tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57443154908270086852024-03-13T15:54:34.325-04:00Going For Broke-The Christa Helm StoryA look at the life, career and murder of 1970's starlet Christa Helm.Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-77138340154959583552021-07-15T20:49:00.004-04:002021-07-15T20:49:46.050-04:00Christa Helm After Dark 1973<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LTnsSN5gNZs/YPDW1sBIBfI/AAAAAAACODY/FZQbzEP3YMkpSFBTUViS8Q7W_NXim6NLACLcBGAsYHQ/217814466_4530138380331059_3175643366260111099_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="781" height="483" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LTnsSN5gNZs/YPDW1sBIBfI/AAAAAAACODY/FZQbzEP3YMkpSFBTUViS8Q7W_NXim6NLACLcBGAsYHQ/w395-h483/217814466_4530138380331059_3175643366260111099_n.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fellow Christa researcher Jamey Duvall ran across these three images of Christa Helm that appeared in 1973 in AFTER DARK, a New York-centric entertainment magazine with a largely gay readership. We ran the center one before but had never seen the other two. Jamey has also found some utterly amazing, previously unknown info about Christa's life. More to come! Keep up the great sleuthing, Jamey. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MpGFonmb6-Q/YPDW1k7XYVI/AAAAAAACODg/RTmxmSRAAPwTZ3Qq7k6u7Wl1gzoZFq_pwCLcBGAsYHQ/217568403_4530138246997739_779596209902363596_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="765" height="430" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MpGFonmb6-Q/YPDW1k7XYVI/AAAAAAACODg/RTmxmSRAAPwTZ3Qq7k6u7Wl1gzoZFq_pwCLcBGAsYHQ/w344-h430/217568403_4530138246997739_779596209902363596_n.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gJc9O8ncBTs/YPDW1gD2KPI/AAAAAAACODc/EwumNcegJG8_Np7M_1oaXrDiFa9eL-QYQCLcBGAsYHQ/215367129_4530138510331046_8644676168054456923_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="771" height="447" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gJc9O8ncBTs/YPDW1gD2KPI/AAAAAAACODc/EwumNcegJG8_Np7M_1oaXrDiFa9eL-QYQCLcBGAsYHQ/w360-h447/215367129_4530138510331046_8644676168054456923_n.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-17555257785978514252021-05-17T21:58:00.003-04:002021-05-17T21:58:23.213-04:00R.I.P. Stuart Duncan<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MgAvCdwHpRY/YKMfKbYmmaI/AAAAAAACM1I/3QJ64Ned26YZwr3UqMck3XIdtELl53fsgCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-05-17%2Bat%2B9.54.59%2BPM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="461" height="347" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MgAvCdwHpRY/YKMfKbYmmaI/AAAAAAACM1I/3QJ64Ned26YZwr3UqMck3XIdtELl53fsgCLcBGAsYHQ/w364-h347/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-05-17%2Bat%2B9.54.59%2BPM.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>Looming large in Christa Helm's life story was Stuart Duncan, who financed and produced her only starring motion picture--the unreleased LET'S GO FOR BROKE aka LADY J. Mr. Duncan died on April 30th at the age of 93. I got to speak to him on the phone once for about half an hour back in 2008. I would have loved to speak to him longer but the whole incident was, he felt, best forgotten. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">Duncan's better-remembered achievement was being one of the men behind bringing the ever-popular musical, GODSPELL, to the stage. </p></div>Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-55050200241782291992021-03-19T23:13:00.001-04:002021-03-19T23:13:16.450-04:00George Fisher's Photos<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uMnEdCLUVPA/YFVnt2PeWtI/AAAAAAACMnQ/3ItL4HhTQpAhvcICSfS46wfd6eUFg99AgCLcBGAsYHQ/163050894_4073527566102209_4445933804641351250_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="1080" height="309" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uMnEdCLUVPA/YFVnt2PeWtI/AAAAAAACMnQ/3ItL4HhTQpAhvcICSfS46wfd6eUFg99AgCLcBGAsYHQ/w386-h309/163050894_4073527566102209_4445933804641351250_o.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My colleague, Jamey Duvall, recently spoke with stuntman George Fisher. who was one of the bad guys in LET'S GO FOR BROKE, and Mr. Fisher kindly sent along these images.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8R385O-CGew/YFVntqljJGI/AAAAAAACMnU/yu7pQlccpHE9ectubn8AkyzCiJqi5JDRQCLcBGAsYHQ/162485843_4073527592768873_6173041225015775985_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1080" height="469" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8R385O-CGew/YFVntqljJGI/AAAAAAACMnU/yu7pQlccpHE9ectubn8AkyzCiJqi5JDRQCLcBGAsYHQ/w375-h469/162485843_4073527592768873_6173041225015775985_o.