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Back in 1975, director Bill Rebane brought the world The Giant Spider Invasion, an independent sci-fi action horror film that managed to get network play on both ABC and CBS, was mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000, and made somewhere in the range of 15 to 22 million dollars on a budget of $300,000. The rights to the film went up for public auction around seven months ago – but that auction must not have gone in a satisfactory way, because Rebane still appears to have the rights, and in fact, he has announced via the Green Bay Press Gazette that he’s celebrating the 50th anniversary of the film by re-editing it and shooting new scenes!

Directed by Rebane from a script by Richard L. Huff and Robert Easton, The Giant Spider Invasion has the following synopsis: After a black hole strikes, it opens up another dimension in a rural Wisconsin town, and soon there...

William Katt took a telekinetic date to the prom in Carrie, moved into a hellish home with a mind of its own in House, and flew into a billboard and lived to tell the tale in The Greatest American Hero. In an acting career spanning six decades, there's no doubt that William Katt has played memorable characters on both the stage and screen, but for his latest role, he's breathing new life into an iconic character by narrating the audiobook release of Jeff Rice's Kolchak: The Night Stalker novel, a seminal piece of initially unpublished fiction that became the basis for The Night Stalker, a made-for-tv movie starring Darren McGavin that thrilled and chilled enough viewers in 1972 to convince ABC to conjure up another TV film, The Night Strangler, before eventually leading to the short-lived yet beloved Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series that ran from 1974–75.

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The must-watch made-for-tv movies, the cult ’70s series, and the endearing performances by Darren McGavin as he investigated all manner of paranormal predicaments: anything and everything that had to do with Kolchak: The Night Stalker all started with Jeff Rice's unpublished novel, which is being resurrected on February 11th by James Aquilone's Monstrous Books, who have teamed up with Blackstone Audio to release an audiobook version that will be narrated by legendary actor William Katt!

Read on for additional details on the Kolchak: The Night Stalker audiobook (including Katt's excitement to step into the world of Kolchak), and to learn more this new release of Rice's novel, read our previous Q&a with James Aquilone and visit Monstrous Books' official website!

In 1972 Kolchak: The Night Stalker transfixed audiences. The movie became the highest-rated TV movie in U.S. history and spawned the cult TV series starring Darren McGavin.

Back in 1975, director Bill Rebane brought the world The Giant Spider Invasion, an independent sci-fi action horror film that managed to get network play on both ABC and CBS, was mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000, and made somewhere in the range of 15 to 22 million dollars on a budget of $300,000. Now, Julien’s Auctions has announced that the rights to the film are going up for public auction this week! This includes remake and sequel rights. The winning bidder will also receive the original 35mm negative of the film. The rights to The Giant Spider Invasion are being offered by the current rights holder, who happens to be Rebane.

This auction is part of the Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies collaboration A Week of Hollywood Legends: Sci-Fi, Horror, & Action, which will take place at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, California on December 12th. The man-eating spider prop, which...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Midsommar Tree Topper from A24

A24 has turned Midsommar‘s most enduring image — Florence Pugh as the May Queen — into a Christmas tree topper.

Priced at $48, the handmade felted wood decoration stands 10.5″ tall. It will ship by December 6 to ensure delivery before the holidays.

PopTaters Chucky from Super Impulse

Chucky has joined Super Impulse’s PopTaters line, which gives pop culture icons a Potato Head makeover.

The 4″ potato body comes with 14 interchangeable facial and body parts, including Good Guys overalls, a knife, and a surprise original Potato Head piece.

Accessories can be mixed and matched with other Poptaters toys, including characters from the likes of “Stranger Things,” “Squid Game,” “Wednesday,” and Garbage Pail Kids.

Ice Nine Kills...

When Raymond Burr passed away at age 76 on September 12, 1993, he was in the midst of a career resurgence. The Emmy-winning Perry Mason star who ruled the courtroom with style and smarts from 1957 to 1966, was once again playing novelist Erle Stanley Gardner’s brilliant, benevolent defense attorney in a series of TV movies with original costar Barbara Hale. He’d even reunited with the gang from his 1967-75 police drama Ironside for a telefilm that year. Thirty years after the charismatic actor’s death from cancer, and more than 65 years after the show’s premiere, Perry Mason remains a fixture on nostalgia channels like MeTV and Fetv, and streaming services such as Paramount+ and Freevee. Streamer Pluto TV even hosts a channel that plays the series round the clock. Burr is so identified with that iconic role that it can be disarming to see him out of character, as in these clips,...

William Hopper, the actor who played the stalwart private detective Paul Drake on the hit 1957 legal drama "Perry Mason," was a notoriously prolific smoker, often seen with a cigarette hanging from his lips on camera. In 1970, Hopper suffered a stroke and succumbed to smoking-related health issues a month later. He was 55 years old. 

