<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730</id><updated>2012-01-15T14:33:10.720-08:00</updated><category term='a'/><title type='text'>Yvonne Monlaur Official blog</title><subtitle type='html'>This is a Official blog of Yvonne Monlaur, star of Hammer's classics and 60's fantasy movies.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>59</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5121446518724904156</id><published>2011-12-23T14:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T14:33:10.735-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S6YPpK1-OcY/TvhAq19WPHI/AAAAAAAAAvs/vlRmg0jewfM/s1600/YMonlaur+hpny2012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690369233965694066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S6YPpK1-OcY/TvhAq19WPHI/AAAAAAAAAvs/vlRmg0jewfM/s400/YMonlaur%2Bhpny2012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I wish to all my readers happy holidays and a great new year. Thank you for your mail and your comments. We’ll meet again in 2012 !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je souhaite à toutes mes lectrices et mes lecteurs de très bonnes fêtes de fin d’année. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Merci pour vos courriers et vos commentaires. Rendez-vous pris pour 2012 !&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="FONT-SIZE: medium; COLOR: rgb(153,102,51)"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5121446518724904156?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5121446518724904156/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5121446518724904156&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5121446518724904156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5121446518724904156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S6YPpK1-OcY/TvhAq19WPHI/AAAAAAAAAvs/vlRmg0jewfM/s72-c/YMonlaur%2Bhpny2012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-7254997810567968645</id><published>2011-11-27T13:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T14:03:46.231-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Les métamorphoses du vampire</title><content type='html'>In order to close this album dedicated to Monster Bash 2011,&lt;div&gt;here is the poem from Charles Baudelaire's "Flowers of evil". The book caused a scandal &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;when published in 1857 and some pieces were censored, such as the present poem, for more than 80 years !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Metamorphoses of a vampire" was translated many times in the United States. This is a version from 1958, the year of Hammer's first of many Dracula films.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pour refermer cet album consacré à Monster Bash 2011, je vous propose le poème tiré du l'oeuvre de Charles Baudelaire "Les Fleurs du Mal". Le recueil fit scandale lors de sa publication en 1857 et fut ensuite expurgé de certaines pièces comme le présent poème pendant plus de 80 ans !&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Les métamorphoses du vampire" connut de nombreuses traductions outre-atlantique, je vous propose celle de 1958, l'année du premier Dracula produit par la Hammer films.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Times;"&gt;&lt;center style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;Les métamorphoses du vampire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;La femme cependant, de sa bouche de fraise,&lt;br /&gt;En se tordant ainsi qu'un serpent sur la braise,&lt;br /&gt;Et pétrissant ses seins sur le fer de son busc,&lt;br /&gt;Laissait couler ces mots tout imprégnés de musc :&lt;br /&gt;" Moi, j'ai la lèvre humide, et je sais la science&lt;br /&gt;De perdre au fond d'un lit l'antique conscience.&lt;br /&gt;Je sèche tous les pleurs sur mes seins triomphants,&lt;br /&gt;Et fais rire les vieux du rire des enfants.&lt;br /&gt;Je remplace, pour qui me voit nue et sans voiles,&lt;br /&gt;La lune, le soleil, le ciel et les étoiles !&lt;br /&gt;Je suis, mon cher savant, si docte aux Voluptés,&lt;br /&gt;Lorsque j'étouffe un homme en mes bras redoutés,&lt;br /&gt;Ou lorsque j'abandonne aux morsures mon buste,&lt;br /&gt;Timide et libertine, et fragile et robuste,&lt;br /&gt;Que sur ces matelas qui se pâment d'émoi,&lt;br /&gt;Les anges impuissants se damneraient pour moi ! "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quand elle eut de mes os sucé toute la moelle,&lt;br /&gt;Et que languissamment je me tournai vers elle&lt;br /&gt;Pour lui rendre un baiser d'amour, je ne vis plus&lt;br /&gt;Qu'une outre aux flancs gluants, toute pleine de pus !&lt;br /&gt;Je fermai les deux yeux, dans ma froide épouvante,&lt;br /&gt;Et quand je les rouvris à la clarté vivante,&lt;br /&gt;A mes côtés, au lieu du mannequin puissant&lt;br /&gt;Qui semblait avoir fait provision de sang,&lt;br /&gt;Tremblaient confusément des débris de squelette,&lt;br /&gt;Qui d'eux-mêmes rendaient le cri d'une girouette&lt;br /&gt;Ou d'une enseigne, au bout d'une tringle de fer,&lt;br /&gt;Que balance le vent pendant les nuits d'hiver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Charles Baudelaire&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IgGuJ679L4c/Tt5CGec_0nI/AAAAAAAAAvg/rv_uRT8Duvg/s1600/YMonlaurBlog02MV.jpg" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IgGuJ679L4c/Tt5CGec_0nI/AAAAAAAAAvg/rv_uRT8Duvg/s400/YMonlaurBlog02MV.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683052458809479794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Andrée Melly in BRIDES OF DRACULA&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);  line-height: 20px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Metamorphoses of a Vampire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);  -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.25em; "&gt;Meanwhile the woman, writhing like a snake&lt;br /&gt;On fiery coals, kneaded her breasts to make&lt;br /&gt;Them hug their steely corset; and she said,&lt;br /&gt;Her lips redder than strawberries are red:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.25em; "&gt;"Behold, my mouth is moist, and on my deep&lt;br /&gt;Couch I can lull grim Conscience fast asleep,&lt;br /&gt;I dry all tears on my triumphant breasts,&lt;br /&gt;Where old men laugh like boys at boyish jests.&lt;br /&gt;For him who sees me naked, I comprise&lt;br /&gt;All moons and suns and stars and clouds and skies!&lt;br /&gt;I am so skilled, fond scholar, in love's charms&lt;br /&gt;That when I hug you in my ruthless arms,&lt;br /&gt;Or, shy and lustful, frail and forceful, when&lt;br /&gt;I yield taut nipples to the teeth of men,&lt;br /&gt;My bosom's pillows, palpitant, would doom&lt;br /&gt;Angels to ruin for coveting my womb..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.25em; "&gt;When she had sucked my marrow dry, I turned,&lt;br /&gt;Languid, to give her back the kiss she earned,&lt;br /&gt;Only to view, I fond and amorous,&lt;br /&gt;A viscid wineskin, nidorous with pus...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.25em; "&gt;Frozen with fear, I shut my eyelids tight,&lt;br /&gt;Then, opening them against the garish light,&lt;br /&gt;I saw no solid puppet by my side&lt;br /&gt;Whose lusts my blood, drained dry, had satisfied,&lt;br /&gt;But a debris of quavering bone on bone,&lt;br /&gt;Moaning as only weathervanes can moan,&lt;br /&gt;And creaking as a rusty signpost might&lt;br /&gt;Lashed by the furies of a winter night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="line-height: 1.25em; "&gt;— Jacques LeClercq, &lt;i&gt;Flowers of Evil&lt;/i&gt; (Mt Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1958)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-7254997810567968645?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7254997810567968645/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=7254997810567968645&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7254997810567968645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7254997810567968645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/les-metamorphoses-du-vampire.html' title='Les métamorphoses du vampire'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IgGuJ679L4c/Tt5CGec_0nI/AAAAAAAAAvg/rv_uRT8Duvg/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog02MV.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-345620472391374729</id><published>2011-10-27T02:56:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T03:16:21.729-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baudelaire, Dracula's guest</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/baudelaire-linvite-de-dracula.html"&gt;( Lire en français )&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Dear one and all, this time I'm back for good !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;You may start again ordering signed pictures right away.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#996633;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:130%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;As in 2009, this new year is placed under the sign of our dear " creatures of the night" with memories of the Monster Bash American convention to wich I participated with great pleasure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Probably the most successful of them all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;The organization and warm welcome of Ron Adams and his team once again did wonders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Conferences, screenings and specials events, wich only the Americans seem able to organize, delighted fans who came from all over the continent to celebrate the classics of motion picture fantasy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I was touched by the kind attentions of that audience who often tried to chat in French with me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;At the end of an interview, I was even granted a hand kissing from a young lady journalist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Before talking about Hammer, I would also like to say a word about my meeting Norma Eberhardt. That American actress, leading lady of THE RETURN OF DRACULA alongside Francis Lederer, came to me to congratulate me for BRIDES OF DRACULA in an excellent French. She was married to the great late actor Claude Dauphin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;This year, Monster Bash celebrated Hammer in the presence of  beautiful Veronica Carlson, delicious Caroline Munro and yours truly. All of us brides of Dracula, one way or another (1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HsehENyFurs/TrV50_-8xyI/AAAAAAAAAvU/jUMtZyiJI58/s1600/GirldAndChris.jpg" style="font-size: medium; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HsehENyFurs/TrV50_-8xyI/AAAAAAAAAvU/jUMtZyiJI58/s400/GirldAndChris.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671573257178629922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Left to right: Caroline Munro, me and Veronica Carlson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size:130%;"&gt;It was a real pleasure for me to meet Veronica again. I had not seen her since a convention in Philadelphia, four years ago, I think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;We quickly celebrated our renewed friendship, having dinner together after each of these busy days, exchanging feelings, and, as before, I deeply appreciated her heartwarming company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Veronica is a very delicate and kind woman. When Caroline, myself and her were interviewed about the character of Dracula, she was quick to save me when I had &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size:130%;"&gt;trouble understanding some questions and translated them to me. To return the favour, I was giving her a few notions of French during our dinners.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;The show of my friend Zach Zito (2) was definitely one of the high points of this edition. Zach is a true fan of fantasy movies and expresses his passion through films, marionette shows and personal appearances. Yes, Zach is a true artist and I must say that his performance impressed us all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;His show was based upon the first chapter of Bram Stoker’s novel: Dracula’s guest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;As an introduction, he had asked me to read Les métamorphoses du vampire by Baudelaire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;Zach introduced the poem to the audience before I started reading the verses in French.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;Judging by the applause afterwards, my reading must have made a strong impression.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;Zach Zito then read the first chapter of Dracula. He was literally possessed by Harker’s character and captivated the audience as a real virtuoso. Veronica and Caroline also went on stage as eerie creatures punctuating the strange narration.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;The spirit of gothic fantasy filled the room and grasped us all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:130%;"&gt;It was a moving homage to the literary sources of the great popular films which made generations of viewers shiver.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size:130%;"&gt;Monster Bash 2011 will undoubtedly be one of my most wonderful convention memories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;1- Veronica Carlson ( Dracula has risen from the grave - F.Francis ) and Caroline Munro ( Dracula a.d. 72  -A.Gibson) , both victims of the count, played by Christopher Lee.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;2- Dracula’s guest, narrated and acted by Zach Zito, also featuring the voice of actress Carla Laemmle ( The phantom of the Opera by R.Julian, Tod Browning’s Dracula).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51); font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-345620472391374729?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/345620472391374729/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=345620472391374729&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/345620472391374729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/345620472391374729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/baudelaire-draculas-guest.html' title='Baudelaire, Dracula&apos;s guest'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HsehENyFurs/TrV50_-8xyI/AAAAAAAAAvU/jUMtZyiJI58/s72-c/GirldAndChris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4699565602272596622</id><published>2011-10-27T02:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T03:14:52.664-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Baudelaire, l'invité de Dracula</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chères toutes et tous, cette fois-ci je suis de retour !&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vous pouvez dès maintenant commander à nouveau vos dédicaces. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Comme en 2009, la rentrée est une nouvelle fois placée sous le signe de nos chères "créatures de la nuit" avec l'évocation de la convention américaine Monster Bash à laquelle j'ai eu le plaisir de participer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sans doute la plus réussie de toutes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'organisation et l'accueil chaleureux de Ron Adams et son équipe ont encore fait des merveilles.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Des conférences, des projections et des animations dont seuls les Américains semblent avoir le secret ont ravi les fans venus des quatre coins du continent,  célébrer les classiques du cinéma fantastique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;J'étais touchée par la délicatesse de ce public qui manifestait souvent la volonté de discuter en français avec moi. Au terme d'une interview, j'eus même droit à un baisemain de la part d'une jeune journaliste.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Avant de vous parler de la Hammer, j'aimerais aussi évoquer ma rencontre avec Norma Eberhardt. Cette actrice américaine, héroïne de THE RETURN OF DRACULA aux côtés de Francis Lederer, est venue me féliciter pour BRIDES OF DRACULA en s'exprimant dans un excellent français. Elle fut l'épouse du grand acteur Claude Dauphin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cette année, Monster Bash rendait hommage à la Hammer avec la présence de la belle Veronica Carlson, la délicieuse Caroline Munro et votre hôte. Toutes des maîtresses de Dracula en quelque sorte (1).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IG7jxEZMCtE/TrLBHt2U5ZI/AAAAAAAAAvI/MOVd_bZJmDw/s1600/GirldAndChris.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 197px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IG7jxEZMCtE/TrLBHt2U5ZI/AAAAAAAAAvI/MOVd_bZJmDw/s400/GirldAndChris.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670807219123578258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:85%;color:#663300;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;De gauche à droite: Caroline Munro, moi et Veronica Carlson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ce fut pour moi, un réel plaisir de retrouver Veronica que je n'avais pas vue depuis une convention à Philadelphie, il y a quatre ans je crois.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nous avons renoué des liens de complicité et d'amitié. Nous dinions ensemble &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;après chacune de ces journées bien remplies, échangions nos impressions, j'ai pu apprécier comme autrefois sa chaleureuse compagnie. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Veronica est une femme pleine de délicatesse et de bienveillance. Lorsque nous avons fait, Caroline, elle et moi, une interview autour de la figure de Dracula, elle volait à mon secours lorsque je ne comprenais pas les questions et me les traduisait. A  charge de revanche, je lui inculquais des notions de français durant nos repas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le spectacle de mon ami Zach Zito (2) représenta pour beaucoup l'un des temps forts de cette édition.  Zach est un inconditionnel du cinéma fantastique, il exprime sa passion à travers des films, des spectacles de marionnettes et des one-man show. Vous l'aurez compris, Zach est un artiste et je dois dire que sa performance nous a toutes et tous impressionnés.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Son spectacle était basé sur le premier chapitre du roman de Bram Stoker: L'invité de Dracula.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il avait souhaité que je lise en introduction Les métamorphoses du vampire de Baudelaire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Zach a présenté le poème au public avant que j'entame les vers en français. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A en juger par l'ovation qui s'en suivit, ma lecture avait fait vive impression.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Zach Zito dit ensuite le premier chapitre de Dracula. Il était habité par le personnage de Harker et captiva l'audience avec maestria. Veronica et Caroline montèrent aussi sur scène telles des apparitions fantastiques ponctuant le périple étrange du récitant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'esprit du fantastique gothique soufflait sur la salle et nous saisit tous. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Un hommage émouvant aux sources littéraires des grands films populaires qui ont fait frissonner des générations de spectateurs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Monster Bash 2011 restera assurément l'un de mes plus beaux souvenirs de convention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- Veronica Carlson ( Dracula et les femmes- F.Francis ) et Caroline Munro ( Dracula 73 -A.Gibson) , toutes deux victimes du comte interprété par Christopher Lee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:85%;"&gt;2- L'invité de Dracula raconté et joué par Zach Zito avec également la voix-off de l'actrice Carla Laemmle ( Le fantôme de l'opéra de R.Julian, Dracula de T. Browning).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4699565602272596622?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4699565602272596622/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4699565602272596622&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4699565602272596622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4699565602272596622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/baudelaire-linvite-de-dracula.html' title='Baudelaire, l&apos;invité de Dracula'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IG7jxEZMCtE/TrLBHt2U5ZI/AAAAAAAAAvI/MOVd_bZJmDw/s72-c/GirldAndChris.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-6593011925766336080</id><published>2011-09-26T12:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-29T06:51:55.432-07:00</updated><title type='text'>delayed return</title><content type='html'>I am not forgetting you !&lt;br /&gt;I have to extend my convalescence for a few more days, following a hospitalization planned a long time ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was in good hands and everything went well.&lt;br /&gt;I shall have the pleasure to be back with you next month.&lt;br /&gt;I thank for their understanding and patience all those who have placed orders for autographs. They will receive their photos as soon as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding this, I would like to point out that two new shots have been added this year to the choice of photos on &lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the autographs page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dXKzMBHPnPw/ToR2Ont4S1I/AAAAAAAAAvA/8_hm4IkN4tc/s1600/YMonlaurblog31.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657777025435847506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dXKzMBHPnPw/ToR2Ont4S1I/AAAAAAAAAvA/8_hm4IkN4tc/s400/YMonlaurblog31.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je ne vous oublie pas ! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je prolonge de quelques jours ma convalescence due à une hospitalisation prévue de longue date. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'étais entre de bonnes mains et tout s'est bien passé.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'aurai le plaisir de vous retrouver le mois prochain. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Je remercie &lt;/span&gt;pour leur compréhension et leur patience &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;tous ceux qui ont passé des commandes de dédicaces. Ils recevront très bientôt leurs photos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A ce sujet, je vous signale pour cette rentrée deux nouveaux clichés parmi le choix qui vous est proposé sur &lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#003300;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;la page d'autographes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-6593011925766336080?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6593011925766336080/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=6593011925766336080&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6593011925766336080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6593011925766336080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/delayed-return.html' title='delayed return'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dXKzMBHPnPw/ToR2Ont4S1I/AAAAAAAAAvA/8_hm4IkN4tc/s72-c/YMonlaurblog31.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5254829118375881316</id><published>2011-07-23T05:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T14:20:38.810-08:00</updated><title type='text'>From France with love</title><content type='html'>Summer is here again !&lt;div&gt;Photo orders are taking a rest too and will resume in september.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Till then, I wish you all happy holidays, wherever you are, and will be delighted to blog with you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;again soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Les beaux jours sont de retour !&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Les dédicaces observent une trêve estivale et reprendront en septembre.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;D'ici là, je vous souhaite à toutes et tous de bonnes vacances, où que vous soyez. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Je suis impatiente de blogger de nouveau avec vous. A très vite.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x8b8wLlYWQc/TirHcib1HYI/AAAAAAAAAuw/iIfPA2i43FQ/s1600/YMBtipsnot%2Bincluded%253D.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x8b8wLlYWQc/TirHcib1HYI/AAAAAAAAAuw/iIfPA2i43FQ/s1600/YMBtipsnot%2Bincluded%253D.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 305px; height: 400px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x8b8wLlYWQc/TirHcib1HYI/AAAAAAAAAuw/iIfPA2i43FQ/s400/YMBtipsnot%2Bincluded%253D.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632533577074023810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;With George Nader in TIP NOT INCLUDED&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5254829118375881316?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5254829118375881316/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5254829118375881316&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5254829118375881316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5254829118375881316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/from-france-with-love.html' title='From France with love'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x8b8wLlYWQc/TirHcib1HYI/AAAAAAAAAuw/iIfPA2i43FQ/s72-c/YMBtipsnot%2Bincluded%253D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-9167313531709844939</id><published>2011-06-14T13:03:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-17T12:58:56.155-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Queen Elizabeth</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm;   font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-reine-elizabeth.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#666600;"&gt;( lire en français )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="11pt" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm;   "&gt;One of the last Hollywood superstars passed away on march 23rd.  I think I have seen all of Elizabeth Taylor's movies. I was impressed by such a great actress. Particularly by her portrayals in adaptations of Tennessee Williams. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;During my movie career, I was fortunate enough to meet some great Hollywood stars and never failed to express my admiration for them. We met at Hotel Excelsior in Rome during a cocktail, while she was shooting the Mankiewicz epic odyssey : Cleopatra. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;At the time, I was living in Rome, shooting at Cinecitta. Most of the stages were occupied by the Twentieth Century Fox super production. The complete film crew was present that night. I was wearing for the occasion a very pale pink muslin dress. She wore a very similar gown.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VQK1zPMz7s/Tfhz6OfMNdI/AAAAAAAAAuo/U_iVqI0Mn5I/s1600/YMonlaurblog+ETaylor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618367979303220690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VQK1zPMz7s/Tfhz6OfMNdI/AAAAAAAAAuo/U_iVqI0Mn5I/s400/YMonlaurblog%2BETaylor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;We were introduced and I told her how thrilled I was to meet her, for all reasons above. I glimpsed a certain uneasiness in her magnificent sharp eyes and thought it was caused by all the media pressure. Elizabeth Taylor and the press had, for a long time, quite a stormy relationship. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The photographers who were shooting at us were probably getting on her nerves. She quickly escaped from our group to lose herself amongst the other guests. Soon, the film's other star, her lover Richard Burton, said hello to me and joined us.The next morning, the Italian papers told of our encounter with all necessary ingredients to wet the reader's appetite for gossip :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt; jealous when she found out that I wore a dress too similar to hers, Elizabeth Taylor was supposed to have quickly turned away, asking that I immediately changed my outfit ! Even during a cocktail, the great actress continued to act as a queen of Egypt ! My photos in Richard Burton's company were fueling the rumors of a hypothetic rivalry... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;In time, I understood how intelligently that sensitive and powerfull woman had learned to use the media racket to expose her ideas and the causes she believed in, wich made her as famous as her prestigious movie career. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-9167313531709844939?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/9167313531709844939/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=9167313531709844939&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/9167313531709844939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/9167313531709844939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/queen-elizabeth.html' title='Queen Elizabeth'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VQK1zPMz7s/Tfhz6OfMNdI/AAAAAAAAAuo/U_iVqI0Mn5I/s72-c/YMonlaurblog%2BETaylor.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3661334503667265711</id><published>2011-06-14T13:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-17T12:24:54.516-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La reine Elizabeth</title><content type='html'>L'un des derniers monstres sacrés d'Hollywood nous a quittés le 23 mars dernier.&lt;br /&gt;Je crois avoir vu tous les films d'Elizabeth Taylor. La grande actrice qu'elle était m'impressionnait. Particulièrement ses compositions pour les adaptations de Tennessee Williams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Durant ma carrière cinématographique j'ai eu le bonheur de rencontrer de grandes stars hollywoodiennes et je n'ai jamais manqué de leur témoigner mon admiration.&lt;br /&gt;C'est à l'hôtel Excelsior de Rome que nous nous rencontrâmes lors d'un cocktail organisé durant le tournage du film épique de Mankiewicz: Cléopâtre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cette époque, je vivais à Rome et tournais à Cinecitta. La majorité des plateaux étaient monopolisés par la super-production de la Twentieth Century Fox.&lt;br /&gt;Il y avait ce soir là toute l'équipe du film. Je portais pour l'occasion une robe en mousseline rose très pâle. Elle avait une toilette de coloris très semblable au mien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VQK1zPMz7s/Tfhz6OfMNdI/AAAAAAAAAuo/U_iVqI0Mn5I/s1600/YMonlaurblog+ETaylor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618367979303220690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VQK1zPMz7s/Tfhz6OfMNdI/AAAAAAAAAuo/U_iVqI0Mn5I/s400/YMonlaurblog%2BETaylor.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous fûmes présentées, je lui dis combien j'étais enchantée de la rencontrer pour toutes les raisons citées plus hauts. Je décelai dans son regard magnifique et perçant une certaine tension que j'attribuai à la pression médiatique. Elizabeth Taylor et la presse entretenaient des rapports tumultueux depuis longtemps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les photographes qui nous mitraillaient semblaient sans doute l'excéder. Elle s'écarta rapidement du groupe dont je faisais partie pour se perdre aux milieu des autres convives. Bientôt l'autre star du film, son compagnon Richard Burton, me salua et se joignit à nous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les journaux italiens du lendemain relatèrent notre rencontre avec tous les ingrédients nécessaires pour accrocher le lecteur en mal de potins :&lt;br /&gt;Jalouse de constater que je portais la même robe qu'elle, Elizabeth Taylor aurait tourné les talons et demandé à ce que je change de tenue ! Même lors d'un cocktail, la grande actrice gardait ses prérogatives de Reine d'Egypte ! Les photos montrant Richard Burton en ma compagnie venant alimenter la rumeur d'une hypothétique rivalité...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depuis, je compris avec quelle intelligence cette femme sensible et puissante sut se servir du tapage médiatique pour porter ses idées, les causes auxquelles elle croyait et qui ont fait autant sa renommée que sa prestigieuse carrière au cinéma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3661334503667265711?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3661334503667265711/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3661334503667265711&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3661334503667265711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3661334503667265711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-reine-elizabeth.html' title='La reine Elizabeth'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VQK1zPMz7s/Tfhz6OfMNdI/AAAAAAAAAuo/U_iVqI0Mn5I/s72-c/YMonlaurblog%2BETaylor.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-6320512696765304772</id><published>2011-05-10T01:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T02:04:42.809-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hammer at Orsay</title><content type='html'>&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-05-10T01%3A32%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;(lire en français)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would have been difficult not to feel a certain level of emotion when the public gave me a standing ovation at the screening of BRIDES OF DRACULA on sunday, march 13, as part of the cycle "Dans la nuit de la Hammer" (1).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DFfDTv6G8xk/Tcj9G-kZHGI/AAAAAAAAAuc/ItJAogQU0bo/s1600/images.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 275px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DFfDTv6G8xk/Tcj9G-kZHGI/AAAAAAAAAuc/ItJAogQU0bo/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605008032579263586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thinking back about it, it was a novel experiment on more than one level.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Being in Italy when the film was released in 1960, it was no directly informed, at the time, of the way the film was received in France.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, after all these years, for the first time, I was meeting the parisian audiences, a warm crowd of all ages.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other peculiarity was to see the film in a prestigious location : the Orsay museum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For fifteen days, a selection of Hammer film successes was to be screened.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was an institutional acknowledgement, begun in 2007 with the Terence Fisher retrospective at the French cinematheque (2).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These exploitation films made for a large audience, which enlivened days ( and nights ) of the "grands boulevards" movie theaters, once dismissed as "horror films" in the movie guides, have become classics and are now studied by cinema historians.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They've come such a long way !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;1- " In the night of Hammer" initiated by Guy Cogeval, art historian and president of Orsay and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Orangeries museums.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;2- Organized by Jean-François Rauger, whose brilliant analysis of BRIDES OF DRACULA &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;can be found in the bonuses of the dvd produced by Bach films.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-6320512696765304772?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6320512696765304772/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=6320512696765304772&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6320512696765304772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6320512696765304772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/hammer-at-orsay.html' title='Hammer at Orsay'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DFfDTv6G8xk/Tcj9G-kZHGI/AAAAAAAAAuc/ItJAogQU0bo/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-1928276090306817123</id><published>2011-05-09T13:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T01:59:21.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Hammer à Orsay</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Difficile de ne pas éprouver une certaine émotion lorsque le public se leva pour m'applaudir lors de la projection des MAITRESSES DE DRACULA, le dimanche 13 mars, dans le cadre du cycle " Dans la nuit de la Hammer"(1).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RyP9G6MXH0c/TchXfe6TFFI/AAAAAAAAAuM/S_304bvC4UE/s1600/images.jpeg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 275px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RyP9G6MXH0c/TchXfe6TFFI/AAAAAAAAAuM/S_304bvC4UE/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5604825934647727186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En y réfléchissant, ce fut une expérience inédite à plus d'un titre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Etant en Italie lors de la sortie du film en 1960, je n'eus pas à l'époque d'écho direct sur son accueil français. Après toutes ces années, c'était donc la première fois que je rencontrais le public de la capitale. Un public chaleureux et de tous âges.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'autre particularité fut de revoir ce film dans l'enceinte prestigieuse du musée d'Orsay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pendant une quinzaine de jours allait être projetée une sélection des grands succès de la Hammer film.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Une reconnaissance institutionnelle inaugurée en 2007 par la rétrospective Terence Fisher à la Cinémathèque française (2).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ces films d'exploitation destinés à un large public qui  ont fait les beaux jours ( et les nuits ) des salles des grands boulevards, autrefois catalogués "films d'horreur" dans les guides de spectacle, sont devenus des classiques et suscitent aujourd'hui l'intérêt des historiens du cinéma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Que de chemin parcouru !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;1- A l'initiative de Guy Cogeval, historien de l'art et président des musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;2- Organisée par Jean-François Rauger dont on trouve en bonus de l'édition DVD de Bach film, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;une brillante analyse des MAITRESSES DE DRACULA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-1928276090306817123?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1928276090306817123/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=1928276090306817123&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1928276090306817123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1928276090306817123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/orsay-museum_09.html' title='La Hammer à Orsay'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RyP9G6MXH0c/TchXfe6TFFI/AAAAAAAAAuM/S_304bvC4UE/s72-c/images.