Happy New Year - 1957!

Happy New Year 1957!  Ann Blyth starred in three films that were released in this one year by three different studios: Slander for M-G-M, The Buster Keaton Story for Paramount, and The Helen Morgan Story for Warner Bros.  In this amazingly productive year, no one could have predicted that The Helen Morgan Story was to be her last motion picture, but it was certainly a wonderful performance on which to conclude that part of her career.  The decades ahead would be busy with television, concerts, and theatre.

Ann's most recent television appearance seems to be a new interview segment she has filmed for Turner Classic Movies.  This Friday, December 29th, TCM will be showing Mildred Pierce (1946) at 6 p.m. ET.  Tune in, say, ten or fifteen minutes before the movie is to start when this taped interview about her work on this film is likely to be shown again, with Ann looking as lovely as ever.  

And may I wish all visitors to this blog a very Happy and Healthy New Year - 2018!

Jacqueline T. Lynch

Slander (1957) on TCM

Marjorie Rambeau appears with Ann Blyth in the above movie still photo from Slander (1957).  Turner Classic Movies is showing it today at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.

Van Johnson co-stars as Ann's husband, a performer on a child's TV show who has a checkered past, and is blackmailed by a scandal magazine to rat on another celebrity, to protect himself.  A very timely and controversial subject in the 1950s, when scandal mags were first hitting Hollywood.  Careers and lives were destroyed.  Van Johnson and Ann Blyth have to make some hard choices, and suffer monstrous consequences.  Steve Cochran plays the magazine publisher who calls all the shots.

You can read more about Slander here at my Another Old Movie Blog.  Don't forget to tune in to TCM this afternoon!

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