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Post by teleadm on Aug 17, 2018 7:46:01 GMT
Evelyn Ankers sometimes called "The Queen of the B's", at least in the 1940s, mostly in thrillers and horror movies. Born on August 17, 1918 in Valparaiso, Chile (she didn't become an American citizen until 1946), and left us in 1985 on Maui, Hawaii, where she had lived with her husband, actor Richard Denning, since 1967, after he begun playing the governor in Hawaii 5-0. She and Richard got married in 1942, and lasted until her death.  Though she was born in Chile her parents were English, got her acting education at the Tacchomo School of Music and Dramatic Art, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Made her Broadway debut in 1940. She had already appeared in smaller roles in British movies since 1936, and made her Hollywood debut in 1941. Some samples of her career:  Hold That Ghost 1941, she stands in the middle.  The Wolf Man 1941  The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942  Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 1942  The Mad Ghoul 1943  Captive Wild Woman 1943  The Invisible Man's Revenge 1944  The Pearl of Death 1944  Black Beauty 1946  The Lone Wolf in London 1947  Tarzan's Magic Fountain 1949  The Texan Meets Calamity Jane 1950, after this movie she semi-retired. She continued to guest star occasionally in TV-series up untill 1958, and made a short in 1960.  Thanks for watching! |
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 17, 2018 15:11:07 GMT
Thanks, Tele.
Evelyn was one of cinema's great 'screamers' -- right up there with Fay Wray and Barbara Shelley.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 17, 2018 21:12:15 GMT
Evelyn Ankers was my first "movie crush," way back when my age was still in single digits. So elegant and classy, in an unaffected, girl-next-door way. And a knockout! Seemingly made for the fashions and elaborate hairstyles of the '40s, she was the right woman for the right place at the right time. I'll add that she always brought credit to her work: never too much; never too little. And I'd guess from the publicity pose below (one of my favorites), she was also a good sport.  It's easy enough to imagine the photographer's instructions: "Terror and legs, Evie, that's what I want. Gimme terror and legs!" |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 21:17:10 GMT
Sidenote: why when referring to a person's activity on an island is it always "on" versus "in" for anywhere on the mainland?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 17, 2018 21:19:37 GMT
She may be the first actress I knew by name since I had horror books and was a Wolf Man fan.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 17, 2018 21:28:19 GMT
Dedicated classics film writer Gregory William Mank has a special love of Evelyn Ankers that comes through in his illuminating writings. He marvels at her on-screen artistry and revels in the real-life joy and happiness the 'Queen of 1940s Horror' brought to citizens of her beloved Hawaii later in life. 
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 17, 2018 21:45:17 GMT
Sidenote: why when referring to a person's activity on an island is it always "on" versus "in" for anywhere on the mainland? Good question. One of the many charming vagaries of the English language, I expect. Why is someone in a movie but on television? Why is it out west but back east? Some of it's regional as well: in the U.S., a shop is on such-and-such a street; in England, it's in such-and-such a street. I grew up in southern CA, where "up" represents northerly directions ("I have to run up to Bakersfield tomorrow") and "down" represents southerly ones ("We're going down to San Diego this weekend"). In the eastern Washington city in which I now live, the northern half is flat, the southern half is a hill (unsurprisingly referred to as the South Hill), and "up" or "down" are determined entirely by their relation to the Hill, so when you go north (to "the flats"), it's "down," and when you go south ("the Hill"), it's "up." I'll never get used to that. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 17, 2018 22:31:57 GMT
Doghouse6 Anyway … She got the legs part right in that photo  Sven Goolie gets to talk about her often and he always mentions her screaming prowess !
re-the Hamilton … one always goes " up to London" no matter where situated in relation to that city.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 17, 2018 23:34:38 GMT
Doghouse6 Anyway … She got the legs part right in that photo Sven Goolie gets to talk about her often and he always mentions her screaming prowess !
re-the Hamilton … one always goes " up to London" no matter where situated in relation to that city. Well, I imagine it's difficult to register terror without contorting one's lovely face into an un-beautiful mask. Ankers and Fay Wray did it well. In any event, I expect Wray was happy to relinquish the "scream queen" title to Ankers. I did not know that about London. Now, Denver I could understand. Maybe the people downeast in Maine do. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 17, 2018 23:46:05 GMT
Doghouse6 was rather interesting tracing back from whence in leftfield the Hamilton was thrown. Luckily, my CSI and NCIS and Baker Street training kicked in.
RE ON vs IN : It has to do with land mass : For instance : "I grew up on Long Island in New York." One lives IN Australia and not ON Australia.