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-7265308867926489681</id><published>2011-03-17T09:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T10:57:59.641-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Three strangers in Rome 2/2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-03-17T09%3A24%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;(Lire la version française)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here a few scenes from a DVD edition of the film.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585820060318339810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-01Kwt3_5jvE/TYTRv_qGkuI/AAAAAAAAAsU/IXb5ZXDGbw0/s400/YMB001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;The crowd gathered at St-Pierre at the beginning of the Easter week-end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style=" ;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c--9m_II6uA/TYTSasFovlI/AAAAAAAAAsc/L684dNJIjEk/s1600/YMB002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585820793799491154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c--9m_II6uA/TYTSasFovlI/AAAAAAAAAsc/L684dNJIjEk/s400/YMB002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c--9m_II6uA/TYTSasFovlI/AAAAAAAAAsc/L684dNJIjEk/s1600/YMB002.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;The three Milanese girls (Françoise Danell at my right and Claudia Cardinale on the other side) are decided to have a good time in the capital city. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style=" ;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-buVEbo6j5hU/TYTS85cexMI/AAAAAAAAAss/yiUBxqqflVI/s1600/YMB004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585821381500519618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-buVEbo6j5hU/TYTS85cexMI/AAAAAAAAAss/yiUBxqqflVI/s400/YMB004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-buVEbo6j5hU/TYTS85cexMI/AAAAAAAAAss/yiUBxqqflVI/s1600/YMB004.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;With Claudia Cardinale under a new day ! The distorting mirrors of an attraction inspire us the idea of playing with appearances...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWr2IbSjWNE/TYTSo0FC-cI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3gDHuORo0TU/s1600/YMB003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585821036462668226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWr2IbSjWNE/TYTSo0FC-cI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3gDHuORo0TU/s400/YMB003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWr2IbSjWNE/TYTSo0FC-cI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3gDHuORo0TU/s1600/YMB003.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A young beguiled Roman ( Luciano Marin ) mistakes us for rich... danish tourists, and promises a visit of the city in the company of two of his friends. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTBODXtkTDI/TYTTYkjtqWI/AAAAAAAAAs0/JzMgSyGsDpk/s1600/YMB005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585821856930048354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTBODXtkTDI/TYTTYkjtqWI/AAAAAAAAAs0/JzMgSyGsDpk/s400/YMB005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTBODXtkTDI/TYTTYkjtqWI/AAAAAAAAAs0/JzMgSyGsDpk/s1600/YMB005.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;While improvising a picnic, we work out a fool-proof plan to organize the evening and avoid any mistake.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVTbgFTQw8E/TYTTq1drs0I/AAAAAAAAAs8/ryowcoA3dMI/s1600/YMB006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585822170705802050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVTbgFTQw8E/TYTTq1drs0I/AAAAAAAAAs8/ryowcoA3dMI/s400/YMB006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVTbgFTQw8E/TYTTq1drs0I/AAAAAAAAAs8/ryowcoA3dMI/s1600/YMB006.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Our hosts treat us to a visit of the Coliseum and the famous passage of the lions, where they would probably like to cage us !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style=" ;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kMnWbNKnE3g/TYTT7EChPqI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Nv1AX6xvJdY/s1600/YMB007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585822449496309410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kMnWbNKnE3g/TYTT7EChPqI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Nv1AX6xvJdY/s400/YMB007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;That same evening, at La Grotta dei Piccioni, the Romans ( Luciano Marin, Roy Ciccolini, Leonardo Botta ) and true-false Danish girls dine, dance and drink a little too much ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0K0pZ9XXZI/TYTZey3kuNI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V6vHHWg5BpM/s1600/YMB009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585828560920426706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0K0pZ9XXZI/TYTZey3kuNI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V6vHHWg5BpM/s400/YMB009.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;A little too drunk, the false Danish girls betray themselves singing real Milanese songs ! The next day, in the countryside, their hosts tease them at will.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style=" ;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8n_ov_WR-Cg/TYTZ0qzRw-I/AAAAAAAAAtU/_PwBbOrRavw/s1600/YMB010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585828936712045538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8n_ov_WR-Cg/TYTZ0qzRw-I/AAAAAAAAAtU/_PwBbOrRavw/s400/YMB010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8n_ov_WR-Cg/TYTZ0qzRw-I/AAAAAAAAAtU/_PwBbOrRavw/s1600/YMB010.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Upset, they decide to go back on foot but the Romans soon join them. They propose an afternoon near the pool of a beautiful villa while owners are away.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p    style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;color:white;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"    style="   ;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cMu9uPG8S00/TYTaRoorMHI/AAAAAAAAAtk/iTe1Fm87lOE/s1600/YMB012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585829434346909810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cMu9uPG8S00/TYTaRoorMHI/AAAAAAAAAtk/iTe1Fm87lOE/s400/YMB012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;With Luciano Marin. Hostilities are over. Previous enemies are now obvioulsy bonding in the charming theater of the Roman countryside.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p    style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;color:white;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"    style="   ;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fj9Hw4COhNU/TYTajgvBzwI/AAAAAAAAAts/mQIwtM1mmcc/s1600/YMB013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585829741463719682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fj9Hw4COhNU/TYTajgvBzwI/AAAAAAAAAts/mQIwtM1mmcc/s400/YMB013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fj9Hw4COhNU/TYTajgvBzwI/AAAAAAAAAts/mQIwtM1mmcc/s1600/YMB013.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Time for goodbyes and promises to meet again.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p    style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;   line-height: 18pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background- font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;color:white;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"    style="   ;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s1600/YMB014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585829895196751138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s400/YMB014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s1600/YMB014.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s1600/YMB014.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;The city of Rome is never as beautiful than in the eyes of a loved one.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-01Kwt3_5jvE/TYTRv_qGkuI/AAAAAAAAAsU/IXb5ZXDGbw0/s400/YMB001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;La foule rassemblée devant la place St Pierre pour le début du weekend de Pâques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c--9m_II6uA/TYTSasFovlI/AAAAAAAAAsc/L684dNJIjEk/s1600/YMB002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585820793799491154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c--9m_II6uA/TYTSasFovlI/AAAAAAAAAsc/L684dNJIjEk/s400/YMB002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Les trois milanaises ( Françoise Danell à ma droite et Claudia Cardinale de l'autre côté) comptent profiter de la capitale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-buVEbo6j5hU/TYTS85cexMI/AAAAAAAAAss/yiUBxqqflVI/s1600/YMB004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585821381500519618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-buVEbo6j5hU/TYTS85cexMI/AAAAAAAAAss/yiUBxqqflVI/s400/YMB004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Avec Claudia Cardinale sous un jour inédit ! Les miroirs déformants d'une attraction nous inspirent l'envie de nous jouer des apparences...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWr2IbSjWNE/TYTSo0FC-cI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3gDHuORo0TU/s1600/YMB003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585821036462668226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vWr2IbSjWNE/TYTSo0FC-cI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3gDHuORo0TU/s400/YMB003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un jeune romain sous le charme ( Luciano Marin ) nous prend pour de riches touristes...danoises et promet de nous faire visiter la ville avec deux autres cavaliers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTBODXtkTDI/TYTTYkjtqWI/AAAAAAAAAs0/JzMgSyGsDpk/s1600/YMB005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585821856930048354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MTBODXtkTDI/TYTTYkjtqWI/AAAAAAAAAs0/JzMgSyGsDpk/s400/YMB005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Tandis que nous improvisons un pique nique, nous échafaudons notre plan pour organiser la soirée et ne pas commettre d'impair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVTbgFTQw8E/TYTTq1drs0I/AAAAAAAAAs8/ryowcoA3dMI/s1600/YMB006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585822170705802050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aVTbgFTQw8E/TYTTq1drs0I/AAAAAAAAAs8/ryowcoA3dMI/s400/YMB006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Nos hôtes nous font visiter le Colisée et le fameux passage des lions où ils aimeraient sans doute nous mettre en cage!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kMnWbNKnE3g/TYTT7EChPqI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Nv1AX6xvJdY/s1600/YMB007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585822449496309410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kMnWbNKnE3g/TYTT7EChPqI/AAAAAAAAAtE/Nv1AX6xvJdY/s400/YMB007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le soir venu, réunis à La Grotta dei Piccioni, les romains ( Luciano Marin, Roy Ciccolini, Léonardo Botta) et les vraies fausses danoises dinent, dansent et boivent un peu trop...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0K0pZ9XXZI/TYTZey3kuNI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V6vHHWg5BpM/s1600/YMB009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585828560920426706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n0K0pZ9XXZI/TYTZey3kuNI/AAAAAAAAAtM/V6vHHWg5BpM/s400/YMB009.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Sous l'emprise de l'ivresse, les fausses danoises chantent de vraies chansons milanaises et sont confondues! Le lendemain, lors d'une partie de campagne, leurs cavaliers se moquent d'elles sans compter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8n_ov_WR-Cg/TYTZ0qzRw-I/AAAAAAAAAtU/_PwBbOrRavw/s1600/YMB010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585828936712045538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8n_ov_WR-Cg/TYTZ0qzRw-I/AAAAAAAAAtU/_PwBbOrRavw/s400/YMB010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Vexées, elles décident de rentrer à pied mais bientôt les romains les rejoignent. Ils leur proposent de passer l'après midi au bord de la piscine d'une belle villa dont les proprietaires sont absents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cMu9uPG8S00/TYTaRoorMHI/AAAAAAAAAtk/iTe1Fm87lOE/s1600/YMB012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585829434346909810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cMu9uPG8S00/TYTaRoorMHI/AAAAAAAAAtk/iTe1Fm87lOE/s400/YMB012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avec Luciano Marin. Les hostilités font parties du passé. Les anciens ennemis opèrent d'évidents rapprochement dans le théâtre charmeur de la campagne romaine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fj9Hw4COhNU/TYTajgvBzwI/AAAAAAAAAts/mQIwtM1mmcc/s1600/YMB013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585829741463719682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fj9Hw4COhNU/TYTajgvBzwI/AAAAAAAAAts/mQIwtM1mmcc/s400/YMB013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Vient le temps du départ et des promesses de retrouvailles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s1600/YMB014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585829895196751138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s400/YMB014.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eRpEP6C_AOs/TYTasdb1tSI/AAAAAAAAAt0/srwbBGplV3g/s1600/YMB014.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;La ville de Rome n'est jamais plus belle que dans les yeux de celui que l'on aime.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5180580764288698012?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5180580764288698012/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5180580764288698012&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5180580764288698012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5180580764288698012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/letrangere-rome-22.html' title='L&apos;étrangère à Rome 2/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-01Kwt3_5jvE/TYTRv_qGkuI/AAAAAAAAAsU/IXb5ZXDGbw0/s72-c/YMB001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-1776358368425096389</id><published>2011-02-21T05:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T13:42:38.198-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Three strangers in Rome 1/2</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/une-etrangere-rome-12.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;( lire la version française)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;When I think about my acting memories in Italy, TRE STRANIERE A ROMA is prominent in my mind : Rome, my favorite city, the generous sun of the 1958 spring, the warm friendship between actors, the intelligent and sensitive advice of our director Claudio Gora. Those were ideal conditions to make this comedy an unforgettable experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OdF9kDbhHqo/TXEuwJ1wS8I/AAAAAAAAAr8/AGZohkaK-f8/s1600/YMonlaurblog+trestr01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580292818098736066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OdF9kDbhHqo/TXEuwJ1wS8I/AAAAAAAAAr8/AGZohkaK-f8/s400/YMonlaurblog%2Btrestr01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Synopsis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Three young girls from Milan ( Yvonne Monlaur, Claudia Cardinale, Françoise Danel ) travel to Rome for the Easter week-end.&lt;br /&gt;They decide to pass as rich Danish tourists in order to attract the attention of three naïve boys from Rome.&lt;br /&gt;After swinging dancing and drinking parties, they end up giving themselves away. Soon, funny misunderstandings and fights between young couples become burgeoning idylls under the shade of the roman countryside’s thickets.&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the week-end, the three strangers take a train back to Milan, leaving behind, on the platform, enamored Romans, with promises to see each other again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;At the time, I was under contract with producer Franco Cristaldi, as was Claudia Cardinale who had just shot Mario Monicelli’s excellent comedy BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET.&lt;br /&gt;Claudio Gora had remarked me in my first Italian movies. I was lucky to work under his direction. An actor himself (1), he had very stimulating views about acting in front of a camera. We had a lot of extended shots with a lot of dialog. Gora always preferred the first takes, which preserved the freshness and spontaneity of acting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="12pt" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oemSXX8ezLM/TXEvCCkiSJI/AAAAAAAAAsE/xMZA2-DUgfw/s1600/YMonlaurblog+trestr02.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580293125385111698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oemSXX8ezLM/TXEvCCkiSJI/AAAAAAAAAsE/xMZA2-DUgfw/s400/YMonlaurblog%2Btrestr02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;He had a small crew and, therefore, could move very easily in the streets of the capital city. We were shooting day and night, sometimes take after take during 24 hour working days (2) ! I remember a very early morning when I came back from the set for a quick shower before changing and returning to shoot in mid-morning !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sustained working rhythm was very similar to the three girls’ escapade from Milan.&lt;br /&gt;We worked with a lot of enthusiasm, sometimes under scorching sun.&lt;br /&gt;During some afternoons, we would gladly have exchanged our spring outfits for beachwear !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" face="'Times New Roman', serif" size="12pt" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;The other star of the film was Rome, its monuments, but also its nightlife. A moving testimony to the Dolce Vita. At the end of the long cabaret scene, shot in the popular night club Grotta dei Piccioni with the singer Marino Baretto and Tamara Lees (3), the three girls, a little drunk, are falling asleep on the seats of a beautiful convertible, parked in a nearby street. Claudio Gora suggested that I hum the Milanese song :" O ma bella Madonina" with a kitten in my arms. This amusing scene remained on the cutting floor. Perhaps it revealed a little too early, and under a new light, the Danish girl I was supposed to be !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Thinking about it again, the spirit of this comedy about carefree youth in the backdrop of Rome reminds me of a great William Wyler classic : ROMAN HOLYDAY, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;where reporter Gregory Peck was having a dashing romance with a princess on the run who carefully hid her true identity. That princess was Audrey Hepburn. An admirable actress who was very influential in my own desire to join this beautiful profession.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1 – In the fantasy genre, he shared top billing of UN ANGELO PER SATANA with Barbara Steele&lt;br /&gt;2 – Notably for the sequence of the long walk through Rome&lt;br /&gt;3 – Tamara Lees did a lot of stage work in Italy and was a leading lady in dance revues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"   style=" MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:12pt;"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"   style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-1776358368425096389?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1776358368425096389/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=1776358368425096389&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1776358368425096389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1776358368425096389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/three-strangers-in-rome-12.html' title='Three strangers in Rome 1/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OdF9kDbhHqo/TXEuwJ1wS8I/AAAAAAAAAr8/AGZohkaK-f8/s72-c/YMonlaurblog%2Btrestr01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-8745597301488801075</id><published>2011-02-21T05:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T10:46:32.102-08:00</updated><title type='text'>L' étrangère à Rome   1/2</title><content type='html'>Quand je songe à mes souvenirs de tournage en Italie, L'ETRANGERE A ROME ( Tre straniere a Roma) arrive loin devant: Rome ma ville préférée, le soleil généreux du printemps 1958, la complicité entre les acteurs, la direction intelligente et sensible du réalisateur Claudio Gora. Autant de conditions idéales pour faire de cette comédie un moment inoubliable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PC4GFMT1TD4/TW0pi9gHTaI/AAAAAAAAArs/LGmbFW_XCH0/s1600/YMonlaurblog+trestr01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579161193983462818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PC4GFMT1TD4/TW0pi9gHTaI/AAAAAAAAArs/LGmbFW_XCH0/s400/YMonlaurblog%2Btrestr01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Résumé&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Trois jeunes Milanaises ( Yvonne Monlaur, Claudia Cardinale, Françoise Danell ) se rendent à Rome pour le weekend de Pâques.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Elles se font passer pour de riches touristes danoises auprès de trois romains ingénus (Luciano Marin, Leonardo Botta, Roy Ciccolini ) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;afin de profiter de leur générosité.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Emportées par le tourbillon de la fête et l'ivresse, elles finissent par baisser la garde et se trahir. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bientôt, après les cocasses quiproquos et les disputes entre couples vient le temps des idylles naissantes sous l'ombre des bosquets de la campagne romaine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;A la fin du weekend, les trois étrangères reprennent le train pour Milan, laissant derrière elles&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; des romains bercés par les promesses de retrouvailles.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A l'époque, j'étais sous contrat avec le producteur Franco Cristaldi tout comme Claudia Cardinale qui venait de tourner LE PIGEON l'excellente comédie de Monicelli. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Claudio Gora m'avait remarqué dans mes premiers films italiens. C'était une chance de tourner sous sa direction. Etant lui-même acteur(1), il avait une approche très stimulante du jeu devant la caméra. Nous avions beaucoup de plans séquences avec des dialogues assez longs. Gora préférait les premières prises afin de privilégier la fraicheur et la spontanéité des acteurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lW7LZLWLgHg/TW0rvqnk_nI/AAAAAAAAAr0/zCXmVhkGfhA/s1600/YMonlaurblog+trestr02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579163611276050034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lW7LZLWLgHg/TW0rvqnk_nI/AAAAAAAAAr0/zCXmVhkGfhA/s400/YMonlaurblog%2Btrestr02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il avait une petite équipe qui lui permettait aussi de se mouvoir avec beaucoup de souplesse dans les rues de la capitale. Ainsi nous tournions, le jour, la nuit, enchaînant parfois les prises sur des journées de 24 heures(2) ! Je me souviens, un matin, très tôt, être rentrée du plateau pour me doucher, me changer et reprendre le tournage en cours de matinée!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le rythme haletant du travail se confondait avec le périple romain des trois milanaises.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nous travaillions tous avec beaucoup d'enthousiasme sous un soleil écrasant parfois.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A cette saison, les températures étaient si inhabituelles que les héroines que nous étions auraient bien troqué certains après midi leur robe de mi-saison contre des tenues de plage!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'autre vedette du film c'était Rome, ses monuments, son énergie, sa vie nocturne. Un témoignage émouvant de la Dolce Vita. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Au terme de la grande scène de cabaret dansant tournée dans la populaire boite de nuit La Grotta dei Piccioni avec le chanteur de variétés Marino Baretto et l'élégante Tamara Lees(3), les trois milanaises un peu éméchées s'endormaient sur les sièges d'une belle décapotable garée dans une rue à proximité. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Claudio Gora eût l'idée de me filmer en train de fredonner la chanson milanaise: " O mia bella Madonnina" avec un chaton dans les bras. Cette scène amusante n'est pas restée au montage. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Peut-être révélait-elle un peu tôt sous un nouveau jour la Danoise que j'étais censée être !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avec le recul, l'esprit de cette comédie avec Rome en toile de fond et l'insouciance de la jeunesse me remémore un grand classique de William Wyler: VACANCES ROMAINES.&lt;br /&gt;Le reporter Gregory Peck y vivait une haletante histoire d'amour avec une princesse en vadrouille tout en se gardant bien de lui révéler sa véritable identité.&lt;br /&gt;Cette princesse c'était Audrey Hepburn. Une actrice admirable qui a été déterminante dans mon envie de faire ce beau métier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;1 - Dans le domaine du fantastique, il partagea l'affiche d' UN ANGE POUR SATAN avec Barbara Steele. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;2 - Notamment pour la séquence de promenade dans Rome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;3 - D'origine autrichienne Tamara Lees fit aussi carrière au théâtre et mena des revues dansantes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-8745597301488801075?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8745597301488801075/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=8745597301488801075&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8745597301488801075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8745597301488801075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/une-etrangere-rome-12.html' title='L&apos; étrangère à Rome   1/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PC4GFMT1TD4/TW0pi9gHTaI/AAAAAAAAArs/LGmbFW_XCH0/s72-c/YMonlaurblog%2Btrestr01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5285524874570667150</id><published>2011-01-20T02:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T04:01:55.709-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What's new ?</title><content type='html'>Dears readers,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s new with this new year ?&lt;br /&gt;First of all, I wanted to simplify the way you can order autographs.&lt;br /&gt;From now on, you’ll be able to pay online through Paypal’s secure payment.&lt;br /&gt;Return postage fees are included in the price.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the blog, you’ll find a new press-book LES MAITRESSES DE DRACULA &lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/brides-of-dracula-memorabilia.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is from the original French release of the film.&lt;br /&gt;Numeric high resolution will enable you to enlarge it for better viewing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, you may have remarked, in the “dvd releases” rubric, the Italian edition of TRE STRANIERE A ROMA.&lt;br /&gt;A film that I am particularly fond of. It features Italian subtitles.&lt;br /&gt;I’ll tell you more about it soon…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Chers lectrices et lecteurs,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quoi de neuf en ce début d'année ?&lt;br /&gt;Tout d'abord j'ai tenu à simplifier les modalités de commande d'autographes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dorénavant vous pourrez régler de manière électronique avec le paiement sécurisé Paypal.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les frais de port d'expédition sont compris dans le prix. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Côté blog, vous trouverez un nouveau dossier de presse LES MAITRESSES DE DRACULA &lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/brides-of-dracula-memorabilia.html"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il s'agit de celui de la sortie originale française.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;La résolution numérique vous permettra de le visualiser en grand format.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Enfin vous aurez peut-être remarqué dans la rubrique Sorties DVD, l'édition italienne de TRE STRANIERE A ROMA. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Un film que j'affectionne tout particulièrement. Il comporte des sous-titres italiens.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je vous en reparle très bientôt...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5285524874570667150?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5285524874570667150/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5285524874570667150&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5285524874570667150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5285524874570667150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/whats-new.html' title='What&apos;s new ?'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s72-c/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4786818887393812912</id><published>2010-12-26T03:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T05:56:58.799-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year 2011 !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TRdG_SAyWvI/AAAAAAAAAqU/ZyJRixkX71M/s1600/YMonlaur+hpny2011still.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554986718365637362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TRdG_SAyWvI/AAAAAAAAAqU/ZyJRixkX71M/s400/YMonlaur%2Bhpny2011still.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;2010 is already about to end.&lt;br /&gt;I have now been writing to you for two years and time flies when you are in good company.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to each and everyone for your fidelity and your comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us talk again next year. In the meantime, I wish you all very happy holidays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you soon !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;L'année 2010 s'achève déjà. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Cela fait maintenant deux ans que je vous écris et le temps passe à toute allure lorsque l'on est en bonne compagnie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Merci à toutes et tous pour votre fidélité et vos commentaires.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;Je vous donne rendez vous l'année prochaine et vous souhaite d'ici là de très bonnes fêtes de fin d'année.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;A très vite !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4786818887393812912?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4786818887393812912/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4786818887393812912&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4786818887393812912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4786818887393812912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-new-year-2011.html' title='Happy New Year 2011 !'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TRdG_SAyWvI/AAAAAAAAAqU/ZyJRixkX71M/s72-c/YMonlaur%2Bhpny2011still.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-625844623823420686</id><published>2010-11-28T14:20:00.003-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-07T14:17:47.856-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Romantic Russia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/ma-russie-romantique.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(lire en français)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;During weekends, when my beloved son does not bring me my grand children (1), I usually go out and visit the Parisian museums. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been my passion for a long time and I even do it when travelling – I keep wonderful memories of the magnificent exhibit on the French Impressionists in Washington DC in 2002 and, lately, of the splendors of the Ermitage in Saint-Petersburg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPu3OYzeWVI/AAAAAAAAAp8/RCMrPSnEn6A/s1600/YMBwith+mme+Egorova.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547228823841298770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPu3OYzeWVI/AAAAAAAAAp8/RCMrPSnEn6A/s400/YMBwith%2Bmme%2BEgorova.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A dance lesson by Madame Egorova, who was, among others, a teacher to Noureev and Lifar ( 1956)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I already mentioned to you my Slavic origins. You can imagine how impatient I was to discover the “Russie romantique” exhibition organized by the “Musée de la vie romantique” in Paris.&lt;br /&gt;A modest exhibit, I agree, but I really appreciated the beauty of the works.&lt;br /&gt;A selection of sculptures and paintings (quaint landscapes and portraits) loaned by the Tretiakov museum, and attesting the artistic effervescence of the times. I was dazzled by the painting “The Tempest” by Maxime Vorobiev.&lt;br /&gt;There was also a sculpture representing Pushkin who is, along with Chekhov, one of my favorite writers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All these great past figures inevitably recalled many childhood memories.&lt;br /&gt;The artistic environment I grew up in, a father who was a poet and a great traveler of the imaginary, celebrated by his contemporaries (2), a mother who played piano and dansed Russian ballets. She was able to perform a tango on her toes with great virtuosity.&lt;br /&gt;A maternal grandmother, whom I loved very much, and who passed onto me her liking for the arts and cinema. She was rushing to see all of my films ! Dear beloved Babou who communicated me her unshakable « joie de vivre ». She still lives in me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547229152726779538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 194px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPu3hh_4hpI/AAAAAAAAAqE/KAfPKok-9TE/s400/YMBmother.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mother, a beautiful woman whose invisible presence I still feel ( 1930) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;« La Russie romantique » is a current exhibit in Paris, rue Chaptal, but it has also been forever a living family in my heart, where all of my dearest ones, dead or alive, still accompany me every day of my life. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1- The elder loves music. When he comes to visit me, he loves to play with the living room guitar.&lt;br /&gt;2 - Pierre Bédat de Monlaur ( 1907- 1990)&lt;br /&gt;He was a librettist for Honegger. He received many distinctions, including the silver medal of the city of Paris.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-625844623823420686?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/625844623823420686/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=625844623823420686&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/625844623823420686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/625844623823420686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-romantic-russia.html' title='My Romantic Russia'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPu3OYzeWVI/AAAAAAAAAp8/RCMrPSnEn6A/s72-c/YMBwith%2Bmme%2BEgorova.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-1463473047747012116</id><published>2010-11-28T14:20:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T15:46:33.854-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ma Russie romantique</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-romantic-russia.html"&gt;( read in english)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Les weekends où mon fils chéri ne me confie pas mes petits enfants(1), je consacre mes sorties à visiter les musées parisiens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est une passion à laquelle je m'adonne depuis longtemps même lorsque je suis en voyage - je garde un souvenir merveilleux de la magnifique exposition sur les Impressionistes français à Washington en 2002 et dernièrement des splendeurs de l'Ermitage à Saint-Petersbourg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPuu_QvXt7I/AAAAAAAAApk/VPmkl4wN_ps/s1600/YMBwith+mme+Egorova.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547219767885543346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPuu_QvXt7I/AAAAAAAAApk/VPmkl4wN_ps/s400/YMBwith%2Bmme%2BEgorova.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Une leçon de danse en 1956 avec Madame Egorova &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;qui fut, entre autres, le professeur de Noureev et Lifar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je vous ai déjà parlé de mes origines slaves. Vous imaginez à quel point j'étais impatiente de découvrir l'exposition " La Russie romantique" organisée par le Musée de la Vie romantique à Paris.&lt;br /&gt;Une exposition modeste certes mais dont j'ai toutefois apprécié la beauté des oeuvres.&lt;br /&gt;Une sélection de sculptures et de peintures (des paysages pittoresques et des portraits) issue du musée Trétiakov qui témoigne de l'effervescence artistique de l'époque. J'ai été éblouïe par le tableau : La tempête de Maxime Vorobiev.&lt;br /&gt;Il y avait aussi une sculpture représentant Pouchkine. Il est avec Tchékov l'un de mes écrivains préférés.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toutes ces grandes figures me plongent inévitablement dans les souvenirs de mon enfance.&lt;br /&gt;Le milieu artistique au sein duquel j'ai grandi avec un père poète, grand voyageur de l'imaginaire, reconnu par ses contemporains(2), une maman pianiste et danseuse de ballets russes. Elle était capable de danser le tango sur les pointes avec beaucoup de virtuosité.&lt;br /&gt;Une grand mère maternelle que j'adorais . Elle m'a transmis son goût des arts et du cinéma. Elle courait voir tous mes films ! Chère et tendre Babou qui m'a communiqué son indéfectible joie de vivre. Elle vit toujours en moi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPuw04eeIbI/AAAAAAAAAps/xK31Tpun6DU/s1600/YMBmother.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547221788596773298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 194px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPuw04eeIbI/AAAAAAAAAps/xK31Tpun6DU/s400/YMBmother.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maman dans les années 30, une femme ravissante dont je ressens souvent l'invisible présence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;La Russie romantique est actuellement une exposition à Paris, rue Chaptal mais c'est aussi depuis longtemps un foyer vivant dans mon coeur. Là où se tiennent tous ceux qui me sont chers, morts ou vivants, et qui m'accompagnent chaque jour de ma vie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1-Le plus grand est fou de musique, lorsqu'il vient chez moi, il aime jouer avec la guitare du salon.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;2 - Pierre Bédat de Monlaur ( 1907- 1990)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il fut librettiste pour Honegger. Il reçut entre autres distinctions la médaille d'argent de la ville de Paris.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-1463473047747012116?