Stella Stevens talks about Irwin's cheapness
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RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN ON IRWIN'S HAIRDO: "I remember occasionally walking up behind him when he was directing over here. And I would try to figure out what he had done. And he always knew. He would always turn around. The instant you gave his hair that kind of focus. He had a kind of 'hair radar'." - Zábava
Taking Stella Stevens in a Rolls Royce to Jack in tbe Box for lunch is classic.
Too bad there was nothing apparently available for her to eat there since she was a vegetarian.
The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are still in my rotation every several years. No CGI, just old fashioned special effects.
Putting Carol Lynley in those shorty shorts was genius and good box-office.
I know such things are edited--but rarely have I seen folks smile and laugh in appreciation of someone so much. His films were cheese incorporated--so now I'll even have more appreciation for him.
He invited me to a party for the benefit premiere of the Towering Inferno. I was amazed. I had been an extra in the film & had watched him direct, but had no idea he even knew whom I was. One of my big regrets is that I didn't go.
Omg! I wished you had went!
Stella was really beautiful in The Poseidon Adventure.
What a wonderful tribute of a man who loved to entertain us.
I had seen Stella Stevens several times during 1967, and once I put my hand out toward hers to help her out of a car, I'm straight and was then and I know there was a lot to look at on her but when she looked up at me the first thing I noticed was her perfectly flawless and beautiful complexion. I never forgot that.
+Steve Weisman she's a vegetarian, that will help!!
he gave this little boy a great deal of joy in the 60s loved his programs..... have very fond memories of my childhood and Irwin Allen was part of it...
I got to meet Stella Stevens in 1981, and she was the most beautiful and awesome actress you could imagine. Very friendly and giving. I grew up on these films, they will always be special!
I met Stella in the 1990's She was a sweetheart....She's very ill now....May GOD bless this beautiful lady
@@harlow743 sadly Stella passed on 2/17/2023 may she RIP
IRWIN AND THE 'DO'.
As I mentioned to a friend of mine who also likes Irwin's movies and TV series: Irwin might have died in his 80s, but his hair was barely 40!
. According to Jonathan Harris-- referring to the episode "The Golden Man Jonathan "Irwin--there;s a giant talking frog--he is supposed to swin to shore" "Swim? I;m not paying for a swimming pool..he gets a spaceship. Jonathan "And he talks--how will his mouth iopen: "Irwin "WE arent paying for a frog who can talk-he speak telepathically " That;s IRWIN LOL
Great stuff. Talking about Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in real life, if you had explosions, fire and smoke in an actual submarine, just taking a fire extinguisher and shooting it out wouldn't be a real solution. On the positive side, the U.S. Navy very rarely had to deal with underwater mad scientists and hokey monsters...probably a good thing.
Stuntman is 76...Ernie Orsatti was the dark haired man talking about when he fell from the table on his back to the large stain glass ceiling......and he was the firemen in The Towering Inferno when he almost dropped someone from the hanging elevator.
Also was the one to deliver the message to Fred Astaire that his new love Jennifer Jones had perished in The Towering Inferno- a sad moment.
Now he's lost in the infinite corridors of time...
I still think Susan Flannery had the most dramatic and horrifying scene in the whole movie.
Agree 1000%
Was Stella Stevens in the John Wayne picture, The Shootiist. I think I saw her there. Best picture ever.
You're thinking of Sheree North...
People!!! You're arguing about the brilliance or lack there of of a man that thought Jack in the box was the greatest restaurant. He was a simple man with extravagant ideas when producing shows and movies. As all the stars said, Mr. Irwin wanted to entertain people. That's it, nothing more. He wasn't looking to win awards. He enjoyed what he was doing and he treated people with respect and like family. If his work was so awful how was he able to make so many movies and TV shows. People were watching that's why. Not everything has to be academy or Emmy award winning to be entertaining. 80% of the shit coming out of Hollywood is crap.
"hair radar" hilarious.
So great to see carol lynley !
“Money is no object! Let’s go to lunch!”……..they proceed to drive to Jack in the Box! Lol
what I liked about his shows is the realistic look of them...in "The Time Tunnel" those were real computers in the background. He bought up some old surplus computers. I just was always fascinated with watching the time tunnel and all those flashing lights on the computers in the background.