As Paul Drake, Hopper was a cynic, a more grizzled presence built to balance Perry Mason's serious intellect. He was the Dr. McCoy to Perry Mason's Spock. For those unfamiliar with the series, "Perry Mason" was about a Los Angeles defense lawyer, played brilliantly by Raymond Burr, who was always careful to investigate the clients he was hired to defend. Typically, innocent people came to Mason, and he was always curious about the details of their case. Mason would always face off against the L.A. District Attorney Hamilton Burger (William Talman), who never won a case against him.

Since his first appearance in Erle Stanley Gardner's 1933 book "The Case of the Velvet Claws," Perry Mason has remained consistently popular due to several film, TV, and radio adaptations. But when HBO decided to reboot the private investigator turned criminal defense lawyer for the 21st century, they naturally put a new spin on the character and those around him. The hardboiled, pulpy debut season of "Perry Mason" ended with Matthew Rhys' P.I. embracing the role of a lawyer for which he's so well known, accompanied by his new lead investigator Paul Drake (Chris Chalk) and legal assistant turned co-counsel Della Street (Juliet Rylance).

But rather than Drake being the droll P.I. of previous iterations, the HBO show's version is a conflicted and embattled former LAPD street cop, struggling to support his family and navigate the treacherous landscape of a deeply racist 1930s Los Angeles. And whereas the...

Sharon Acker, a Canadian film, television and theater actor best known for her roles in “Point Blank,” “The New Perry Mason” and “Happy Birthday to Me,” has died. She was 87.

Acker’s death was confirmed by her cousin, David Glover, in a tribute to his family member on Facebook: “My wife Judy and I were very close with Sharon and we spoke regularly even after she moved back to Toronto to be close to with daughters and family. I can never forget Sharon’s million dollar smile. She made everyone she came in contact with feel so much better.”

According to reports, Acker died March 16 at her retirement home in Toronto.

Across an acting career spanning four decades, Acker found one of her most enduring roles in the 1967 neo-noir “Point Blank,” helmed by John Boorman. Acker played the wife to Lee Marvin’s lead, who betrays her conman husband after a robbery on Alcatraz.

Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87.

Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”

She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)

In John Boorman’s Point Blank, Acker’s character takes up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese after he shoots Walker (Marvin...

Erle Stanley Gardner’s brilliant and savvy criminal defense attorney Perry Mason has been on the case since 1933’s “The Case of the Velvet Claws.” The attorney describes himself in that first novel as a “lawyer who has specialized in trial work, and in a lot of criminal work…I’m a specialist on getting people out of trouble.”

Inspired by the famed Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Earl Rogers who only lost three of his 77 murder trials, Mason was featured in 82 novels and four short stories, six Warner Bros. murder mystery movies, a long-running radio series, the beloved 1957-66 CBS series starring Raymond Burr and Barbara Hale as his true-blue assistant Della Street, movies and a 1973-74 series with Monte Markham. Matthew Rhys (“The Americans” ) plays the latest incarnation in HBO’s stylish “Perry Mason” series, currently in its second season.

Set during the Great Depression, the HBO drama has a real “Chinatown” feel,...

Just four years after making her small screen acting debut on FX’s “The Americans,” Julia Garner landed her first regular role on a continuing series as Ruth Langmore on “Ozark.” Her Best Drama Supporting Actress Emmy wins for the Netflix show in 2019 and 2020 made her the category’s seventh and youngest back-to-back champ. Her six predecessors, all of whom were at least 16 years her senior, were Ellen Corby (“The Waltons”), Nancy Marchand (“Lou Grant”), Bonnie Bartlett (“St. Elsewhere”), Allison Janney (“The West Wing”), Blythe Danner (“Huff”), and Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad”).

Garner’s first victory at age 25 also made her the fourth youngest person to ever triumph in her category. At the time, she also ranked as its ninth-youngest nominee, and has since been bumped to 10th place. Included among the nine younger actresses on the list are two of her 2019 competitors as well as three child stars.

The...

Just four years after making her small screen acting debut on FX’s “The Americans,” Julia Garner landed her first regular role on a continuing series as Ruth Langmore on “Ozark.” Her Best Drama Supporting Actress Emmy wins for the Netflix show in 2019 and 2020 made her the category’s seventh and youngest back-to-back champ. Her six predecessors, all of whom were at least 16 years her senior, were Ellen Corby (“The Waltons”), Nancy Marchand (“Lou Grant”), Bonnie Bartlett (“St. Elsewhere”), Allison Janney (“The West Wing”), Blythe Danner (“Huff”), and Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad”).

