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Aug 11, 2011 · Any normal person would've trashed this book 20 years ago, but the inclusion of a Q&A with Frances Doel, the story editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, ensured its survival all this time in Po-Man's overstuffed filing cabinet.
- Temple of Schlock
Frances Doel is known for Starship Troopers (1997), Deathsport (1978) and Dinocroc (2004).
- Frances Doel
- Jones Agreed to Direct The Film Before She Had Read The Entire script.
- It Was Produced Under A Different Title to Help Secure Locations.
- The Director Was Disturbed by The Test Audience’S Reactions.
When Corman saw Jones’s test reel and learned she had made it for about $1000, he immediately hired her to make the entire film. But Jones’s elation at landing her first feature directing gig was quickly tempered when she read the rest of the script, which she has described as “a complete mess.” The 27-year-old Jones was so intimidatedby the prospe...
When it was time to assemble a cast and secure filming locations, Corman suggested that Jones slap “a classy title” on her film to avoid any stigma that might be attached to a slasher movie—so Don’t Open the Door became Sleepless Nights during production. Once it was finished, Corman changed the title once more, to The Slumber Party Massacre.
Moviegoers got their first look at The Slumber Party Massacre during a test screening at what Jones has describedas “the tackiest theater on Hollywood Boulevard.” The packed auditorium of “half-drunk teenagers and homeless people who walked in off the street” quickly warmed to the film and got rowdier as the bodies piled up onscreen. As the audienc...
Kimbrough was at one time married to Frances Doel, writer of Crazy Mama. [citation needed] Clint Kimbrough Film Festival. Since 2007, a film festival has taken place in Allen, Oklahoma during the annual Alumni Weekend in June, aiming to acquaint the public with Kimbrough's career and work. [citation needed] Performance history
Jacqueline Lovell (born 9 December 1974) is an American actress born and raised in Southern California. During the 1990s, she modeled for magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse as Sara St. James, and was known for her roles in erotic videos and films. Throughout the 2000s, she mostly acted in television shows. [1]
To take full advantage of the relaxation of censorship towards both nudity and violence, Corman and his Oxford-educated secretary Frances Doel hashed out a vague outline focused on the exploits of a more sexually alluring female criminal and her two nubile daughters.
Barely released and long considered a failure, Gas-s-s-s – Or – It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It sees Corman and his writer associate George Armitage attempting a Mad magazine- like amalgam of all the counterculture trends of the late 1960s.
