scott was married to a woman. Even on Dynasty I thought for sure he was gay, or at least gay for pay.

Speaking of which, Scott truly was a stunner when he was Dark Shadows for about 45 seconds playing Sky Cumson.

Geffory Scott was a ringer for my first boyfriend who dumped me in 1985 when he went to LA and folks asked him for his autograph because he was on Dynasty.

R50 Scott's character was Sky Rumson. Sky Cumson starred in Boys In The Sand.

Much to the chagrin and regret of Jonathan and Louis, Geoffrey's stint was cut short due to an overwhelming lack of talent. At least on camera.

^ It was his very first role off the NYC casting couch.

She's an undead whore Dear.