Garner’s first victory at age 25 also made her the fourth youngest person to ever triumph in her category. At the time, she also ranked as its ninth-youngest nominee, and has since been bumped to 10th place. Included among the nine younger actresses on the list are two of her 2019 competitors as well as three child stars.

The...

For 45 years, the 1977 limited series “Roots” held the record among all primetime programs for most same-year acting Emmy nominations. Its total of 13 was ultimately surpassed in 2022 by the HBO drama series “Succession,” which amassed seven regular and seven guest performing bids for its third season. Six of those main cast members had previously been nominated for their work on the show, leaving J. Smith-Cameron as the lone newcomer in the septet. By earning this supporting notice, the veteran actress finally caught the attention of Emmy voters after nearly four decades in the business.

Throughout the third season of “Succession,” Smith-Cameron’s character, Gerri Kellman, continues to counsel the central Roy family as they navigate the increasingly difficult operation of their global media company. Whether they heed her sage advice or not, she is practically always proven right in the end. At 64, the actress immediately became the 10th oldest nominee in...

For 45 years, the 1977 limited series “Roots” held the record among all primetime programs for most same-year acting Emmy nominations. Its total of 13 was ultimately surpassed in 2022 by the HBO drama series “Succession,” which amassed seven regular and seven guest performing bids for its third season. Six of those main cast members had previously been nominated for their work on the show, leaving J. Smith-Cameron as the lone newcomer in the septet. By earning this supporting notice, the veteran actress finally caught the attention of Emmy voters after nearly four decades in the business.

Throughout the third season of “Succession,” Smith-Cameron’s character, Gerri Kellman, continues to counsel the central Roy family as they navigate the increasingly difficult operation of their global media company. Whether they heed her sage advice or not, she is practically always proven right in the end. At 64, the actress immediately became the 10th oldest nominee in...

A genuine ‘sleeper’ hit, this ‘all in the family’ noir pits innocent childhood against cold blooded murderers. Little Bobby Driscoll witnesses Paul Stewart and Ruth Roman committing a murder, and can’t get Mom and Dad to believe him because of a habit of crying Wolf. But the killers believe him … and they live right upstairs. The beautifully made film evokes a rough, broken-down block in New York City in great detail. Rko’s new boss Howard Hughes did what he always did with a hot feature ready to release: he shelved it for more than a year. The Wac’s restoration is eye-opening.

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Warner Archive Collection

1949 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 73 min. / Available at Amazon.com / Street Date September 21, 2021 / 21.99

Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Anthony Ross, Richard Benedict.

Cinematography: Robert De Grasse, William O. Steiner

Art Directors: Sam Corso, Albert D’Agostino,...

Ahead of its second season, CBS detective drama “Mannix” added Gail Fisher to its main cast, making her one of the first Black women with a regular role on a TV series. Within two years, she proved to be even more of a trailblazer by becoming the first Black actress to win a Primetime Emmy in any category. Her eventual total of four Best Drama Supporting Actress nominations for the role has since only been matched by one other Black actress: Chandra Wilson (“Grey’s Anatomy”).

At the time of her victory in 1970, 34-year-old Fisher was the third youngest winner in the history of her category. In the five decades since, seven younger women have pushed Fisher to the 10th spot on the list, including one who triumphed twice as a teenager.

Since 1959, a total of 36 actresses have won for their supporting roles on continuing drama programs, beginning with Barbara Hale...

In the late 1990s, ABC’s “The Practice” followed in the path of other legal dramas like “The Defenders” and “L.A. Law” by winning the Emmy for Best Drama Series two years in a row. Its second victory in 1999 came with three acting wins as well, for Edward Herrmann (Guest Actor), Michael Badalucco (Supporting Actor), and Holland Taylor (Supporting Actress). Ultimately, 22 different performers would earn 27 bids for their work on the series, placing it behind “ER” as having the second-highest number of individual acting nominees.

In winning her category, Taylor defeated two of her castmates: Lara Flynn Boyle and 1998 champion Camryn Manheim. Her episode submission, “End Games,” included a storyline devoted to her character, a lascivious judge, dealing with a personal sexual harassment lawsuit from a former clerk. At the time, Taylor was the third oldest victor in her category, but has since moved to 10th place.

Since 1959, a total...

Last Year’s Winner: Julia Garner, “Ozark”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: Julia Garner won two years in a row for “Ozark,” marking the first back-to-back winner since Anna Gunn won for “Breaking Bad” in 2013-2014. Though Garner will be ineligible in 2021 due to pandemic production delays for “Ozark,” she will have a chance to defend her title — and keep the hot streak alive — after Season 4 premieres. Only Nancy Marchand has won three consecutive trophies in this category, when she co-starred in “Lou Grant” from 1980-1982.