The things one can learn on the inter-webby-thingy from the unlikeliest of sources !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 18, 2018 0:02:48 GMT
Doghouse6 was rather interesting tracing back from whence in leftfield the Hamilton was thrown. Luckily, my CSI and NCIS and Baker Street training kicked in.
RE ON vs IN : It has to do with land mass : For instance : "I grew up on Long Island in New York." One lives IN Australia and not ON Australia.
The things one can learn on the inter-webby-thingy from the unlikeliest of sources ! To at least partially return the thread to the topic, when Ankers's hubby Richard Denning played the governor on (as opposed to "in") Hawaii Five-O, production was based at the Hawaii Film Studio, in Honolulu, on Oahu, in the state of Hawaii. Out in the Pacific, of course. And that's where that's at. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 18, 2018 0:21:47 GMT
 Never knew they were married !
Doghouse6 You have brilliantly summed up the on/in/at/out conumdrum but @nxnwrocks has probably wandered off to post a few dozen more threads somewhere or other and may never know |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 18, 2018 0:39:31 GMT
Doghouse6 You have brilliantly summed up the on/in/at/out conumdrum but @nxnwrocks has probably wandered off to post a few dozen more threads somewhere or other and may never know Maybe he took it on the lam. Maybe he's in flight, on a plane. Could be he's on a ship or a bus, or in a car on the road. Perhaps got out of the car and is standing in the roadway. Maybe he left on a lark, or in a snit or a huff. Or is just at loose ends, or couldn't get with the program. I hope he's not under the weather, and if so, that he gets over it soon. I'm sure we're all quite used to seeing him around here. I really must get off these tangents, but you know what they say: location, location, location. Sorry, teleadm, I get this way when the weekend is upon us. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 18, 2018 0:47:49 GMT
Doghouse6all I can honestly say about that ^^^^^ is … thanks so much for being a baby boomer ! and for exercising the ol' timey guffaw muscles !
and thanks, teleadm for another nice tribute thread ! 
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Post by teleadm on Aug 18, 2018 13:35:16 GMT
Doghouse6 and BATouttaheckThanks for using my thread in your own peculiar ways!  is a token that I don't mind!
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Post by mattgarth on Aug 18, 2018 13:40:26 GMT
Doghouse6 You have brilliantly summed up the on/in/at/out conumdrum but @nxnwrocks has probably wandered off to post a few dozen more threads somewhere or other and may never know Maybe he took it on the lam. Maybe he's in flight, on a plane. Could be he's on a ship or a bus, or in a car on the road. Perhaps got out of the car and is standing in the roadway. Maybe he left on a lark, or in a snit or a huff. Or is just at loose ends, or couldn't get with the program. I hope he's not under the weather, and if so, that he gets over it soon. I'm sure we're all quite used to seeing him around here. I really must get off these tangents, but you know what they say: location, location, location. Sorry, teleadm , I get this way when the weekend is upon us. That's quite a preposition ... sorry, make that a proposition that you have set forth there, Doghouse. It is certainly AMONG your very best ones. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 18, 2018 16:00:19 GMT
Maybe he took it on the lam. Maybe he's in flight, on a plane. Could be he's on a ship or a bus, or in a car on the road. Perhaps got out of the car and is standing in the roadway. Maybe he left on a lark, or in a snit or a huff. Or is just at loose ends, or couldn't get with the program. I hope he's not under the weather, and if so, that he gets over it soon. I'm sure we're all quite used to seeing him around here. I really must get off these tangents, but you know what they say: location, location, location. Sorry, teleadm , I get this way when the weekend is upon us. That's quite a preposition ... sorry, make that a proposition that you have set forth there, Doghouse. It is certainly AMONG your very best ones. Your praise has me beside myself, but between you and me, I'm sure it was only amiddling effort. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 18, 2018 16:09:44 GMT
Doghouse6 it was all well WITHIN the bounds of good taste (if not WITHIN the exact topicality of the thread WITHOUT which framework we would be totally lost and IN a pickle, UP a stream WITHOUT a Paddle.) etc !
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 18, 2018 16:17:23 GMT
Doghouse6 it was all well WITHIN the bounds of good taste (if not WITHIN the exact topicality of the thread WITHOUT which framework we would be totally lost and IN a pickle, UP a stream WITHOUT a Paddle.) etc ! Or as adrift as boats without Ankers. Topicality? I got yer topicality right here! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 18, 2018 16:46:01 GMT
Doghouse6Topicality on target as ever !
It's really all that teleadm 's doing ! After all, in the OP he did say " ON MAUI" and ever alert poster NxNWRocks leapt almost immediately to the essential essence of the true focus and meaning of the thread.
Evelyn with two of her pals … she fainted from laughing at your last comment !  ghost of Frankenstein
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