Stella Stevens is hilarious and funny how telling the truth is appreciated everywhere except Hollywood and Washington. I detest phony pretentious people who bullshit, Stella is the real deal.
Irwin's great deeds made what I am today.
Every time I think of Irwin Allen I recall the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea special effect where they put fireworks in the control panels and everyone lurches from one side to the other to simulate the turbulence, an effect that was used almost ever episode it seemed. Even the first Star Trek series used that technique, probably getting it from Allen...
+Syncopator we love Vto the B of the S---we used a 'lurch' ratio--the worst the danger, the more Hedison et all went back and forth--did anybody else do this too--kind of a game--is this going to be a 5 lurch? 6?!
In my family, we referred to these as "throw-around scenes" and there pretty much had to be at least one per episode. They always subsided quickly, and immediately afterwards, someone would put out the fire(s) with an extinguisher and the Captain would bark out on his hand-held intercom, "Damage Control, report!"
Commonly called ‘rock and roll.’
@@hebneh Love those "formula" scenes.
Jonathan Harris used to say the same thing about Irwin Allen's hair, that he would study it and couldn't figure out what Irwin did with it.
It's called a "weave." Either Irwin Allen learned it from William Shatner, or vice-versa.
Jonathan Harris wore a toupee too.
Sounds like he was a combination of Walt Disney and Roger Corman...
Nobody makes them like Irwin , and never will.
Stephen J. Cannell.
Irwin Allen was probably the greatest disaster film producer in film history - the guy had incredible vision and energy - And most of all Irwin was one hell of a great businessman - a real Hollywood legend
Funny how you wrote that. It gave the impression that he was a disaster at producing film.
It was always FUN going to his movies. Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adv. He KNEW we loved seeing all these BIG stars in one movie. No producer today can touch him - goofy hair or not.
this was wonderful--one of the best specials on a h'wood figure--says more in 6 minutes than most do in 60--loved all the star interviews--one can tell they loved the man--quirks and all...now h'wood is run by accounting executives little creative 'chutspah' energy/flair like Mr. Allen.
If you think Irwin Allen was cheap, you shoulda seen Sherwood Schwarz!
Robert Haworth was he cheap too?
I hear a lot of people say Irwin was so cheap. well if you look at the budgets of any production he made. They were of the highest. The Lost In Space Pilot was $600,000 the highest in the world at realise. Each Land Of The Giants episode was $250,000 per episode the highest budget for any TV show at the time being 1968. Same with Voyage t The Bottom Of The sea and Time Tunnel. If you see the behind the scenes footage with helicopter shots, giant cranes, Huge dollies made of steel and many grip hands. You think it was for a multi million dollar movie. Plenty productions actually borrowed props costumes, and sets that he made first. His movie were all budgeted at several million dollars or more. he was known as the disaster king. Not because of poor box office far from it. Many of his films were smash hits. But only he could destroy Buildings, turn over ocean liners, make Earthquakes, make insects take over, etc. That looked and felt so believable.
reticulan5
Its great , but LIS had so much mileage left in it. Billy Mumy wanted to pick up the ball and carry it further.Even Dr Smith saw the potential . The fanbase was always there. ' Oooh the pain......'
Actually, Eji Tsubaraya (Toho Studios) was in some ways even better.
Watching buildings destroyed in movies was spectacular.
In reality it was deeply saddening.
I'm glad you mentioned Land Of The Giants. Their ship was the Flying Sub from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea with a different paint job. Hell, I was just a kid and I noticed. (I didn't watch 'Giants' anymore after I noticed that...I thought the whole show stank anyway.) I enjoyed the rest of his work though.
Irwin Allen was truly both great and very unique. Nobody like him!
Irwin and his comb over/weave or whatever that thing was. I'll never understand in a million years why guys do that. The worst I ever seen was in a Dunkin donuts once, where this guy was standing in front of me who had actually started his comb-over from the back of his neck and had this long mess of hair combed all the way to the front of his forehead then tied in a knot! I mean WTF? Does this dude actually think people are going to say, "Gee, what a full head of hair you have!" LOL
On Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea, I always wondered why every alien had a whistling finger for a weapon...