Fun Fact: Barbara Hale was twice-nominated for playing Della Street in the original “Perry Mason” series, and the actor won the Emmy in 1959. Raymond Burr was nominated three times and won twice as the titular detective, while William Hopper was nominated once as Paul Drake. All three roles are again eligible in 2021, this time for the HBO reboot, with Matthew Rhys playing Mason, Chris Chalk as Drake,...

“Ted Lasso,” “The Mandalorian,” “Hacks,” “The Flight Attendant,” “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” are among the top nominees for the 73rd annual Primetime Awards, which are set for Sept.19 on CBS with Cedric the Entertainer, who stars on the network’s sitcom “The Neighborhood,” set to host. But this is now, but what about the Emmys 60 years ago.

Dick Powell hosted the 13th Emmy Awards which took place at the famed Moulin Rouge Nightclub in Los Angeles on May 16, 1961. There were just three broadcast networks as well as local channels and National Education Television, now known as PBS.

History was made when The Flintstones” became the first animated series to be nominated in a main category: program achievement in the field of humor. It would be nearly 50 years before another animated series, “The Family Guy,” contended for a top award.

Veterans such as Jack Benny and Red Skelton were among the winners,...

Ahead of its second season, CBS detective drama “Mannix” added Gail Fisher to its main cast, making her one of the first Black women with a regular role on a TV series. Within two years, she proved to be even more of a trailblazer by becoming the first Black actress to win a Primetime Emmy in any category. Her eventual total of four Best Drama Supporting Actress nominations for the role has since only been matched by one other Black actress: Chandra Wilson (“Grey’s Anatomy”).

At the time of her victory in 1970, 34-year-old Fisher was the third youngest winner in the history of her category. In the five decades since, seven younger women have pushed Fisher to the 10th spot on the list, including one who triumphed twice as a teenager.

Since 1959, a total of 36 actresses have won for their supporting roles on continuing drama programs, beginning with Barbara Hale...

In the late 1990s, ABC’s “The Practice” followed in the path of other legal dramas like “The Defenders” and “L.A. Law” by winning the Emmy for Best Drama Series two years in a row. Its second victory in 1999 came with three acting wins as well, for Edward Herrmann (Guest Actor), Michael Badalucco (Supporting Actor), and Holland Taylor (Supporting Actress). Ultimately, 22 different performers would earn 27 bids for their work on the series, placing it behind “ER” as having the second-highest number of individual acting nominees.

In winning her category, Taylor defeated two of her castmates: Lara Flynn Boyle and 1998 champion Camryn Manheim. Her episode submission, “End Games,” included a storyline devoted to her character, a lascivious judge, dealing with a personal sexual harassment lawsuit from a former clerk. At the time, Taylor was the third oldest victor in her category, but has since moved to 10th place.

Since 1959, a total...

“She’s a very solitary character because she’s carrying this secret — a huge part of who she is,” muses Juliet Rylance about Della Street, the iconic “Perry Mason” character that she plays in the reboot for HBO starring Matthew Rhys as the eponymous defense attorney. Della is Perry’s secretary and the new 1933-set series created by Ron Fitzgerald and Rolin Jones eschews their will-they-won’t-they dynamic by making Della a lesbian.

“I really love that Ron and Rolin made this choice for a number of different reasons,” reveals Rylance in her exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above) about taking on the role that won Barbara Hale the 1959 Emmy Award for Best Drama Supporting Actress. She continues, “It immediately kind of makes it very interesting. It makes her as a character quite an enigma at the beginning of the series.”

SEEour chat with the “Perry Mason” producers.

The Greatest American Hero only ran for three seasons in the early '80s, but it left a lasting impression on a lot of fans of sci-fi and superhero television. Ralph Hinkley, played by William Katt, discovers an alien suit and becomes an unlikely hero.

Related: 10 Best Superhero Movies & TV Shows That Aren’t Based On Comics

The strange red and black suit the aliens give Hinkley grants a broad range of different superpowers, none of which he can anticipate, thanks to losing the instruction manual. The suit's powers seem to be limitless, with the best powers being very familiar to fans of comic books.

The Golden Globe drama series race is shaping up to be a battle between Season 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown,” which premieres Nov. 15, and HBO’s “Perry Mason,” according to the latest predictions of Gold Derby’s Experts. The reinvention of the classic Raymond Burr crime drama traces Mason’s early sketchy years as a L.A.-based private investigator before he was persuaded to try his hand at the law. The noirish mystery, set in 1932, stars Emmy winner Matthew Rhys with valiant and vibrant support from John Lithgow, Juliet Rylance and Shea Wigham. Rhys is a two-time Golden Globe nominee for his performance as a conflicted Russian spy in FX’s long-running series “The Americans.” Lithgow is a five-time Golden Globe nominee, most recently for his Emmy-winning turn as Winston Churchill in “The Crown,” and a two-time winner for his performances in NBC’s “3rd Rock from the Sun” and Showtime’s “Dexter.

