To address the historical aspects of the series, each episode ended with voice over, reading aloud text that scrolled on the screen. I was terribly disappointed when it was abruptly canceled, and like several of you, had a crush on Rick Ely. When Polanski arrived in L.A., he was immediately bombarded with questions about his rumored marital troubles. More eerily, Harlow's husband, producer Paul Bern, committed suicide in her bedroom two months after they got married. When a death occurs, a certifier must determine the cause (s) of death and accurately report it on the death certificate. Tate also appeared naked on screen in the movie, something that was still considered controversial in the 1960s. Robin of Sherwood used the same premise of young people who appealed to the current young people in an historical setting. She appeared in four movies that came out in 1967, three Ransohoff-produced filmsEye of the Devil,Don't Make Waves and the horror spoofThe Fearless Vampire Killersand the coup de grce,Valley of the Dolls, adapted in rapid fashion fromJacqueline Susann's best-selling 1966 novel that also made the author an overnight sensation. And thats what all I know about the series. Philippe Forquets age 79 years old. I too, had a huge crush on Jeremy Larkin. I really love your site and particularly about Young Rebels as I really loved that show.Katie. In fact, the fact that such TV shows were being aired was an indication that the movements of the sixties were officially over, and were now being co-opted by the establishment in an attempt to cash in on them. Given the setting and role of the characters, plots were about what would expected. His English, learned in about a month of cramming for his first major role, was perfected and he speaks, reads and writes it fluently. They cut off the opening but it was better than nothing. I considered it a great show, given the fact that most of the episodes depict present day issues in one way or another. He was a titled count. Lafayette commissioned Jeremy as a captain in the Continental Army. I found no confirmation of his death, but I did see that actor Christopher Stone, contemporary of Rick Ely & husband of Dee Wallace Stone, died on Oct. 20, 1995 at age 53 of a heart attack, so you may be confusing these 2 men inadvertently. Her desperate requests fell on deaf ears and Tate was brutally stabbed 16 times and strangled. To this day, Philippe Forquet is General Lafayette to me. Louis Gossett Jr. of course went on to fame on TV in Roots and in movies such as Iron Eagle and An Officer And A Gentleman. There seems to be quite a few of us who remeber the show and many of us girls were infatuated with the stars. "I checked with all of her living friends. This was the season that the TV networks decided to become with it and relevant unfortunately for them, they jumped on the bandwagon a couple of years too late. That very first day he sent me to the cigarette commercial job. And she was once engaged to actor Philippe Forquet, who it is claimed had a temper. She offered herself up as a hostage - her pleas fell on deaf ears. Roughly a month after the 1970-1971 season had begun, UPIs Rick Du Brow wrote no television trend in recent memory has bombed out as fast the current one in which news [sic] series were advertised as emphasizing social relevance [23]. Early 2019 Rick started to give his things away, he sent me his guitar. The move to return so much time to stations was made due to a recent FCC decision forcing the networks to return an hour of prime time to affiliates by the start of the 1971-1972 season. I remember this show from my youth and I seriously thought that it was a grand waste of time and didnt make much sense-since DANIEL BOONE was already doing the same thing. Voytek would tell people he was a writer, but mainly he had ideas about what to do next. of The Young Rebels complete series of 15 episodes consisting of VHS to DVD transferred recordings from the 1987 CBN Cable (later known as the Family Channel. But at least there's room in this sprawling storytelling landscape of ours to remember the lives that actually deserve remembering. The eldest of Col. Paul Tate and Doris Tate's three daughters, Sharonwas born in Texasat 6 months old she was crowned Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas after her grandma submitted photos of herbut the family moved aroundfrequentlyas dictated by Paul's Army career. Rather than replace it, the network decided to return the 7-8PM hour on Sunday evenings to its affiliates. The Young Rebels ran for just 15 episodes on ABC during the 1970-1971 season, part of a wave of relevant network TV shows aimed at young viewers. Polanski is also said to have tried to control what Tate wore. He and partner John Calley signed Tate to a seven-year contract. While she was being groomed forbigger things, Ransohoff would have his new future star wear a black wig (so she wouldn't be recognized yet) and appear in a bit role on The Beverly Hillbilliesto get her used to being on camera. I was so disappointed when the show was cancelled. Forquet paid less attention to his acting career and became involved with his family businesses. This was my favorite show when I started high school in a small country in Australia. [2006], He succeeded his struggle against a cancer. Plus, the networks returning programs on average performed much better than the previous season, meaning there were few time slots open to shift under performing new programs. WebFrench actor (1940-2020) Philippe Forquet was born in 14th arrondissement of Paris (one of the arrondissements of the capital city of France) on September 27th, 1940 and died in