One of my fave movies! Shirley Stoler was excellent in her role as Martha Beck. Other notable performances by Shirley include:
An iconic season 4 episode of Charlie’s Angels as Big Aggie “Caged Angel”
Pee-wee’s Playhouse as Mrs. Steve
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One of my fave movies! Shirley Stoler was excellent in her role as Martha Beck. Other notable performances by Shirley include:
An iconic season 4 episode of Charlie’s Angels as Big Aggie “Caged Angel”
Pee-wee’s Playhouse as Mrs. Steve
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 14, 2024 3:38 AM |
Agreed, OP. Shirley deserves more love/recognition on DL.
Other roles:
SEVEN BEAUTIES
KLUTE
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
She's also the psychiatric nurse in VALLEY OF THE DOLLS with Patty Duke. Not sure why this doesn't appear in her IMDB profile.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 9, 2021 5:19 PM |
That looks absolutely wunderbar, Miss OP!!! My kind of movie.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 9, 2021 5:24 PM |
I just noticed, Raymond’s mother was in it. Doris Roberts!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 9, 2021 5:26 PM |
Shirley Stoler was memorable on "The Edge of Night" as a humorless killer named Frankie and in two roles on "One Life to Live", recurring for two years as Dorian's prison cellmate Roberta Coleman whose son Wade married Mary Lynn Dennison, then as the widow of a mobster who had Mortimer Bern in cement shoes. She shared a scene with Elaine Stritch in the second visit. Her character was obviously influenced by Sally Spectra of "B&B", a big lady with a lust for hot bodybuilders.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 9, 2021 5:36 PM |
For years I wouldn’t watch The Honeymoon Killers. It gave me the willies big time. When I finally watched it Shirley won me over with her performance. And she was fantastic in Seven Beauties.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 9, 2021 11:38 PM |
Based on a true story!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 9, 2021 11:45 PM |
Tony Lo Bianco was hot
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 9, 2021 11:55 PM |
Shirley Stoler was nothing short of magnificent in Seven Beauties.
And R4, I forgot she was in The Edge of Night. I just watched those episodes on YouTube a few months ago.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 10, 2021 1:16 AM |
I just watched this all the way through for the first time tonight. I thought it was riveting, even though the acting was questionable in many parts. I think Divine would have been perfect for the role of Martha. I got the feeling watching the movie that Shirley Stoller's performance inspired many of Divine's performances during her career.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 23, 2022 5:02 AM |
She was wonderful in this, as was Tony LoBianco as the ultimate low-rent sleazy leather jacket lover.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 23, 2022 6:36 AM |
Is it on YouTube?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 23, 2022 7:40 AM |
how eldergays filled their days before DL .....perfection.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 23, 2022 2:01 PM |
What do you mean, R12? Filled their days by killing people?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 23, 2022 6:05 PM |
just here to say it looks like the whole thing is up on youtube
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 14, 2024 2:54 AM |
Director Leonard Kastle's only film
from The NY Times review Feb. 5, 1970 By Roger Greenspun
Shirley Stoler certainly looks the part of Martha Beck, but she brings to the role an air of grand disdain that seems reasonable as interpretation but sometimes awkward in performance. But Tony LoBianco, with slightly too much profile and a characterization that suggests an immensely humanized early Bela Lugosi, is brilliant.The real star of the movie is its writer-director. Leonard Kastle is a 40-year-old composer who has not previously made films. Oddly, the musical background—selections from Mahler symphonies, which oversell every climax—is the only serious failure in "The Honeymoon Killers." But direction, the sum of those decisions that the filmmaker must feel as moral imperatives and that constitute the authorship of a movie, places Kastle among the important deliberate artists of his medium.
The Cast THE HONEYMOON KILLERS, directed and written by Leonard Kastle; director of photography, Oliver Wood; music by Gustav Mahler; produced by Warren Steibel; distributed by Cinerama-Releasing Corporation. At the Cine Malibu, 59th Street, between Second and Third Avenues, and neighborhood theaters. Running time: 107 minutes. (The Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code and Rating Administration classifies this film: "R—restricted—persons under 16 not admitted, unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian.")Martha Beck . . . . . Shirley StolerRay Fernandez . . . . . Tony LoBiancoJanet Fay . . . . . Mary Jane HigbyBunny . . . . . Doris RobertsDelphine Downing . . . . . Kip McArdleMyrtle Young . . . . . Marilyn ChrisMrs. Beck . . . . . Dortha DuckworthEvelyn Long . . . . . Barbara Cason
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 14, 2024 3:28 AM |
Remember the 2006 remake LONELY HEARTS in which Salma Hayek and Jared Leto were inexplicably cast as Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez.
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