You’ve asked questions. Prepare for the answers.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)

The Beguiled (1971)

Tenet (2021? Maybe?)

Smokey Is The Bandit (1983)

Robin Hood (2010)

Hollywood Boulevard (1976)

The Devils (1971)

Song of the South (1946)

Gremlins (1984)

Dillinger (1973)

Marcello I’m So Bored (1966)

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

Big Wednesday (1978)

Swamp Thing (1982)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Payback (1999)

Bell, Book And Candle (1958)

Blowup (1966)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Medium Cool (1969)

25th Hour (2002)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Palm Springs (2020)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Mandy (2018)

The Sadist (1963)

Spider Baby (1968)

Night Tide (1960)

Stark Fear

Carnival of Souls (1962)

The Devil’s Messenger (1961)

Ms. 45 (1981)

Léolo (1992)

The Howling (1981)

Showgirls (1995)

Green Book (2018)

The Last Hurrah (1958)

The Best Man (1964)

Advise and Consent (1962)

The Candidate (1972)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Seven Days In May (1964)

The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)

The Man (1972)

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Four Lions (2010)

Pump Up The Volume (1990)

Nightmare In The Sun (1965)

The Wild Angels (1966)

The Omega Man (1971)

The Nanny (1965)

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man...

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a giant spider! Fathom Events and the 2019 RiffTrax Live series have come to bring you the cult classic The Giant Spider Invasion. Continue reading for ticket information as well as a breakdown of this kitschy film. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Ghost Adventures' Halloween spectacular and HELLmington release details.

RiffTrax Live: Giant Spider Invasion Fathom Events Details: "The 2019’s “RiffTrax Live” series continues on August 15th & 20th with “RiffTrax Live: Giant Spider Invasion.”

Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) are back in cinemas with 1975’s awesome-arachnid-science-fiction-horror-cult- classic: one of the most popular MST3K movies ever!

Starring Alan Hale Jr, the (Skipper from “Gilligan’s Island”), Barbara Hale and Robert Easton, who’s been in more movies than a No Smoking disclaimer, The Giant Spider Invasion” explodes across the screen in a pristine new digital transfer.

Following the sidesplitting kick-off to the 2019 “RiffTrax Live” series with the wonderfully awful rubber monster B-movie “Octaman,” and the Casper Van Dien sword-and-laser swashbuckling space odyssey “Star Raiders” in June, RiffTrax’s Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (of Mystery Science Theater 3000® fame) are back in cinemas in August with “RiffTrax Live: Giant Spider Invasion.” One of the most popular MST3K movies ever, comedy fans won’t want to miss this epic riff on the 1975 science fiction horror cult classic presented by RiffTrax and Fathom Events.

Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 8 p.m. Et (live) / 7 p.m. Ct (live) / 7 p.m. Mt (tape delayed) / 8 p.m. Pt (tape delayed) and rebroadcast on Tuesday, August 20 at 7:30 p.m. local time.

Tickets for “RiffTrax Live: 2019” titles can be purchased at www.fathomevents.com/series/rifftrax-live and participating theater box offices. For a complete list of theater locations, visit the Fathom...

Hosted by Fathom Events, Rifftrax Live: 2019 will feature three classic B-movies for your cinematic viewing pleasure. On the docket this time around is Octaman, Star Raiders, and The Giant Spider Invasion. Continue reading for a breakdown of each movie and showtimes. Also in today's Horror Highlights: The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies - London's African Horror: Shades of Superstition and Ghost Town podcast episode details.

Three Rifftrax Live: 2019 Fathom Events Details: "RiffTrax’s Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) are back in cinemas to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RiffTrax Live with three all-new riffs on what are sure to be fan favorites with “RiffTrax Live: 2019.” Join Mike, Kevin and Bill as they take on B-movie classics: the guy-in-a-rubber-suit creature feature “Octaman,” the Casper Van Dien space odyssey “Star Raiders,” and new HD transfer of the MST3K favorite “Giant Spider Invasion.

Sunday’s telecast of the Screen Actors Guild will feature a special In Memoriam segment devoted to many of the actors and actresses who have died since last year’s ceremony in late January. Sure to be among those saluted include Oscar winner Martin Landau, comedy legend Jerry Lewis, and beloved film and TV star Bill Paxton. Visit our own Gold Derby memoriam galleries for this past year of 2017 and the newly-started gallery for 2018.