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UuofSrqpxzc/YFVnthgTupI/AAAAAAACMnM/VU0vpJomyxYjTPZUDTz4Rl6WNO4_1LojwCLcBGAsYHQ/162485392_4073527562768876_5656129605634025268_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="1080" height="309" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-UuofSrqpxzc/YFVnthgTupI/AAAAAAACMnM/VU0vpJomyxYjTPZUDTz4Rl6WNO4_1LojwCLcBGAsYHQ/w396-h309/162485392_4073527562768876_5656129605634025268_o.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5XHAZqrVvaw/YFVnt8rNrVI/AAAAAAACMnY/u-24XsHcmKY-rSRsa6fJGVr41Zf8tJBpwCLcBGAsYHQ/162937188_4073527679435531_8760843470744419428_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1080" height="317" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5XHAZqrVvaw/YFVnt8rNrVI/AAAAAAACMnY/u-24XsHcmKY-rSRsa6fJGVr41Zf8tJBpwCLcBGAsYHQ/w403-h317/162937188_4073527679435531_8760843470744419428_o.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-36139805725948885512020-10-23T19:52:00.004-04:002020-10-23T19:52:41.776-04:00"New" Christa Photos<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XA5WUKZprw8/X5Nrh970eGI/AAAAAAACMDo/P8mQBZk5WWEc7AMfe2v-UJl-I254r7s3wCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.46.15%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1352" data-original-width="1094" height="337" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XA5WUKZprw8/X5Nrh970eGI/AAAAAAACMDo/P8mQBZk5WWEc7AMfe2v-UJl-I254r7s3wCLcBGAsYHQ/w274-h337/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.46.15%2BAM.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These photos, discovered by Jamey Duvall, were all from the collection of famous '70s celebrity photographer Ron Galella. That's him in the bottom photo with Christa. The man with the glasses is Sid Luft, former husband of Judy Garland and probably a friend of Christa's BFF, Lennie, who had designed costumes for Judy's last shows. Judy's daughter Lorna Luft was also at this party, described as a "Go For Broke" party and held at Christa's NYC apartment in November of 1974, months after the final shooting on LET'S GO FOR BROKE, and a month prior to the film opening in Cincinnati, Ohio. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Does anyone recognize either of the two men with facial hair?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fSQgvmuo0Zs/X5Nrh_QhJxI/AAAAAAACMDs/NHmaHGiNwu4PwnDdRmGQtShQveEjgfxxACLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.46.47%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1272" data-original-width="1630" height="252" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fSQgvmuo0Zs/X5Nrh_QhJxI/AAAAAAACMDs/NHmaHGiNwu4PwnDdRmGQtShQveEjgfxxACLcBGAsYHQ/w323-h252/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.46.47%2BAM.jpg" width="323" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zluohlDAtyg/X5NrhEZJAoI/AAAAAAACMDk/nsoytYQoE6M2EOoIdbg9UG4QhAkuKxZqACLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.45.29%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1589" height="225" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zluohlDAtyg/X5NrhEZJAoI/AAAAAAACMDk/nsoytYQoE6M2EOoIdbg9UG4QhAkuKxZqACLcBGAsYHQ/w334-h225/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.45.29%2BAM.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TnsiSsgrX60/X5Nrg_MKzuI/AAAAAAACMDc/piAxUgM1IxI1Ay4iUXcfniNi2aGO0dSmQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.45.39%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="699" height="420" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TnsiSsgrX60/X5Nrg_MKzuI/AAAAAAACMDc/piAxUgM1IxI1Ay4iUXcfniNi2aGO0dSmQCLcBGAsYHQ/w275-h420/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.45.39%2BAM.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m5Tapxp_osA/X5NrhEKcgJI/AAAAAAACMDg/U9jxkgoP6EQcsBxr_g4YEHau16JRuSxAQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.45.51%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1624" height="212" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m5Tapxp_osA/X5NrhEKcgJI/AAAAAAACMDg/U9jxkgoP6EQcsBxr_g4YEHau16JRuSxAQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.45.51%2BAM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /> <p></p>Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-66959036910630984822020-10-22T12:34:00.000-04:002020-10-22T12:34:00.935-04:00Frank Raiter R.I.P. <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hcHb4v-kMuc/X5G0XEKAiQI/AAAAAAACMC4/wk7UkwlmTEYj2njyWs3p-CkbZc_BoWpjQCLcBGAsYHQ/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.26.48%2BPM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="813" height="232" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hcHb4v-kMuc/X5G0XEKAiQI/AAAAAAACMC4/wk7UkwlmTEYj2njyWs3p-CkbZc_BoWpjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w441-h232/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-21%2Bat%2B10.26.48%2BPM.jpg" width="441" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br />We just last night confirmed that actor Frank Raiter, co-star of Christa Helm's LET'S GO FOR BROKE and in Broadway's CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, has been dead since 2006, a year BEFORE I started investigating Christa's life and murder. This explains why he never responded to the several snail mail letters I wrote him between 2007 and 2016. 