Ingrid Pitt Dies

[tarzanontarmazepam]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11823418

I've only just seen this. The Queen of Horror.

She had her own website which I visited from tme to time and she replied to two of my messages. She was a very intelligent woman and she used her site to condemn much of the US policy in the middle east, she was particularly scathing of Bush and Blair and the war in Iraq.

She will be forever immortalised in such classics as Countess Dracula, The Vampire Lovers and The Wicker Man.

[everso]

I'm sorry to hear she's dead, but she was a pretty crap actress I thought.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Nov 25, 2010 17:22:40 GMT everso said:

I'm sorry to hear she's dead, but she was a pretty crap actress I thought.

She was fantastic.

Don't be a movie snob Everso. Just because she did horror.

[everso]

Nov 25, 2010 17:31:12 GMT @tarzanontarmazepam said:

Nov 25, 2010 17:22:40 GMT everso said:

I'm sorry to hear she's dead, but she was a pretty crap actress I thought.

She was fantastic.

Don't be a movie snob Everso. Just because she did horror.

Oh gawd Chris! Me a movie snob? Me - the ultimate fan of GWTW and Titanic? How could you?

No, I never liked the female vampire films as I considered them just for men, whereas Christopher Lee was vair scarey and a proper horror film actor. Ingrid Pitt was just tits and teeth.

[aubrey]

just tits and teeth.

And your point is?


When Kirsty McColl got killed, our lass's sister said, "I didn't like her singing, but I didn't wish that on her."

[everso]

Nov 25, 2010 18:19:18 GMT aubrey said:

just tits and teeth.

And your point is?

When Kirsty McColl got killed, our lass's sister said, "I didn't like her singing, but I didn't wish that on her."

My point is that she was a crap actress and her films were really only for men's entertainment.

And, really, I thought she was a bit of a minger as well.

She was 73, so a reasonably good innings, although I guess nowadays we hope for a little bit longer on earth. RIP Ingrid.

[aubrey]

I don't know. I think a lot of Goth girls might like her.

To be honest, I don't know which one she is. But I have very fond memories of sitting up late to watch Hammer films, in the hope (partly) of seeing a flash of what you said.

[everso]

What? Teeth? ;D

[jean]

I'd never heard of her until this afternoon's Last Word, and this:

Born to a mother of Jewish descent, Pitt was interned in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of five. She survived the war, but was forced to flee Communist Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, plunging into the River Spree in a bid to escape East German authorities. In a twist which easily surpassed the drama of the camp horror films in which she starred, she was rescued by an American soldier who would go on to become her husband.

[everso]

I heard it announced that they were going to talk about her on Last Word when I was on my way home along the A12. I got in before they started and forgot to switch on the radio.

That's quite a romantic, if tragic, story Jean.

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Nov 26, 2010 18:31:35 GMT jean said:

I'd never heard of her until this afternoon's Last Word, and this:

Born to a mother of Jewish descent, Pitt was interned in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of five. She survived the war, but was forced to flee Communist Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, plunging into the River Spree in a bid to escape East German authorities. In a twist which easily surpassed the drama of the camp horror films in which she starred, she was rescued by an American soldier who would go on to become her husband.

Hence her passionate stance on US led atrocities in the middle east and particlularly the Bush campaign which I highlighted in my opener.

She was a good, great and talented lady...and what Everso doesn't know is that her voice was dubbed over by a 'crap' actress in the film Countess Dracula. She loathed the director Peter Sasdy who instigated the voice dub without her consent.

Ingrid's own voice was luscious and just fine.

There!

[tarzanontarmazepam]

Oh and by the way is the last word some womany thing on very womany radio?

Very Womany Radio? I've just thought of my own Radio channel.

[everso]

Last Word is on Radio Four on Friday afternoons and features short pieces about the lives of well known people who've died during the previous week. A sort of obituary programme. QI.

[riotgrrl]

Nov 26, 2010 18:31:35 GMT jean said:

I'd never heard of her until this afternoon's Last Word, and this:

Born to a mother of Jewish descent, Pitt was interned in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of five. She survived the war, but was forced to flee Communist Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, plunging into the River Spree in a bid to escape East German authorities. In a twist which easily surpassed the drama of the camp horror films in which she starred, she was rescued by an American soldier who would go on to become her husband.

In that case, i like her. I'm so easily moved by escapees-from-East-Berlin types. I automatically like them all, as I think the Berlin Wall is one of the truly heart-rendering international stories of our age.

I cried like a baby the night it fell.

I cried like a baby going round the Berlin Wall Museum where they had on show all the various successful and failed parachutes, adapted cars, etc. that the poor sods under the Communist jackboot had used to try to get their FREEDOM.

So may the soul of this good woman find nirvana.

[everso]

Riot, my sister-in-law's dad lived in the eastern part of Germany and he'd travelled to watch a football match when word went round that they were putting the wall up. He just didn't go back home and settled in what became West Germany, met my s-i-l's mum and that was it. Lived in Bad Homburg (near Frankfurt) for the rest of his life. His dad and brother lived in the East and couldn't visit him, although I think he was able to visit them. My brother went out there to live just days before the wall came down, which scuppered his chances of getting a job, so he and my s-i-l came back here to settle and now live in Andover with their two boys.