Rystáll Sant(Mercedes Ngoh), Lyn Me (Dalyn Chew) and Boba Fett (Don Bies) during rehersal.
...specifically, the Jabba the Hutt throne-room reshoots from the Return of the JediSpecial Edition including some never-before-seen pix of the three dancers who appear only in the Special Edition, next week at our "brother" blog, Femmes Fantastique!
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Fairy Godmother / performer: "Prologue", "Impossible", "It's Possible", "Finale Ultimo", "There's Music in You")
The Preacher's Wife (Julia Biggs)
The BodyGuard (Rachel Marron / performer: "Queen of the Night")
Note: The BodyGuard is not really genre, but it's use of footage from the classic 1926 film Metropolis as well as the Maria-Robotrix-influenced costume prominently featured in the video for "Queen of the Night" and the film itself make it worthy, IMHO, of inclusion.
Other actresses to play Fairy Godmother in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella include Celeste Holm [1965] and Edie Adams [1957]
Other actresses to play Julia Biggs include...
Actually, in the previous version of this film, The Bishop's Wife [1947], the character was named Julia Brougham and played by Loretta Young.
She's talented!
She's cute!
She's controversial!
She's Junie Hoang, and she's complaining that her career was ruined by the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) because they revealed her real age!
She's 41, and doesn't look it!
She's 41? So what? She's HOT!
While she's never had a big break, Junie has been working pretty regularly since 1992, including a lot of animation voice work!
She even voiced Chun Li in Street Fighter 2: Victory!
We wish you the best, Junie, and hope to see (or hear) you on the screen soon!
Genre credits include:
Ginger DeadMan 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (Sandy) / GingerDeadMan 2: Passion of the Crust (Ensign Del Rio)
Note: Junie plays two different characters since #3 is a time-travel story transporting the villain back to the 1970s.
Naomie Harris as "Eve" aka Miss Moneypenny in a scene with Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Whether "Eve" is a code name or Moneypenny's first name is unknown at this point.
None of the previous Bond novels or films give her a first name, though a spin-off novel series, The Moneypenny Diaries, does..."Jane".
Moneypenny didn't appear in either of the previous Craig James Bond 007 movies Casino Royale, which rebooted the series from the early days of Bond's spy career before he received his "00" designation and license to kill or Quantum of Solace.
(Note: Moneypenny did appear in both the novel and 1967 movie versions of Casino Royale.)
The attempt at revamping the campy 1970s series with Annie Ilonzeh, Rachael Taylor, and Minka Kelly as three young criminals turned private investigators in Miami proved futile.
The series brought in 8.7 million viewers with its Sept. 22 premiere, but the numbers dropped from there. Thursday's episode garnered 6 million viewers, a marginal increase from the previous week.
Production has already shut down on the series, and already-produced episodes will air until the network decides what will fill the time slot. (there are 2 known episodes, but it is suspected that at least 2 partially-completed episodes will be finished as well.)
The original tv series ran 5 seasons (1976-81) for 110 episodes, and there were 2 successful feature films in 2000 & 2003.
Ironically, the most recent episode was a remake of an original series episode that drew record ratings when it aired in 1976!
There are those who died far too early in their careers...
Jimi Hendrix
James Dean
Selena
Heath Ledger
Jim Morrison
Buddy Holly
Add to that sad list...
Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was already a star in the music industry.
With several genre credits including the title role of Queen of the Damned and a supporting role in the Matrix trilogy, she was also establishing herself as a legit actress.
Unfortunately, her untimely death aboard an overloaded airplane brought an end to all that.
On this, the 10th anniversary of her passing off this mortal coil, we offer our condolences to her family, friends, and fans.
[Note: Aaliyah's scenes had been filmed before her death, but since Zee was scheduled to return in the next film, it was decided to reshoot the character's scenes with another actress (Nona Gaye) in the role.]
Considering she started her career with a featured role in Blade and has done top-notch work in several genre flicks and TV shows since, it's unforgivable that I haven't taken a long...lingering...look at the lovely Sanaa McCoy Lathan before now.
The multi-talented Sanna is equally at home on the Broadway stage (a Tony Award-nominated performance in a revival of Raisin in the Sun), an animation voice-recording studio, or doing a lot of her own stunts on camera.
...so we thought we'd look at the most comic tv episode she ever did!
Lucy Meets Superman!
Lucy competes with her friend Carolyn Appleby over invitations and scheduling for Little Ricky's birthday party.
When Ricky mentions that Superman is in town, Lucy tries to get Superman to come to Little Ricky's party, sure that this will make it a much bigger draw than the one Carolyn is hosting. Ricky tries, but Superman can't make the party. So Lucy disguises herself as "Superman", and much hilarity ensues.
Fortunately Superman does show up to save the day...
Trivia:
Though the episode was filmed and broadcast in black and white, George Reeves wore the "color" red/blue/yellow costume which looks almost monochromatic in b/w (as you can see)!
This was because the show was recorded in front of a live audience, and the high-contrast gray (for blue) and brown (for red) costume used in Adventures of Superman's b/w episodes wouldn't have looked "right" to the audience (or the kids on set)!
The promotional photo at left was shot in b/w and meant for b/w newspaper and magazine reproduction, so George wore the gray/brown costume to provide contrast between the "blue" and "red" costume elements.
Deliberately, George Reeves appears only in costume and everyone refers to him only as "Superman", not as "George Reeves" or "the man who plays Superman" or somesuch!
In one scene, a woman sees Lucy in her improvised Superman costume outside a window and screams! When her husband asks her what she saw...
Man: Was it a bird? Woman: No! Man: Was it a plane? Woman: No! Man: Then what was it? Woman: It was Superman!
The woman was played by Madge Blake, who several years later, was Aunt Harriet on the Batman TV series!
Now a special treat...the COMPLETE EPISODE "Lucy Meets Superman"!
For the record, besides this episode of her tv series, Lucille Ball has several genre credits including Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, Blood Money, Five Came Back, and The Dark Corner,
In addition, the studio she owned with Desi Arnaz, Desilu Studios, produced the first two years of the original Star Trek before Paramount Pictures acquired the studio in 1967, forever placing her in the upper echelon of Fantastic Femmes!
Saturday morning, 12:00pm (EST)
Right after two chapters of Ace Drummond (A pretty entertaining 1930s serial)
Dorothy Dandridge in her only genre role as Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba.
The working title of this film was Tarzan's Mate in Peril.
It's an original story, not based on a Tarzan novel or short story.
The first Tarzan picture to have new footage featuring the cast shot in Africa, instead of Hollywood with Africa stock footage.
According to various Hollywood Reporter news items, exterior filming took place from July to September 1950 in Kenya (which was then British East Africa), including Meru National Park, as well as Uganda and Tanganyika.
After eight weeks of interior shooting at the RKO-Path Studios in Culver City, CA, the production finshed filming in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.
Here's the trailer (in French)...
(Zee)
(Queen Akasha)
(Trish O'Day)
"Fade Out"
did so well...)
did better than this!!! 
), an animation voice-recording studio, or doing a lot of her own stunts on camera.
(Mrs Brooks)
(Donna Tubbs Brown) 
(Vanessa Brooks)
(Ann Merai Harrison) 
(Alexa Woods)
, Blood Money, Five Came Back
, and The Dark Corner
,
is featured in the bioflick Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
starring Halle Berry as Dorothy...
(Monica)