Friday 10-23-15 Forbidden Planet on the BIG screen

[Omaha Steve]

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Event info here: http://www.omahafilmevent.com/upcoming.htm or here: http://www.omahafilmevent.com/upcoming.htm


Marta and I already have autographs from Forbidden Planet. We got Warren Stevens & Anne Francis at the same event in 2002: http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm

Anne Francis was very gracious. I had a TZ shot for her to sign, and asked her about her appearance in "Search." She didn't remember "Search" at all. I went through the actor's on the show and the premise, but she couldn't remember anything about it. My husband mentioned that he's had a huge crush on her when "Honey West" was on (I imagine half of the men in America who are between 45 and 60 could say the same!), and asked if he could give her a hug. She said sure, and he leaned over the table. She had expected him to come around the back and went "Whooaa!!" He apologized, and went around the back of the table, and she said the last person to do that had been Robert Blake, who leapt over a table at her. So now I'm teasing my husband that he lunged at Anne Francis.



Warren Stevens has also been in everything, and we had a shot of him in his Combat! episode, "The Gun," to sign. He liked the shot, and told us some interesting stories of working with veteran stuntman and photographer Earl Parker, who had taken the behind the scenes shot. We also bought a photo of his from "Forbidden Planet," and I had him autograph to me a screenshot from his Outer Limits episode, "Keeper of the Purple Twilight." I had a complete stranger stop and ask if I had any more of that shot, which shows him with the Keeper, because they wanted to buy it.


Warren Stevens

[Babel_17]

1. A very important, and great, film (nt)

[villager]

2. It was, generally, the gold standard for sci-fi visual effects until "2001" came along....

Haven't seen it in years -- am due for another gander at it....

[DJ13]

3. That one scene when the windows of the residence start deopping down with a "thud"

....... one after another when the alien presence was approaching terrified me as a kid.


Love that movie!