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Dead Ringer (Episode 19) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It was a battle-ax royale at the box office in early 1964. The Joan Crawford film Strait- Jacket had come out exactly a month before but it was this Bette Davis vehicle, Dead Ringer, that came out on top. Dead Ringer was the number one film in the country two weekends in a row and continued the recent trend of Grand Dame Guignol films -- grotesque horror/thriller movies starring once popular Hollywood actresses moving into middle age.
Dan and Vicky rate Davis's performance in Dead Ringer, her second time after 1946's A Stolen Life portraying twins, and discuss how Hollywood treated and…
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