Over 100 people in SAG/AFTRA have passed away in the past 12 months. Which of the following 60 names will also be featured in the televised tribute?

SEE2018 SAG Awards TV predictions: Complete racetrack odds in all 9 categories

Richard Anderson (actor)

Chuck Barris (host/executive)

Shelley Berman (actor)

Chuck Berry (singer/actor)

Joseph Bologna (actor)

Powers Boothe (actor)

Brent Briscoe (actor)

Glen Campbell (singer/actor)

Bernie Casey (actor)

David Cassidy (actor/singer)

Mike Connors (actor)

Danielle Darrieux (actor...

It wouldn’t be the end of the year at TVLine if we didn’t take a moment to look back on all of the small-screen stars we’ve lost in the last 12 months.

The year saw the deaths of some household names, people like comedy legend Mary Tyler Moore, Big Love patriarch Bill Paxton, Fox News Channel mastermind Roger Ailes and Benson himself Robert Guillaume. Other losses may have been less high-profile, but were no less keenly felt by fans — Mannix‘s Mike Connors, Perry Mason‘s Barbara Hale, Battlestar Galactica‘s Richard Hatch, Last Comic Standing‘s Ralphie May...

On this day in history as it relates to showbiz!

1907 Composer Miklós Rózsa born in Budapest. He becomes an Academy favorite in the early 40s and is nominated 17 times for his music with 3 Oscar wins (Spellbound, A Double Life, Ben-Hur)

1922 Emmy winner Barbara Hale (Perry Mason) born in Illinois

⇱ 1946 Hayley Mills born in London. She becomes the very last winner of the special "juvenile Oscar winner" for Pollyanna (1960) and chases it with the classic twin comedy The Parent Trap (1961). Did you know she was Tfe's favorite classic child star? Now you do.

1947 James Woods born in Vernal, Utah

1953 Rick Moranis born in Toronto. Today's movie fans probably don't know this but in '89 he starred in 3 consecutive $100 million grossers in one single summer (Ghostbusters II, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Parenthood) and it was a very big deal because back then the same people weren't in every movie. Tfe's theory...

Actress Barbara Hale has passed away at age 94. She started as a glamour girl in feature films and commercials before landing the role of Perry Mason's secretary Della Street in the long-running TV series that lasted from 1957-1966. Starring opposite Raymond Burr as Mason, Hale won an Emmy for her performance in 1959 and Della Street became her signature role. In 1985 she and Burr reunited for a Perry Mason TV movie. The show received very high ratings and the two would continue to reprise their roles periodically in other new TV movies about the famed attorney. Hale, the mother of actor William Katt, had many feature films to her credit including the 1970 blockbuster "Airport" in which she played the jilted wife of gigalo pilot Dean Martin.

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Barbara Hale, known for her role in Perry Mason, died at 94 years old. Hale, a former contract player at Rko and Columbia who made more than 50 films before landing her signature role, died Thursday at her Sherman Oaks home in Los Angeles. The actress played the character of secretary Della Street alongside Raymond Burr on […]

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Barbara Hale, who costarred alongside Raymond Burr for nearly four decades on TV’s Perry Mason, has died at the age of 94.

Hale passed away Thursday, according to a Facebook post from her son, actor William Katt. In 1957, she began playing secretary Della Street on the CBS legal drama Perry Mason, assisting Burr’s defense attorney with his weekly cases.

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She appeared in all nine seasons, winning an Emmy in 1959 for best supporting actress in a drama and getting nominated for another in...

Barbara Hale, who played the title lawyer’s secretary Della Street on every episode of Perry Mason and appeared on the big screen opposite many of Hollywood’s top leading men, died Thursday at her home in Sherman Oaks, CA. She was 94. Her son, The Greatest American Hero star William Katt, confirmed Hale’s death on Facebook. She was gracious and kind and silly and always fun to be with,” Katt wrote. “A wonderful actress and smart business woman, she was most of all a…...

Barbara Hale, who played the title lawyer’s secretary Della Street on every episode of Perry Mason and appeared on the big screen opposite many of Hollywood’s top leading men, died Thursday at her home in Sherman Oaks, CA. She was 94. Her son, The Greatest American Hero star William Katt, confirmed Hale’s death on Facebook. She was gracious and kind and silly and always fun to be with,” Katt wrote. “A wonderful actress and smart business woman, she was most of all a…...