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1463473047747012116/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=1463473047747012116&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1463473047747012116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1463473047747012116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/ma-russie-romantique.html' title='Ma Russie romantique'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TPuu_QvXt7I/AAAAAAAAApk/VPmkl4wN_ps/s72-c/YMBwith%2Bmme%2BEgorova.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5993054931511415041</id><published>2010-10-25T12:51:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T12:39:24.544-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading Hammer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/lire-la-hammer.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(Lire en français)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In France, the new cultural season is usually literary.&lt;br /&gt;This year, on both sides of the channel, it is also a new season for books about the Hammer studios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFsKQXnnI/AAAAAAAAApM/tUAdxQdVV8Q/s1600/HAMMER+Unsung+heroes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536830154356530802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFsKQXnnI/AAAAAAAAApM/tUAdxQdVV8Q/s400/HAMMER+Unsung+heroes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the U.K., prolific Wayne Kinsey (1), with his new epic HAMMER FILMS - THE UNSUNG HEROES, pays tribute to the technicians and artists who shaped the Hammer style. Film after film, the firm hired the best production teams of the time. That certainly accounts for their sustained quality, in spite of budget restraints and a very steep production schedule through more than a decade.&lt;br /&gt;The book is illustrated with many rarely published on-set photographs. It is prefaced by actress Barbara Shelley. For 2011, Wayne Kinsey prepares another book about the shooting locations of Hammer productions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbGGZmNg9I/AAAAAAAAApU/loAGokc046s/s1600/THE+ART+OF+HAMMER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536830605151273938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbGGZmNg9I/AAAAAAAAApU/loAGokc046s/s400/THE+ART+OF+HAMMER.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, Marcus Hearn (2) publishes a book about Hammer film posters : THE ART OF HAMMER.&lt;br /&gt;It is essentially based upon the works of English, American and Belgium poster designers. The beautiful French posters by Guy Gérard Noël might have deserved a better place.&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I found a real curiosity in the book : the Danish poster of BRIDES OF DRACULA, from David Peel’s personal collection. Surprisingly, it provides David with top billing, before all other actors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbGTr_bE6I/AAAAAAAAApc/OTcahn1DtDU/s1600/DANSLES-GRIFFES-DE-LA-HAMMER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536830833427157922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 261px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbGTr_bE6I/AAAAAAAAApc/OTcahn1DtDU/s400/DANSLES-GRIFFES-DE-LA-HAMMER.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In France, DANS LES GRIFFES DE LA HAMMER, the first book entirely devoted to the studios, has just been republished in a more complete version. The author, Nicolas Stanzick, whom I had the pleasure to meet at this opportunity, is a young journalist with a passion for the famous film company. His richly documented book proposes to discover Hammer films through the controversial articles of the French critics at the time of their release. It is also an homage to the early supporters of Hammer films. The annex contains very in-depth interviews with, among others, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou and Gérard Lenne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These books are rather large ones and fit to fill the long winter evenings of all those who master Shakespeare’s language as well as Molière’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) Author of HAMMER FILMS, the Bray studios years, and the Elstree years.&lt;br /&gt;(2) Author of THE HAMMER STORY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536829872607223778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFbwqGX-I/AAAAAAAAApE/7RxB3uHYuXQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5993054931511415041?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5993054931511415041/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5993054931511415041&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5993054931511415041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5993054931511415041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/reading-hammer.html' title='Reading Hammer'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNbFsKQXnnI/AAAAAAAAApM/tUAdxQdVV8Q/s72-c/HAMMER+Unsung+heroes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4123644022154917433</id><published>2010-10-25T12:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-05T17:36:13.549-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lire la Hammer</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;En France, la rentrée culturelle est habituellement littéraire.&lt;br /&gt;Force est de constater que des deux côtés de la Manche, c'est aussi la rentrée pour les ouvrages consacrés aux studios de la Hammer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXLgLu-rPI/AAAAAAAAAok/rIaqhOuHmXw/s1600/HAMMER+Unsung+heroes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536555070687980786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXLgLu-rPI/AAAAAAAAAok/rIaqhOuHmXw/s400/HAMMER+Unsung+heroes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En Angleterre, le prolifique Wayne Kinsey (1) propose avec son nouvel opus : HAMMER FILMS, THE UNSUNG HEROES&lt;br /&gt;de rendre hommage aux techniciens et aux artistes qui ont façonné le style de la Hammer. De film en film, la firme fit appel aux meilleures équipes de production de l'époque. Ce qui explique certainement cette constance dans la qualité malgré les contraintes budgétaires et une cadence de production très soutenue durant plus d'une décennie.&lt;br /&gt;Le livre est illustré par de nombreuses photos de plateaux rarement publiées. Il est préfacé par l'actrice Barbara Shelley. Wayne Kinsey prépare pour 2011 un ouvrage consacré aux lieux de tournage des films de la Hammer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXLzyOQOFI/AAAAAAAAAos/_hdfj6EfR9k/s1600/THE+ART+OF+HAMMER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536555407437215826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 312px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXLzyOQOFI/AAAAAAAAAos/_hdfj6EfR9k/s400/THE+ART+OF+HAMMER.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De son côté, Marcus Hearn(2) publie un livre sur les affiches des films de la Hammer : THE ART OF HAMMER&lt;br /&gt;Il est essentiellement basé sur le travail des affichistes anglais, américains et belges. Les belles affiches françaises de Guy Gérard Noël auraient peut-être mérité une meilleure place.&lt;br /&gt;Pour ma part, j'ai trouvé dans ce livre une vraie curiosité : l'affiche danoise de BRIDES OF DRACULA issue de la collection privée de David Peel. Elle présente en effet la particularité de créditer David en haut de l'affiche avant les autres acteurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXMYcrfGbI/AAAAAAAAAo0/fWjkSEDlZso/s1600/DANSLES-GRIFFES-DE-LA-HAMMER.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536556037309405618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 261px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXMYcrfGbI/AAAAAAAAAo0/fWjkSEDlZso/s400/DANSLES-GRIFFES-DE-LA-HAMMER.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En France, DANS LES GRIFFES DE LA HAMMER le premier ouvrage consacré aux studios vient d'être réédité dans une version complètée. L'auteur Nicolas Stanzick dont j'ai eu le plaisir de faire la connaissance à cette occasion est un jeune journaliste passionné par la célèbre firme. Son livre richement documenté propose de faire découvrir les films de la Hammer à travers l'accueil houleux que leur réserva la critique française. Il rend hommage aux défenseurs de la première heure des films de Terence Fisher. On trouve en annexe des entretiens érudits avec entre autres Jean-Pierre Bouyxou et Gérard Lenne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les ouvrages sont volumineux et promettent d'occuper les longues soirées d'hiver de tous ceux qui maîtrisent la langue de Shakespeare comme celle de Molière.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;1- Auteur de HAMMER FILMS the bray studios years et the Elstree studio years. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;2 - Auteur de THE HAMMER STORY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536765553094482498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNaK73zQ2kI/AAAAAAAAAo8/mzFgypWEXbg/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4123644022154917433?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4123644022154917433/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4123644022154917433&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4123644022154917433'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4123644022154917433'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/lire-la-hammer.html' title='Lire la Hammer'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TNXLgLu-rPI/AAAAAAAAAok/rIaqhOuHmXw/s72-c/HAMMER+Unsung+heroes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5815243805875853476</id><published>2010-09-28T08:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T12:33:38.772-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Caribbean Hawk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-28T08%3A38%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;( lire la version française)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;To start off this new season, I wish you all the same energy and steadyness as Captain Olivares, hero of the Caribbean Hawk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjVX3W-pwI/AAAAAAAAAnc/G5oolCOkCbU/s1600/epervier.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523899548943951618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjVX3W-pwI/AAAAAAAAAnc/G5oolCOkCbU/s400/epervier.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this italian pirate movie, I played his companion Arica, an improbable mulatto girl with a tragic fate. The producers had probably thought of me after seeing me as an eurasian girl in The Terror of the Tongs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our director, Piero Regnoli, did not lack energy either, but in spite of his tenacity, he could not overcome the production's financial problems. Finally, Caribbean Hawk became the only unfinished film of my career. You can imagine how surprised I was when, a few years ago, austrian friends of mine sent me a videotape of the film, dubbed in German !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjWAjFOb6I/AAAAAAAAAnk/YaFOYcIqdVY/s1600/ymob-epervier3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523900247875415970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjWAjFOb6I/AAAAAAAAAnk/YaFOYcIqdVY/s400/ymob-epervier3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the middle of the 16th century, a group of escaped prisoners, led by Captain Juan Rodrigo Olivares (Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a spanish ship terrorizing the West Indies. Olivares falls in love with the grand-daughter of the viceroy of Santa Cruz, abandoning his companion Arica (Yvonne Monlaur), a mulatto girl he had saved from slavery. Faced with the threat of an english attack upon the coast, the viceroy and captain Esteban manage to rally Olivares to their cause and send him ahead to confront the english naval forces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjXkNt-msI/AAAAAAAAAoE/2yKx5Z5a9Fc/s1600/ymob-epervier2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523901960127683266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjXkNt-msI/AAAAAAAAAoE/2yKx5Z5a9Fc/s400/ymob-epervier2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regnoli was a huge fan of "genre" movies (1). His screenplay, abounding with unexpected twists and epic scenes, conformed with all the conventions of Hollywood films. It would probably have needed more money than the production was able to invest. Anyway, Cinecitta still had some set elements from Manckiewicz' Cleopatra, which, if properly used and dressed, could sustain an illusion of grandeur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjXTGqzfjI/AAAAAAAAAn8/kGtqO03HEZY/s1600/ymob-epervier5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523901666177547826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjXTGqzfjI/AAAAAAAAAn8/kGtqO03HEZY/s400/ymob-epervier5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The film was mostly shot in the port of Anzio, near Rome. There was a village there, and a refurbished antique float, thus the strange and bare aspect of the spanish army's gallions. When they needed more extras, the producers enlisted the port's inhabitants, who joined the troups during the battle scenes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Johnny Desmond (2) sometimes seemed a bit lost in the middle of this whole mess ! But I was not surprised with the chaotic atmosphere of the set. I had already shot quite a few Italian pictures in the same conditions, but, this time, financial problems arose at the very beginning of the shooting. They had an impact on all artistic aspects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjX1Zi6BXI/AAAAAAAAAoM/szIUXGqMSNs/s1600/ymob-epervier4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902255360247154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjX1Zi6BXI/AAAAAAAAAoM/szIUXGqMSNs/s400/ymob-epervier4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember going with the wardrobe lady to the roman fleamarket in order to find some cheap fabric for my slave tunic. In the end, she fashioned for me a dress with a piece of cloth with printed flowers, looking more like a "sixties" curtain. Given our overall budget, this became my sole outfit through the entire film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regnoli rewrote the script everyday in order to adapt our planning to the financial restraints. His differences with the producers soon forced him to announce that the shooting had to stop !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a month, the technical crew and the actors had to hire lawyers to fight for their salaries. Shooting finally resumed, with a totally new screenplay. But to no avail. Regnoli deserted the set and production stopped for good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYGBNUAXI/AAAAAAAAAoU/M8SrfXG-PNM/s1600/ymob-epervier1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902540885000562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYGBNUAXI/AAAAAAAAAoU/M8SrfXG-PNM/s400/ymob-epervier1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In its current form, the film (released in Belgium but not in France under the title L'Epervier des Caraïbes) has a beginning and an end, but sometimes suffers from abrupt transitions because of unfinished battle scenes and lack of care in post-production.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very much like the final scene, where Olivares perishes in his gallion with Arica, Caribbean Hawk has remained in my memory a very sick boat slowly sinking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) He was a prolific screenwriter in all kinds of genres. He is also known in France for his fantasy movie : The playgirls and the vampire, with Walter Brandi.&lt;br /&gt;(2) He was also a popular singer, from Glenn Miller's big band.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523902879730875474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjYZvgdvFI/AAAAAAAAAoc/Is9xyrye_8w/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5815243805875853476?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5815243805875853476/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5815243805875853476&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5815243805875853476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5815243805875853476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/caribbean-hawk.html' title='Caribbean Hawk'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKjVX3W-pwI/AAAAAAAAAnc/G5oolCOkCbU/s72-c/epervier.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-8361079300862764856</id><published>2010-09-28T08:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T12:36:15.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>L' épervier des caraïbes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;(read the english version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pour aborder cette rentrée, je vous souhaite à toutes et tous l'énergie et la ténacité du capitaine Olivares, le héros de L'épervier des caraïbes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKh2qn40pXI/AAAAAAAAAmc/d6IxGn-sKuA/s1600/epervier.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523795417603810674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKh2qn40pXI/AAAAAAAAAmc/d6IxGn-sKuA/s400/epervier.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans ce film italien de pirates, je jouais Arica sa compagne, une improbable mulâtresse au destin tragique. Les producteurs avaient vraisemblablement pensé à moi après m'avoir vue en eurasienne dans L'empreinte du Dragon Rouge.&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-11-28T13%3A47%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;L'énergie, le réalisateur Piero Regnoli n'en manquait pas non plus mais sa ténacité ne parvint pas à surmonter les problèmes de trésorerie de la production. Au final, L'épervier des Caraïbes est devenu le seul film inachevé de ma carrière. Vous imaginez bien quelle fut ma surprise, lorsqu'il y a quelques années, des amis autrichiens m'en firent parvenir une copie vidéo doublée en allemand !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiH2ZYtBVI/AAAAAAAAAmk/Y2Z08fYS8a8/s1600/ymob-epervier3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523814311567099218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiH2ZYtBVI/AAAAAAAAAmk/Y2Z08fYS8a8/s400/ymob-epervier3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Au milieu du XVI siècle, un groupe de prisonniers évadés mené par le capitaine Juan Rodrigo Olivares ( Johnny Desmond) prend possession d'un navire espagnol semant la terreur dans toutes les Antilles.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Olivares tombe amoureux de la petite-fille du Vice-roi de Santa Cruz, délaissant sa compagne Arica ( Yvonne Monlaur), une mulâtresse qu'il a sauvé de l'esclavage. Devant la menace d'une attaque anglaise sur les côtes, le Vice roi et le capitaine Esteban parviennent à rallier Olivares à leur cause et l'envoyer en première ligne pour affronter la flotte de la perfide Albion. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiIMgYvmsI/AAAAAAAAAms/YXyP_rA7RSw/s1600/ymob-epervier2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523814691403438786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiIMgYvmsI/AAAAAAAAAms/YXyP_rA7RSw/s400/ymob-epervier2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regnoli était un passionné du cinéma de genre(1). Son scénario riche en rebondissements et scènes épiques répondait à toutes les conventions du cinéma hollywoodien. Il aurait probablement nécessité des moyens supérieurs à ce dont la production disposait; qu'à cela ne tienne, il restait à Cinecitta des éléments de décors du Cléopâtre de Mankiewicz, des décors qui, habilement réutilisés pouvaient faire illusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiIlLeFwhI/AAAAAAAAAm0/gCzPKI41QKM/s1600/ymob-epervier5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523815115285447186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiIlLeFwhI/AAAAAAAAAm0/gCzPKI41QKM/s400/ymob-epervier5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La majeure partie du film fut tournée dans le port d'Anzio près de Rome.&lt;br /&gt;Il y avait là un village, une flottille antique réaménagée d'où parfois l'aspect dépouillé et austère des étranges galions de l'armée espagnole. Quand il manquait de la figuration, la production faisait appel au bénévolat des habitants du port, ils venaient grandir les troupes durant les scènes de bataille.&lt;br /&gt;Johnny Desmond (2) semblait parfois un peu perdu au milieu de ce vaste chantier ! Pour ma part, je n'étais pas surprise de l'ambiance chaotique qui régnait sur le plateau. J'avais déjà tourné en Italie de nombreux films dans ce type de conditions mais cette fois-ci les problèmes financiers survinrent dès le début du tournage. Ils touchaient tous les postes artistiques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiJD6DgrXI/AAAAAAAAAm8/3uYWUMPRYJE/s1600/ymob-epervier4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523815643186507122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 238px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiJD6DgrXI/AAAAAAAAAm8/3uYWUMPRYJE/s400/ymob-epervier4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me souviens avoir accompagné la costumière au marché aux puces romain afin de trouver un tissu peu onéreux pour ma tenue d'esclave. Elle me confectionna une robe cintrée dans une pièce de tissu avec des fleurs imprimées qui tenait plus du double rideau "façon sixties" !&lt;br /&gt;Economies obligent, cette robe a été mon unique tenue durant tout le film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regnoli réécrivait le scénario chaque jour pour adapter le planning aux contraintes budgétaires. Ses différends avec la production le conduisirent bientôt à nous annoncer que le tournage s'arrêtait !&lt;br /&gt;Durant un mois, l'équipe technique et les acteurs bataillèrent par avocats interposés avec la production pour toucher leur salaire. Le tournage reprit avec un scénario totalement remanié. En vain.&lt;br /&gt;Regnoli abandonna le plateau. La production s'arrêta définitivement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiJWFcRLmI/AAAAAAAAAnE/uxGOQahO7wo/s1600/ymob-epervier1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523815955480784482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiJWFcRLmI/AAAAAAAAAnE/uxGOQahO7wo/s400/ymob-epervier1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'épervier des caraïbes ( titre belge puisque le film n'est pas sorti en France) tel qu'il est visible actuellement possède bien un début et une fin mais souffre parfois de transitions abruptes dues aux scènes de batailles inachevées et aux carences de postproduction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A l'image de la scène finale qui voit Olivares périr avec Arica dans son galion, L'épervier des caraïbes est resté dans ma mémoire comme un bateau ivre prenant l'eau de toutes parts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) Il fut un scénariste prolifique couvrant tous les genres. On le connait aussi en France pour son film fantastique : Des filles pour un vampire, avec Walter Brandi .&lt;br /&gt;(2 ) Il menait une carrière de chanteur populaire issu du Big Band de Glenn Miller.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523824277010255330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKiQ6djgDeI/AAAAAAAAAnU/HJGmp6jC5ps/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-8361079300862764856?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8361079300862764856/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=8361079300862764856&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8361079300862764856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8361079300862764856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/l-epervier-des-caraibes.html' title='L&apos; épervier des caraïbes'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TKh2qn40pXI/AAAAAAAAAmc/d6IxGn-sKuA/s72-c/epervier.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4204382465073077410</id><published>2010-06-15T05:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-27T08:24:20.193-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Save Bray studios</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdk3nKK5QI/AAAAAAAAAl0/kB8lKsegfP0/s1600/YMB+Braystudios02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487465577541461250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdk3nKK5QI/AAAAAAAAAl0/kB8lKsegfP0/s400/YMB+Braystudios02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/sauver-les-studios-bray.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;( lire en français)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Before leaving you for a few weeks of holidays, I wished to draw your attention to the “Save Bray Studios” petition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While reading Robert J.E. Simpson’s blog (one of my blog followers), I learned (and deplored) that the current owners of the famous studios had decided to turn the lot into apartments for sale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bray studios seemed to run in slow motion for some time.&lt;br /&gt;Unable to provide the necessary funds to renew the technical equipment, they decided to pull the plug on its activities.&lt;br /&gt;If this was to happen, it would be a grave loss to the heritage of the British cinema industry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of memories (1) and international successes are linked to these studios. Hammer’s films, of course, and other productions now turned cult movies, such as THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lot obviously is of great value, and it would be wise to preserve it by demanding, as it has been proposed, to turn it into a cinema museum and/or a site for teaching the art of cinema.&lt;br /&gt;I support the proponents of this beautiful project and wish them a lot of success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy holidays to you all.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks you for your kind messages. I’ll meet you again in September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1 – That’s where I shot BRIDES OF DRACULA and THE TERROR OF THE TONGS, my two Hammer pictures.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Robert's blog: &lt;a href="http://braystudios.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://braystudios.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the petition: &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106861216022812"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106861216022812&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487465799784541426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdlEjFDLPI/AAAAAAAAAl8/7WaNPB0FT-Y/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4204382465073077410?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4204382465073077410/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4204382465073077410&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4204382465073077410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4204382465073077410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/save-brays-studios.html' title='Save Bray studios'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdk3nKK5QI/AAAAAAAAAl0/kB8lKsegfP0/s72-c/YMB+Braystudios02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-6896797773727000605</id><published>2010-06-15T05:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-27T08:14:02.534-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sauver les studios Bray</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdl7YBmsUI/AAAAAAAAAmE/V7uYr50S5LQ/s1600/YMB+Braystudios02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487466741710106946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdl7YBmsUI/AAAAAAAAAmE/V7uYr50S5LQ/s400/YMB+Braystudios02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/save-brays-studios.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;( read in english)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div&gt;Avant de vous quitter pour quelques semaines de vacances, je tenais à attirer votre attention sur la pétition : Save Bray studios. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;En parcourant le blog de Robert J.E Simpson, l'un des mes lecteurs-membres, j'ai appris, non sans le déplorer, que les propriétaires des célèbres studios avaient décidé de transformer les bâtiments en lot d'appartements à vendre. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les studios Bray semblaient tourner au ralenti depuis quelques temps. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Faute d'avoir réussi à réunir des capitaux pour renouveler les équipements techniques, il a été décidé de mettre un terme à ses activités.&lt;br /&gt;Si cela devait arriver ce serait une perte pour la mémoire du cinéma britannique. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Beaucoup de souvenirs (1) et de succès internationaux sont attachés à ces studios. Ceux de la Hammer, bien-sûr, et d'autres productions devenues culte comme THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le site a indéniablement une valeur patrimoniale qu'il serait judicieux de préserver en envisageant comme cela a été proposé,&lt;br /&gt;d'en faire un musée du cinéma et /ou un lieu d'enseignement cinématographique.&lt;br /&gt;Je soutiens les défenseurs de ce beau projet et leur souhaite tous mes voeux de réussite. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bonnes vacances à toutes et tous.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Merci pour vos messages et votre fidélité. Je vous donne rendez-vous en septembre. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1-J'ai tourné ici BRIDES OF DRACULA et THE TERROR OF THE TONGS, mes deux films pour la Hammer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;Liens à consulter :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;le blog de Robert:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://braystudios.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://braystudios.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;la pétition:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106861216022812"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106861216022812&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487467043920185538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdmM92GiMI/AAAAAAAAAmM/Mwv2jHDbeec/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-6896797773727000605?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6896797773727000605/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=6896797773727000605&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6896797773727000605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6896797773727000605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/sauver-les-studios-bray.html' title='Sauver les studios Bray'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TCdl7YBmsUI/AAAAAAAAAmE/V7uYr50S5LQ/s72-c/YMB+Braystudios02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4553855696119432206</id><published>2010-05-26T07:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-15T05:38:49.910-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visconti's La Donna Velata</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-donna-velata-de-visconti.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;( lire en français)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The most knowledgeable of you will have noticed that La Donna Velata is a painting by Raphael and that the only illustrious Visconti of the world of arts was not a Renaissance painter, but last century’s great moviemaker, author of such masterpieces as Rocco and his brothers, Ludwig or The Damned. They’re right, of course.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;However, I have given this title to my post, since I briefly became, during my career, the indirect incarnation of Luchino Visconti’s passion for this great master of Italian painting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oddly enough, I had never visited Florence. I spent most of my Italian career living in Rome or the Amalfi coast. I was glad to benefit of this long Ascension Day weekend to discover the prestigious city of the arts. On this Saturday, the 15th of march, the weather was quite unpredictable. No sweat ! I would cross Ponte Vecchio some other time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took advantage of the occasion to see the wonders of the Uffizi Gallery museum. The white marble antique sculptures, Quattro cento’s paintings, Botticelli’s Spring, the Birth of Venus, and the Renaissance masterpieces.&lt;br /&gt;I secretly hoped to discover Raphael’s Donna Velata, of which I had only seen reproductions. That one held a particular place in my personal memories :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA4lVZathwI/AAAAAAAAAkk/zgh6OpJLmGY/s1600/YMonlaurblog+Velata.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480358846086874882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA4lVZathwI/AAAAAAAAAkk/zgh6OpJLmGY/s400/YMonlaurblog+Velata.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some time before I joined Hammer studios in 1960, my agent John Mather organized a meeting with Luchino Visconti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among his many film projects, the great director was planning a documentary about past masters of Italian painting. A very particular documentary, since he intended to do photographic reconstructions of some major works. A dialog between art history and the plastic possibilities then available to photography and cinema ? Like most of his contemporaries (Rossellini, Fellini), Visconti was constantly inspired by the history of arts and paintings. He had thought of me to embody La Donna Velata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon afterwards, he entrusted me to his team of dressers and make-up artists. The same crew who had already worked on his most beautiful pictures. They worked with great care, even refining details such as the right skin tone, and drape effects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I tried to convey the grace emanating from La Donna’s face, rigorously observing the same attitude for the right hand and its bent fingers. A convention of the time, it seems, since Raphael reproduced it on numerous other paintings such as La Fornarina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5NNDEbgyI/AAAAAAAAAlk/Rfi9gd8RjvM/s1600/YMonlaurblog+DVelata.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480402683113997090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5NNDEbgyI/AAAAAAAAAlk/Rfi9gd8RjvM/s400/YMonlaurblog+DVelata.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometime after these tests, I learned that the documentary’s production was postponed. Time went by, and it never came to be, but I always remembered these tests as a beautiful promise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This passion for the portrait can be found in all of Visconti’s films. At a time when Cinemascope was merely a tool to shoot the wide open spaces, he was using it for close-ups of faces torn up in the torments of history. The faces he was filming became landscapes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“La Donna Velata ?”, said again the guide of the Uffizi Gallery.&lt;br /&gt;He shook his head and told me the painting was not there. I could find it in the Palazzo Pitti. I had to give it up. I did not have enough time to visit before going back to Pise.&lt;br /&gt;It seems that La Donna Velata will forever remain a missed opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480391368274467458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5C6cAd2oI/AAAAAAAAAk0/IPkZ06n8Kbw/s400/YMonlaurblog+Visconti.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Right to left: Luchino Visconti and me during an award ceremony at Ischia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480397686400617026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5IqM3ICkI/AAAAAAAAAlc/ZhDPzrNGW3U/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4553855696119432206?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4553855696119432206/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4553855696119432206&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4553855696119432206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4553855696119432206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/viscontis-la-donna-velata.html' title='Visconti&apos;s La Donna Velata'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA4lVZathwI/AAAAAAAAAkk/zgh6OpJLmGY/s72-c/YMonlaurblog+Velata.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5048035618458843575</id><published>2010-05-26T07:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-15T05:38:24.917-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Donna Velata de Visconti</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/viscontis-la-donna-velata.html"&gt;(read in english)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Les plus avertis d'entre vous auront noté que La Donna Velata est une toile de Raphael et que le seul Visconti illustre du monde des arts n'était pas un peintre de la Renaissance mais le grand cinéaste du siècle dernier, auteur des chefs d'oeuvre comme Rocco et ses frères, Ludwig ou Les damnés. Ils auront raison bien sûr. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;J'ai toutefois donné ce titre à mon billet parceque je suis devenue à un bref moment de ma carrière l'expression indirecte de la passion que Luchino Visconti vouait à ce grand maître de la peinture italienne. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Curieusement, je n'avais jamais visité Florence. J'ai passé la majeure partie de ma carrière italienne à vivre à Rome ou sur la côte Almafitaine. J'étais ravie de profiter de ce long weekend de l'ascension pour découvrir cette prestigieuse ville des arts. La météo de ce samedi 15 mai était capricieuse. Qu'importe ! Je traverserai le pont Vecchio une autre fois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Là je profitai de l'occasion qui m'était donnée pour voir les merveilles du musée de la Gallerie des Offices. Les sculptures antiques de marbre blanc, les peintures du Quatroccento, Le printemps de Boticelli et La naissance de Vénus ainsi que les chefs d'oeuvres de la Renaissance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;J'esperais secrètement découvrir La Donna Velata de Raphael dont je ne connaissais que les reproductions; une toile qui avait une place particulière dans mes souvenirs :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA4fz1IBNaI/AAAAAAAAAkM/r_2HS6HwB2Q/s1600/YMonlaurblog+Velata.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480352771850974626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA4fz1IBNaI/AAAAAAAAAkM/r_2HS6HwB2Q/s400/YMonlaurblog+Velata.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelque temps avant que je rejoigne les studios de la Hammer en 1960, mon agent John Mather organisa une rencontre avec Luchino Visconti. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Le grand réalisateur avait parmi ses nombreux projets de film, un documentaire sur les maîtres de la peinture italienne. Un documentaire très particulier puisqu'il souhaitait faire des reconstitutions photographiques de certaines oeuvres. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Un dialogue entre l'histoire de l'art et les possibilités plastiques qu'offraient alors la photographie et le cinéma ? Comme la plupart de ses contemporains ( Rossellini, Fellini) Visconti puisait son inspiration dans l'histoire de l'art et la peinture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Il avait pensé à moi pour incarner La Donna Velata. Peu de temps après il me confia à son équipe de costumiers et de maquilleurs. Ceux-là mêmes qui avaient travaillé sur ses plus beaux films. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Le souci de la reconstitution passait par les détails comme la carnation du visage et les effets de drapé. J'essayais quand à moi de restituer la grâce qui se dégageait du visage de la Donna. Observant aussi avec rigueur la même pose pour les doigts repliés de la main droite. Une convention semble t-il puisque cette pose, Raphael l'a reproduit sur d'autres toiles comme La Fornarina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5NwK0j99I/AAAAAAAAAls/Eu1LQcAl2Ng/s1600/YMonlaurblog+DVelata.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480403286490347474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5NwK0j99I/AAAAAAAAAls/Eu1LQcAl2Ng/s400/YMonlaurblog+DVelata.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelque temps après ces essais, j'appris que la production du documentaire était reportée. Le temps passant, le film ne vit jamais le jour&lt;br /&gt;mais j'ai toujours gardé les photos des essais comme le souvenir d'une belle promesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette passion du portrait, on la retrouve dans tous les films de Visconti. Alors qu'a l'époque, on utilisait le cinémascope pour filmer les grands espaces, lui l'employait pour faire des plans serrés de visages traversés par les tourments de l'Histoire. Il filmait les visages comme des paysages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;« La Donna Velata ? », répéta le guide florentin de la Gallerie des Offices.&lt;br /&gt;Il hocha la tête négativement. Il me dit que le tableau n'était pas ici. Je le trouverai exposé au Palais Pitti.&lt;br /&gt;Je déclarai forfait ! Je n'avais pas assez de temps pour m'y rendre avant mon départ pour Pise.&lt;br /&gt;Décidemment La Donna Velata restera pour moi un rendez-vous manqué.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480396666516088674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5Hu1ftJ2I/AAAAAAAAAlU/0L0AP8oLRzQ/s400/YMonlaurblog+Visconti.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;De droite à gauche: Luchino Visconti et moi lors d'une remise de prix à Ischia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480396218143665618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA5HUvLY7dI/AAAAAAAAAlM/XyZO6N2L0Ms/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5048035618458843575?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5048035618458843575/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5048035618458843575&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5048035618458843575'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5048035618458843575'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/la-donna-velata-de-visconti.html' title='La Donna Velata de Visconti'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TA4fz1IBNaI/AAAAAAAAAkM/r_2HS6HwB2Q/s72-c/YMonlaurblog+Velata.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-1844566846512103754</id><published>2010-04-22T13:11:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-26T07:25:49.944-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Italian memories</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/souvenirs-ditalie.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(lire la version française)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;With the return of sunny days, I can't help thinking about my dear Italy. I look forward to returning there soon. Memories abound as soon as I'm back in Rome, where I lived for a long time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1958, producer Franco Cristaldi (1), who had launched Claudia Cardinale's career, was looking for a new actress for future film projects.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;He remarked me in André Hunebelle's "Mannequins of Paris".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WRWtSBnZI/AAAAAAAAAiA/GyL4hNWrX5E/s1600/YMonlaurblog+00italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464433542182313362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WRWtSBnZI/AAAAAAAAAiA/GyL4hNWrX5E/s400/YMonlaurblog+00italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;With Madeleine Robinson in MANNEQUINS DE PARIS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My actress career debuted under the happy auspices of napolitan comedy and satire.&lt;br /&gt;Come along and browse with me through some pages of this album I called "Italian memories". &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La Cento Chilometri&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1959) directed by Guilio Petroni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WSxbThu0I/AAAAAAAAAiI/tVDWFz4lMek/s1600/YMonlaurblog+01italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464435100724869954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WSxbThu0I/AAAAAAAAAiI/tVDWFz4lMek/s400/YMonlaurblog+01italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Ostia beach, an impromptu photo session between two takes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spalvadi e innamorati&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1959) directed by Giuseppe Vari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WUBnIiKPI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/z4aHwun8Gig/s1600/YMonlaurblog+02italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464436478289520882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WUBnIiKPI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/z4aHwun8Gig/s400/YMonlaurblog+02italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was playing Sylvia, a napolitan fruit vendor. Here, with the great comic actor Memmo Carotenuto. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WWEaUVghI/AAAAAAAAAiw/DZItjx-Q3Y4/s1600/YMonlaurblog+06italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464438725412225554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WWEaUVghI/AAAAAAAAAiw/DZItjx-Q3Y4/s400/YMonlaurblog+06italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Naples, people talk with their hands, and sometimes throw fruits to each other when clients are not satisfied. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quel tesoro di papa&lt;/strong&gt; (1959) directed by Marino Girolami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WYauF3abI/AAAAAAAAAjI/s42sbmVQgpE/s1600/YMonlaurblog+03italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464441307700619698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WYauF3abI/AAAAAAAAAjI/s42sbmVQgpE/s400/YMonlaurblog+03italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was playing Marina. She was taking care of the farm and the old man in order to conquer Ennio Girolami's heart. Carlo Pisacane (left in the photo) was very happy to shoot several takes of this scene. His doctor had forbidden coffee and he took the opportunity to drink several cups !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WYG6NvRRI/AAAAAAAAAjA/WS0UTG_JnIA/s1600/YMonlaurblog+04italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464440967357482258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WYG6NvRRI/AAAAAAAAAjA/WS0UTG_JnIA/s400/YMonlaurblog+04italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Ennio Girolami : after the wedding, the joys of marital bliss are faced with the harsh daily reality. You can't improvise being a good cook !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WXxElb0xI/AAAAAAAAAi4/0Idv4Trim-U/s1600/YMonlaurblog+05italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464440592184103698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WXxElb0xI/AAAAAAAAAi4/0Idv4Trim-U/s400/YMonlaurblog+05italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No sono più Guaglione&lt;/strong&gt; (1958) directed by Domenico Paolella&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WZOfQ0RsI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ZWg1uGbnqOU/s1600/YMonlaurblog+07italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464442197073217218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WZOfQ0RsI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/ZWg1uGbnqOU/s400/YMonlaurblog+07italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Gabriele Tinti, my acting partner who became, at the time, my real-life companion. In this film, I was lucky enough to play with Françoise Rosay. With me, she spoke at length about her prestigious career. For a young actress, it was a privilege just listening to her. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gerarchi si muore&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1961) directed by Giorgio Simonelli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WaF4i1HLI/AAAAAAAAAjY/RVbL8T0xj9k/s1600/YMonlaurblog+08italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464443148752460978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WaF4i1HLI/AAAAAAAAAjY/RVbL8T0xj9k/s400/YMonlaurblog+08italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this satire, they tried to pass me off as a knight in shining armor ! A rather new situation and a very incomfortable one, which required the constant attention of the wardrobe director. Protecting yourself within an armour is not always an advantage !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;(to be continued)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464433079187204978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WQ7wfY63I/AAAAAAAAAh4/7Jl5MRxXTfs/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1-Franco Cristaldi ( 1924-1992) produced classics of italian comedy like BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET and DIVORCE-ITALIAN STYLE and great directors : Visconti's LE NOTTI BIANCHE , SANDRA and Fellini's I REMEMBER, AND THE SHIP SAILS ON.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-1844566846512103754?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1844566846512103754/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=1844566846512103754&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1844566846512103754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1844566846512103754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/italian-memories.html' title='Italian memories'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9WRWtSBnZI/AAAAAAAAAiA/GyL4hNWrX5E/s72-c/YMonlaurblog+00italie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-2650674959884964439</id><published>2010-04-22T13:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-17T06:46:59.608-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Souvenirs d'Italie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/italian-memories.html"&gt;( read the english version)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Avec l'arrivée des beaux jours, je ne peux m'empêcher de penser à ma très chère Italie. Je suis ravie à l'idée d'y retourner prochainement. Les souvenirs se bousculent dès que je rejoins Rome où j'ai longtemps vécu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En 1958 , le producteur Franco Cristaldi (1) qui avait lancé Claudia Cardinale, cherchait une nouvelle actrice pour de prochains films.&lt;br /&gt;Il me remarqua dans MANNEQUINS DE PARIS de André Hunebelle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FqQahc5vI/AAAAAAAAAgg/hElyAppAa2Y/s1600/YMonlaurblog+00italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463264653207201522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FqQahc5vI/AAAAAAAAAgg/hElyAppAa2Y/s400/YMonlaurblog+00italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Avec Madeleine Robinson dans MANNEQUINS DE PARIS&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;Ma carrière d'actrice débuta sous les heureux auspices de la comédie napolitaine et la satire. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;Je vous propose de feuilleter avec moi quelques pages de cet album que j'ai intitulé Souvenirs d'Italie:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La cento chilometri&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1959) de Guilio Petroni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463265492578606274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FrBRbMHMI/AAAAAAAAAgo/llT2Ig90FXo/s400/YMonlaurblog+01italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;Sur une plage d'Ostia, une séance de photos improvisée entre deux prises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spalvadi e innamorati&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1959) de Giuseppe Vari&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9Fs6B67E7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/SkMB9rjBjxI/s1600/YMonlaurblog+02italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463267567180911538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9Fs6B67E7I/AAAAAAAAAgw/SkMB9rjBjxI/s400/YMonlaurblog+02italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;Je jouais Sylvia une vendeuse de fruits napolitaine. Ici avec le grand acteur comique Memmo Carotenuto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FvxCrglYI/AAAAAAAAAg4/LtPRBAz4V0Q/s1600/YMonlaurblog+06italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463270711300756866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FvxCrglYI/AAAAAAAAAg4/LtPRBAz4V0Q/s400/YMonlaurblog+06italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;A Naples, on s'explique avec les mains et l'on se jette parfois les fruits à la figure lorsque les clientes sont mécontentes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quel tesoro di papa&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1959) de Marino Girolami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FyZbXySqI/AAAAAAAAAhA/xa1IdAv81Fg/s1600/YMonlaurblog+03italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463273604146940578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FyZbXySqI/AAAAAAAAAhA/xa1IdAv81Fg/s400/YMonlaurblog+03italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Je jouais Marina. Elle s'occupait de la ferme et du vieil homme afin de conquérir le coeur d'Ennio Girolami. Carlo Pisacane à gauche sur l'image était ravi à l'idée de faire plusieurs prises de cette scène. Son médecin lui avait interdit le café et il profita de l'aubaine pour en boire plusieurs tasses !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F2HmSf88I/AAAAAAAAAhI/ZyeS_MreYW0/s1600/YMonlaurblog+04italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463277695886422978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F2HmSf88I/AAAAAAAAAhI/ZyeS_MreYW0/s400/YMonlaurblog+04italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Avec Ennio Girolami : Après la noce, les joies du bonheur conjugal se heurtent à la dure réalité du quotidien. L'art de la cuisine ne s'improvise pas !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F2qLx4hlI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/Wqm9JZijffg/s1600/YMonlaurblog+05italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463278290065720914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F2qLx4hlI/AAAAAAAAAhQ/Wqm9JZijffg/s400/YMonlaurblog+05italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No sono più Guaglione&lt;/strong&gt; (1958) de Domenico Paolella&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F40FodgiI/AAAAAAAAAhg/muh7ehbu6m0/s1600/YMonlaurblog+07italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463280659237536290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F40FodgiI/AAAAAAAAAhg/muh7ehbu6m0/s400/YMonlaurblog+07italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Avec Gabriele Tinti, mon partenaire de cinéma qui devint, à l'époque, mon compagnon à la ville. Dans ce film, j'eus la chance de jouer avec Françoise Rosay. Elle évoqua avec moi des souvenirs de sa prestigieuse carrière. Pour une jeune actrice, c'était un privilège de l'écouter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gerarchi si muore&lt;/strong&gt; ( 1961) de Giorgio Simonelli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F7V3HzTnI/AAAAAAAAAho/1touthugZkU/s1600/YMonlaurblog+08italie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463283438481264242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9F7V3HzTnI/AAAAAAAAAho/1touthugZkU/s400/YMonlaurblog+08italie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dans cette satire, on essayait de me faire passer pour un chevalier ! Une situation inédite et pour le moins inconfortable qui nécessitait l'assistance constante du costumier . Se protéger derrière une armure n'a pas que des avantages !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;(à suivre)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463292240824059730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9GDWOZ3R1I/AAAAAAAAAhw/BxNZfwtAy4k/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- Franco Cristaldi ( 1924-1992) produisit entre autres des classiques de la comédie italienne comme LE PIGEON, DIVORCE A L'ITALIENNE mais aussi de grands auteurs: NUITS BLANCHES et SANDRA de Visconti ainsi que ARMARCORD et VOGUE LE NAVIRE de Fellini.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-2650674959884964439?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2650674959884964439/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=2650674959884964439&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2650674959884964439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2650674959884964439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/souvenirs-ditalie.html' title='Souvenirs d&apos;Italie'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S9FqQahc5vI/AAAAAAAAAgg/hElyAppAa2Y/s72-c/YMonlaurblog+00italie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5393486229774517953</id><published>2010-02-23T02:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T06:21:51.051-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The terror of the tongs / memorabilia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;british poster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p5Wjwc0lI/AAAAAAAAAgI/SO8ptvoO7l4/s1600-h/YMBterrorofthetongsbritish.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443296528093205074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 292px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p5Wjwc0lI/AAAAAAAAAgI/SO8ptvoO7l4/s400/YMBterrorofthetongsbritish.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;french posters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4povKycllI/AAAAAAAAAfY/mMYWCyfzoNw/s1600-h/Terror-of-the-Tongs+4+fr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443278259189749330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4povKycllI/AAAAAAAAAfY/mMYWCyfzoNw/s400/Terror-of-the-Tongs+4+fr.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4pqFwzBycI/AAAAAAAAAfg/yZxF6_bbYeM/s1600-h/Terror-of-the-Tongs+5+fr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443279746861484482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4pqFwzBycI/AAAAAAAAAfg/yZxF6_bbYeM/s400/Terror-of-the-Tongs+5+fr.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;american press book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p2nG3tEXI/AAAAAAAAAfo/xosz1clLa5Y/s1600-h/YMB-+terror+of+the+tongspressbook.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443293513861894514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 259px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p2nG3tEXI/AAAAAAAAAfo/xosz1clLa5Y/s400/YMB-+terror+of+the+tongspressbook.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p24PfY3fI/AAAAAAAAAfw/PxfO-7BPXBs/s1600-h/YMB-+terror+of+the+tongspressbook01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443293808233602546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 307px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p24PfY3fI/AAAAAAAAAfw/PxfO-7BPXBs/s400/YMB-+terror+of+the+tongspressbook01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p36UbhRTI/AAAAAAAAAf4/ysT7TQ3m60I/s1600-h/YMB-+terror+of+the+tongs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443294943430919474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 213px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p36UbhRTI/AAAAAAAAAf4/ysT7TQ3m60I/s400/YMB-+terror+of+the+tongs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;exploitation still&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p4M3YMe-I/AAAAAAAAAgA/Tx7X5bfcZYU/s1600-h/YMB+Terrorofthetongstill.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443295262049860578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p4M3YMe-I/AAAAAAAAAgA/Tx7X5bfcZYU/s400/YMB+Terrorofthetongstill.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443298897943187154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p7ggItztI/AAAAAAAAAgQ/g17CckUYfhs/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5393486229774517953?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5393486229774517953/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5393486229774517953&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5393486229774517953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5393486229774517953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/terror-of-tongs-memorabilia.html' title='The terror of the tongs / memorabilia'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S4p5Wjwc0lI/AAAAAAAAAgI/SO8ptvoO7l4/s72-c/YMBterrorofthetongsbritish.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4357847237117462923</id><published>2010-01-21T07:18:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T02:12:55.098-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The terror of the tongs / last part</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S28N0rHKzqI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/nfEo1cT1psg/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Theterrorofthetongs06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435578473836629666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S28N0rHKzqI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/nfEo1cT1psg/s400/YMonlaurBlog+Theterrorofthetongs06.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-01-21T07%3A18%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( lire en français)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Shooting had already started for a few days when I filmed my first scenes.&lt;br /&gt;I was not in unknown territory, meeting again many members of the BRIDES OF DRACULA team.&lt;br /&gt;Hammer was a big family, as goes the old saying. It was true enough, since they kept, film after film, a large part of the techniciens who had made it successful. You don't change a winning team (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Anthony Bushell was a new director for the firm, he was not unknown in british cinema circles. He had led an important acting career within Laurence Olivier's repertory company.&lt;br /&gt;He had also appeared in the television series QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, which Hammer would later adapt as a feature film (2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bushell encouraged his actors to be creative and propose ideas to enhance their part during rehearsals. Like we did for BRIDES OF DRACULA, we rehearsed a lot on the sets (in the mood) and shot very few takes. The key word was economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bushell was very careful when directing group scenes. There were a lot to deal with in this film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although we shared billings, I had no scene against Christopher Lee. I saw him at breakfast time, during breaks. He was very concentrated on his part and we had very few occasions to talk. I remember hiding like a little mouse on the set where he was shooting his final scenes, just to watch him play. He was in his palace, surrounded by his minions. He knew how to use his make-up and commanding voice to offer a disturbing performance. I found him very impressive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17LEHvmIFI/AAAAAAAAAe4/XRssMZ5zwe0/s1600-h/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431001472313991250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17LEHvmIFI/AAAAAAAAAe4/XRssMZ5zwe0/s400/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had an opportunity to meet again, many years later, during an adventure film festival in Paris (3). I still remember that meeting very fondly. Christopher told me that THE TERROR OF THE TONGS was "a very happy film". He also mentioned BRIDES OF DRACULA, which he had seen. An occasion for us to merrily recall the memory of dear Peter (Cushing).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I shared all my scenes with the irish actor Geoffrey Toone, who played captain Jackson. He proved quite a pleasant partner. Between takes, he had a very paternal attitude towards me. A frequent traveller himself, he liked me to speak about France and my life in Rome. He attended a party at the London French Institute on the occasion of the publishing of Wayne Kinsey's book: HAMMER FILMS THE BRAY STUDIOS YEARS in 2002. He greeted me warmly, declaring : "You are forever my little Lee !"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17LQeyaNwI/AAAAAAAAAfA/uhdMXNQn3mk/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog+The+terror+of+the+tongs05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431001684658239234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17LQeyaNwI/AAAAAAAAAfA/uhdMXNQn3mk/s400/YMonlaurblog+The+terror+of+the+tongs05.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like in all Hammer classics, set decoration was tremendously important. Bernard Robinson (4) and his team had built, on the banks of the Thames, a very impressive Hong-Kong dock.&lt;br /&gt;Part of the perspective was then added through matte-painting during shooting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is in that set that Lee, my character, met her tragic end. I received in the back a hatchet meant to kill the captain. My death triggered a fight between the sect and the forces of the resistance. We shot it during two consecutive nights. Two nights during which I lied with my eyes closed on the dock while I heard extras fighting around me. They did it with so much energy that I had one fear in mind : that someone would walk on my head ! I wasn't the only one to think about that. I still hear Bushell shout : "Be careful ! Don't hurt my girl ! Don't hurt my girl !" His kindness was as personal as it was professional. I still had a few scenes to shoot !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When THE TERROR OF THE TONGS was released in Italy, I promoted it in Rome and Ravello, where I lived. I gave a televised interview in a movie theater. A few months earlier, I had the honor to be awarded the Argento Torre Eiffel, a distinction given to a french actress for her career on the peninsula. That's an another story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(1) Jack Asher, the brilliant director of photography of BRIDES OF DRACULA was replaced by Arthur Grant.&lt;br /&gt;(2) In the "genre" we are interested in, Anthony Bushell also shared credits with Boris Karloff in the english classic THE GHOUL (1933).&lt;br /&gt;(3) Festival Jules Verne aventure in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;(4) Also known for his ingenuity recycling sets of previous pictures. In captain Jackson's appartments, you may find some elements of Marianne Danielle's room (BRIDES OF DRACULA).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431001280433491506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17K487uDjI/AAAAAAAAAew/4aXSjdFGV0A/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4357847237117462923?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4357847237117462923/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4357847237117462923&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4357847237117462923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4357847237117462923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/terror-of-tongs-last-part.html' title='The terror of the tongs / last part'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S28N0rHKzqI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/nfEo1cT1psg/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog+Theterrorofthetongs06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-8508521377964915133</id><published>2010-01-21T06:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T09:08:45.432-08:00</updated><title type='text'>L'empreinte du Dragon rouge / dernière partie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S28Nn-uYg-I/AAAAAAAAAfI/fhBFJYTkH04/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Theterrorofthetongs06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435578255763080162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S28Nn-uYg-I/AAAAAAAAAfI/fhBFJYTkH04/s400/YMonlaurBlog+Theterrorofthetongs06.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-02-23T02%3A22%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read in english )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tournage avait débuté depuis quelques jours lorsque je fis mes premières prises.&lt;br /&gt;Je n'étais pas en terrain étranger, je retrouvais une bonne partie de l'équipe de BRIDES OF DRACULA. La Hammer était une grande famille, l'expression n'était pas galvaudée, puisqu'elle conservait, film après film, une grande partie des techniciens qui avait fait son succès. On ne change pas une équipe qui gagne (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Si Anthony Bushell était un nouveau réalisateur de la compagnie, il n'était pas un inconnu dans le milieu du cinéma anglais. Il avait derrière lui une importante carrière d'acteur au sein de la troupe de Laurence Olivier. Le grand public l'avait vu aussi dans le feuilleton télévisée QUATERMASS AND THE PIT dont la Hammer tirera par la suite une adaptation cinématographique.(2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bushell encourageait les acteurs à être créatifs et proposer des idées pour enrichir leur rôle pendant les répétitions. Comme pour BRIDES OF DRACULA, nous répétions beaucoup sur les plateaux ( in the mood) et faisions très peu de prises. La règle était à l'économie.&lt;br /&gt;Bushell dirigeait avec beaucoup de méticulosité les scènes de groupes. Il y en avait beaucoup à gérer sur ce film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bien que nous partagions l'affiche, je n'avais rien à jouer avec Christopher Lee. Je le voyais durant les petits déjeuners entre les pauses.&lt;br /&gt;Il était très concentré sur son rôle. Nous eûmes peu d'occasion de discuter.&lt;br /&gt;Je me souviens m'être faufilée comme une petite souris sur le plateau où il tournait ses dernières scènes pour le regarder jouer.&lt;br /&gt;Il était dans son palais, entouré de ses sbires. Il savait jouer de son maquillage et de sa voix pour donner une composition inquiétante de son personnage. Je le trouvais très impressionnant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17H9zoXnLI/AAAAAAAAAeY/yCn9RJgCSjs/s1600-h/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430998065300872370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17H9zoXnLI/AAAAAAAAAeY/yCn9RJgCSjs/s400/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nous eûmes l'occasion de nous revoir, bien des années après, lors d'un festival du film d'aventures à Paris (3). Cette rencontre reste un très bon souvenir. Christopher me dit que THE TERROR OF THE TONGS était " a very happy film". Il me parla aussi de BRIDES OF DRACULA qu'il avait vu. L'occasion pour nous d'évoquer avec plaisir la mémoire de ce cher Peter ( Cushing).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je partageais toutes mes scènes avec l'acteur irlandais Geoffrey Toone qui jouait le capitaine Jackson. Il fut un partenaire très agréable. Il avait, en dehors des prises, une attitude très paternelle avec moi. Ayant aussi beaucoup voyagé, il aimait que je lui parle de la France et de ma vie à Rome. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Il était présent au French Institute de Londres lors de la sortie du livre de Wayne Kinsey : HAMMER FILMS THE BRAY STUDIOS YEARS en 2002. Il m'accueillit chaleureusement en déclarant: " Vous êtes toujours ma petite Lee !"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17IQ7gKpII/AAAAAAAAAeg/nRNI9herHEU/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog+The+terror+of+the+tongs05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430998393831466114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17IQ7gKpII/AAAAAAAAAeg/nRNI9herHEU/s400/YMonlaurblog+The+terror+of+the+tongs05.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comme dans les grands classiques de la Hammer, le décor avait une importance prépondérante. Bernard Robinson (4) et son équipe avaient reconstitué sur le bord de la Tamise un quai de Hong Kong très impressionnant. Une partie de la perspective était ensuite ajoutée en matte- painting à la prise de vue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;C'est dans ce décor qu'avait lieu la fin tragique de Lee mon personnage. Je recevais le coup fatal d'une hachette destinée au Capitaine. Ma mort déclenchait alors un combat entre la secte et les groupes résistants. Nous mîmes deux nuits à tourner cette scène. Deux nuits pendant lesquelles je restai couchée les yeux fermés sur le quai tandis que j'entendais les figurants se battre autour de moi. Vu l'ardeur qu'ils y mettaient, je n'avais qu'une crainte : qu'ils me marchent sur la tête ! Je n'étais pas la seule à y penser. J'entends encore Bushell crier : Attention ! Ne me l'abimez pas ! Ne me l'abimez pas !" Une préoccupation toute aussi bienveillante que professionnelle. C'est qu'il me restait encore quelques scènes à tourner !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lorsque THE TERROR OF THE TONGS sortit en Italie, j'en fis la promotion à Rome et à Ravello ou je vivais. Je donnai une interview télévisée dans le cadre d'une salle de cinéma.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quelques mois auparavant, j'avais eu l'honneur de recevoir la Argento Torre Eiffel, une distinction qui récompense une actrice française pour sa carrière artistique sur la péninsule. Je vous en reparlerai. Promis !&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(1) Jack Asher le brillant chef opérateur de BRIDES OF DRACULA a été remplacé par Arthur Grant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(2) Dans le genre qui nous interesse, Anthony Bushell a aussi partagé l'affiche avec Boris Karloff dans le classique anglais THE GHOUL (1933).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(3) Festival Jules Verne aventure en 2006.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;(4) Connu aussi pour son ingéniosité à réutiliser les décors des films précédents. On retrouve dans les appartements du capitaine Jackson des éléments de la chambre de Marianne Danielle ( BRIDES OF DRACULA).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430999618705000770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S17JYOgxiUI/AAAAAAAAAeo/en55aOg8gD8/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-8508521377964915133?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8508521377964915133/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=8508521377964915133&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8508521377964915133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8508521377964915133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/lempreinte-du-dragon-rouge-derniere.html' title='L&apos;empreinte du Dragon rouge / dernière partie'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/S28Nn-uYg-I/AAAAAAAAAfI/fhBFJYTkH04/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog+Theterrorofthetongs06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-823352257573859835</id><published>2009-12-27T02:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-27T05:52:26.906-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Szc6lqqT45I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/lpYdvouaeZ4/s1600-h/YMB+happy+new+year2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419865095345005458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Szc6lqqT45I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/lpYdvouaeZ4/s400/YMB+happy+new+year2010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish you all very happy holidays.&lt;br /&gt;I was glad to spend this second year in your company.&lt;br /&gt;Best wishes to my faithful readers and subscribers.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for your posts and warm comments.&lt;br /&gt;Let’s all meet again next year&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je vous souhaite à toutes et tous de très bonnes fêtes de fin d'année.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'ai été très heureuse de passer cette seconde année en votre compagnie.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tous mes voeux à vous, mes fidèles lecteurs et abonnés. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Merci pour vos courriers et commentaires chaleureux. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rendez-vous l'année prochaine.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-823352257573859835?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/823352257573859835/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=823352257573859835&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/823352257573859835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/823352257573859835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-new-year-2010.html' title='Happy New Year 2010'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Szc6lqqT45I/AAAAAAAAAeQ/lpYdvouaeZ4/s72-c/YMB+happy+new+year2010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3534634878654735737</id><published>2009-11-28T13:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T02:30:38.096-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The terror of the tongs / first part</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SxuBhpzH1fI/AAAAAAAAAeA/_X5VIMWhvR8/s1600-h/terror+tongs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412061792371725810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SxuBhpzH1fI/AAAAAAAAAeA/_X5VIMWhvR8/s400/terror+tongs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-11-28T13%3A47%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;( lire la version française)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE TERROR OF THE TONGS ( 1961) is my second and last film for Hammer studios. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Internationally known for its horror movies, the British firm also produced, with equal skills, very different "genre" films (thrillers, comedies, science-fiction) for the major american studios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE TERROR OF THE TONGS was considered an adventure picture, but its atmosphere and the horrific elements of the story, developed with care, gave the film the Hammer touch, so popular at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I also had the honor to appear with the other great Hammer star : Christopher Lee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jlVl4mpv0Gk&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1&amp;amp;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A year has gone by since the success of BRIDES OF DRACULA. I'm, once again, living in Italy where I go on with my career in very different kinds of films.&lt;br /&gt;I have just finished a comedy with Sophia Loren and Clark Gable (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Hammer gets in touch with my London agent, I am shooting GERARCHI SI MUORE under Giorgio Simonelli's direction. The Carreras wish to see me for their next adventure picture. It is no longer in the flamboyant style of the Gothic films, but a crime story taking place in a Hong-Kong harbour at the dawn of the 20th century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing Hammer's inimitable style, I reason that whatever the subject matter, the film would have to be somewhat special.