TY Ken
Industrial moviemaking. I remember how the same computer panel with lights would show up across TV shows. For a long time I thought all computers were a flashing panel of lights working in the same way.
Yes, I worked in an Italian shoe boutique in Manhattan in '78 and she came in and I said it was a pleasure to meet her and left it at that -- she already looked old, I must be frank. But pretty and I think she is wonderful. I just must say, she was very, very wrinkled.
Irwin Allen." if you can not see people faces on screen peoples will not buy tickets" He is 110% right. WHY do not producers today get that. I have seen so many film ruined by " realistic effects" that people can not see.
I don't really understand this comment.
@@NaughtyVampireGod Flames don't cover people up but smoke does. In a true fire there's always a lot more smoke than there is flames. If it was realistic all you would see is smoke and you wouldn't be able to tell what the hell was going on.
Well I certainly should have been in this - Niolana(LOST IN SPACE the infamous DR NORTH IN LAND OF THE GIANTS - THE FLOOD- TIME TRAVELER PILOT - THE NIGHT THE BRIDGE FELL DOWN - ADVENTURES OF THE QUEEN --- AND ON AND ON - AND NO HE WAS NOT CHEAP - HE TOOK ME TO LUNCH AT THE BEST PLACES - THAT WERE POPULAR THEN - THE LUAU WAS HIS FAVORITE - BLESS IRWIN FOR ALL THE GOOD WORK HE GAVE ME AND THE cult role of NIOLANI AND DR NORTH
Well, maybe there was a reason he took you to the Luau, and Stella only rated "Jack in the Box", LOL. Let's hope she doesn't read your post!
yes indeed, Francine. Irwin had class as well.
R.I.P Francine York may you rest in gods heaven my lady
I love much of Irwin Allen's work,he was young at heart. He wasn't an artist, he was an entertainer. But, I have mixed feelings about his disaster films. I didn't/don't really get them. They were alright but not something you could really savor & want to watch over and over. Even though Allen put alot of hard work & passion into the making of them, there was something missing. A sense of novelty & fun. Allen turned his back on his sci fi fantasy roots, something he was really good at.
I think THE TOWERING INFERNO would've been a more enjoyable film if there had been a leftover monster from LOST IN SPACE or VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA thrown into it. 500 feet tall and breathing fire. blasting & destroying the boring,stupid,burning skyscraper and then for an encore,attacking the rest of the city.
wow, I thought I was the only one screwed up enough to think that way. Seeing how zany Allen actually was, it's a wonder that the Towering Inferno didn't end up that way. Too bad he didn't do it, IMO.
I read that he was very much aware of safety and didn't want anyone to get hurt, after all that's real fire in his films.
Director Irwin Allen could have brought her back to life in the sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, to show that Linda Rogo was only unconscious after the fall but ultimately survived.
That sequel would have killed her.
I love Carol Lynley buy you wouldn't even know that it was her from this interview unless her name was onscreen.
I can't take The Towering Inferno seriously anymore in the wake of 9/11
Because that food is disgusting and she obviously cares about what she puts in her body.
money is automatically considered great art in Hollywood accept that a super successful film is also successful art
There was always basket's, at X-mas. Laugh, out, loud.
Stella Stevens described Irwin Allen as ‘the cheapest man in the world’ then she talked about he took her on a date and picked her up in his cream Rolls Royce convertible !!!
To a Jack in the Box. 🎤drop.
He's like Ed Wood as a savant
Seems to me that Irwin played more like the Director then Producer
Lost In Space Brought Me Into
The Master Of Disaster🥃
Loved The Poseidon Adventure 💜
Wow,never knew anything about this guy other than his movies.....thanks,sounds like a good man..
Irwin Allen wasn’t cheap.
I remember reading in TV Guide then that there was a clause in more than one of his series that there be a monster of some type in each episode. Hence Carrot Man on Lost in Space.
Stella Stevens is one of the most beautiful women of the 1960's
She certainly is. She was superb in Sam Peckinpah's little-seen Ballad of Cable Hogue. I believe it was her career best.
Definitely.
"Lost in Space" Fan here ! When I was a kid and read the name Allen, on the Lost in space credits ,,,I thought it read "Irwin Alien" !........(I really Did) !
