#dolores fuller

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One of the cooler things I’ve ever run across, a Polaroid of Dolores Fuller taken by Ed Wood on a camping trip

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Ed Wood (1994)

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Dolores Fuller, Ed Wood’s muse, 1950’s

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Bela Lugosi, Dolores Fuller, and Ed Wood at the West Coast Theatre in San Bernardino on New Year’s Eve, 1953

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Ed Wood (1994) // Dir. Tim Burton

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"Glen or Glenda" by Ed Wood (Edward D. Wood, jr), 1953, movie poster from 1978

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Dolores Fuller

"Ed Wood took this photo on a camping trip"

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Dolores Fuller (South Bend, Indiana, 10/03/1923-Las Vegas, Nevada, 9/05/2011).

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“There are artists in various fields whose fame rests solely on how bad their work is alleged to be. Among them are the poet William McGonagall, the novelist Amanda McKittrick Ros, the soprano Florence Foster Jenkins and the film director Ed Wood. The latter's reputation as the world's worst filmmaker rubbed off on Dolores Fuller, his muse, lover and leading lady … It would be unfair to pick on Fuller for her stiff posture and stilted delivery in Wood's movies when the others in the casts were equally awkward, mainly because of the minimum amount of takes and the lack of strong direction. The "peak" of Wood and Fuller's collaboration was the camp classic Glen or Glenda (aka I Led Two Lives, 1953), an unintentionally hilarious, well-meaning film on transvestism … Wood plays the title role, while the blonde Fuller is his fiancee, described by the narrator as "a lovely, intelligent girl". She says things such as, "Here we are, two perfectly normal people about to be married and lead a normal life together!" not long before finding out that her husband-to-be is lusting to wear her white angora sweater. On being told as much, Fuller over-emotes before taking off the sweater and handing it to him.” 

/ From The Guardian’s obituary for Dolores Fuller / 

Born on this day 100 years ago: actress Dolores Fuller (10 March 1923 - 9 May 2011), whose collaborations with her erstwhile boyfriend, no-budget auteur Edward D Wood Jr, ensure her status as a cult movie icon. (She’s portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker in the 1994 biopic Ed Wood - the sole Tim Burton – Johnny Depp film I can tolerate). After her association with Wood ended, the admirably durable Fuller reinvented herself as a successful songwriter, most notably for Elvis Presley movies (she co-wrote absolute bangers like “Rock-A-Hula Baby”, “I Got Lucky” and “Do the Clam”). Pictured: Fuller in her angora-sweatered glory in the early fifties.

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Glen or Glenda (1953, Edward D. Wood Jr.)

"Beware of the big, green dragon that sits on your doorstep. He eats little boys, puppy dog tails and big, fat snails."

10/26/23

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Béla Lugosi, Ed Wood Jr., and Dolores Fuller. Lugosi’s final years on the silver-screen were in the films of the now notorious Ed Wood Jr., often alongside Wood’s then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. Though this marked the lowest point in Lugosi’s career, he and Wood were said to have had a genuine friendship, with Wood helping Lugosi through the worst days of his morphine addiction and his depression following his divorce from Lillian Arch. Lugosi’s final film appearance would be in Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958), released two years after his death in 1956.

The 1994 Tim Burton movie about Ed Wood includes Martin Landau as Lugosi, though the film is highly inaccurate in it’s portrayal of Lugosi and Fuller (and, in my opinion, an insult to Wood).

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Dolores Fuller

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Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)

05/04/2024

Ed Wood is a 1994 film by Tim Burton, inspired by the life and cinematographic works of Ed Wood, defined as "the worst director of all time". The role of the director is played by Johnny Depp.

Presented in competition at the 48th Cannes Film Festival, the film, freely inspired by Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy, received two Oscars and numerous other awards. This is also Tim Burton's first feature film without music composed by Danny Elfman, due to creative differences between the two. The director chose composer Howard Shore.

In 1952, the young and penniless artist Edward D. Wood Jr. runs a dilapidated theater company, and is looking for funds for his debut in the world of cinema. When he learns from Variety Magazine that the producer George Weiss is looking for a director to shoot a biographical film on the events of Christine Jorgensen, he enthusiastically goes to Weiss asking him to direct the film, certain that the fact that he also loves wearing women's clothes can represent a point in his favor.

Wood accidentally meets one of his idols, the elderly actor Bela Lugosi and accompanies him to his home, starting to form a sincere friendship with him. By promising him that Lugosi will be part of the cast for little money, she manages to convince him to direct the film about Jorgensen, which now has a new title: Glen or Glenda.

His girlfriend Dolores Fuller advises him to produce his new film alone.

The shooting of the film thus ends and the film is renamed Bride of the Monster. To make matters worse, it turns out that Bela Lugosi was a drug addict.

Wood manages to convince the religious congregation to which his landlord belongs to entrust him with the money allocated to produce a film on the Apostles of Jesus to make a science fiction film, letting him understand that with the box office receipts the capital would multiply allowing him to make many films with a religious background. The new film is called Plan 9 from Outer Space and Wood reuses some impromptu scenes shot by Lugosi before his death by having Kathy's chiropractor, Dr. Tom Mason, impersonate him for the remaining scenes.

The making of the film was disastrous to say the least due to the tantrums of the first actress, Vampira, the interference of the Baptist producers, the chronic lack of funds and not least the casual charlatanism of Wood, who didn't care in the slightest about how uncredible were the acting, the scenes and special effects. One day, in the throes of a nervous breakdown, Wood goes drinking in a bar, where he meets his idol Orson Welles, who is also worried about the troubled production of a film. The film ends with Ed Wood attending the premiere of Plan 9 from Outer Space, where he is greeted by enthusiastic applause from the audience, and then leaves the theater with Kathy and goes to Las Vegas and gets married.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski conceived the idea of writing a screenplay about Ed Wood's life while studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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Bride Of The Monster | Episode 378

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Bride Of The Monster | Episode 378

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a rollicking discussion of the Edward D. Wood Jr. cult classic “Bride Of The Monster,” starring Bela Lugosi, Tony McCoy, Loretta King, Tor Johnson, Harvey B Dunn, Don Nagle, Dolores Fuller and Billy Bendict. Lugosi plays a mad scientist seeking to create a superhuman race to conquer the world. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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Glen or Glenda 1953

An American exploitation film of the early 1950s. The movie was directed, written by and starring Ed Wood.

It was widely considered one of the worst films ever made. It has since been reevaluated and has become somewhat of a cult classic.

The movie was shot in four days.

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