&lt;br /&gt;I wasn't wrong. The synopsis mentioned that the female star was a eurasian girl. This intrigued me immensely. The production team was a little concerned with the way my character would appear. They wanted me to come for some make-up tests at the studio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was soon back on the Windsor road that had taken me, a few months before, to the sets of BRIDES OF DRACULA at Bray studios.&lt;br /&gt;The make-up team (2) had been ordered to apply a light make-up, suggesting my asian origins without too much altering my looks. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They decided on invisible adhesive stripes on the sides of my head, pulling the corners of my eyes to give them an asian appearance. The addition of a long black wig and pale skintone finally convinced the production team of the believability of my character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following morning, after some preliminary costume tests, I went by some asian extras in a corridor, and they addressed me, thinking I was coming from their beautiful country. I, too, was finally convinced that the test was a success ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SxuCTAiYWpI/AAAAAAAAAeI/OloJ3H5M6dk/s1600-h/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412062640289110674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SxuCTAiYWpI/AAAAAAAAAeI/OloJ3H5M6dk/s400/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the story&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hong-Kong, 1910. Captain Jackson ( Geoffrey Toon ) wants to avenge his daughter's murder, perpetrated by fiendish Chung King ( Christopher Lee) and his crime organization, the Red Dragon, which rules over the opium traffic and ransoms harbour activities. His henchmen are used to executing their opponents with little axes.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Soon, Jackson manages to enlist the population, with the help of a clandestine ring of resistance. He frees Lee, a young slave (Yvonne Monlaur) who falls in love with him. During the final fight, which will lead to the victory of the resistance over the Red Dragon, Lee dies while trying to protect Jackson from a fatal axe. Defeated, Chung King commits suicide to escape from justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The eurasian Lee was a marvelous composition, a really worthy character to play. By herself, she summarized the ambiguity that brilliant writer Jimmy Sangster liked to play with when faced with the stereotypes of the oriental mystery. She embodied temptation, unpredictability and wildness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some clichés about colonial attitudes were also cleverly turned around when we discover in due time, in the story, that some Hong-Kong men hunting Jackson are in fact opponents of the Red Dragon themselves. Things are not always what they seem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I was alternating with surprising versatility between scenes where I was in turn lover or murderess ! That was as far as can be from Marianne Danielle's candour (3)! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And that was fascinating to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(next: The terror of the Tongs : second and last part )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- It started in Naples&lt;br /&gt;2- Roy Ashton and Colin Guard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;3- The heroin of Brides of Dracula &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412060443199906098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SxuATHvfoTI/AAAAAAAAAd4/45zoKI1G3Rg/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3534634878654735737?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3534634878654735737/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3534634878654735737&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3534634878654735737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3534634878654735737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/terror-of-tongs.html' title='The terror of the tongs / first part'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SxuBhpzH1fI/AAAAAAAAAeA/_X5VIMWhvR8/s72-c/terror+tongs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4788259066560740709</id><published>2009-11-21T09:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T07:38:35.870-08:00</updated><title type='text'>L'empreinte du Dragon Rouge / première partie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SwgnrvvjpmI/AAAAAAAAAdY/LAOwZjcl8MA/s1600/terror+tongs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406614985162073698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SwgnrvvjpmI/AAAAAAAAAdY/LAOwZjcl8MA/s400/terror+tongs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/terror-of-tongs.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read in english)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;L'empreinte du Dragon Rouge ( 1961) est mon deuxième et dernier film pour les studios de la Hammer. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reconnue internationalement pour ses films d'épouvante, &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;la firme britannique produisait aussi pour les grands studios américains des films de genre tres différents ( policier, comédie, science-fiction) avec une égale maîtrise. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;L'empreinte du Dragon Rouge était apparenté comme un film d'aventure mais le soin porté à l'atmosphère et les éléments horrifiques de l'histoire donnaient au film la touche Hammer si populaire à l'époque.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ce fut aussi pour moi l'honneur de partager l'affiche avec l'autre grande star de la Hammer : Christopher Lee.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jlVl4mpv0Gk&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1&amp;amp;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un an est passé depuis le succès de BRIDES OF DRACULA.&lt;br /&gt;Je vis à nouveau en Italie où je poursuis ma carrière dans des genres très différents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je viens de finir une comédie avec Sophia Loren et Clark Gable(1).&lt;br /&gt;Quand la Hammer contacte mon agent de Londres, je suis entrain de tourner GERARCHI SI MUORE sous la direction de Giorgio Simonelli.&lt;br /&gt;Les Carreras ont pensé à moi pour leur prochain film d'aventure. Il ne s'agit plus de l'univers flamboyant des films gothiques mais d'une intrigue policière situé dans un port de Hong-kong au début du XXe siècle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Connaissant le style inimitable de la Hammer, je me dis que quelque soit le sujet, le film serait toujours un peu spécial.&lt;br /&gt;Je ne me trompais pas. Le synopsis indiquait que la vedette féminine était eurasienne.&lt;br /&gt;Cela m'intriguait beaucoup. La production avait quelques interrogations concernant l'apparence de mon personnage.&lt;br /&gt;Ils voulaient me voir pour faire des essais de maquillage au studio .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bientôt je repris la route de Windsor qui me conduisait, il y a quelques mois à peine, sur les plateaux de BRIDES OF DRACULA au sein des studios Bray.&lt;br /&gt;Les maquilleurs (2) avait pour consigne de me faire un maquillage léger suggerant mes origines asiatiques sans trop dénaturer mon regard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ils optèrent pour l'application de bandes adhésives invisibles sur mes tempes tirant le coin de mes yeux de chaque côté pour les brider.&lt;br /&gt;Le port d'une longue chevelure de jais et le teint pâli acheva de convaincre la production de la crédibilité de mon apparence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le lendemain matin, après les séances d'essayage avec l'habilleuse, je croisais des figurants asiatiques dans les couloirs qui m'interpellèrent pensant que j'étais originaire de leur beau pays. Je finis par croire que le test était réussi !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sxtw-UpNrII/AAAAAAAAAdg/DzPs8pKr_f4/s1600-h/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412043593211554946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 225px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sxtw-UpNrII/AAAAAAAAAdg/DzPs8pKr_f4/s400/YMB+terror+of+the+tongs01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;résumé&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hong-kong 1910. Le Capitaine Jackson ( Geoffrey Toon ) veut venger le meurtre de sa fille perpétré par le diabolique Chung King ( Christopher Lee) et son organisation criminelle Le Dragon Rouge qui a la main mise sur le traffic d'opium et rançonne les activités portuaires. Ses hommes de main ont pour rituel d'éxécuter les opposants à coup de hâchette.&lt;br /&gt;Bientôt, Jackson parvient à soulever la population, aidé par un réseau clandestin de résistance. Il libère une jeune esclave Lee ( Yvonne Monlaur) qui tombe amoureuse de lui. Lors de la lutte finale qui verra la résistance anéantir les hommes du Dragon rouge, Lee meurt en voulant protéger Jackson du coup de hâchette qui lui était destiné. Vaincu, Chung King se donne la mort pour échapper à la justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'eurasienne Lee était un formidable rôle de composition. Un personnage vraiment très interessant à défendre. A elle seule, elle résumait l'ambiguité avec laquelle le brillant scénariste Jimmy Sangster aimait jouer concernant les stéréoptypes du mystère oriental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elle représentait à la fois la séduction, l'imprévisibilité et la sauvagerie.&lt;br /&gt;Des clichés du colonialisme habilement détournés quand on découvre, par exemple, que certains des hong-kongais qui traquent Jackson se révèlent finalement des adversaires du Dragon Rouge. Les plus menaçants ne sont pas ceux que l'on croit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour ma part j'alternais avec une versatilité pour le moins surprenante des scènes où j'étais l'amoureuse ou bien la meurtrière ! On était très loin de la candeur de Marianne Danielle (3) ! C'est ce qui me passionnait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( à venir : L'empreinte du Dragon Rouge : 2e et dernière partie )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- It started in Naples ( 1960)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;2- Roy Ashton et Colin Guard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;3- L'héroïne de Brides of Dracula&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412046911661806354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sxtz_e1aExI/AAAAAAAAAdo/ABV1jDKZ0Ng/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4788259066560740709?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4788259066560740709/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4788259066560740709&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4788259066560740709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4788259066560740709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/lempreinte-du-dragon-rouge.html' title='L&apos;empreinte du Dragon Rouge / première partie'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SwgnrvvjpmI/AAAAAAAAAdY/LAOwZjcl8MA/s72-c/terror+tongs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-6269859232665341408</id><published>2009-10-19T07:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T12:47:55.415-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tip not included</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/un-cercueil-de-diamants.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;(lire en français)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In 1966, I shoot my first film in the german language, "Die rechnung eskalt serviert" (litterally : "the bill - served cold", which I prefer to the french title "a coffin of diamonds"). It was a french-german co-production with "les films Jacques Leitienne" and Constantin film. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;A new adventure of Jery Cotton inspired by the successful dime thrillers starring the FBI agent. Espionnage intrigues and gang fights, very popular at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;the story :&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two gangs are competing for the armored truck of the New York treasury.&lt;br /&gt;Jerry Cotton ( George Nader) is investigating the death of wheeler, Violet's (Yvonne Monlaur) boyfriend, a chemist hunted for treason by Anderson, a gang boss ( Horst Tappert). Anderson gets ahead of his rivals and steals the truck. With Violet's help, Cotton tracks him. He and Violet manage to escape from the hangar where Anderson holds them prisoners. Cotton hangs from the helicopter carrying Anderson and the loot. After a fight in mid-air, Cotton neutralizes Anderson and his henchman and delivers the helicopter and the money to the police forces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I liked Violet's part. Here I had an opportunity to express my love of music. I was playing a cabaret singer. I was dubbed in german for the dialog scenes, but was singing in english myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyEGEaPVFI/AAAAAAAAAcY/8SdYDOz1t4Q/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394331693480891474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyEGEaPVFI/AAAAAAAAAcY/8SdYDOz1t4Q/s400/YMB+die+rechnung0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TIP NOT INCLUDED was the fourth Jerry Cotton film for George Nader, a very professional american actor of Lebanese extraction (1). An intelligent man who was undoubtedly worth of better roles than those he played throughout his career. I heard, later on, that he became a successful novelist, and I wasn't a bit surprised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyEkQ8gbbI/AAAAAAAAAcg/M56Tp1seIU0/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394332212241919410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyEkQ8gbbI/AAAAAAAAAcg/M56Tp1seIU0/s400/YMB+die+rechnung1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the set, Nader was not a very expansive individual. As soon as a take was over, he went back to his trailer and did not linger on the set. I remember quite well when his life partner, the star Rock Hudson, came to Hamburg to join him for the week-end. They invited me to dinner and George relaxed a little bit. Hudson very humbly spoke about his prestigious career. He was a warm and very simple man. We had a wonderful time together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the film, I was surrounded by a whole generation of talented german actors, among whom Horst Tappert (since immortalized by his portrayal of the placid inspector Derrick on tv), Heinz Weiss, Christian Doermer and glamorous pulp lady Birke Bruck, in real life a true "mamma", very much earth-bound, who, in front of the camera, changed into a superficial air-head with a disconcerting facility. She reminded me of Jayne Mansfield (whom I had met at Bray studios when she visited the set of BRIDES OF DRACULA with her husband Mickey Hargitay).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyFCYzaWYI/AAAAAAAAAco/DwPqKZxQO_M/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394332729747331458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 216px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyFCYzaWYI/AAAAAAAAAco/DwPqKZxQO_M/s400/YMB+die+rechnung5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TIP NOT INCLUDED was shot in Hamburg, a beautiful port city of which the film only showed contemporary espects : industrial zones, administrative buildings, large freeways.&lt;br /&gt;Jerry Cotton's adventures were supposed to take place in New York, and our director Helmuth Ashley (2) had to outdo himself to deliver a convincing american city, the emblem of emblems of "fim noir".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through camera compositions with forced perspectives, and a tight editing, Ashley managed to give the film all the energy it needed. At the time, they used a lot of stock-shots (many real shots of New York are inserted in the film) to give some credit to the whole picture. Finally, when I see the movie today, Jerry Cotton's New York looks more like a fantasy New York conceived by European fans of the many american thrillers available in theaters at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TIP NOT INCLUDED was a very physical shoot, and not only for George Nader. We rehearsed a lot and shot very few takes. Ashley gave us some creative freedom. In that respect, he was a bit similar to Terry Fisher in the way he directed us. He was cool but very precise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During a large portion of the film, I spend my time running with George Nader, climbing or descending staircases, dodging bullets. During these scenes, there was a third actor that we had to pay a lot of attention to : the fireworks expert !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyFPINsKCI/AAAAAAAAAcw/LF43alYvUg8/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394332948632447010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 336px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyFPINsKCI/AAAAAAAAAcw/LF43alYvUg8/s400/YMB+die+rechnung2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had precise instructions regarding where to go on the set in order to be perfectly safe from explosions. Not enough !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During a scene (cut from the final film), the rigger's bad timing involved me in an accident during which I thought I had lost my hearing.&lt;br /&gt;I was behind a door, wearing a trenchcoat and my hair tight. The explosion occurred before I was able to reach the little wall I was supposed to get to for protection. Unconscious from the shock, I had received shots of powder in my cheek.&lt;br /&gt;I was very worried, considering that I was expecting my first child at the time.&lt;br /&gt;I decidedly did not have a love affair with fire ! (3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The doctors gave me one week's rest, time enough to heal. I took advantage of my convalescence to visit Hamburg, the port, the Kunstalle, the Pauli district and the Reeperbahn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyFhKk7ALI/AAAAAAAAAc4/K_hAT80-pjU/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394333258504405170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyFhKk7ALI/AAAAAAAAAc4/K_hAT80-pjU/s400/YMB+die+rechnung4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TIP NOT INCLUDED was released in Paris as UN CERCUEIL DE DIAMANTS on the Grands Boulevards circuit. I remember going to see the film with a friend. I had put on a lovely scarf and dark glasses in order not to be recognized. Lights dimmed and I was able to enjoy the reactions of an enthusiastic audience of thriller lovers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;( next : The terror of the tongs)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- He is well known from fans of B-movies for his first part in the 3-D z-series flick "Robot monster"&lt;br /&gt;2- Helmuth Ashley directed many episodes of the popular tv series "Derrick" starring the famous Horst Tappert.&lt;br /&gt;3- see : &lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career_17.html"&gt;The beginning of my english career&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394610134080445842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/St2BVceWXZI/AAAAAAAAAdA/2HTi21DcNEs/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-6269859232665341408?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6269859232665341408/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=6269859232665341408&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6269859232665341408'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/6269859232665341408'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/tip-not-included.html' title='Tip not included'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyEGEaPVFI/AAAAAAAAAcY/8SdYDOz1t4Q/s72-c/YMB+die+rechnung0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-445082690310885990</id><published>2009-10-19T07:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-21T12:48:46.876-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Un cercueil de diamants</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/tip-not-included.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;( read in english)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;En 1966 je tourne mon premier film en langue allemande.Die rechnung eskalt serviert &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( litteralement : L'addition servie glacée, que je préfère au titre français) est une coproduction franco-germanique avec les films Jacques Letienne et Constantin film.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Une nouvelle aventure de Jerry Cotton inspirée des romans de gare à succes mettant en scène l'agent du FBI. Des intrigues d'espionnage et des luttes de gangs très en vogue à l'époque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;résumé&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Deux gangs s'affrontent pour s'emparer du fourgon blindé de la Trésorerie de New-York. Jerry Cotton ( George Nader) enquête sur la mort de Wheeler, petit ami de Violet ( Yvonne Monlaur). Un chimiste traqué par le chef de gang Anderson ( Horst Tappert) pour trahison. Anderson sème ses rivaux et vole le fourgon.Aidé par Violet, Cotton remonte jusqu'à lui. Il parvient à fuir avec elle l'entrepôt où Anderson les tenait prisonniers.Cotton s'agrippe à l'hélicoptère qui emmene Anderson et le butin.Au terme d'une lutte en plein vol, Cotton neutralise Anderson et son homme de main. Il remet l'appareil et l'argent aux forces de l'ordre.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le rôle de Violet me plaisait. Il me permettait d'exprimer mon goût pour la musique. Je jouais une chanteuse de cabaret. J'étais doublée en allemand pour les dialogues mais c'est moi qui chantait en anglais dans le film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyAN86vVlI/AAAAAAAAAbg/202Giw7Z88w/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394327430862165586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyAN86vVlI/AAAAAAAAAbg/202Giw7Z88w/s400/YMB+die+rechnung0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN CERCUEIL DE DIAMANTS est le quatrième film de Jerry Cotton interprété par George Nader, un acteur américain d'origine libanaise (1) tres professionnel,un homme intelligent qui valait sans doute mieux que la pluspart des rôles qui ont constitué sa carrière. J'appris par la suite qu'il devint romancier et connut le succes. Ce qui ne m'étonne pas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyA57QcXPI/AAAAAAAAAbw/j3tuCN4fvoM/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394328186330569970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 334px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyA57QcXPI/AAAAAAAAAbw/j3tuCN4fvoM/s400/YMB+die+rechnung1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sur le tournage, Nader n'était pas quelqu'un de très expansif. Dès la prise terminée, il retournait dans sa caravane. Il ne s'attardait pas sur le plateau.Je me souviens toutefois d'une fin de semaine où son compagnon la star Rock Hudson vint le rejoindre à Hambourg pour le weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ils m'invitèrent à diner avec eux. George sortit de sa réserve. Hudson évoqua sa prestigieuse carrière avec beaucoup de modestie. C' était un homme chaleureux et tres simple. Nous passâmes une excellente soirée.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je partageais l'affiche du film avec toute une génération d'acteurs allemands talentueux parmi lesquels Horst Tappert immortalisé par son interpretation de l'impassible inspecteur Derrick à la télévision, Heinz Weiss, Christian Doermer et la pulpeuse Birke Bruck, à la ville, une véritable " mamma" bien ancrée dans la réalité, qui dès que le moteur de la caméra tournait, se transformait en une créature superficielle et évaporée avec une facilité étonnante.Elle me faisait penser à Jane Mansfield (que j'avais rencontré aux Bray Studios, en visite sur les plateaux de BRIDES OF DRACULA avec son mari Mickey Hargitay).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyBvQJtcqI/AAAAAAAAAcA/accyUzesMNk/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394329102472540834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 216px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyBvQJtcqI/AAAAAAAAAcA/accyUzesMNk/s400/YMB+die+rechnung5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN CERCUEIL DE DIAMANTS fut tourné à Hambourg. Une très belle ville portuaire dont on ne voyait durant le tournage que les les aspects les plus contemporains: zones industrielles, bâtiments administratifs, grandes artères routières.Les aventures de Jerry Cotton ayant pour toile de fond New-York, il fallait toute l'habileté du metteur en scène Helmuth Ashley (2) pour faire croire à l'univers de cette ville américaine, emblême entre toutes du film noir .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A travers les cadres aux perspectives appuyées et le montage serré, Ashley su restituer l'énergie propre au genre. A l'époque on avait recours fréquemment à l'utilisation des stocks-shots ( differentes prises de vues de New-York inserées ) pour donner du crédit à l'ensemble.Au résultat, lorsque je revois le film maintenant, le New-York de Jerry Cotton ressemble plus à un New-York fantasmé par l' Europe nourrie des nombreux films policiers américains qui déferlaient sur les écrans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN CERCUEIL DE DIAMANTS fut un tournage assez sportif et pas seulement pour George Nader. Nous répétions beaucoup et ne faisions que quelques prises.Ashley nous laissait un peu de liberté dans l'interprétation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cet égard il me faisait penser à Terry Fisher dans sa direction. Il était calme mais pointilleux.Dans une grande partie du film, je passais mon temps à courir avec Nader, monter et descendre des escaliers, esquiver des impacts de balles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyBUaSezQI/AAAAAAAAAb4/tu2mW_4KggM/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394328641337216258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 336px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyBUaSezQI/AAAAAAAAAb4/tu2mW_4KggM/s400/YMB+die+rechnung2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Au cours de toutes ces scènes, il y avait un troisième acteur auquel il fallait prêter une grande attention: l'artificier !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous avions des indications précises pour venir nous placer à des endroits sécurisés du plateau au moment des déflagrations. Peine perdue !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans une scène qui n'a pas été gardé au montage, une erreur de timing de l'artificier me valut un accident au cours duquel je crus perdre l'ouie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'étais derrière une porte, je portais un imperméable, j'avais les cheveux tirés en arrière. L'explosion se produisit alors que je n'avais pas encore atteint le muret pour me protéger comme prévu.Le choc me fit perdre connaissance.&lt;br /&gt;J'avais reçu des éclats de poudre dans la joue. J'étais d'autant plus inquiète que j'attendais à l'époque mon premier enfant.&lt;br /&gt;Le feu et moi n'avons décidemment jamais fait bon ménage! (3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je fus arrêtée une semaine le temps que les plaies se cicatrisent. Je consacrais mes jours de convalescence à la visite de Hamburg, le port, la Kunstalle, le quartier Pauli et la Reeperbahn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyCLYkFzZI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/7x1tYAun3_E/s1600-h/YMB+die+rechnung4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394329585767009682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 227px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyCLYkFzZI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/7x1tYAun3_E/s400/YMB+die+rechnung4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN CERCUEIL DE DIAMANTS est sorti à Paris dans le circuit des Grands Boulevards.Je me souviens être allée voir le film avec une amie. J'avais mis un joli foulard et des lunettes noires pour éviter que l'on me reconnaisse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dans l'obscurité de la salle, je goûtais les réactions du public. Un public acquis au genre et enthousiaste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;( à suivre: L'emprise du dragon rouge )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- Il est connu des cinéphiles du cinéma bis pour avoir débuté dans le film en relief de série Z : Robot Monster. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;2- Helmuth Ashley a réalisé de nombreux épisodes de la série télévisée populaire Derrick avec Horst Tappert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;3- Lire &lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career.html"&gt;Les débuts de ma carrière anglo-saxonne&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394610862856958098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/St2B_3YNcJI/AAAAAAAAAdI/UQG-CRNG4A4/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-445082690310885990?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/445082690310885990/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=445082690310885990&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/445082690310885990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/445082690310885990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/un-cercueil-de-diamants.html' title='Un cercueil de diamants'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/StyAN86vVlI/AAAAAAAAAbg/202Giw7Z88w/s72-c/YMB+die+rechnung0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-8446957953368999826</id><published>2009-09-26T01:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T11:36:08.039-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's the start of a new monster season !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/une-rentree-monstre.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( lire la version française)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fisrt of all, I wish to thank you all for your fidelity, your mails and warm comments. I also wish to welcome my new subscribers Steno, Nels, Claude, Mykal (Apologies to those I'm not quoting) and especially BbJane et Mathew Coniam who sent me some suggestions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ladies first :&lt;br /&gt;- BbJane, who seems to particularly appreciate LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR. Of course, I shall soon talk about this "new wave" style thriller, in which I co-starred with Michel Lemoine and Jean-Pierre Kalfon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Dear Matthew, I'm delighted to see that you're interested in english comedies such as INN FOR TROUBLE. Looking back, the classic style of these productions gives them a certain charm. I'll try to talk about that film from behind the scenes, even if it happened a long time ago in a memory far, far away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lastly, because they intrigued me and I have avidly read them, I recommend to my readers the blogs of &lt;a href="http://www.radiationcinema.com/"&gt;Mykal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://carfaxabbey.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mathew &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://fearsforqueers.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bbjane&lt;/a&gt;, who very intelligently keep alive the memories of the fantasy cinema we all ove so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope that you all spent smashing holidays !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for me, MONSTERBASH 2009 was one of the most successful conventions I was invited to. The day after my arrival in the U.S., I was on stage to give a long interview about my career. I had just seen, not without emotion, the screening of a short movie about my filmography, with many clips from my international films. A superb job by Charles Henson, musically illustrated with an exquisite Sinatra song : My kind of girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am always very happy to talk to an american audience, so joyful and positive. I felt this again while answering questions from the public. We very quickly wandered away from strictly cinephilic mattec to talk and joke about many other things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year, Universal studios were honored, with, among many guests, the child stars Janet Ann Gallow ( GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN ) and Donnie Dunagan ( SON OF&lt;br /&gt;FRANKENSTEIN). Donnie was also the voice of Bambi in the Walt Disney masterpiece. He autographed some photos of the film for my grandson.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-fgY6LdzI/AAAAAAAAAbI/iCMp5Jx-SCc/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog+Monsterbash+2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386199058149504818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-fgY6LdzI/AAAAAAAAAbI/iCMp5Jx-SCc/s400/YMonlaurblog+Monsterbash+2009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of things happen in MONSTERBASH : screenings, shows, animations, signings, conferences. I met again my friend Zach Zito, puppeteer and author of a stop-motion FRANKENSTEIN with the voices of Ferdy Mayne, Joyce Dewitt, Peter Cushing et John Carradine. I found some time for a recording session for his next animated project. I read the magnificent Baudelaire poem LES METAMORPHOSES DU VAMPIRE.&lt;br /&gt;I was quite at ease in that familiar universe !&lt;br /&gt;I wish Zach a lot of success in this new venture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The organizers of the MONSTERBASH 2009 convention succeeded once again in recreating the joyful and friendly spirit we had known in past editions. I came back absolutely thrilled, and I'll be happy to soon participate to another overseas happening but hush... I won't say more at this point !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386201460257910722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-hsNdc78I/AAAAAAAAAbY/0-IWK0hhofs/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-8446957953368999826?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/8446957953368999826/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=8446957953368999826&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8446957953368999826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/8446957953368999826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/its-start-of-new-monster-season.html' title='It&apos;s the start of a new monster season !'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-fgY6LdzI/AAAAAAAAAbI/iCMp5Jx-SCc/s72-c/YMonlaurblog+Monsterbash+2009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-2206950827118801081</id><published>2009-09-21T06:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-19T08:34:36.827-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Une rentrée monstre !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/its-start-of-new-monster-season.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avant toute chose, je voudrais tous vous remercier pour votre fidélité, vos courriers et vos chaleureux commentaires. Je souhaite aussi la bienvenue aux nouveaux abonnés Steno, Nels, Claude, Mykal ( pardon à ceux que j'oublie ) ainsi que BBJane et Mathew Coniam qui ont laissé des suggestions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honneur aux dames :&lt;br /&gt;- BbJane qui semble particulièrement apprécier LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR. Bien-sûr j'évoquerai prochainement ce policier&lt;br /&gt;tourné façon " Nouvelle vague" dans lequel j'avais pour partenaires Michel Lemoine et Jean-Pierre Kalfon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Cher Mathew, votre intérêt pour les comédies anglaises comme INN FOR TROUBLE me ravit. Avec le recul, le classicisme de ces productions leur confère un charme certain. J'essaierai de parler des coulisses de ce film un peu éloigné dans mes souvenirs, il est vrai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enfin, pour les avoir parcourus avec beaucoup de curiosité, je recommande à mes lecteurs cinéphiles les blogs de &lt;a href="http://www.radiationcinema.com/"&gt;Mykal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://carfaxabbey.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mathew&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://fearsforqueers.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bbjane&lt;/a&gt; qui perpétuent avec pertinence la mémoire du cinéma fantastique que nous aimons tant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'espere que vous avez tous passé de bonnes vacances !&lt;br /&gt;Pour ma part, MONSTERBASH 2009 a été l'une des manifestations les plus réussies auquelles j'ai participé.&lt;br /&gt;Dès le lendemain de mon arrivée aux States, j'étais sur scène pour répondre à un interview sur ma carrière. Je venais d'assister non sans une certaine émotion à la projection d'un clip de présentation de ma filmograhie constitué de nombreux extraits de mes films internationaux. Une superbe réalisation de Charles Henson avec comme accompagnement musical une exquise chanson de Sinatra: My kind of girl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai toujours beaucoup de plaisir à échanger avec le public américain.&lt;br /&gt;Un public enjoué et positif. Je le vérifiai à nouveau en répondant aux questions de la salle. Tres vite nous nous écartâmes des intérêts strictements cinéphiliques pour deviser de choses et d'autres tout en plaisantant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cette année, les studios Universal étaient à l'honneur avec parmi les nombreux invités , les enfants vedettes : Janet Ann Gallow ( GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN )&lt;br /&gt;et Donnie Dunagan ( SON OF FRANKENSTEIN).&lt;br /&gt;Donnie a aussi prêté sa voix à Bambi dans le chef-d'oeuvre de Walt Disney.&lt;br /&gt;Il m'a dédicacé des photos du film pour mon petit-fils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-aVzAxPWI/AAAAAAAAAa4/3gql-z8BAy0/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog+Monsterbash+2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386193378619768162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-aVzAxPWI/AAAAAAAAAa4/3gql-z8BAy0/s400/YMonlaurblog+Monsterbash+2009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MONSTERBASH est le théâtre de nombreuses manifestations ( projections, shows, animations, dédicaces, conférences). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;J'y retrouvai mon ami Zach Zito marionettiste et réalisateur d'un FRANKENSTEIN en stop-motion avec les voix de Ferdy Mayne, Joyce Dewitt, Peter Cushing et John Carradine.&lt;br /&gt;Je trouvai le temps de faire une session d'enregistrement pour son prochain film d'animation. Je lus le magnifique poème de Baudelaire : LES METAMORPHOSES DU VAMPIRE.&lt;br /&gt;Un univers qui ne m'est pas tout à fait inconnu !&lt;br /&gt;Je souhaite à Zach beaucoup de chance dans la réussite de son entreprise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour conclure, les organisateurs de la convention ont une nouvelle fois su insuffler à MONSTERBASH 2009 l'esprit festif et familiale des autres éditions.