@JetMechMA Yes, I noted that right away. has she gone back in the Time Tunnel????
In the commentary to "Towering Inferno" they said that it was filming in July 1974 and was ready for release in Dec. of that year. That's incredible--today's films can require more than a year of post-production. They had three crews filming stuff simultaneously. John Guillermin was the director but Allen did the action scenes.
the awful irony was the last day of filming was 9/11/1974.
@@alexisdiva9 Some of those scenes eerily predicted the attack on the World Trade Center.
I had a coworker who had a complex hairstyle with multiple parts. I was present once when he was asked about it
and he replied "I'm bald." and explained that it was a combover.
I remember people by their Best Role or Best Film! I am the best Critic!
If I say it's BAD, it's BAD, GOOD it's GOOD!
POSEIDON ADVENTURE-------5
BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE----10
Stella Steven's best that I can remember!
The two shows that I most enjoy IS in this order is LIS AND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE!!!!!!!!!!
What’s the swing / ballroom song playing in the background at the beginning?
"It was a construction." hahahaha
Irwin Allen...Roger Corman... how much poorer would our culture without these and other makers like them?!!
Wow, time wasn't kind to Carol Lynley...
not really.....just a woman that has gotten old/older and never went down the plastic surgery route..she's obviously someone that is happy in her own skin.
Terry A agreed, she looks intelligent, lovely, and hasn’t gone towards extreme plastic surgery. She looks beautifully natural.
When was this made.
Can anyone tell me where this excerpt is from? I'd like to see the whole thing.
Phantom Stranger what year was this made?
Wow Carol Lynley still looks great.
Loved Stella Stevens wonder where she is now but I loved that Ernest B was her arresting officer & she was a call girl,Te whole movie had a Great cast,just LOVED it
+frank fiore sadly she was put in a home a few weeks ago. :(
+Ken M are you serious? that's so sad. what a lady/talent!
+Ken M i find that hard to believe.miss Stevens could easily get a million dollars from her fans
frank fiore
Great cast,,,,Great acting,.....sadly Stella is very ill with dementia and in a Los Angeles Nursing Hospital....
I wonder if he meant the Seaview and not the Nautilus.
Susan Blakely... wow!
+Buelligan88 I know what you mean but doesn't she give off a Hilary Clinton vibe just a bit?
+Rhubba Not to me, but Carol Lynley is definitely giving off a Betty White vibe.
Love to see the comment from Stevens that "she doesn't like to eat meat". Try asking many of the men she went out with in her day and they would "beg to differ" immensely!!
Hahahaha
Oh piss off!
But I bet she spit it out afterwards.😀😅😂
Ah, Lunch with Irwin at the Jack in the Box. Good Times. :)
saw richard chamberlain at whole foods
handsome !!!
What movie was at 2:54?
King of stock footage, repainted props and costumes.
Anyone know where she is???????
He was not cheap. These actors always love to leech off producers with extras...
Irwin's greatest contribution to mankind was John Williams... and don't you forget that.
***** Not really. Williams had an emerging career at that point but wasn't among 20th Century's top scorers. If it hadn't been for the Allen's science fiction television and the subsequent Allen disaster films, I doubt that he would have been recommended to Lucas. At the time Lucas was seriously considering using classical music like what Kubrick used in 2001. So I have to believe that Allen's Lost In Space was a necessary part of William's resume.
*****: "You really think Irwin Allen is responsible for John Williams?" Yes I do. Allen played a major part because Allen's 20th Century Fox TV shows influenced George Lucas. Star Wars's roots come from Allen's science fiction television and Lost in Space is a precursor to the Star Wars saga. On top of that Williams's score for Allen's two major disaster films prior to Star Wars positioned Williams to be in the "right place at the right time".
Spielberg in the early 70s contributed to Williams's career, but wasn't the catalyst that Allen was. And Allen came first to recognize Williams's enormous accompanying gifts. I also go farther: Allen influence Spielberg because Allen introduced the modern special effects blockbuster genre with the The Poseidon Adventure and the Towering Inferno.
No doubt Williams would have had a major career without Allen. But the path that Williams took went through Allen's TV and film work.