Barbara Hale, who played legal secretary Della Street on the long-running legal drama “Perry Mason,” died Thursday, her son William Katt said Friday. She was 94. “Lost my beautiful wonderful mom Barbara Hale yesterday afternoon. She left peacefully at her home in Sherman Oaks Ca surrounded by close family and dear friends,” Katt, known for his starring role on “The Greatest American Hero,” wrote on Facebook. “We’ve all been so lucky to have her for so long.” “She was gracious and kind and silly and always fun to be with. A wonderful actress and smart business woman she was most of.

HBO is said to be in talks with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and Robert Downey Jr., to reboot the Perry Mason TV series, with Downey in the title role. Variety reports the project is based on the feature film the star had previously developed at Warner Bros. If the project is ordered to series, Perry Mason would be Downey's second TV series role. He played Larry Paul on Ally McBeal in 2000 and 2001, and returned for the final two episodes,  2002.The original Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr, premiered in the fall of 1957 and ran for nine seasons before being cancelled by CBS in 1966. The cast also included: Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins, Wesley Lau, Richard Anderson, Michael Fox, Lee Miller, and Connie Cezon. According to the...

Barbara Hale, who played the steadfast secretary Della Street opposite Raymond Burr on the legendary courtroom drama Perry Mason for nine seasons and 30 telefilms, has died. She was 94.

Hale, a former contract player at Rko and Columbia who made more than 50 films before landing her signature role, died Thursday at her Sherman Oaks home in Los Angeles.

Survivors include her son William Katt, best known as the star of the 1980s ABC series The Greatest American Hero. He reported her death on Facebook.

"We’ve all been so lucky to have her for so long," Katt...

Wisconson-based regional filmmaker Bill Rebane’s no-budget wonder ($300k to be exact) The Giant Spider Invasion was a hilariously cheesy 1975 throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, a trend then enjoying a revival with films like Empire Of The Ants and Food Of The Gods. This outrageous mix of giant monster motifs and backwoods sleaze plays like a hybrid of Tarantula and The Blob with its mixture of giant spiders and falling meteors. I saw The Giant Spider Invasion at the long-shuttered Ellisville Cinema in West St. Louis County (on a double bill with the David Niven vampire comedy Old Dracula). I recall the poster in the lobby which featured a gargantuan spider bearing down on a group of terrified people. In the air above the mega-arachnid was three helicopters and lying crumpled at the spider’s legs were burning cars as spotlights filled the sky. One of the...

Teresa Wright and Matt Damon in 'The Rainmaker' Teresa Wright: From Marlon Brando to Matt Damon (See preceding post: "Teresa Wright vs. Samuel Goldwyn: Nasty Falling Out.") "I'd rather have luck than brains!" Teresa Wright was quoted as saying in the early 1950s. That's understandable, considering her post-Samuel Goldwyn choice of movie roles, some of which may have seemed promising on paper.[1] Wright was Marlon Brando's first Hollywood leading lady, but that didn't help her to bounce back following the very public spat with her former boss. After all, The Men was released before Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire turned Brando into a major international star. Chances are that good film offers were scarce. After Wright's brief 1950 comeback, for the third time in less than a decade she would be gone from the big screen for more than a year.

“Della, I’ve just run into something that’s a Perry Mason case if ever I saw one.”

We begin with one of the best theme songs (by Fred Steiner) outside the big screen. Perry Mason (1957-66) stars Raymond Burr as the man himself, a Los Angeles defense attorney who is always engaged by an innocent suspect in a murder case. He’s aided by investigator Paul Drake (William Hopper) and assistant Della Street (Barbara Hale). Mr. Mason then digs deeply into four others related to the case and goes through the trial for long enough until true culprit to confess from the gallery. If you’re looking for calls of “Hearsay!” or “Character Evidence!” you’ve missed your mark. If courtrooms actually practiced in this fashion, I daresay there’d be a backlog deeper than it already is. Instead, we’re typically treated to something like a half measure...

Before CBS inundated television audiences with crime procedurals, they were busy perfecting the legal procedural. Perry Mason ran for a successful nine years in the 1960s and also spawned thirty made-for-tv films and a short-lived recreation. This season 8, volume 1 release features the first half of the season (due to the lengthiness of each season, CBS is parceling out the series).

Mason (Raymond Burr) is a defense attorney in La, dedicated to seeking justice. With the help of his secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) and detective Paul Drake (William Hopper), Mason almost always comes out on top, convicting the guilty perpetrator(s). Like all procedurals, Mason follows the same story structure in each episode, whether it be "The Case of the Latent Lover" or "The Case of the Missing Button" (Button is a little girl, not an actual button). The first half of the episode deals with the buildup to a murder,...

A 35-minute cut of The Giant Spider Invasion will be shown on Super-8 sound film at Super-8 Giant Monster Movie Madness next Tuesday, May 1st at The Way Out Club in St. Louis.