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Of particular interest is that based on the way magazine dating works, this magazine would have been on the stands while the film was still in production!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_CDfZwQrDc/X4OgO_S8wEI/AAAAAAACMBo/TEDTr14GcAgo8R13I7WA30wqpus9i_EQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1422/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B10.48.53%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="1422" height="234" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_CDfZwQrDc/X4OgO_S8wEI/AAAAAAACMBo/TEDTr14GcAgo8R13I7WA30wqpus9i_EQQCLcBGAsYHQ/w371-h234/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B10.48.53%2BAM.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jXmEagxWkGY/X4OgO9zd55I/AAAAAAACMBk/Iju2VgQY-Bo5L2guU3dpA6W2yX_-zZGNwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1451/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B10.49.05%2BAM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1451" height="239" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jXmEagxWkGY/X4OgO9zd55I/AAAAAAACMBk/Iju2VgQY-Bo5L2guU3dpA6W2yX_-zZGNwCLcBGAsYHQ/w386-h239/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-11%2Bat%2B10.49.05%2BAM.jpg" width="386" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-1424352392442675772020-09-15T12:54:00.000-04:002020-09-15T12:54:42.124-04:00Jackie Mayro 2020<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="240" height="397" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wDu4_0vpSd4/X2DwpZurZEI/AAAAAAACL68/EKqbABwyWJ0TvlYLp0IMmOqs9dqSE5-_ACLcBGAsYHQ/w324-h397/image.png" width="324" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Last week, I was finally able to speak with Jacqueline Mayro, the retired Broadway actress who appears in a small but pivotal role in LET'S GO FOR BROKE. She told me that while she couldn't remember how she met Stuart Duncan, she and Lennie Barrin were partners in ODDITIES, essentially a casting agency for unusual performers. It was as such that she got involved with LET'S GO FOR BROKE, not as an actress. At least not originally. After no one could agree on who should play the part of the kidnapped feminist author in the movie, Stuart suggested she take the role herself...and she did. <p></p>Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-86060562921121669082019-09-14T14:06:00.001-04:002019-09-14T14:06:20.878-04:00Ron Walsh and Alex Sheafe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just found out that both of the detectives who had worked so long on the Christa Helm murder case have now retired and no new investigators are currently assigned to the Cold Case. </div>
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I just found out that Christa's murder is referenced very briefly in bestselling author Heather Graham's 2012 novel, THE UNHOLY. Here's the passage. </div>
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Here's a new 2 part, 80+ minute podcast about Christa. Worth a listen if one is interested in the case but there's nothing new. In fact, large portions of it are lifted without any credit at all from this blog and from Jamey Duvall's podcasts of a couple years back.<br />
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The oddest part of this is that it features dramatized segments that have a ditzy blonde voice supposedly as Christa, with completely made up dialogue and speculation.<br />
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Repetitive, unoriginal, unethical, salacious, with lots of speculation, a whole bunch of stuff left out, a few mistakes, and a bizarre conclusion, but at least it keeps Christa's story circulating.<br />
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Some newly discovered gossip column appearances about Christa including an early one from 1972, above.Interesting to note how often her picture made the papers even before she'd done anything!</div>
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The interesting revelations here include the fact that along with her new name, she was either claiming to be or just presumed to be Danish, she was preparing a nightclub act, and she was supposed to appear in the 1975 movie THE HAPPY HOOKER, which starred Lynn Redgrave. </div>
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Today's the 41st anniversary of Christa Helm's vicious and still unsolved murder. </div>
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If you missed the recent Oxygen documentary, you can now catch it free on Vimeo!</div>
