Rally Round The Flag Boys - Italian Style

Its back to the blog following a busy weeks absence, today I am featuring from my collection an Italian poster for the film Rally Round The Flag Boys which Joan made in 1958 with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Jack Carson.

I'll feature other items from this film in future posts and on my website which is currently being updated.

1988 Party

This photo taken by Roddy McDowall in 1988 was Evie Bricusse's birthday party in Los Angeles. Joan is seated next to Evie's husband, Leslie with the late Elizabeth Taylor on his left and her escort George Hamilton.

On The Newstands ... 29 March

Today's featured magazine is from France, the year is 1984 and Joan shares the cover of Confidences with Dallas star, Larry Hagman.

The 2 page article inside about War between the 2 soap operas and would their producers consider joining them together with Joan and Larry appearing in each others shows?

Mexican Lobby Card

This Mexican Lobby Card for Tales From The Crypt is a recent addition to my collection.
Made in 1972 this film was about 5 different people who get lost in catacombs and are shown the future by a sinister monk who turns out to be Satan.

Joan plays Joanne Clayton, and in this scene has just killed her husband, Richard (played by Martin Boddey), but it wouldn't be Christmas without a visit from Santa Claus, although in this film you might think differently.

Other cast members were Sir Ralph Richardson, Peter Cushing, Richard Greene & Barbara Murray

Website Make-over

Over the next few weeks and months I will be making changes to my collection website starting with the Galleries

This lovely glamour shot of Joan with sister Jackie is a recent addition to the Family & Friends Gallery. I have lots of photos and new addition magazines and memorabilia to add to the site, so keep checking back.

The flag counter at the bottom of the home page is particularly useful and lets me know where Joan's fans are coming from when visiting the site. To date, there are flags from 33 countries, which is great.

Several of your e-mails have asked what happened to the Guestbook? Unfortunately, it accidentally got deleted during an update along with some of the nice comments people had made about the site. I hope to have it back soon.

On the Newstands ... 28th March

As we near the end of the month, and the run of magazines featuring Joan on the daily newstands from years ago, this one is an Italian issue called Bolero from 1984. The cover is similar to a copy of What Investment that Joan featured on in April 1986, the only difference was the dress although same style was black and not blue. Inside is a 3 page article with photos from Dynasty.

Dynasty Advert

This was the advert that Roger Grimes, Mark Jennings, Dex Dexter and Sean Rowan probably would have seen!!

I came across this in a recent sort out of the collection, I have no idea of date or where it originated from, if anyone has any ideas (keep them clean!), please let me know.