Wisconson-based regional filmmaker Bill Rebane’s no-budget wonder The Giant Spider Invasion was a hilariously cheesy 1975 throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, a trend then enjoying a revival with films like Empire Of The Ants and Food Of The Gods. This outrageous mix of giant monster motifs and backwoods sleaze plays like a hybrid of Tarantula and The Blob with its mixture of giant spiders and falling meteors. I saw The Giant Spider Invasion at the long-shuttered Ellisville Cinema in West St. Louis County (on a double bill with the David Niven vampire comedy Old Dracula). I recall the poster in the lobby which featured a gargantuan spider bearing down on a group of terrified people.

Some were huge in their day, with hit records, popular movies and roles on top TV shows. But we haven’t seen them much lately — or for years. Here’s what they’ve been up to recently.

Sam Jones

The onetime Playgirl centerfold and star of Flash Gordon (1980) went on to star in 1986’s My Chauffer and the 1987-88 TV series The Highwayman. While starring roles were hard to come by, Jones occasionally appeared in minor TV and movie roles up until 2007. He is reportedly now the CEO of a security company providing protection for high-profile clients all over the world.

Charo

For those too young to know of her, think Shakira’s dance moves and Sofia Vergara’s sexy comic timing — in one person. Known for her trademark “Cuchi-Cuchi” and her frequent Love Boat and Tonight Show appearances in the ’70s and ’80s, Charo, whose full name is Maria...

As part of its "Summer Under the Stars" film series, Turner Classic Movies is showing 12 Anne Francis movies today, including three TCM premieres. Those are actor-director William Conrad's Brainstorm (1965), veteran Raoul Walsh's A Lion Is in the Streets (1953), and actor-director Richard Benedict's Impasse (1969). [Anne Francis Movie Schedule.] Brainstorm is about a scientist intent on killing the husband of the woman he loves. The B thriller stars performers who had seen better big-screen days in the '40s and/or '50s: Jeffrey Hunter, Dana Andrews, Viveca Lindfors, and Francis. At the time, however, Francis was doing well for herself on television in the series Honey West, in which she played a sexy gumshoe whose partner was an ocelot. Based on a novel by Adria Locke Langley, A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) is a political drama that got made probably thanks to Robert Rossen's 1949 Oscar winner All the King's Men.

Anne Francis on TCM: Forbidden Planet, Brainstorm, A Lion Is In The Streets Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 6:00 Am Summer Holiday (1948) Musical remake of Ah, Wilderness!, about a small-town boy's struggles with growing up. Dir: Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, Jackie Jenkins, Marilyn Maxwell, Agnes Moorehead. C-93 mins. 7:45 Am So Young So Bad (1950) A crusading psychiatrist tries to help troubled reform school girls. Dir: Bernard Vorhaus. Cast: Paul Henreid, Catherine McLeod, Cecil Clovelly, Anne Jackson, Rita Moreno. Bw-91 mins. 9:30 Am Battle Cry (1955) A group of Marines eagerly await deployment during World War II. Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Dorothy Malone, Nancy Olson, Tab Hunter, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, William Campbell. C-148 mins, Letterbox Format. 12:00 Pm Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero's family.

I didn't have high hopes for The First Time (1952), despite my Tashlin mania: I'd tried to watch Marry Me Again (1953), his other marital comedy starring Robert Cummings (known in my household as "the Butcher of Strasburg" after his role in Anthony Mann's 1949 Reign of Terror), and found the gag-happy, sketch-comedy approach unsatisfactory within such a constrained domestic setting and with a straight actor instead of a comedian in the lead. And the jokes about shooting down "Japs" in the war are pretty...bad. As a result, I only put The First Time on for a minute to see what it was like...and then ended up watching the whole thing.

It's very funny, and Cummings, along with Barbara Hale, is really good in it. No, really.

It's also very interesting, and quite subversive at times...Tashlin often seems to favour a kind of masculinism, in a slightly tiresome "Fathers for Justice" way,...

St. Patrick’s Day is on Thursday, March 17, that wonderful celebration of green clovers, green beer and anything else green. So, to get us in the mood, the Disc Dish Today’s Special column is celebrating with a couple of St. Paddy’s Day features this week.

In this first one, test your knowledge of movies containing the word “green.” Match the right movie (on the left below) to the right film quote (on the right below). If you have the luck of the Irish, you’ll get all 12 and can call yourself Paddy. If not, don’t worry, you can get the answers here.

Wishing one and all a happy pre-St. Patrick’s Day! Now, start matching…

The Films The Quotes 1. Anne of Green Gables, starring Anne Shirley, Tom Brown (1934) a. “A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same.” 2. How Green Was My Valley,...