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Here's the trailer for the new Christa Helm documentary that premieres on the Oxygen Channel on Friday, Feb 2, 2018 at 9 PM ET. </div>
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After 11 years of looking into the life and death of Christa Helm, today I was able to finally meet her daughter Nicole. Things are happening. Stay tuned for more details.</div>
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There is a new "book" out on Christa Helm, self-published in April via Createspace. It's overpriced at $7.99 for a mere 44 pages but it also STEALS most of its contents from the above online bio of the murdered actress that John O'Dowd and I co-wrote ten years ago. </div>
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Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-29036494634797294412016-08-06T18:39:00.000-04:002016-08-06T18:39:11.995-04:001974 Christa Article<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Click on this to read a surprisingly detailed article about Christa from nearly a year before the BROKE premiere. In fact, it sounds like this interview/audience was conducted after the shooting in Haiti but before Ron Walsh was brought in to finish the film in the US.The article not only namechecks Joe Namath (she got that a lot) but also Nicole, Gary and even Lennie. </div>
<br />Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-29868108602407290832016-07-05T22:31:00.001-04:002016-07-05T22:31:26.107-04:00Broke in '73<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spotted this quintessential LET'S GO FOR BROKE image in THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR in August 0f 1973, a full 17 months before the film premiered in nearby Cincinnati and several months before it was even shot!</div>
<br />Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-16490805309707901542016-04-14T18:32:00.001-04:002016-04-14T18:32:28.576-04:00Lady J Trade Report-1975<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From late July of 1975, 7 full months after LET'S GO FOR BROKE premiered in Cincinnati, came this trade mag report regarding the revised LADY J version of the film. The "above" mentioned were the other films in the previously posted Joseph Brenner and associates ad. So at this point, then, Brenner had not only clearly picked up the film for distribution but was apparently planning on it being their major release of the time period. What happened, then, that it remained unreleased and Duncan was still trying to sell it 2 years later after Christa's death? </div>
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Note also the news that she had signed for a sequel. While it seems logical that Duncan would have kept an option on her for sequels if the initial release had gone well, why would she actually sign for a sequel to a movie that had not come out at all?</div>
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Here finally we have a larger version of that ad we ran some time back from VARIETY promoting the re-edited version of LET'S GO FOR BROKE which was called LADY J. The ad makes it seem as though the film was in release but there remains no actual indication that it ever was shown to the public. The rest of the films here can be accounted for but not Christa's. This was nearly a year beyond the Cincinnati premiere of BROKE so presumably LADY J could also have incorporated the new scenes supposedly shot in Florida (not by director Walsh and without the participation of Chitra). Would have been interesting to see a rating here as Producer Stuart Duncan often said in interviews that BROKE was always intended to be PG and yet one can speculate that the new scenes might have been shot to make it an R for more exploitation release.</div>
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<br />Bookstevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09797445163866512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744315490827008685.post-64802719632611132152016-02-12T20:58:00.000-05:002016-02-12T20:58:16.087-05:00The 39th Anniversary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is the 39th anniversary of the unsolved murder of Christa Helm. Every year there are numerous reports of cold case crimes being solved so hope springs eternal. </div>
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Ran across this 1973 article about J. Herbert Kerr, Jr's appearance in BROKE. In 1972, he had a breakout role in the controversial A PLACE CALLED TODAY in which he took the lead--a radical black presidential candidate. IMDB lists only one other film credit beyond Christa's movie and that was in '77. IBDB lists him back onstage in 1978 but then nothing beyond that. Does anyone know whatever became of Herb? </div>
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