&lt;br /&gt;J'en garde un excellent souvenir et je me réjouis de participer à une nouvelle manifestation outre-atlantique mais chut ... je n'en dis pas plus pour le moment !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386194075905741218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-a-Yms0aI/AAAAAAAAAbA/5FGkmsWEmcU/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-2206950827118801081?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2206950827118801081/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=2206950827118801081&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2206950827118801081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2206950827118801081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/une-rentree-monstre.html' title='Une rentrée monstre !'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sr-aVzAxPWI/AAAAAAAAAa4/3gql-z8BAy0/s72-c/YMonlaurblog+Monsterbash+2009.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-7863770456389601399</id><published>2009-07-07T06:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T03:25:54.263-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Brides of Dracula : memorabilia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's meet again in September.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We will have lots more to talk about&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Happy holidays to everybody !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je vous donne rendez-vous en septembre.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nous aurons encore plein de choses à nous dire.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bonnes vacances à tous !&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDkAJA2UZI/AAAAAAAAAZg/8AWiRSyWa_0/s1600-h/poster-the-brides-of-dracula_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359534247641502098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 291px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDkAJA2UZI/AAAAAAAAAZg/8AWiRSyWa_0/s400/poster-the-brides-of-dracula_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;English poster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359534637592172738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 268px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDkW1sVWMI/AAAAAAAAAZo/HsILUnGc0-k/s400/brides_of_dracula_poster_06.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Spanish poster&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDovw_jiiI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/LCSeySWuh3o/s1600-h/bridespress11.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359539463873858082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 323px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDovw_jiiI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/LCSeySWuh3o/s400/bridespress11.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;German pressbook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDpHxc9xhI/AAAAAAAAAaA/cumrGKcBvQM/s1600-h/bridespress10.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359539876314072594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 295px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDpHxc9xhI/AAAAAAAAAaA/cumrGKcBvQM/s400/bridespress10.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDpWpSj0GI/AAAAAAAAAaI/67MTvpNuCnA/s1600-h/bridespress9.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359540131820982370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 335px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDpWpSj0GI/AAAAAAAAAaI/67MTvpNuCnA/s400/bridespress9.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;French pressbook ( re-release )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_LWPz46jI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/0fU37M0jRMM/s1600-h/bodfrpressb01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372736463538022962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 264px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_LWPz46jI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/0fU37M0jRMM/s400/bodfrpressb01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_MIkqypQI/AAAAAAAAAaY/jAy5J85JJcM/s1600-h/bodfrpressb02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372737328130467074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 287px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_MIkqypQI/AAAAAAAAAaY/jAy5J85JJcM/s400/bodfrpressb02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_MS2TIJoI/AAAAAAAAAag/mEoREhyUjlA/s1600-h/bodfrpressb03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372737504661743234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 256px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_MS2TIJoI/AAAAAAAAAag/mEoREhyUjlA/s400/bodfrpressb03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French exploitation stills&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_MlySMsrI/AAAAAAAAAao/mtc5iFtrE_o/s1600-h/bodfrexploit01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372737830001619634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 290px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_MlySMsrI/AAAAAAAAAao/mtc5iFtrE_o/s400/bodfrexploit01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_Mw0y2mrI/AAAAAAAAAaw/Mc1KldHykd4/s1600-h/bodfrexploit02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372738019654015666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 290px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/So_Mw0y2mrI/AAAAAAAAAaw/Mc1KldHykd4/s400/bodfrexploit02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;French pressbook ( original release )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TVAFz27qHEI/AAAAAAAAArE/dg4u7AHB0KE/s1600/bod+pressbook1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570959127534509122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 244px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/TVAFz27qHEI/AAAAAAAAArE/dg4u7AHB0KE/s320/bod%2Bpressbook1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-63jHGkqUdgw/TVPKPLZeOFI/AAAAAAAAArc/PpMVPWOndhQ/s1600/bod+pressbook+reconstituÃ©.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572019526093912146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-63jHGkqUdgw/TVPKPLZeOFI/AAAAAAAAArc/PpMVPWOndhQ/s320/bod%2Bpressbook%2Breconstitu%25C3%25A9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-7863770456389601399?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7863770456389601399/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=7863770456389601399&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7863770456389601399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7863770456389601399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/brides-of-dracula-memorabilia.html' title='Brides of Dracula : memorabilia'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SmDkAJA2UZI/AAAAAAAAAZg/8AWiRSyWa_0/s72-c/poster-the-brides-of-dracula_0.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3882963530063695303</id><published>2009-05-25T06:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-15T03:12:33.892-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brides of Dracula / third part</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-05-25T06%3A46%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( lire la version française )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like Peter Cushing, I had only seen some dailies during the shooting, but I had a feeling that we had shot something incredible !&lt;br /&gt;The premiere was held at Marble Arch Odeum(1).&lt;br /&gt;The production team had done things in a big way.&lt;br /&gt;I arrived in a horsedrawn carriage in front of the red carpet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJapK9l5UI/AAAAAAAAAYw/zp4lThfPkKM/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341931771378656578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJapK9l5UI/AAAAAAAAAYw/zp4lThfPkKM/s400/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter came to greet me. He opened the door and helped me get down. We joined the producers ( Michael Carreras, Anthony Hinds ) and their wives while flashbulbs exploded – thinking back, I can’t remember seeing David Peel or Terence Fisher that night. Usherettes disguised as vampires led us inside the theater.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJa9Ck2j2I/AAAAAAAAAY4/XiT2wZrIZbY/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341932112724791138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJa9Ck2j2I/AAAAAAAAAY4/XiT2wZrIZbY/s400/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the end titles appeared on the the shot of the flaming mill, there was a long applause. Peter and I didn’t have time to exchange feelings. We had to quickly submit to autograph sessions. But I clearly remember Peter winking at me, as if to say : “We’ve done it !”(2)&lt;br /&gt;Dear Peter Cushing ! I preciously kept a magnificent scarf he had painted for me. Peter was an versatile artist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I came back to Italy, where I lived at the time.&lt;br /&gt;When the film was released there, I very gladly accepted to promote it (2).&lt;br /&gt;The italian title : " Le spose de Dracula " (The wife of Dracula) highlighted the couple I formed with David Peel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJbF_r4SOI/AAAAAAAAAZA/qgH9hs8o3Fk/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Ravello.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341932266567780578" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJbF_r4SOI/AAAAAAAAAZA/qgH9hs8o3Fk/s400/YMonlaurBlog+Ravello.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one can deny that BRIDES OF DRACULA boasts one of the best Hammer feminine casts :&lt;br /&gt;I want to pay tribute to Andrée Melly, Martita Hunt,Freda Jackson, Marie Devereux, Mona Washbourne who have infused the film with their talent and presence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Brides of Dracula has always had enduring success.&lt;br /&gt;It truly is one of the Hammer classics and, today, continues to strike the imagination of great film directors&lt;br /&gt;such as Tim Burton (the mill scene in SLEEPY HOLLOW) or the Wachowski brothers (Gina’s resurrection scene is shown on a tv set in THE MATRIX RELOADED). &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( soon THE TERROR OF THE TONGS )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;(1) July 7 , 1960&lt;br /&gt;(2) On the first day of exhibition, the movie broke several attendance records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(3) In Ravello, on the Amalfitan Coast.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342024697627154002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiKvKMNuFlI/AAAAAAAAAZY/YVJbaCwj968/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3882963530063695303?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3882963530063695303/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3882963530063695303&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3882963530063695303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3882963530063695303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/brides-of-dracula-third-part.html' title='Brides of Dracula / third part'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJapK9l5UI/AAAAAAAAAYw/zp4lThfPkKM/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-2686387383380115898</id><published>2009-05-25T06:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-16T02:44:58.007-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Les maitresses de Dracula / troisième partie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-07-07T06%3A05%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Comme Peter Cushing, je n'avais vu que quelques rushes durant le tournage mais je pressentais que nous avions tourné quelque chose d'étonnant !&lt;br /&gt;L'avant-première eut lieu au Marble Arch Odeum(1). La production avait vu les choses en grand.&lt;br /&gt;J'arrivai en calèche devant le tapis rouge du cinéma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJYa3TnfjI/AAAAAAAAAYY/QMz4-F-kQcc/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341929326560902706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJYa3TnfjI/AAAAAAAAAYY/QMz4-F-kQcc/s400/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter vint m'accueillir. Il ouvrit la portière et m'aida à descendre. Nous rejoignimes les producteurs (Michael Carreras, Anthony Hinds) et leurs épouses sous le crépitement des flashs - en y repensant, je n'ai vu ce soir-là ni David Peel, ni Terence Fisher. Des ouvreuses déguisées en vampires nous conduisirent dans la salle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJYxYbSCXI/AAAAAAAAAYg/R72TYZSKu6k/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341929713408543090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJYxYbSCXI/AAAAAAAAAYg/R72TYZSKu6k/s400/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+02.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lorsque le générique de fin apparut sur le plan du moulin en flammes, le film fut longuement applaudi. Peter et moi n'eûmes pas le temps d'échanger nos impressions.Nous nous livrâmes très vite à des séances de dédicaces improvisées au milieu de la foule. Je me souviens toutefois du clin d'oeil que Peter me fit comme pour me dire: C'est gagné ! (2)&lt;br /&gt;Cher Peter Cushing ! J'ai conservé précieusement un magnifique foulard qu'il avait peint pour moi.&lt;br /&gt;Peter était un artiste complet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je repartis en Italie où j'habitais à l'époque.&lt;br /&gt;Quand le film sortit là-bas, j'acceptai avec grand plaisir d'en faire la promotion (3).&lt;br /&gt;Le titre italien : " Le spose de Dracula " ( L'épouse de Dracula ) mettait en valeur le couple que nous formions David Peel et moi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJZDisrsQI/AAAAAAAAAYo/KiaEYz5RoWk/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Ravello.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341930025403527426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJZDisrsQI/AAAAAAAAAYo/KiaEYz5RoWk/s400/YMonlaurBlog+Ravello.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reste que BRIDES OF DRACULA est à l'origine de l'un des plus beaux castings féminins de la Hammer :&lt;br /&gt;Je tiens à rendre hommage à Andrée Melly, Martita Hunt, Freda Jackson, Marie Devereux, Mona Washbourne qui ont illuminé&lt;br /&gt;le film de leur talent et leur présence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le succès de Brides of Dracula ne s'est jamais démenti.&lt;br /&gt;Il fait partie des classiques de la Hammer et frappe encore l'imaginaire de grands réalisateurs d'aujourd'hui&lt;br /&gt;comme Tim Burton ( la scène du moulin dans SLEEPY HOLLOW) ou les frères Wachowski ( la résurrection de Gina est diffusée sur un téléviseur dans MATRIX RELOADED ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( bientôt THE TERROR OF THE TONGS )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) Le 7 juillet 1960&lt;br /&gt;(2) Le premier jour de son exploitation en salle, le film a battu plusieurs records&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(3) Sur la cote Amalfitaine à Ravello&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342023965881533698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiKufmP-BQI/AAAAAAAAAZI/iMiDYc6CcmU/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-2686387383380115898?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2686387383380115898/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=2686387383380115898&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2686387383380115898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2686387383380115898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/les-maitresses-de-dracula-troisieme.html' title='Les maitresses de Dracula / troisième partie'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SiJYa3TnfjI/AAAAAAAAAYY/QMz4-F-kQcc/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog+MarbleArch+01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-2651570226965929068</id><published>2009-04-22T08:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T11:41:54.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brides of Dracula / second part</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSkjRWIxfI/AAAAAAAAAX4/iqyAKleiVqk/s1600-h/brides14.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329065184944768498" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSkjRWIxfI/AAAAAAAAAX4/iqyAKleiVqk/s320/brides14.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;Martita Hunt &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and me&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/les-maitresses-de-dracula-deuxieme.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;( lire la version française)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I shared my first important dialog scenes with Martita Hunt, who played Baroness Meinster. That remarkable actress, with an already impressive career on the stage and in the movies (1), sometimes was a little shy with me. That made her very endearing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She and Terence Fisher had a very close understanding. Quite often, at tea time, one could see both of them enjoy a break with a few drops of sherry on top, and go on shooting a little more relaxed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRIDES OF DRACULA was an opportunity to make happy encounters. I got along wonderfully with David Peel, the vampire baron. His voice and perfect elocution were quite impressive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Peel and Peter Cushing were exemplary partners. They lived their part so fully that they gave you talent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSljK7hhRI/AAAAAAAAAYA/o-iPAf0yt-k/s1600-h/bod_meinster-756858.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329066282734159122" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSljK7hhRI/AAAAAAAAAYA/o-iPAf0yt-k/s320/bod_meinster-756858.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David was not a very famous movie actor, but he had a lot of experience on the stage. He also had done some radio. Broadcast plays, some of which were published on records (2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was an esthete.&lt;br /&gt;He had a passion for architecture, fine arts and antiques. He very much admired the fantastic set pieces created by Bernard Robinson for the interior of the castle. (3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Peel was quite reserved a man, but we finally developed an enjoyable friendship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunchtime at the commissary was an occasion for the whole film crew to relax from the pressures of shooting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSmAPUZEsI/AAAAAAAAAYI/4f5eGi4cmBI/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Peel+and+me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329066782128411330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSmAPUZEsI/AAAAAAAAAYI/4f5eGi4cmBI/s400/YMonlaurBlog+Peel+and+me.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was not last to resort to some childish pranks to amuse my co-workers. I particularly remember those English green peas, as big as ping-pong balls, that I had fun throwing in David’s plate to surprise him. Baron Meinster then left his aura of mystery at the door to take part in this pea battle !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Cushing, as I’ve often said in interviews, was every bit a gentleman, faithful to his reputation. Very professional and very warm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I especially recall my first scene of dialog with him, in the coach, after he find me unconscious in the woods. The conviction and strength of his impersonation made you want to give your very best.&lt;br /&gt;At that moment, I thought : I found my character ! I am Marianne, and this man will save me !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(more to come)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSnIZ1H1-I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/ThrPFyqtIyo/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog+Cushing+and+me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329068021900629986" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 255px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSnIZ1H1-I/AAAAAAAAAYQ/ThrPFyqtIyo/s320/YMonlaurblog+Cushing+and+me.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;The great Peter Cushing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;joking with me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;between two takes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) Amongst her most famous movie parts, she was an impressive Miss Havisham in the David Lean classic adapted from Dickens : THE GREAT EXPECTATIONS. The French audience also remarked her in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s LES ESPIONS (THE SPIES).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(2) He is known for a phonographic version of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece : THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(3) He retired from the movies shortly afterwards to become an antique dealer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329063953059307618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSjbkNwYGI/AAAAAAAAAXw/pCarMi6WJGU/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-2651570226965929068?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/2651570226965929068/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=2651570226965929068&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2651570226965929068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/2651570226965929068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/brides-of-dracula-second-part.html' title='Brides of Dracula / second part'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSkjRWIxfI/AAAAAAAAAX4/iqyAKleiVqk/s72-c/brides14.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4339183925020968754</id><published>2009-04-22T08:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T03:34:24.394-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Les maitresses de Dracula / deuxième partie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfNDcdpjTHI/AAAAAAAAAWo/OQcBSSXorzc/s1600-h/brides14.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328676940383734898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 256px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfNDcdpjTHI/AAAAAAAAAWo/OQcBSSXorzc/s320/brides14.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Martita Hunt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;et moi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-05-25T06%3A44%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Je partageais mes premières grandes scènes de dialogues avec Martita Hunt qui jouait la baronne Meinster. Cette remarquable actrice qui avait déjà derrière elle, une belle carrière au théâtre et au cinéma (1), manifestait parfois avec moi un peu de timidité. Cela la rendait attachante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y avait de la complicité entre elle et Terence Fisher . Il n'était pas rare, à l'heure du thé, de les voir tous deux agrémenter la pause de quelques larmes de sherry et reprendre le tournage avec une certaine décontraction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BRIDES OF DRACULA fut l'occasion d'heureuses rencontres. Je m'entendais à merveille avec David Peel, le baron vampire. Sa voix et sa diction parfaite m'impressionnaient.&lt;br /&gt;David Peel comme Peter Cushing étaient des partenaires exemplaires. Ils vous donnaient du talent tant ils étaient habités par leur rôle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfQwbNf2ljI/AAAAAAAAAXI/1khYHGfEKcQ/s1600-h/bod_meinster-756858.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328937503124002354" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 245px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfQwbNf2ljI/AAAAAAAAAXI/1khYHGfEKcQ/s320/bod_meinster-756858.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; David n'était pas un acteur très connu au cinéma mais il avait une grande experience du théâtre, il avait fait aussi de la radio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des pièces radiophoniques dont certaines firent l'objet. de disques- microsillon(2). C'était un esthète.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il avait une passion pour l'architecture, la décoration et les antiquités. Il était très sensible aux décors fabuleux que Bernard Robinson avait créé pour les intérieurs du château. (3)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Peel était un homme plutôt réservé mais nous avions fini par developper une agréable complicité.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'heure du déjeuner à la cantine était l'occasion pour l'équipe de se détendre, de se libérer de la pression du tournage. Je n'étais pas la dernière à me livrer à quelques enfantillages pour amuser mes partenaires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSTsM8KxvI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/r1cJGdXj3zc/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Peel+and+me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329046646683256562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 376px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSTsM8KxvI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/r1cJGdXj3zc/s400/YMonlaurBlog+Peel+and+me.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me souviens notamment de ces petits pois anglais gros comme des balles de ping-pong que je m'amusais à envoyer dans l'assiette de David pour le surprendre !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le baron Meinster laissait alors son aura de mystère au vestiaire pour participer à cette puérile bataille de projectiles !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter Cushing comme je l'ai souvent dit dans les interviews était un grand gentleman, fidèle à sa réputation. Très professionnel et très chaleureux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me souviens tout particulièrement de ma première scène de dialogue avec lui, dans la calèche, après qu'il me découvre évanouie dans les bois.&lt;br /&gt;La force de conviction de son interprétation vous invitait à vous dépasser.&lt;br /&gt;Je me suis dit à ce moment-là : j'ai trouvé mon personnage ! Je suis Marianne, cet homme va me sauver !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;( à suivre )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSUaRMHEyI/AAAAAAAAAXY/4inDDJoBqLw/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog+Cushing+and+me.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329047438097847074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 255px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSUaRMHEyI/AAAAAAAAAXY/4inDDJoBqLw/s320/YMonlaurblog+Cushing+and+me.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Le grand Peter Cushing &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;plaisantant avec moi entre deux prises. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- Parmi ses plus célèbres compositions au cinéma, elle incarna une impressionnante Miss Havisham dans le classique de David Lean adapté de Dickens : LES GRANDES ESPERANCES. Le public français l'aura aussi remarqué dans LES ESPIONS de Henri Georges Clouzot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2- On lui doit notamment une version phonographique du chef d'oeuvre d'Oscar Wilde : LE PORTRAIT DE DORIAN GRAY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;3 - Il s'est retiré du cinéma peu après pour devenir antiquaire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329051326907348850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfSX8oIi93I/AAAAAAAAAXg/d6vbivhrYvQ/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-4339183925020968754?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4339183925020968754/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=4339183925020968754&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4339183925020968754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/4339183925020968754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/les-maitresses-de-dracula-deuxieme.html' title='Les maitresses de Dracula / deuxième partie'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SfNDcdpjTHI/AAAAAAAAAWo/OQcBSSXorzc/s72-c/brides14.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3962625028627178180</id><published>2009-03-29T04:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T03:14:13.050-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a'/><title type='text'>Yves Saint Laurent</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-03-29T04%3A52%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;( lire la version française )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;A good deal of patience was necessary to be able to enter the Grand Palais on that Sunday, February 22, 2009, and admire the works of art from the collection of Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé before they were scattered away during one of the most memorable auctions of the decade.&lt;br /&gt;Paintings from the great masters, sculptures, prestigious furniture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their esthetic choices reminded me of the complex and modern portrait of the great fashion designer, whom I had once met, back when he still was an assistant modelist working for Dior. I was a model for their in-house collections. I also wore dresses during photo shoots for the great fashion and cultural magazines: Elle, Marie-Claire, Paris Match (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHsRrgEGiI/AAAAAAAAAWA/ezQqzbY2Bk8/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+DIOR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319292423380408866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHsRrgEGiI/AAAAAAAAAWA/ezQqzbY2Bk8/s320/YMonlaurBlog+DIOR.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the time, Yves Saint Laurent already had a very precise idea of where he wanted feminine fashion to go. A novel idea of women emancipation through the reappropriation of the tuxedo that was already clear in his mind in 1955.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He told me :&lt;br /&gt;- You can wear this black jacket with black trousers but you’ve got to add a touch of colour to break the austerity. Match them with a pink blouse. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHs1Mnh8kI/AAAAAAAAAWI/W_ex5-H4lOM/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+CHANELPATOUGIVENCHY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319293033565516354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHs1Mnh8kI/AAAAAAAAAWI/W_ex5-H4lOM/s320/YMonlaurBlog+CHANELPATOUGIVENCHY.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He established a clever and elegant gender blending, a modern art of contrasts, that he later expanded amidst this sumptuous environment of art pieces from all ages and all esthetic styles (Goya, Mondrian, Chirico, Matisse).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such an ecclectism helped maintain the momentum of his extraordinary creative process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black and pink have remained my favorite colours. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHtG69iktI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/SgMR2XwmB2s/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+FATH.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319293338063639250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 212px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHtG69iktI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/SgMR2XwmB2s/s320/YMonlaurBlog+FATH.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1)- Many of these were made by &lt;strong&gt;Willy Rizzo&lt;/strong&gt; et &lt;strong&gt;Lionel Kazan&lt;/strong&gt;. Talented photographers I wish to pay homage to. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;After one of these « teenage » photo shoots for Elle, I was remarked by film director &lt;strong&gt;André Hunebelle&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;_____________________________________________ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks to Daniel Rapina for his documentation&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319291222848415010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHrLzK7pSI/AAAAAAAAAV4/h4oLiRQYnwg/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3962625028627178180?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3962625028627178180/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3962625028627178180&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3962625028627178180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3962625028627178180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/yves-saint-laurent_29.html' title='Yves Saint Laurent'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHsRrgEGiI/AAAAAAAAAWA/ezQqzbY2Bk8/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog+DIOR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-387671684569550065</id><published>2009-03-29T04:51:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T10:30:28.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yves Saint Laurent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-04-22T08%3A19%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Il fallait s'armer de patience pour pouvoir entrer au Grand Palais, ce dimanche 22 février 2009 et admirer les oeuvres d'art de la collection Yves Saint Laurent- Pierre Bergé avant leur dispersion dans l'une des ventes aux enchères les plus mémorables de la décennie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Des toiles de maîtres, des sculptures, du mobilier prestigieux.&lt;br /&gt;A travers cette exigence esthétique, je voyais se dessiner en creux le portrait complexe et moderne de ce grand couturier que j'avais connu, jadis, assistant modéliste, lorqu'il travaillait pour Dior. J'étais mannequin pour les collections de la maison. Je portais aussi des robes pour des reportages-photos destinés aux grands magazines de la mode et de l'actualité culturelle: Elle, Marie-Claire, Paris Match (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHkPegfr7I/AAAAAAAAAVY/njXW2NoECsc/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+DIOR.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319283589439795122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 235px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHkPegfr7I/AAAAAAAAAVY/njXW2NoECsc/s320/YMonlaurBlog+DIOR.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yves Saint Laurent avait à l'époque une vision très précise du tournant qu'il voulait donner à la mode féminine. L'idée novatrice d'émanciper la femme à travers la réappropriation du smoking, il la manifestait déjà en 1955.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il me disait :&lt;br /&gt;- Tu peux porter ce tailleur noir avec un pantalon noir mais il faut y associer une touche de couleur pour rompre l'austérité de l'ensemble. Assortis-le à un chemisier rose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHkl1X4AKI/AAAAAAAAAVg/K-dqyZE000g/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+CHANELPATOUGIVENCHY.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319283973534777506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHkl1X4AKI/AAAAAAAAAVg/K-dqyZE000g/s320/YMonlaurBlog+CHANELPATOUGIVENCHY.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cet habile et élégant brouillage des genres, cet art moderne du contraste, il l'avait ensuite cultivé au milieu de cet environnement somptueux d'oeuvres issues de toutes les époques, de tous les courants esthétiques (Goya, Mondrian, Chirico, Matisse, Picasso).&lt;br /&gt;Un ecclectisme propre à maintenir une pensée créatrice en mouvement comme l'était la sienne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le noir et le rose sont restées mes couleurs préférées.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHlSOE9pVI/AAAAAAAAAVo/x-tZ0MQMVB8/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+FATH.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319284736080586066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 212px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHlSOE9pVI/AAAAAAAAAVo/x-tZ0MQMVB8/s320/YMonlaurBlog+FATH.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(1)- Nombre de ces reportages ont été faits par &lt;strong&gt;Willy Rizzo&lt;/strong&gt; et &lt;strong&gt;Lionel Kazan&lt;/strong&gt;. Des photographes talentueux auxquels je tiens à rendre hommage.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;C'est à la suite de l'un de ces reportages pour des photos &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;" teenage" dans Elle,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;que j'ai été remarquée par le réalisateur &lt;strong&gt;André Hunebelle&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;________________________________________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Remerciements à Daniel Rapina pour la documentation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319289529746577314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHppP3_16I/AAAAAAAAAVw/ObWrpqT4yVg/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-387671684569550065?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/387671684569550065/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=387671684569550065&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/387671684569550065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/387671684569550065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/yves-saint-laurent.html' title='Yves Saint Laurent'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SdHkPegfr7I/AAAAAAAAAVY/njXW2NoECsc/s72-c/YMonlaurBlog+DIOR.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-500591312995079790</id><published>2009-03-28T15:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-25T01:25:06.306-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brides of Dracula / first part</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9DiJQYKyI/AAAAAAAAAUo/zJSvFkDj5cc/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog-Maitresses+de+dracula+f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318543938827070242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 237px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9DiJQYKyI/AAAAAAAAAUo/zJSvFkDj5cc/s320/YMonlaurblog-Maitresses+de+dracula+f.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-03-28T15%3A23%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;( lire la version française)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brides of Dracula is considered as one of Terence Fisher's masterpieces. It has become a cult film for generations of Hammer fans. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;During international conventions I'm invited to, I'm always glad to measure how much this beautiful vampire picture, in which I'm the leading lady, remains fascinating. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I owe it a popularity that has never decreased in spite of years gone by ! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brides of Dracula undoubtedly is my career's major film, and all memories it carries along are bound with happiness.