I heard Lucas say he got his ideas from Saturday matinees, Greek mythology and contemporary religions of the time for Star Wars in college. That was why it was written to be as sequels and he started in the middle on purpose. In case it did sell well. Something the executives thought would be a flop and gave away merchandising rights to Lucas. The biggest mistake they ever made and never did it again!
Claude Rains Luke and Leia are just Will and Penny all grown up with Hans Solo portraying Major West. The redeemed Anikan Skywalker is Professor Robinson with Dr. Smith split into C3P0 and Darth Vader depending on when Smith was a bumpkin or when he was the villain trying to do in the Robinson's. Many parallels all accompanied by a John Williams' score.
Just as other filmmakers over used the b/w stock dinosaur scenes from the 1940 version of ONE MILLION BC-there was Allen's over use of his color stock footage from the 1960 version of THE LOST WORLD...Practically EVERY one of his sci-fi tv shows had scenes of the overblown lizards ...Talk about getting your last dollars worth!...
You might enjoy my Carol Compilation here on CZcams if you're a fan of the Master of Disaster!
LOL! The Donald Trump joke was funny.
I heard rumors that J. J. Abrams is showing some interest in writing a script for Voyage remake,but he too busy with star trek , he may put it on hold in-till 2015.
Regardless, Irwin Allen's TV shows are so campy the only way to enjoy them is to get high first and laugh your way through. Voyage's first season was almost believable but after that, it was comical, the outrageous stuff he would pawn off on us.
Probably the most memorable scenes were the ones on "Land of the Giants" where a giant would pick up one of the stars and we'd see the little legs going back and forth, kicking away. So ridiculous.
will Stella be ok ?.
She's fine. Irwin is dead.
Want to see how good he was?
Watch "Towering Inferno" then watch "2021."
Irwin made it look so easy that anyone thought they could do it.
2012 showed how wrong they were.
He might have been an inspiration for "Wag the Dog."
2:46 LOL!
My doctor looks exactly like him. Funny coincidence.
The Real Disaster Artist
On film in the decade of the 1960s were arguably the hottest, most beautiful women the screen has ever graced. Steven's was among them.
Yeah. I had a crush on the Lost in Space girls back in the day. Especially Judy.
@@NaughtyVampireGod Penny
why do I here chickens singing Al Turka ? at 2:00 ?
a man of dubious taste. made entertaining tv shows though.
Carol Lynley : "It was pre Donald Trump"
Thanks Carol,10 years later we all know about Donald Trump"
Irwin's projects weren't meant to be taken to seriously, he loved Disaster movies larger then life goofy stuff. Lost in Space for example was cute family fare not emmy worthy at all, but for what it was a cute larger then life sci fi family show it worked out well. Poseidon Adventure huge cast, a bit outrageous I mean Shelley Winters swimming that's a laugh right there but it was a true Disaster film an amazing piece of film history hardly but still enjoyable and campy for an occasional viewing, same goes for The Towering Inferno. We come to the god-awful but so bad it's funny The Swarm LOL I won't even go there. For what it was a larger then life Disaster Camp Classic it's great anything more than that not so much. He liked to entertain people.
I saw The Swarm in the theater when I was ten years old and still loved it. It wasn't as cool as the Towering Inferno or Poseidon Adventure, but it was set in Houston where I lived and that alone was worth something. Ha ha. Of course Rollerball was the big sci-fi Houston film at that time, but it would be years before I saw that at a convention. As for goofiness, When Time Ran out surpasses The Swarm easily. I mean, who puts a glass bottomed elevator in a volcano caldera? Plus, the scene with Paul Morita falling in slo-mo into the lava makes me laugh out loud, it looked so fake.
Chris Johnson - i think you'll find "cute family fare" more creative than the serious emmy stuff.
Actually when Shelley Winters was young she was a swimmer.
And some people were dumb enough to watch.
When LIS was in it's first run and first season the head of the network came out and asked him what he was doing,because he said we air ON PRIMETIME television and your SCARING the little kids to death and he went to MR HARRIS AND SAID I know what you are doing,DO more!!!!!!!
Last of the greats.
@canon21100 true. roddy died in 1997 didn't he?