How sadhow I loved him so as a teenager! And Alex Hentleoff (Henry Abington) I last saw in the 1986 movie Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (supporting role). in 1980s. Based solely on New York City overnight Nielsen ratings, it ranked third from 7:30-8PM where it faced the season premiere of Hogans Heroes on CBS and the first half of The Wonderful World of Disney on NBC (which had its season premiere the previous week) [15]. Yes, the long hair did it for me, he looked so handsome. "Wearing some of the pieces of her jewelry and spending time with her sister definitely made me feel closer to her in a way that I don't think I could have without, you know," Robbie told E! Great actor. (He was still eight yearsaway from the sexual assault conviction that prompted him to flee the U.S. and never return. Gossett played Isak Poole, a former slave trained a blacksmith who purchased his own freedom and joined the fight against the British. Even a rather large tome about LaFayette! If you are interested, go to Yahoo and join us at youngrebels 1970 at Yahoo for photos, discussions, fan fiction and more. I have DVDs of all the episodes and I cannot see any of that self centered bunch in the kids on this show. I loved that show, it touched me psychologically, although I was only 10. In early May, Broadcasting reported that Rick Ely, Alex Henteloff and Lou Gossett had been signed to star in The Young Rebels [7]. I would love to watch some episodes. Needless to say Jerermy Larkin was my favorate charactar I have Rick Elys Album. Trying to co-opt the activist young by depicting them as the ones who made this country what it is. Its all about the dollar and pure simple greed. The filmmaker was in disbelief and asked how it had happened. But had the Rick Ely album, too, and I also recall some paperback novelizations based on the characters & pictures from the show on the covers. Jeremy and the others devised a plan to recover a number of canon captured by the British. Debra Tatevoiced her displeasureat the movie's concept, which is that the doomed actress was receiving subliminal messages and foresaw her fate, and that of her friends. Had a great sense of humor and delighted in playing jokes on his friends. I have remained a fan of Lou Gossett, Jr. to this day. Would love to see this series remade and or DVDs available for classroom use. "We need to stop this, and I intend to help the family behind the No Notoriety [a movement to not circulate names and photos of killers] any way I can to help make this a national movement.". That makes it a most typical television series for the young. A kinder review came from Ben Gross of the New York Daily News, who felt the series should appeal to the youngsters and also to some adults. I was very sorry to hear that he had died. However, further information about his death will be released soon. Not a massacre. I have Googled him as of late, and there is really nothing to be found on himhes completely disappeared into obscurity. Garretson would briefly be a suspect, because he was alive and well and in the guest house when police arrived on the scene. Lots of life tie-ends with the show. Arope was looped around her neck, strung over a rafter above, and the other end was wrapped twice around Sebring's neck. When Sebring went to visit Tate in London after they wrapped, she told him she had fallen in love with Polanski, which heseemed to accept, though friends suspected he still harbored feelings for the actress. Girls found his dimples and French accent "devastating." "That said, I always felt it was very unfair for her life to be remembered primarily for its final moments. I wish the kids of today had a show like this to watch. Somehow that show connected and we didnt. "I felt that, if you're serious about it, it's a lot of hard work. I never heard a word about the show, and wondered if anyone else even remembered it. "I said, 'You know how I am; I screw around.' Biographer Sanderswrites about Tate'srelationship with Philippe Forquet,whom she lived with in New York while briefly studying acting with Lee Strasberg. Television Obscurities is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Like many of youI have been looking for a disc or tape. Melcher later remembered Mansonbeing in the car one night when Wilson gave him a ride home when he was living at Cielo Drive. They made the deal over the phone with the house's outgoing tenant, record producer Terry Melcher. He lived in the town of Saint-Quentin, France where he took over his father's estate and the family business. Over the course of the episodes guest stars included John Colicos, David Soul, Larry Linville, Paul Winfield and Farrah Fawcett. Joining these shows were the Now sitcoms which included Nancy, Barefoot in the Park and The Headmaster. They would propagandize, intercept orders, spread disinformation and otherwise disrupt the movement of British troopers. She went to an American high school, where she was a cheerleader and prom queen in 1961. Ive seen more authentic dialogue on the menu of the Old English Room of the Pearson Hotel. And the New York Posts Bob Williams, although conceding that it was a bang-bang case ofadventure exploitation, felt the series was utterly without meaning for the customary young customers of Lassie., Lawrence Laurent of the Washington Post was more ambivalent, writing that the series isnt bad enough to condemn and it isnt good enough to praise. Thanks for your website. He was being hailed as a new Montgomery Clift.While working on the film, he fell in love with a young starlet, Sharon Tate, who was also under contract to a studio and they became formally engaged. She was very popular in France.Attractive French movie stars were very prevalent in Hollywood throughout the 50s and 60s. And the TV shows and their fans who want to see them again are the ones who suffer sadly. 