&lt;br /&gt;For it also marks my acquaintance with the Carreras family and all the wonderful artists who worked for them and made Hammer a symbol of excellence in the production of fantasy films in the 1960's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZ9hZNuk04w&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZ9hZNuk04w&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was back in Rome from Germany, where I had shot THE HAREM DANCER. My agent, John&lt;br /&gt;Mather, contacted me a few days later. Hammer Films was producing a second Dracula (1).&lt;br /&gt;The Carreras, father and son, wished to meet me at Wardour Street (2). I immediately&lt;br /&gt;understood the interest of the project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I knew Hammer, having seen in Italy THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES with the studio's two&lt;br /&gt;stars: Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The mere thought of playing with Peter Cushing was exhilarating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9DxRIdOpI/AAAAAAAAAUw/WYIKc6z0C0s/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Bdracula+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318544198639368850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9DxRIdOpI/AAAAAAAAAUw/WYIKc6z0C0s/s320/YMonlaurBlog+Bdracula+1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;During her journey to the Lang Academy, a young teacher, Marianne Danielle ( Yvonne Monlaur) is offered hospitality for the night by Baroness Meinster ( Martita Hunt ) in her transylvanian castle, where she holds her own son prisoner ( David Peel ).&lt;br /&gt;Moved by the yound man, and ignoring her mother's warnings, Marianne decides to set him&lt;br /&gt;free. She will discover too late that the young baron is a vampire. Having bitten his mother, baron Meinster chases after Marianne Danielle at the academy, where she only owes her salvation to the protection of Dr Van Helsing ( Peter Cushing ). &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The vampire's disciples ( Andrée Melly, Freda Jackson et Marie Devereux ) will be destroyed during the burning of the mill where they hide, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;while baron Meinster will be annihilated by the crucifix-like shadow of the mill's wings in the moonlight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James and Michael Carreras did not even audition me. We had a nice meeting, during which they spoke of CIRCUS OF HORRORS, WOMEN IN LOVE and some of my italian pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found an apartment in London, in the West End, on Upper Grovenor Street.&lt;br /&gt;During the whole shooting, I left before dawn for the Bray studios in Windsor. Frida, the make-up girl and hairdresser, was taking care of me around 5am. Marian Crawford, my light double, was joining us. The three of us liked to be together and joke while having tea and bacon sandwiches, waiting for the set to be ready.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shooting schedule followed the story's chronology. The first day, we shot the exterior scenes with Michael Ripper (3) and the coach hurrying through the misty forest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then were the studio scenes, which needed much preparation from Jack Asher the cinematographer and his assistants.&lt;br /&gt;Intense concentration was the rule on the sets, tempered by the good nature of our director Terence Fisher. He knew exactly what he wanted, which was reassuring and saved us a lot of time. He shot each scene very few times. Everything was meticulously prepared before the cameras got rolling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fisher sometimes let the actors think they could play with great freedom.&lt;br /&gt;Then, sometimes he insisted on precise points. The tempo of the performance, the tone of voice, all these considerations meant that he was very concerned about the internal rhythm of each scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes he simply said to me : quicker, slower, you should be more frightened... or, to David Peel : more sadistic !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9HVR7rPKI/AAAAAAAAAVA/fl4I6rYHXyA/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+DPeelandme01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318548115864370338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9HVR7rPKI/AAAAAAAAAVA/fl4I6rYHXyA/s320/YMonlaurBlog+DPeelandme01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;To be continued&lt;/span&gt; ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1- Christopher Lee having declined reprising the part that made him famous two years earlier in HORROR OF DRACULA, Hammer only used the name "Dracula" to introduce on the&lt;br /&gt;screen one of his disciples, baron Meinster. The first drafts of the script were entitled DISCIPLE OF DRACULA then DRACULA 2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2- London base of Hammer Films.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3- Famous Hammer supporting actor. He played the coachman in the first scenes of the film.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318551737789419794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9KoGp5kRI/AAAAAAAAAVI/clqU6OhB5Uw/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-500591312995079790?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/500591312995079790/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=500591312995079790&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/500591312995079790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/500591312995079790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/brides-of-dracula-first-part.html' title='Brides of Dracula / first part'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9DiJQYKyI/AAAAAAAAAUo/zJSvFkDj5cc/s72-c/YMonlaurblog-Maitresses+de+dracula+f.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-1220229468934109289</id><published>2009-03-26T04:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-25T01:23:59.812-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Les maitresses de Dracula / premiere partie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6m_r33h2I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/qK-huetLIGE/s1600-h/YMonlaurblog-Maitresses+de+dracula+f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318371823010154338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 237px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6m_r33h2I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/qK-huetLIGE/s320/YMonlaurblog-Maitresses+de+dracula+f.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/brides-of-dracula-first-part.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LES MAITRESSES DE DRACULA est considéré comme l'un des sommets de l'oeuvre de Terence Fisher.&lt;br /&gt;Il est devenu un film-culte pour des générations de fans de la Hammer.&lt;br /&gt;J'ai l'occasion de mesurer avec bonheur lors des conventions internationales où je suis invitée&lt;br /&gt;à quel point ce beau film de vampire dont je suis l'héroine fascine toujours autant.&lt;br /&gt;Il me vaut cette popularité qui ne s'est jamais démentie malgré toutes ces années !&lt;br /&gt;LES MAITRESSES DE DRACULA est sans doute le film majeur de ma carrière et tous les souvenirs qui y sont associés sont ceux du bonheur.&lt;br /&gt;Car LES MAITRESSES DE DRACULA, c'est aussi ma rencontre avec une famille, celle des Carreras et les merveilleux artistes qui travaillaient pour eux et qui ont fait de la Hammer, le symbole de l'excellence dans la production de films fantastiques des années soixante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZ9hZNuk04w&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZ9hZNuk04w&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'étais de retour à Rome. Je revenais d'Allemagne où j'avais tourné THE HAREM DANCER.&lt;br /&gt;Mon agent John Mather me contacta quelques jours après. La Hammer film produisait un second Dracula (1).&lt;br /&gt;Les Carreras, père et fils souhaitaient me rencontrer à Wardour Street (2).&lt;br /&gt;Je compris tout de suite l'intérêt du projet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Je connaissais La Hammer pour avoir vu en Italie LE CHIEN DES BASKERVILLE avec les deux stars du studio : Peter Cushing et Christopher Lee.&lt;br /&gt;L'idée de jouer dans LES MAITRESSES DE DRACULA avec Peter m'enthousiasmait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6uSH-IsLI/AAAAAAAAAUY/8ZYVgbqMA04/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+Bdracula+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318379836371677362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6uSH-IsLI/AAAAAAAAAUY/8ZYVgbqMA04/s320/YMonlaurBlog+Bdracula+1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Au cours du voyage qui la conduit à l' Académie Lang une jeune institutrice, Marianne Danielle ( Yvonne Monlaur)&lt;br /&gt;se voit offrir l'hospitalité pour une nuit par la baronne Meinster ( Martita Hunt ) dans son chateau transylvanien&lt;br /&gt;où elle tient son fils prisonnier ( David Peel ).&lt;br /&gt;Emue par le jeune homme et ignorant les mises en garde de sa mère, Marianne décide de le liberer.&lt;br /&gt;Elle découvrira trop tard que le jeune baron est un vampire. Après avoir mordu sa mère, le baron Meinster&lt;br /&gt;poursuit Marianne Danielle à l'académie où elle ne devra son salut qu'à la protection du docteur Van Helsing ( Peter Cushing ).&lt;br /&gt;Les adeptes du vampire ( Andrée Melly, Freda Jackson et Marie Devereux ) seront détruites dans les flammes du moulin qui leur sert de repaire tandis&lt;br /&gt;que le baron Meinster est anéanti par la projection de l'ombre cruciforme des ailes de l'édifice sous le clair de lune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James et Michael Carreras ne me firent passer aucune audition. Nous eùmes une entrevue au cours de laquelle&lt;br /&gt;ils évoquèrent CIRCUS OF HORRORS, WOMEN IN LOVE et certains de mes films italiens. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je pris un appartement à Londres dans le West End, sur l' Upper Grovenor Street.&lt;br /&gt;Durant tout le temps du tournage, je partis tôt le matin pour rejoindre les studios Bray à Windsor.&lt;br /&gt;Frida, la maquilleuse-coiffeuse s'occupait de moi vers cinq heures. Marian Crawford ma doublure lumière nous rejoignait. Nous aimions nous retrouver toutes les trois et&lt;br /&gt;plaisanter autour d'un thé et de sandwichs au bacon tandis que l'on préparait le plateau.&lt;br /&gt;Le planning de tournage suivait la chronologie de l'histoire. Nous tournâmes le premier jour, les scènes d'exterieur&lt;br /&gt;avec Michael Ripper (3) et la calèche traversant à toute allure les bois embrumés. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vinrent ensuite les scènes dans les studios qui demandaient beaucoup de préparation pour le chef-opérateur Jack Asher et ses assistants.&lt;br /&gt;Il régnait sur les plateaux une intense concentration tempérée par la bonhommie de notre metteur en scène Terence Fisher.&lt;br /&gt;Il savait exactement ce qu'il voulait. Ce qui était rassurant et nous faisait gagner beaucoup de temps. Il faisait très peu de prises d'une seule scène.&lt;br /&gt;Tout était méticuleusement préparé avant que le moteur des caméras ne se mette à tourner. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fisher donnait l'impression aux acteurs de les laisser jouer avec une grande liberté et puis, parfois, il vous reprenait sur des points précis.&lt;br /&gt;Le tempo du jeu de l'acteur, la tonalité de l'interprétation, toutes ces considérations indiquaient à quel point le rythme interne de chaque scène lui semblait important.&lt;br /&gt;Il me disait parfois simplement: plus rapide, plus lent, tu es plus effrayée... ou bien à David Peel : plus sadique ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6unhfj89I/AAAAAAAAAUg/cVlVEPPtHo4/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlog+DPeelandme01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318380204000015314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6unhfj89I/AAAAAAAAAUg/cVlVEPPtHo4/s320/YMonlaurBlog+DPeelandme01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A suivre ...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1- Christopher Lee ne pouvant pas reprendre le rôle du vampire qui l'avait rendu célèbre deux ans auparavant dans LE CAUCHEMAR DE DRACULA, la Hammer ne garda de Dracula que le nom pour introduire habilement à l'écran l'un de ses disciple : Le baron Meinster.&lt;br /&gt;Les premières moutures du script s'intitulaient DISCIPLE OF DRACULA puis DRACULA 2. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;2- Siège londonien de la Hammer. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;3- Célèbre second rôle de la firme. Il jouait le cocher dans les premières scènes du film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318555257693656130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc9N0_Ud1EI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/yN0YBRcBGpk/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+7red++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-1220229468934109289?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1220229468934109289/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=1220229468934109289&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1220229468934109289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1220229468934109289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/les-maitresses-de-dracula-premiere.html' title='Les maitresses de Dracula / premiere partie'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sc6m_r33h2I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/qK-huetLIGE/s72-c/YMonlaurblog-Maitresses+de+dracula+f.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5292652776355560794</id><published>2009-02-27T10:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T12:54:41.218-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Circus of horrors : memorabilia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SagxdbUCE2I/AAAAAAAAAR4/ZZswee8WnFw/s1600-h/COHgermpressbr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307546542473876322" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 221px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SagxdbUCE2I/AAAAAAAAAR4/ZZswee8WnFw/s320/COHgermpressbr.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;International promotional material .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quelques exemples du matériel de promotion international du film.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SagwZgBU-QI/AAAAAAAAARo/FwXAMK0EKis/s1600-h/COHfrenchpressb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307545375506495746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SagwZgBU-QI/AAAAAAAAARo/FwXAMK0EKis/s320/COHfrenchpressb.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;German and French press book .&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sagx3PtIHyI/AAAAAAAAASA/v2Z1J_D9RDk/s1600-h/les+crimes+de+l"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307546986034503458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 202px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sagx3PtIHyI/AAAAAAAAASA/v2Z1J_D9RDk/s320/les+crimes+de+l%27amour.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Belgian poster with a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;new title: Les crimes de l'amour ( crimes of love ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;A book inspired &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;by the script.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sagyv8CAAxI/AAAAAAAAASI/nYmpdhGgVZ0/s1600-h/COH+bookr.jpg"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307547960005886738" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 199px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/Sagyv8CAAxI/AAAAAAAAASI/nYmpdhGgVZ0/s320/COH+bookr.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamXXrMSsuI/AAAAAAAAASo/Opriofzfbkc/s1600-h/COH+single.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307940068819907298" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 314px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamXXrMSsuI/AAAAAAAAASo/Opriofzfbkc/s320/COH+single.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamYeAIrm5I/AAAAAAAAASw/WRV0uNs-hM4/s1600-h/COHcomicstrip1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307941277032749970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 142px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamYeAIrm5I/AAAAAAAAASw/WRV0uNs-hM4/s200/COHcomicstrip1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;The hit single on vinyl 45 rpm &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and few examples of the comic strip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamZISpsZCI/AAAAAAAAATA/sr-D5seTRX0/s1600-h/COHcomicstrip2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307942003557557282" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamZISpsZCI/AAAAAAAAATA/sr-D5seTRX0/s200/COHcomicstrip2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamZXaaXHJI/AAAAAAAAATI/hGpOn5ut8Fw/s1600-h/COHcomicstrip3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307942263338769554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 143px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamZXaaXHJI/AAAAAAAAATI/hGpOn5ut8Fw/s200/COHcomicstrip3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you happen to come upon this comic strip, you'll find that it is in places a rather free adaptation of the script. Have fun and play the " Circus of errors" game !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;___________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307954077125349554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SamkHEMkkLI/AAAAAAAAATo/8hfo3ca-4yA/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5292652776355560794?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5292652776355560794/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5292652776355560794&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5292652776355560794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5292652776355560794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/circus-of-horrors-memorabilia.html' title='Circus of horrors : memorabilia'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SagxdbUCE2I/AAAAAAAAAR4/ZZswee8WnFw/s72-c/COHgermpressbr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-7599364058221627848</id><published>2009-02-10T08:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T12:04:54.098-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Circus of horrors 2/2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/circus-of-horrors-22.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;( lire la version française )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;During conventions and festivals, a lot of fans talk to me about Donald Pleasence and Yvonne Romain.&lt;br /&gt;They’re both recognized actors, thanks to their important career in horror and fantasy movies.&lt;br /&gt;Pleasence was my father in CIRCUS OF HORRORS, but the mysteries of the production planning prevented me from meeting him on the set. On the other hand, I met Yvonne Romain in the cafeteria. She was a beautiful lady, and we sympathized during the rare moments of rest allowed by the shooting schedule. We did not have enough common scenes to be able to know each other better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGtJokqZnI/AAAAAAAAAN8/JLLBAKATcP0/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlogCircus+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301208617413404274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGtJokqZnI/AAAAAAAAAN8/JLLBAKATcP0/s320/YMonlaurBlogCircus+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a rehearsal manager, today’s « coach », to prepare the actors for their scenes.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to this, at shooting time, the director could better concentrate on staging, camera angles and photography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While shooting progressed, I was surprised to see some of my close-ups abandoned by the director in favor of wider shots. I quickly realized that Erika Remberg was no stranger to these changes, and found out that she was quite influential on Hayers.&lt;br /&gt;I only recently discovered (consulting IMDB) that she had become his wife after this movie. She had a privileged position, which she expressed in an authoritative and exclusive way. To get to the point, I was a threat to her ! It was the first time in my career that I was faced with such a situation. An ego conflict, tolerating no other feminine co-star. Today, thinking about this again, I find it laughable and feel she must have had much to worry about : a lot of the film’s appeal was its large cast of important and “glamourous” feminine characters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beauty was the main theme of CIRCUS OF HORRORS. Fabricated beauty which can never conceal the ugliness of the soul. In one of the most spectacular final scenes, Dr Rossiter discovers with fright that his accomplices refused to operate on his face, disfigured by a gorilla. Rossiter/Diffring bursts in the tent where I am with Conrad Philips during the finale, furious-looking and hideous. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGtVM8fGzI/AAAAAAAAAOE/ZD6AaF2bcvM/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlogCircus+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301208816155564850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 258px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGtVM8fGzI/AAAAAAAAAOE/ZD6AaF2bcvM/s320/YMonlaurBlogCircus+3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That make-up was one of the masterpieces of Trevor Crole-Rees (1). It took him three hours to transform Anton Diffring.&lt;br /&gt;He pulled up one of his eyes with some glue, a special varnish and invisible gauze. His mouth was pulled in the opposite direction. He also had to put on contact lenses which gave him a washed-out look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not take part in the film’s promotion (2). When CIRCUS OF HORRORS was released, I was in Germany, shooting with Arnoldo Foà in an episode of an Italo-American series, TALES OF THE VIKINGS, called THE HAREM DANCER.&lt;br /&gt;I only saw CIRCUS OF HORRORS a few months later and found it a very good surprise. Direction was on par with the script.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1- He worked on classics such as THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES and DR JECKYLL AND SISTER HYDE.&lt;br /&gt;2- An important promotion campaign with a lot of marketing (records, books, comics trips) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301209004548136674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGtgKwxnuI/AAAAAAAAAOM/jxA05BSIS4I/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-7599364058221627848?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7599364058221627848/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=7599364058221627848&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7599364058221627848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7599364058221627848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/circus-of-horrors-22_10.html' title='Circus of horrors 2/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGtJokqZnI/AAAAAAAAAN8/JLLBAKATcP0/s72-c/YMonlaurBlogCircus+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3826102776406806392</id><published>2009-02-10T07:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T04:57:45.202-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le cirque des horreurs 2/2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/circus-of-horrors-22_10.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read the english version)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Au cours des conventions et des festivals, beaucoup de fans me parlent de Donald Pleasence et Yvonne Romain. Des acteurs reconnus grâce à leur carrière importante dans le cinéma fantastique.&lt;br /&gt;Pleasence jouait mon père dans CIRCUS OF HORRORS, les hasards du planning de production ne m'ont pas permise de le rencontrer sur les plateaux. En revanche je croisai Yvonne Romain à la cafétéria. Une très belle femme avec laquelle je sympathisai durant les rares moments de pause que le tournage nous autorisait. Nous n'avons pas eu suffisamment de scènes en commun pour faire plus ample connaissance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGhsKTC1_I/AAAAAAAAANE/qFTs0i5ZHR0/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlogCircus+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301196016442333170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGhsKTC1_I/AAAAAAAAANE/qFTs0i5ZHR0/s320/YMonlaurBlogCircus+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y avait un répétiteur, ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui un "coach" pour préparer les scènes avec les acteurs.&lt;br /&gt;Cela permettait au réalisateur de pouvoir se concentrer sur le découpage, les cadres et la photographie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je constatais au fur à mesure du tournage que certains des gros plans de mes scènes étaient abandonnés par le réalisateur pour des cadrages plus larges. Je ne mis pas longtemps à me rendre compte qu'Erika Remberg n’était pas étrangère à ces modifications. Elle avait de l'ascendant sur Hayers.&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai su que récemment ( en consultant IMDB ) que cette actrice était devenue sa femme après le film. Elle bénéficiait sur le tournage d'une position privilégiée qui s'exprimait d'une manière autoritaire et exclusive. Pour faire bref, je lui faisais de l'ombre ! C'était la première fois depuis le début de ma carrière que j'étais confronté à une situation de ce type. Un conflit d'égo ne tolérant aucune autre tête d'affiche féminine. En y repensant, maintenant, je me dis non sans malice qu'elle avait fort à faire : le film reposait en grande partie sur un casting de vedettes féminines important et particulièrement " glamour".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La beauté, c'était le thème principal de CIRCUS OF HORRORS, une beauté fabriquée qui ne parvient jamais à masquer la laideur de l'âme. Dans l'une des scènes finales les plus spectaculaires, le Docteur Rossiter découvre avec effroi, que ses acolytes ont refusé d'opérer son visage défiguré par un gorille. Rossiter/Diffring surgit dans la tente où je me trouve avec Conrad Philips, au cours du final, l'air furieux, exhibant des traits hideux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGjTUWPAFI/AAAAAAAAANM/tdMKCO7Q14s/s1600-h/YMonlaurBlogCircus+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301197788666593362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 258px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGjTUWPAFI/AAAAAAAAANM/tdMKCO7Q14s/s320/YMonlaurBlogCircus+3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce maquillage était l'une des prouesses de Trevor Crole-Rees (1). Il mettait trois heures à transformer Anton Diffring.&lt;br /&gt;Il lui remontait un oeil en le collant avec un vernis spécial et du tulle invisible. On lui tirait la bouche du côté inverse de l'oeil.&lt;br /&gt;Il devait aussi porter des verres de contact qui donnaient à ses yeux un regard délavé.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai pas participé à la promotion du film (2). Quand CIRCUS OF HORRORS est sorti, j'étais en Allemagne.&lt;br /&gt;Je tournais avec Arnoldo Foà dans un épisode d'une série italo-Américaine : TALES OF THE VIKINGS qui s'intitulait : THE HAREM DANCER.&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai vu CIRCUS OF HORRORS que quelques mois plus tard et ce fut une très bonne surprise.&lt;br /&gt;La réalisation était à la hauteur du script.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;1- Il a travaillé sur des classiques comme L'ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES et DR JECKYLL AND SISTER HYDE.&lt;br /&gt;2- Une campagne de promotion importante avec des produits dérivés ( des disques, des livres, des bandes-dessinées)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303114105603745186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 153px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZhyLpPf5aI/AAAAAAAAAOk/g6fcgB815mg/s400/YMonlaurBlogDA+4++copie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3826102776406806392?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3826102776406806392/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3826102776406806392&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3826102776406806392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3826102776406806392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/circus-of-horrors-22.html' title='Le cirque des horreurs 2/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SZGhsKTC1_I/AAAAAAAAANE/qFTs0i5ZHR0/s72-c/YMonlaurBlogCircus+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-7759030747354077337</id><published>2008-12-31T13:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T14:08:03.008-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy new year !</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVvjWkRAiVI/AAAAAAAAAMk/FTy_G3Id9QM/s1600-h/oackley+court+winter+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286068564481050962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 279px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVvjWkRAiVI/AAAAAAAAAMk/FTy_G3Id9QM/s320/oackley+court+winter+01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wish to Ron, Juliette, Vincent, Jessica, Michael, John, Forschung, Anthony, Loke and all my other readers happy holidays and a great new year. Thank you for your mail and your comments. We’ll meet again in 2009 !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je souhaite à Ron, Juliette ,Vincent, Jessica, Michael, John, Forschung, Anthony, Loke ainsi qu’à tous mes autres lecteurs de très bonnes fêtes de fin d’année. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Merci pour vos courriers et vos commentaires. Rendez-vous pris pour 2009 !&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Photography : Oackley Court in the winter, a favorite set of Hammer film.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-7759030747354077337?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/7759030747354077337/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=7759030747354077337&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7759030747354077337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/7759030747354077337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy new year !'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVvjWkRAiVI/AAAAAAAAAMk/FTy_G3Id9QM/s72-c/oackley+court+winter+01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3539300457228211202</id><published>2008-12-30T14:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-08-25T01:33:47.819-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Circus of horrors 1/2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SV9u46k-bNI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Zsqj7k8EI7g/s1600-h/le+cirque++des+horreurs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287066411632323794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SV9u46k-bNI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Zsqj7k8EI7g/s320/le+cirque++des+horreurs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-12-30T14%3A17%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( lire la version française )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Although it does not really include fantastic elements, I consider CIRCUS OF HORRORS as my first film of this kind.&lt;br /&gt;All the required ingredients are there. A baroque and flamboyant setting, troubled and dangerous characters, a threatening atmosphere and, last but not least, spectacular and horrific scenes. CIRCUS OF HORRORS was my entrance on the great circus ring of English fantasy cinema.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/11q5fZscopU&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/11q5fZscopU&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always loved the circus world. I did not hesitate for one second before accepting this opportunity to share the life of travelling artists by playing the part of Nicole, adoptive daughter to the fiendish Dr Rossiter, played by Anton Diffring. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;During the very first production meeting, I was introduced to director Sydney Hayers (1). He chose me for the only positive feminine part of that dark story. Hayers knew what he wanted. He was a talented and efficient man, although a little aloof. I would later regret that our professional relation was not as rich as it could have been as shooting progressed. I’ll come back to that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SYNOPSIS &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Condemned in London by his medical peers, Dr Rossiter (Anton Diffring) pursues his plastic surgery activities in France, behind the façade of a circus, becoming its director after throwing the previous owner (Donald Pleasence) into the claws of a ferocious bear of the menagerie. Helped by two accomplices, he operates on disfigured women he saved from the gutter, in order to transform them into circus artists. When they try to free themselves from his domination, he kills them, making the murders appear as accidents in the circus ring. The dreadful reputation of the circus intrigues the police forces. Unmasked by inspector Ames ( Conrad Phillips ), Rossiter tries to escape. He his himself disfigured by a gorilla and succumbs under the wheels of a car driven by a previous patient, a disfigured woman prone on revenge…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVqiYtfAkVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/sgnd6MEsH7Y/s1600-h/Circus+of+horrors0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285715658082914642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVqiYtfAkVI/AAAAAAAAAMM/sgnd6MEsH7Y/s400/Circus+of+horrors0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;Right to the left: Anton Diffring, Jane Hylton and me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CIRCUS OF HORRORS succeeds in part because some scenes of the film were shot in an actual circus. It was the Billy Smart Circus, in Clapham Common, a greater London area with, at the time, quite a bad reputation. That quest for realism led to a remarkable account of the atmosphere of the fairground world of the sixties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The film crew was staying within the circus grounds.&lt;br /&gt;As for me, I slept in a caravan, close to an Italian trapeze girl artist and Russian clowns. The make-up cabin had been set up near the menagerie, which led to funny situations. For my circus acts, I wore a splendid set of feathers, that the monkeys always tried to catch when I had to pass along their cages on my way out.&lt;br /&gt;When I was not shooting, I was rehearsing my horse riding act, like any other artist of the Billy Smart Circus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fine technical team of Hayers (2) was shooting the evening performances in order to include them within the story. Although all security measures were, of course, taken, it was not always possible to predict how the animals would behave. One night, I almost got trampled by an elephant as I was entering the ring. But I never had any apprehension afterwards. I even posed on top of one of these pachyderms for set stills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That year, winter was precocious and very harsh. Soon, it was so cold that the shooting crew had to plan for a hotel arrangement. In spite of our good spirits, we were not hard, seasoned travelling artists, capable of adjusting to any circumstance.&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, every evening, I was leaving the popular surroundings of Clapham Common to go back to my hotel, in the more luxurious Grosvenor Square. My dear mother was sometimes accompanying me to the set, or we met again at the hotel. She was my secretary and my precious confident during that British stay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We then spent the last week at Beaconsfield studios for continuity shots (interiors of tents and caravans, and attraction barracks).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Generally speaking, I have very good memories of my fellow actors. I particularly remember Diffring and Conrad Phillips.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, professional acting relationships mimic those of the characters they play. Such was the case with Diffring, as charming and protective to me as Dr Rossiter was in the movie. It also happened with Erika Remberg, but this time I regretted it, because she was playing the circus artist who could not stand feminine rivalry… in the ring or real life ! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Next : CIRCUS OF HORRORS last part&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;(1) Better known in France for directing several episodes of THE AVANGERS, Hayers directed a second fantasy film, this time about witchcraft : NIGHT OF THE EAGLE.&lt;br /&gt;(2) The great cameraman of Losey, Polanski et Spielberg, Douglas Slocombe was our director of photography.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3539300457228211202?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3539300457228211202/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3539300457228211202&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3539300457228211202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3539300457228211202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/circus-of-horrors.html' title='Circus of horrors 1/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SV9u46k-bNI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Zsqj7k8EI7g/s72-c/le+cirque++des+horreurs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-243016399154615124</id><published>2008-12-30T14:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-08-25T01:33:10.795-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Le cirque des horreurs 1/2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SV9ukjdcxBI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Gj66j9DyqYI/s1600-h/le+cirque++des+horreurs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287066061829358610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 242px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SV9ukjdcxBI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Gj66j9DyqYI/s320/le+cirque++des+horreurs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-12-31T13%3A01%3A00-08%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bien qu'il ne comporte pas d'éléments fantastiques a priori, je considère CIRCUS OF HORRORS comme mon premier film du genre. Tous les ingrédients sont là. Un univers baroque et flamboyant, des personnages troubles, dangereux, une atmosphère menaçante et, en point d'orgue, des scènes spectaculaires et horrifiques. CIRCUS OF HORRORS m’a conduite sous le grand chapiteau du cinéma fantastique britannique. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/11q5fZscopU&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/11q5fZscopU&amp;hl=fr&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;J'ai toujours aimé le monde du cirque. Je n'ai pas hésité une seconde à accepter l'opportunité qui m'était faite de partager la vie des gens du voyage en jouant le rôle de Nicole, la fille adoptive du diabolique Dr Rossiter interprété par Anton Diffring.