Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971) - Dickinson Article - Historical Item (Boston Press Series)
Writing by blake on Saturday, 1 of September , 2007 at 10:22 am
FILE: ANGIE DICKINSON ESCAPES CONTRACT TRAP (Press Article)
Angie Dickinson press notes for, “Pretty Maids All In A Row.” View the press notes above or after the link bump read the full text.
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One of the goals of this site is preserving film history one image at a time. In addition to that preserving various other forms of film history. Debuting Friday, August 31, 2007 was a historical look at the Boston leg of Rock Hudson’s publicity tour for “Pretty Maids All In A Row.” Items in this series will feature all kinds of images, letters and other extremely rare goodies. This really will be a fascinating look at both publicity for this film and press at the time of 1971. I’m extremely proud to be archiving for public viewing these rare historical film items! Several items a day will be posted for this series in the weeks ahead.
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Full Text of Angie Dickinson Press Notes:
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ANGIE DICKINSON ESCAPES CONTRACT TRAP
The current demise of the studio contract system is certainly fine with Angie Dickinson, who thinks it just about ruined her career.
Angie is currently and happily a free-lance actress, who together with Rock Hudson just finished filming MGM’s “PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW” a black comedy directed by Roger Vadim. As a free agent, the actress enjoys selecting parts that interest her. But, as a salaried star under the old system, she nearly gave up acting.
“I was under contract to Warner Brothers for over two years, which was none of my doing,” the actress says.
“It’s like a horse being claimed in a race. Howard Hawks sold my contract to Warner Brothers without even telling me. I went to read for a part one day and found I had a permanent auto pass, or I otherwise wouldn’t have know it.”
The Warner stint did little to further Angie’s career and she was trapped again at Universal.
“I wanted to do “Captain Newman, M.D.,” so badly that I signed a seven year non-exclusive deal with them and had to buy myself out at the end of two years because I wasn’t doing anything. What a drag,” Angie says.
The turning point of the actress’ career was MGM’s “Point Blank,” which she made after she bought out the Universal contract.
“At last I was out of the Western and into a modern story, with a modern director, John Boorman. It was a man’s picture, with the focus on Lee Marvin, but at least it was a start in the right direction. I think I only had 5-6 closeups in the film.”
In MAIDS, Angie is a far-out English high school teacher, busily engaged in seducing one of her students, played by co-star John David Carson.
“As in the case of Boorman, Vadim is with it,” Angie says. “He is one of the many things that attracted me to the picture.”
If “Maids” is the success the studio hopes it will be, Angie will be free to wheel and deal for other big parts, whenever and wherever.
“It’s kind of playing Poker and wishing you had never drawn three kings,” she says laughingly, “but seriously, if it puts me in the sex symbol ranks, fine. I don’t mind admitting that I have lost some roles to the late Inger Stevens and Lee Remick. Let’s not lose to anybody else.”
Angie Dickinson has played a lot of namby-pamby housewives and has been labeled by some as something of a square and a prude. Such is far from the case. Those who so labeled her forget her association with the Kennedy clan and also that she not only allowed but encouraged Esquire Magazine to run a full page nude picture of her.
“I would gladly have played “Myra Breckenridge” if anybody had asked me,” Angie says.
In private life, Angie Dickinson is married to super composer Burt Bacharach and they have a daughter, Nikki, 4 years old.
As far as the Bacharach menage is concerned, the couple have been married for five years and keep their careers totally unentangled.
“Burt perhaps wasn’t as well known as I was when we were married, and now the scales have tipped. Burt is truly a super star,” his wife smiles proudly.
Both the Bacharachs adore little Nikki, and are worried about the future, and how it may affect the child.
“By the time she is a teen-ager I think life in our present day society will have calmed down a bit. Things have to get worse before they get better,” Angie opines.
Last summer the Bacharachs rented a house in Del Mar for two months and relaxed together on the beach and at the trace track. Burt has a racing stable and although Angie is interested in horse racing she is quick to proclaim that it is “his” not “our” enterprise.
“Husbands and wives need individual interests,” Angie says. And the Bacharachs have both.
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Image Source:
From official rare press files for the Boston publicity tour of Rock Hudson for the film “Pretty Maids All In A Row.”
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Category: People: Roger Vadim, Movies: Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971), Historical Finds: Pretty Maids All In A Row (Boston Pre, Historical Finds, People: Angie Dickinson
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