4 According to provisional data, in 2020, there were notable changes in the number and ranking of deaths compared with 2019. When they first met, "I thought she was quite pretty, but I wasn't at that time very impressed," Polanski later told detectives at Parker Center, headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department, after his wife was killed. McQueen started keeping a gun underthe front seat of his car. Jumpers of the gunstarted connecting phantom dots between the dark themes and violence depicted in Polanski's films and the ritualistic aspects of the murders. Globe Photos Inc/REX/Shutterstock; Andrew Cooper/Sony Pictures, Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images, two nights of carnage that shook Hollywood. Your email address will not be published. ", OnTodayin 2019, Robbie noted that, before she played Tate, "whenever I heard her name I really only thought about her death. It was great to see a show where the youngsters were fighting for a cause. Their veterans flee before our youth "I don't like that word starlet at all, because there's no such thing, actually," Sharon Tatesaid in 1966. Philippe Forquet Viscount de Dorne born September 27, 1940 in Paris, France, is an actor and the son of a wealthy aristocrat, Marcius Forquet Viscount de Dorne. However, it fared poorly compared to The FBI and The ABC Sunday Night Movie (both of which ranked in the Top 30 for the 1970-1971 season) and was thus the easiest hour for the network to give up on Sundays. Out of just the 12 new ABC programs it ranked seventh based on rating and fourth based on share. I loved this old show and was lucky enough to find others who want to talk abotu it. The rest of the gang were arrested a few days later and their trial began on June 15, 1970. Yeah! The audience went, huh? [26]. News at the premiere. According to them, the leading causes of death from cancer for males will be: Lung and bronchus cancer: 76,650 deaths. I was even able to find a clip of him from the show on youtube. Lafayette, impressed by the Society, began assigning them missions only they could carry out. Involved in the early 1960s; reportedly was abusive to Tate, who ended the relationship after being hospitalized. THEY HAVE LOTS OF BOXSETS OF OLD TV SERIES, I HAVE SEASON 1 OF I DREAM OF JENNIE THAT WAS BACK IN THE SIXTIES. There were episodes in which a character was wounded and in dire need of medical attention or captured and in dire need of rescuing or had to pretend to be a Loyalist in order to obtain information. Ed Sanders, the biographer who wrote Sharon Tate: A Life, claims that Polanski liked to hold orgies at the home he shared with his wife in LA. I cant believe I found this! He is most remembered for French Heartthrob in 60`s and 70`s. 1976 was the 200th century mark. ABC at the time had yet to reveal its schedule but programming head Martin Starger did promise less and less of pure silly escape and more and more reality [2]. You might like to check out the bio on Find A Grave Mia Farrow was said to be too distraught to go to the service, and numerous celebrities were reportedly terrified, wondering if the killings would continue and famous people would be targeted. I wish it would come out on DVD. The front of my shirt was wet. A set of them from an original film print uploaded by a fan can be found on Youtube. See more ideas about actors, 1969 fashion, 1970s clothing. The September 27th episode also ranked third in its time slot [17]. Perhaps what doomed the series was its attempt to fit too many categories: action-adventure, historical fiction, comedy, romance. Ed was also an actor. Officers did not link the two crime scenes. 4 talking about this. playerInstance.setup({ She was a movie star and mother-to-be on the brink of super stardom. "I had acting classes, voice, singing, body buildingeverything, absolutely everything. She had one of her most personallyenriching experiences when she went to Big Sur to shoot a bit role inThe Sandpiperwith Elizabeth Taylorand Richard Burton, and she loved the coastal enclave so much it's where she would return time and again to decompress. !I still know EVERY linehad the great pleasure of meeting Eric Braeden many years ago, and made a copy of his episode as Major Zanker, and sent it to himhe sent me a thank you note, saying how grateful he was to have it.I was 13 when the show was on, and NUTS for Rick Elyjust NUTS.still brings back such wonderful memories.it is SO nice to know others remember it fondly as well. Rick Ely has no Wiki page and no IMDB credits after 1982, and a Google search on his name brought up no current information, but he may still be living if he was confused with Christopher Stone. He was 83. Folger, an heiress to the Folgers Coffee fortune, was a debutante and Radcliffe graduate who had driven from New York to L.A. with Frykowski, a twice-married father of one, whom she met in 1968. In the episode, his patriotic compositions offend the British. But then, on August 9, 1969, she was stabbed to death in her own home alongside dinner guests and friends by Charles Manson's family. Polanski later told police that his wife had used LSD over a dozen times, mostly before they met, but otherwise did nothing but smoke pot. And she gave him the space that, despite being enamored with her, he apparently still needed. While waiting for the other shoe to drop, he realized that Tate was as good of a person as she seemed. | I loved Jeremy Larkin and had such a huge crush!!! Until then her filmwork consisted of commercials and uncredited roles, such as"Beautiful Girl" inThe Americanization of Emily, which Ransohoff produced, that seemingly ended up on the cutting room floor. But it all started with this show. If I were guessing why, Id say it was because of the actors. There was speculation that Tate and her pals were devil worshipers, or they had been having some sort of orgy that went wrong, or at the very least Tate had been having sex with Sebring, her old boyfriend. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. WebPhilippe Forquet held audiences on the edge of their seats in various heart-pounding, action-packed films during his Hollywood career. He was touted as the handsomest new actor in Hollywood, a cross between Montgomery Clift and Louis Jourdan. ", She laughed heartily at the Marilyn comparisons. There was very little actual violence perpetrated by the Society, who preferred subterfuge and sabotage. I am know what you mean. Cause of Death. Tate wasin a floral-printed camisole and matching underpantswhen she was stabbed 16 times, five of them wounds that would have been fatal on their own. The original series opening credits of The Young Rebels were removed from the syndication reruns airings (CBN, etc.) Your source for entertainment news, celebrities, celeb news, and celebrity gossip. Plus, I love it when the voice finally sinks in and they yell, Thats Lou Gossett, Jr. with HAIR! That never gets old.). False information about the nature of the wounds and the positioning of the bodies made the rounds. Check out the hottest fashion, photos, movies and TV shows! None of my friends did. ), Calling Sharon "beautiful" and a "good person," he said, "the last few years I spent with her were the only time of true happiness in my life.". He is arrested and given the opportunity to recant. Abigail was ordered into the bedroom to get her purse and handed $70 over to The Family. And your prime target. I did find some fans who taped it, as I did, on VHS. She was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1968, Most Promising Newcomer (she lost toThe Graduatestar Katharine Ross) and quickly booked two more films,The Wrecking Crew and12+1, featuring wildly differentco-stars in Dean Martin and Orson Welles. After a bungalow at Chateau Marmont proved not to be the kind of home base she had in mind, they spent several months renting herValley of the Dolls co-star Patty Duke's house. I had no idea that Rick Ely had died. Polanski had been married before, to Polish actressBarbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, and heshowed no signs of wanting to settle down again, even as he pursued Tate throughout the filming ofThe Fearless Vampire Killers. "That ended my career in cigarette commercials," she laughed. I LOVED this show, and was also absolutely NUTS for Rick Ely! The Oscar-nominated filmmaker, born in Paris and raised in Poland, where he lost his mother in the Holocaust, was coming off the critical and commercial success of his first English-language film, the 1965 psychological thrillerRepulsion starring Catherine Deneuve. SOON!! A thorough portrayal ofTate's life, in which she's back to being the star of her own story, has yet to occur onscreen, but Quentin Tarantinodidset out to remedy history withOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood, which ends with Tate alive and well, her would-be killers vanquished by the actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) who lives next door, his devoted stuntman (Brad Pitt, in an Oscar-winning turn) and a really good girl named Brandy (Sayuri, an American Pit Bull Terrier). Sebring, whose real name was Thomas John Kummer, had been living in another Benedict Canyon home, on Easton Drive, that had once belonged to actress Jean Harlow, who died at 26 due to complications of kidney failure (which conspiracy theory has attributed to everything from hair dye poisoning to a botched abortion). Sharon tate was an up and coming Hollywood actress, Sharon Tate with her husband Roman Polanski on their wedding day, Tate was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work in Valley Of The Dolls, Tate was butchered by Charles Manson in her home when she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, Tate is said to have hoped she could change Polanski after they were married, Tate's career as a Hollywood star was taking off at the time of her death, The house Tate and her friends were killed in, Margot Robbie plays Sharon Tate in the new Quention Tarantino film, Tate pleaded to be able to stay alive for long enough so her baby could be born. WebPhilippe Forquet made his film debut in 1960 in La Menace while still an art student and over the next few years became popular in France. If the show had been released that year, I believe it would have been a hit. But I could be wrong. By the mid-Seventies he was retired from acting. There is a page on Facebook now. I cannot believe Im seeing these comments after all these years Ive been searching for quite some time for news of Rick Ely. Forquet began his career with a role in the Jean Seberg dramatic adaptation "In the French Style" (1963). But that didnt happen. The 26-year-old actress made the ultimate sacrifice to keep herself alive for long enough for her baby to be born. I remember reading lots of history books about the Revolutionary War with my girlfriends because of it. To my knowledge, Sony has only released one frontier-related TV series of the 60s: Here Come The Brides (1968-70) starring Robert Brown, David Soul and Bobby Sherman and thats it.
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