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JSul3 · 70-79
@WillaKissing I was alive then ...very young....but very much alive.
I'm simply providing the background to the film(s) for your enjoyment.
Female dominant sci-fi films were plentiful.
Suggest you watch Queen of Outer Space with Zsa Zsa Gabor.
I'm simply providing the background to the film(s) for your enjoyment.
Female dominant sci-fi films were plentiful.
Suggest you watch Queen of Outer Space with Zsa Zsa Gabor.
JSul3 · 70-79
Oh my....where to begin?
Fire Maidens from Outer Space (or Fire Maidens of Outer Space in the US), is a 1956 British independent black-and-white science fiction feature film.
It has the reputation as being one of those "so bad, it's good" type movies.
The film stars Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw, Paul Carpenter and Jacqueline Curtis. There are 13 additional "fire maidens". The music score features cues excerpted from the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin.
Quick plot summary: Astronauts are sent to check out the Earth like 13th moon of Jupiter. Upon arrival they find a bevy of fine looking females and one very old man....and a monster that terrorizes them. Apparently these folks are the "New Atlantis" and will become extinct if they're unable to reproduce. Ok!
They eventually eliminate the monster after it's killed the old man. The guys take Hestia, the most lovely of these "fire maidens," with them on the ship back to Earth, promising to send back space ships full of husbands for the rest. One can only hope that they fulfilled that promise. I guess we'll never know, but based on the high testosterone level of the male species, it's certain that there hundreds of willing volunteers scrambling to jump aboard those space ships.
Susan Shaw (29 August 1929 – 27 November 1978; born Patricia Gwendoline Sloots) was an English actress. She plays the role of Hestia, the leader (?) of the fire maidens.
She was in a number of British productions.
She was married several times and had one child, a son named Mark.
Shaw wound up living alone and broke in Soho. She died in Middlesex on 27 November 1978, at age 49, of cirrhosis of the liver, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, north London.
Her old friends intended to pay for the funeral but the Rank Organisation stepped in to do so. "When we heard of the circumstances of her death we felt it was the least we could do," said a Rank spokesman. Charlie Stevenson, landlord of the Swiss Tavern in Old Compton Street, said, "She came in here every day. They say she died of cirrhosis of the liver and she lived next door to prostitutes in Soho. But this is Soho. We all live next door to prostitutes. We loved her and we weren't going to see her buried in a pauper's grave. Now we shall give the money to medical charities."
Source: Wikipedia
Fire Maidens from Outer Space (or Fire Maidens of Outer Space in the US), is a 1956 British independent black-and-white science fiction feature film.
It has the reputation as being one of those "so bad, it's good" type movies.
The film stars Anthony Dexter, Susan Shaw, Paul Carpenter and Jacqueline Curtis. There are 13 additional "fire maidens". The music score features cues excerpted from the opera Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin.
Quick plot summary: Astronauts are sent to check out the Earth like 13th moon of Jupiter. Upon arrival they find a bevy of fine looking females and one very old man....and a monster that terrorizes them. Apparently these folks are the "New Atlantis" and will become extinct if they're unable to reproduce. Ok!
They eventually eliminate the monster after it's killed the old man. The guys take Hestia, the most lovely of these "fire maidens," with them on the ship back to Earth, promising to send back space ships full of husbands for the rest. One can only hope that they fulfilled that promise. I guess we'll never know, but based on the high testosterone level of the male species, it's certain that there hundreds of willing volunteers scrambling to jump aboard those space ships.
Susan Shaw (29 August 1929 – 27 November 1978; born Patricia Gwendoline Sloots) was an English actress. She plays the role of Hestia, the leader (?) of the fire maidens.
She was in a number of British productions.
She was married several times and had one child, a son named Mark.
Shaw wound up living alone and broke in Soho. She died in Middlesex on 27 November 1978, at age 49, of cirrhosis of the liver, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, north London.
Her old friends intended to pay for the funeral but the Rank Organisation stepped in to do so. "When we heard of the circumstances of her death we felt it was the least we could do," said a Rank spokesman. Charlie Stevenson, landlord of the Swiss Tavern in Old Compton Street, said, "She came in here every day. They say she died of cirrhosis of the liver and she lived next door to prostitutes in Soho. But this is Soho. We all live next door to prostitutes. We loved her and we weren't going to see her buried in a pauper's grave. Now we shall give the money to medical charities."
Source: Wikipedia