&lt;br /&gt;Dès la première réunion de production, on me présenta au metteur en scène Sydney Hayers(1). Il m’avait choisi pour le seul rôle féminin positif de toute cette sombre histoire. Hayers savait ce qu’il voulait. C’était un homme talentueux et efficace mais un peu distant. Je regretterais par la suite que nos rapports professionnels n’aient pas été aussi enrichissants au fur à mesure que le tournage avançait. J’y reviendrai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SYNOPSIS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Condamné à Londres par l’ordre des médecins, le Dr Rossiter ( Anton Diffring) poursuit ses opérations de chirurgie esthétique en France derrière la façade d’un cirque dont il devient le directeur après avoir livré l’ancien propriétaire ( Donald Pleasence) aux griffes d’un ours de la ménagerie. Secondé par deux acolytes, il opère des femmes défigurées qu’il sauve des bas-fonds pour les transformer en artistes de cirque. Lorsque celles-ci veulent s’affranchir de sa coupe, il les tue en arrangeant leur meurtre en accident sur la piste. La réputation maudite du cirque attire la police. Démasqué par l’inspecteur Ames ( Conrad Phillips ), Rossiter prend la fuite. Il est défiguré à son tour par un gorille et périt sous les roues de la voiture d’une ancienne patiente qui veut se faire justice…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVqfNbU-pDI/AAAAAAAAAME/8Bvbgh3PHy8/s1600-h/Circus+of+horrors0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285712165695562802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 376px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SVqfNbU-pDI/AAAAAAAAAME/8Bvbgh3PHy8/s400/Circus+of+horrors0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;De droite à gauche : Anton Diffring, Jane Hylton et moi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'une des grandes réussites de CIRCUS OF HORRORS tient à ce que la production tourna une partie du film dans les coulisses d'un vrai cirque. Il s'agissait en l'occurrence du Billy Smart Circus situé à Clapham Common, une partie de la banlieue londonienne assez mal famée à l'époque. Ce souci de réalisme permit de restituer remarquablement l'ambiance du monde forain des années soixante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'équipe du film était logée dans le cirque. Quant à moi, je couchais dans une roulotte à côté de celle d’une trapéziste italienne et de clowns russes. La cabine de maquillage avait été installée près de la ménagerie, ce qui ne manquait pas d’être pittoresque. Pour mes numéros, je portais une superbe parure de plumes que les singes s'évertuaient à attraper lorsque je devais passer près des cages pour sortir. Quand je ne tournais pas, je répétais mes numéros d'écuyère comme n'importe quel autre artiste du Billy Smart Circus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La fine équipe technique de Hayers (2) faisait des prises de vue des représentations du soir pour les inclure à l'intrigue. Bien que toutes les conditions de sécurité furent prises, il n'était pas toujours possible de prévoir comment les animaux se comporteraient. Un soir, je faillis être renversée par un éléphant lors d'une entrée en piste. J'en n'en conçus aucune appréhension par la suite puisque je posais sur l'un de ces pachydermes pour des photos de plateaux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’hiver de cette année-là s’annonça précoce et rigoureux. Bientôt le froid mordant conduisit l'équipe de tournage à prévoir un hébergement à l'hôtel. Malgré notre bonne volonté, nous n'avions pas le cuir épais des forains, capables de s'adapter en toutes circonstances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ainsi, chaque soir, je quittais la banlieue populaire de Clapham Common pour rejoindre mon hôtel dans les quartiers huppés de Grosvenor Square. Ma chère mère m’accompagnait parfois sur les plateaux, ou bien je la retrouvais à l’hôtel. Elle était ma secrétaire et ma précieuse confidente durant ce séjour britannique. Nous tournâmes la dernière semaine des raccords aux studios de Beaconsfield (les plans intérieurs des tentes et des roulottes, ainsi que les baraques d’attraction).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D’une manière générale, je garde un bon souvenir de mes partenaires. Je me souviens tout particulièrement d’Anton Diffring et Conrad Phillips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il arrive parfois que les relations entre les acteurs se confondent avec celles des personnages qu’ils interprètent. Ce fut le cas avec Diffring, aussi charmant et protecteur avec moi que l’était le Dr Rossiter. Je le vérifiai aussi avec Erika Remberg, non sans le déplorer car elle jouait l’artiste du cirque qui ne supportait aucune rivalité féminine … sur la piste comme dans les coulisses !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A suivre : CIRCUS OF HORRORS dernière partie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) Plus connu du public français pour ses réalisations de la série CHAPEAU MELON ET BOTTES DE CUIR, Hayers a œuvré une seconde fois pour le fantastique avec un film sur la sorcellerie : NIGHT OF THE EAGLE connu aussi sous le titre BURN,WITCH, BURN. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(2) Douglas Slocombe le grand chef- opérateur de Losey, Polanski et Spielberg, assura la photographie du film. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-243016399154615124?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/243016399154615124/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=243016399154615124&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/243016399154615124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/243016399154615124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/le-cirque-des-horreurs.html' title='Le cirque des horreurs 1/2'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SV9ukjdcxBI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Gj66j9DyqYI/s72-c/le+cirque++des+horreurs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-5045051881116069515</id><published>2008-12-18T07:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T02:03:53.911-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The demon barber of Tim Burton</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/maupassant-edgar-apoe-et-le-barbier.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;( lire la version française )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I can remember, I’ve always loved fantasy.&lt;br /&gt;That taste probably comes from my childhood, and the russian tales that my mother read to me, with their wonderful epic happenings and their terrifying creatures, such as the Baba-Yaga. They fired up my imagination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a teenager, I read Poe and Maupassant’s fantastic tales. These great authors very often had a mysterious, chilling and macabre universe, but their inborn sense of atmosphere and the excellence of their respective styles always managed to make a strange beauty bloom from dark grounds. In a way, I again found this balance between esthetics and horror in the Hammer productions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of the sixties, american horror movies, which replaced gothic films, seemed to me incredibly effective, but it had lost the poetic dimension of the great classics. I remember seeing George A. Romero’s&lt;br /&gt;« Night of the Living Dead » with my friend, director Pierre Gaspard-Huit. I was terrified. Its reputation as a cult movie was well deserved. As a moviegoer, I was satisfied, but as an actress, I would not have enjoyed playing in such a film ! It was lacking that dimension that made Hammer films look like adult fairy tales. This is why I’m always happy to discover a new Tim Burton movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SUpneX8skAI/AAAAAAAAAL8/Z3cVvexlmqU/s1600-h/SweeneyTodd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281147284567658498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SUpneX8skAI/AAAAAAAAAL8/Z3cVvexlmqU/s320/SweeneyTodd.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have seen SWEENEY TODD last week, an adaptation from a Broadway musical. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Back from prison, where he was unjustly sent,Todd, like the Count of Monte-Cristo, has only one idea in his mind, to get vengeance from the notables who destroyed his life. He establishes as a barber again, and cuts his enemies’ throats, after luring them to his shop. Blinded by revenge, Todd will finally perish in the same way as his victims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story is horrific but casting (lead by Johnny Depp et Helena Bonham-Carter ) is perfect. The mix of songs and dialogs served by the very inspired direction of Tim Burton make this « grand guignol » drama a flamboyant blood opera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the film seems to borrow references from Universal’s horror classics, it paints a very pessimistic portrait of the victorian society, which decidedly reminds me of the atmosphere of most Terry Fisher (1) films.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tim Burton is assuredly one of the rare directors who could make me want to act again. His love of the gothic genre and his respect for the golden age of fantasy movies touches me deeply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;next : Circus of horrors&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Terence Fisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-5045051881116069515?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/5045051881116069515/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=5045051881116069515&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5045051881116069515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/5045051881116069515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/maupassant-edgar-apoe-and-demon-barber.html' title='The demon barber of Tim Burton'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SUpneX8skAI/AAAAAAAAAL8/Z3cVvexlmqU/s72-c/SweeneyTodd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-3647509326306011359</id><published>2008-12-18T06:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T02:05:26.401-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Le barbier sanglant de Tim Burton</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/maupassant-edgar-apoe-and-demon-barber.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;( read the english version )&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Du plus loin que je me souvienne, j’ai toujours aimé le fantastique.&lt;br /&gt;Ce goût me vient sans doute de l’enfance, des contes russes que me lisait ma mère avec leurs épopées merveilleuses et ces créatures terrifiantes comme la Baba-Yaga . Ils enflammaient mon imagination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adolescente, j’ai lu Poe et les contes fantastiques de Maupassant. L’univers de ces grands auteurs était mystérieux, sombre , inquiétant, macabre très souvent mais leur sens inné de l’atmosphère et l’excellence de leurs styles respectifs parvenaient toujours à faire jaillir une étrange beauté de la noirceur. D’une certaine manière c’est cet équilibre entre l’esthétique et l’épouvante que j’ai retrouvé dans les productions Hammer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A la fin des années 60, le cinéma d’horreur américain qui supplanta les films gothiques m’apparut d’une efficacité redoutable mais il avait perdu la dimension poétique des grands classiques.&lt;br /&gt;Je me souviens être allée voir LA NUITS DES MORTS VIVANTS de George A. Romero avec mon ami le réalisateur Pierre Gaspard- Huit. J’étais terrifiée .&lt;br /&gt;Sa réputation de film-culte n’était pas usurpée . En tant que spectatrice, j’en avais pour mon argent mais en tant qu’actrice je n’aurais pas aimé jouer dans un film pareil ! Il me manquait cette dimension qui donnait aux films Hammer des allures de contes pour adultes.&lt;br /&gt;C’est la raison pour laquelle je suis toujours ravie de découvrir un nouveau film de Tim Burton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SUplgQLvECI/AAAAAAAAAL0/PHpJZIyTbLc/s1600-h/SweeneyTodd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281145117819736098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SUplgQLvECI/AAAAAAAAAL0/PHpJZIyTbLc/s320/SweeneyTodd.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai vu SWEENEY TODD la semaine dernière , une adaptation d’un « musical » de Broadway. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;De retour du bagne où il a été jeté injustement, Todd comme le Comte de Monte-Cristo n’a qu’une seule idée en tête , se venger des notables qui ont ruiné sa vie. Il reprend son métier de barbier et finit par égorger ses ennemis jurés en les attirants dans son échoppe. Aveuglé par la vengeance, Todd périra de la même façon que ses victimes. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;L’histoire est terrible mais le casting impeccable&lt;br /&gt;( Johnny Depp et Helena Bonham-Carter en tête ) et ce savant alliage entre les chansons et les dialogues servi par la mise en scène très inspirée de Tim Burton font de ce drame « grand-guignol » un opéra sanglant flamboyant.&lt;br /&gt;Si le film semble emprunter ses références du côté des classiques du fantastique de la Universal, il dresse un tableau très pessimiste de la société victorienne qui n’est pas sans me rappeler celui qui se dégage de la plupart des films de Terry Fisher (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tim Burton est assurément l’un des seuls metteurs en scène qui me donneraient envie de jouer à nouveau.&lt;br /&gt;Son attachement au genre gothique et le respect qu’il a vis-à-vis de l’âge d’or du cinéma fantastique me touchent profondément.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;à suivre : Le cirque des horreurs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Terence Fisher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-3647509326306011359?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3647509326306011359/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=3647509326306011359&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3647509326306011359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/3647509326306011359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/maupassant-edgar-apoe-et-le-barbier.html' title='Le barbier sanglant de Tim Burton'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SUplgQLvECI/AAAAAAAAAL0/PHpJZIyTbLc/s72-c/SweeneyTodd.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-636257883103191295</id><published>2008-11-17T05:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T07:00:06.518-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The beginning of my english career</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;( lire la version française )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have shot my most important films in the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;Today, they’re considered classics.&lt;br /&gt;So, I thought it was important to explain under which circumstances I finally arrived at the famous Bray Studios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, I absolutely have to mention the elegant and witty George Sanders.&lt;br /&gt;He introduces the TV drama « Women in love » in which I acted for the third time in English.&lt;br /&gt;The success of that production led to bigger things…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9N9imc4bI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Rv0GJD2NRsQ/s1600-h/The+stowoway+YMOB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269015808702210482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 212px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 171px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9N9imc4bI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Rv0GJD2NRsQ/s400/The+stowoway+YMOB.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daniel Massey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;and me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;THE STOWAWAY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;In 1958, I am in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;AVVENTURA A CAPRI is my eighth film over there.&lt;br /&gt;The adventure will go beyond the screenplay, in an unexpected way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not far from the set, as I only have a few more hours of shooting left, the motor of the boat I’m on explodes and I am severely burned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to spend a few weeks at the hospital. Everybody seems very worried for me.&lt;br /&gt;But I manage to stay hopeful in spite of my critical condition.&lt;br /&gt;My accident appears on the front page of newspapers and brings me what we call today a lot of media coverage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After appearing in celebrity shoots, immortalized by photographers during prestigious happenings in the whirlwind of the Dolce Vita, I become overnight an object of curiosity in sensational news. The flip side of notoriety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The esthetic sequels of the accident slowly disappear.&lt;br /&gt;Back in Rome, I begin to dream of new perspectives.&lt;br /&gt;By chance, my English agent calls me. INN FOR TROUBLE had not been a bad memory (1).&lt;br /&gt;This time, it is a TV drama produced for the 3rd birthday of Associated Rediffusion, an ITV program contractor for London.&lt;br /&gt;My partners will be Daniel Massey, and our host, George Sanders.&lt;br /&gt;Who could think of a better company ?&lt;br /&gt;Without regret, I leave the sweet light of the peninsula for the effervescence of the English Capital.&lt;br /&gt;The bad experience of AVVENTURA A CAPRI has turned out for the best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite of its title, WOMEN IN LOVE (2) has absolutely nothing in common with the D.H.Lawrence novel, though it also celebrates, in its own way, «eternal femininity ».&lt;br /&gt;The teleplay consists of six short stories, linked by the witty introductions by George Sanders, who incarnates the « masculine dreamer ».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sanders is, on and off stage, a gallant man who is never without his « so British » phlegm.&lt;br /&gt;He is also, like all great actors of that era,&lt;br /&gt;a cosmopolitan man.&lt;br /&gt;Hearing that I had Russian origins on my mother’s side, he naturally starts to joke with me in an impeccable Russian.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among the « women in love », we also find in the casting the Italian Scilla Gabel, soon to be Elfie Whal in the beautiful macabre Giorgio Ferroni film « MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN ».&lt;br /&gt;The production is supervised by Peter Graham Scott, a seasoned TV director who will later bless Hammer Films with one of their best adventure movies, NIGHT CREATURES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am Felicity, the heroin of the last story, THE STOWAWAY.&lt;br /&gt;Everything happens on a boat, off the Mediterranean coast.&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Massey is a bachelor who occupies&lt;br /&gt;the « honeymooners’ cabin ».&lt;br /&gt;He is longing for a beautiful woman to share it with until he discovers Felicity, the stowaway.&lt;br /&gt;A love chase follows, with the right touches of comedy.&lt;br /&gt;I am mischievous and cheeky. My French origins bring just the right exotic touch to complete this portrait of a southern escapade (2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much for the script. Shooting is a different story.&lt;br /&gt;We only have three days of rehearsal. We shoot the entire film on the fourth day.&lt;br /&gt;We play the entire story at once, and it is ampexed (3) with several cameras, in the same way a stage play would be recorded. There is no « safety net ». We act as if on live television.&lt;br /&gt;That pressure adds to the excitement we all feel.&lt;br /&gt;My problem is to try and avoid a dialog approximation which made everybody laugh in rehearsal.&lt;br /&gt;« I have to scrub the deck » invariably came out as « scrub… the neck » ! No matter how hard I tried, I kept blowing the line up to the last rehearsal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shooting time comes. The cameras follow me to my cabin and on the deck. I feel the sea rocking the boat. I am Felicity, off the French coasts.&lt;br /&gt;Nothing else matters… and I forget my mistake !&lt;br /&gt;Against all odds, I manage to limit my worries to the nautical aspects of the situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE STOWAWAY brings me good reviews.&lt;br /&gt;The charm of this light English comedy brings me to the attention of English producers who were looking for a young woman for a movie about the circus.&lt;br /&gt;But not any circus : THE CIRCUS OF HORRORS (4) !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( to be continued )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) INN FOR TROUBLE by C.M.Pennington Richards (1958). A spin-off of the successful sitcom THE LARKINS with Peggy Mount and David Kossoff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) WOMEN IN LOVE:&lt;br /&gt;The stowaway directed by Ronald Marriott ( 1959)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) Derived from the trademark Ampex, a videotape recording system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(4) CIRCUS OF HORRORS by Sidney Hayers ( 1960 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-636257883103191295?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/636257883103191295/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=636257883103191295&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/636257883103191295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/636257883103191295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career_17.html' title='The beginning of my english career'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9N9imc4bI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Rv0GJD2NRsQ/s72-c/The+stowoway+YMOB.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-1592040202265859529</id><published>2008-11-15T09:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T09:40:37.830-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Les débuts de ma carrière anglo-saxonne</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career_17.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#666600;"&gt;( read the english version)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mes plus grands succès sont ceux que j'ai tournés en Grande-Bretagne. Ils sont considérés aujourd'hui comme des classiques. Aussi m'a-t-il semblé important de vous relater les circonstances qui m'ont conduite jusqu’aux fameux Bray Studios.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Impossible de ne pas évoquer la figure élégante et spirituelle de George Sanders. Il présentait la dramatique télévisée: " Women in love" dans laquelle je jouais pour la troisième fois en anglais. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;C'est à partir du succès de cette production que tout s'est enchaîné...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9N9imc4bI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Rv0GJD2NRsQ/s1600-h/The+stowoway+YMOB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269015808702210482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 212px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 171px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9N9imc4bI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Rv0GJD2NRsQ/s400/The+stowoway+YMOB.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;Daniel Massey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;et moi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;dans&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;THE STOWAWAY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;En 1958, je suis en Italie.&lt;br /&gt;AVVENTURA A CAPRI est mon huitième film transalpin. L'aventure va déborder du cadre du scénario d'une manière inattendue.&lt;br /&gt;En marge des plateaux, alors qu'il ne reste plus que quelques heures de tournage, le moteur du canot sur lequel je me trouve, explose. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Le feu me brûle grièvement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis hospitalisée pendant plusieurs semaines. Mon entourage est très inquiet. Je reste pourtant confiante malgré la situation critique.&lt;br /&gt;Mon accident fait la une des journaux et me vaut ce qu'on appelle aujourd'hui une "médiatisation" certaine.&lt;br /&gt;Des chroniques mondaines où l'on me voit, immortalisée par les photographes dans les soirées de prestige, le tourbillon de la Dolce Vita, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;je deviens du jour au lendemain la bête curieuse du reportage à sensation. Le revers de la notoriété.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les séquelles esthétiques de l'accident &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;s'estompent peu à peu.&lt;br /&gt;De retour à Rome, je songe à d'autres horizons. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cela tombe bien, mon agent anglais m'appelle. INN FOR TROUBLE n'avait pas été un mauvais souvenir (1).&lt;br /&gt;Cette fois-ci, il s'agit d'une dramatique télévisée produite à l'occasion du 3e anniversaire de l' Associated Rediffusion, une filiale londonienne de ITV.&lt;br /&gt;J'aurai pour partenaire Daniel Massey et comme hôte George Sanders.On ne pouvait souhaiter meilleure compagnie.&lt;br /&gt;Je quitte sans regret la douce lumière de la péninsule pour l'effervescence de la capitale britannique.&lt;br /&gt;AVVENTURA A CAPRI aura été un mal pour un bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme son titre ne l'indique pas, WOMEN IN LOVE (2) n'a absolument rien à voir&lt;br /&gt;avec le roman de D.H. Lawrence bien qu'il y est aussi question d'exalter l'éternel féminin.&lt;br /&gt;Le téléfilm est constitué de six sketchs reliés entre eux par la présentation spirituelle&lt;br /&gt;de George Sanders qui joue le "rêveur masculin".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sanders est dans la vie comme à l'écran, un galant homme qui ne peut jamais se départir&lt;br /&gt;de son flegme " so british".&lt;br /&gt;C'est aussi, comme les grands acteurs de cette époque, un cosmopolite.&lt;br /&gt;Apprenant que j'avais des origines slaves du côté de ma mère, il se met naturellement à plaisanter avec moi dans un russe impeccable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parmi les "femmes amoureuses" du casting figure aussi l'italienne Scilla Gabel, la future Elfie Whal&lt;br /&gt;du beau film macabre de Giorgio Ferroni : LE MOULIN DES SUPPLICES.&lt;br /&gt;L'ensemble de la réalisation est supervisé par Peter Graham Scott,un réalisateur de télévision chevronné qui donnera plus tard à la Hammer films,&lt;br /&gt;l'un de ses meilleurs films d'aventures : CAPTAIN CLEGG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moi, je suis Félicity, l'héroïne du dernier sketch: THE STOWAWAY &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;( la passagère clandestine).&lt;br /&gt;L'histoire se déroule sur un bateau, au bord de la méditerranée.&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Massey est un célibataire qui occupe la cabine dite des "Lunes de miel".&lt;br /&gt;Il se lamente de ne pouvoir la partager avec une jolie femme jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre Félicity la passagère clandestine. S'ensuit un chassé-croisé amoureux sur le ton de la comédie.&lt;br /&gt;Je suis facétieuse et mutine. Mes origines françaises apportent juste ce qu'il faut d'exotisme pour compléter ce tableau anglais d'un voyage dans le sud (2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà pour le script. La réalisation est une autre affaire.&lt;br /&gt;Nous n'avons que trois jours pour répéter. On tourne l'histoire entière le quatrième jour.&lt;br /&gt;Le sketch est joué dans la continuité et ampexé (3) avec plusieurs caméras exactement&lt;br /&gt;comme pour une pièce de théâtre. Il n'y a pas de filet. Ce sont les conditions du direct.&lt;br /&gt;La pression participe à l'excitation qui nous anime tous.&lt;br /&gt;Quand à moi, je veux surtout éviter de répéter une approximation sur un dialogue à l'origine d'un éclat de rire général.&lt;br /&gt;" Je dois récurer le pont " en anglais " scrub the deck" devenait invariablement dans le feu de la répartie " scrub the... neck ( le cou ) " !&lt;br /&gt;Avec une opiniâtreté qui entretient l'hilarité de l'équipe, je perpétue mon erreur jusqu'à la dernière répétition.&lt;br /&gt;Et puis le tournage a lieu. Les caméras me suivent dans la cabine et sur le pont. Je sens le roulis de la mer.&lt;br /&gt;Je suis Félicity sur un bateau au large des côtes françaises. Plus rien d'autre ne compte. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;J'avais oublié de me tromper !&lt;br /&gt;Contre toute attente, j'étais parvenue à limiter mes préoccupations ménagères au domaine de la marine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE STOWAWAY me vaut de bonnes critiques.&lt;br /&gt;Le charme de cette comédie légère attire l'attention de producteurs anglais qui recherchaient&lt;br /&gt;une jeune femme pour un film sur le cirque.&lt;br /&gt;Pas n'importe lequel: LE CIRQUE DES HORREURS(4)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;( à suivre )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(1) INN FOR TROUBLE de C.M.Pennington Richards (1958)&lt;br /&gt;Un spin-off de la sitcom à succès THE LARKINS avec Peggy Mount et David Kossoff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) WOMEN IN LOVE:&lt;br /&gt;The stowaway réalisé par Ronald Marriott ( 1959)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) Du nom de l’Ampex. Enregistrement sur bande vidéo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(4) CIRCUS OF HORRORS de Sidney Hayers ( 1960 )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5092068813714526730-1592040202265859529?l=yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1592040202265859529/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5092068813714526730&amp;postID=1592040202265859529&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1592040202265859529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5092068813714526730/posts/default/1592040202265859529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career.html' title='Les débuts de ma carrière anglo-saxonne'/><author><name>Yvonne Monlaur</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01771947053830357757</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR_zro5bDmI/AAAAAAAAAK0/FAe0a2SS7qg/S220/profil+YMOB.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9N9imc4bI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Rv0GJD2NRsQ/s72-c/The+stowoway+YMOB.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092068813714526730.post-4600629324012395865</id><published>2008-11-07T06:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-19T10:54:31.742-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My filmography</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1956&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#000000;"&gt;TREIZE A TABLE de André Hunnebelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Thirteen at the table&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;MANNEQUINS DE PARIS de André Hunnebelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Mannequins of Paris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;HONORE DE MARSEILLE de Maurice Régamey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcRkKk46HI/AAAAAAAAAFo/3hZ_pgjslg0/s1600-h/filmo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266697602245126258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcRkKk46HI/AAAAAAAAAFo/3hZ_pgjslg0/s320/filmo1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1957&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LAS LAVENDERAS DE PORTUGAL de Pierre Gaspard Huit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Les lavandières du Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1958&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;NON SONO PIU GUAGLIONE de Domenico Paolella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;AMORE A PRIMA VISTA de Franco Rossi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Love at the first sight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-03-17T09%3A23%3A00-07%3A00&amp;amp;max-results=1"&gt;TRE STRANIERE A ROMA de Claudio Gora&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Three strangers in Rome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcSfd0_vNI/AAAAAAAAAFw/2FaonU8Li_4/s1600-h/filmo2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266698621025238226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcSfd0_vNI/AAAAAAAAAFw/2FaonU8Li_4/s320/filmo2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1959&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LA CENTO CHILOMETRI de Giulio Petroni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;QUEL TESORO DI PAPA de Marino Girolami&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;SPAVALDI E INNAMORATI de Giuseppe Vari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;DESTINAZIONE SANREMO de Domenico Paolella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;THE THIRD MAN tv episode : High finance de Julian Amyes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;AVVENTURA A CAPRI de Giuseppe Lippartiti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcZpXaYUxI/AAAAAAAAAF4/7mSTeP12zhc/s1600-h/filmo3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266706487683076882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcZpXaYUxI/AAAAAAAAAF4/7mSTeP12zhc/s320/filmo3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1960&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;INN FOR TROUBLE de C.M.Pennington&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/beginning-of-my-english-career_17.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;WOMEN IN LOVE tv episode: The stowoway de Ronald Marriott&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/circus-of-horrors.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;CIRCUS OF HORRORS de Sidney Hayers&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Phantom of the circus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;TALES OF VIKING tv de Elmo Williams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/brides-of-dracula-first-part.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BRIDES OF DRACULA de Terence Fisher&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;IT STARTED IN NAPLES de Melville Shavelson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QZ9hZNuk04w&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1&amp;amp;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1961&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;GERARCHI SI MUORE de Giorgio Simonelli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/terror-of-tongs.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;THE TERROR OF THE TONGS de Anthony Bushell&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Terror of the hatchet men&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jlVl4mpv0Gk&amp;amp;hl=" width="425" height="344" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" fs="1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1962&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LE CONCERTO DE LA PEUR de José Bénazeraf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Night of lust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LEMMY POUR LES DAMES de Bernard Borderie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Ladie's man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERY THEATER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;tv episode : Time to remember de Charles Jarrett&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1963&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A CAUSE, A CAUSE D'UNE FEMME de Michel Deville&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Because of a women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/caribbean-hawk.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LO SPARVIERO DEI CARAIBO de Piero Regnoli&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Caribbean hawk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcaaKz5vGI/AAAAAAAAAGA/gXXke1p9niI/s1600-h/filmo4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266707326114053218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 215px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcaaKz5vGI/AAAAAAAAAGA/gXXke1p9niI/s320/filmo4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1964&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;NICK CARTER VA TOUT CASSER de Henri Decoin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka License to kill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;BAYARD tv serie de Claude Pierson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Chevalier Bayard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1965&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;LE CIEL SUR LA TETE de Yves Ciampi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;MISSION SPECIALE A CARACAS de Raoul André&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Mission to Caracas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRca9hT9eGI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Ef0dMzaPnMM/s1600-h/epervier.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266707933449517154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 203px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRca9hT9eGI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Ef0dMzaPnMM/s320/epervier.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;1966&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurofficialblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/tip-not-included.html"&gt;DIE RECHNUNG-EISKALT SERVIERT de Helmut Ashley &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;aka Tip not included /Un cercueil de diamants&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;DER TOD LAUFT HINTERHER tv episodes de Wolfgang Becker&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SRcbyf-x-0I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/Z5qN6R5ACNI/s1600-h/filmo5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266708843625315138" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 195px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 244px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR9bWUP4DSI/AAAAAAAAAKU/rwUzkm2YDcQ/s320/accueil+YMOB.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bonjour, je suis &lt;strong&gt;Yvonne Monlaur&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Bienvenue à tous sur mon blog officiel !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je vous propose de partager avec moi la mémoire du cinéma fantastique des années 60 mais aussi des confidences sur mes activités passées et présentes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous trouverez ici des informations exactes&lt;br /&gt;sur ma filmographie&lt;br /&gt;ainsi qu'un lien vers des dédicaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://yvonnemonlaurautographs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268956352010729266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 66px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SR8X4tKjNzI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/AgIe-R2y9kE/s320/signature+YMOBl.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SdlywMvTRGY/SSL1IzByFEI/AAAAAAAAALs/Zuy63rPjw78/s1600-h/BanniÃ¨re+lien+YMOB.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270044045462344770" style="DISPLAY: block; 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