Wednesday, July 12, 2023
A must for Nina Foch fans, with two of her best films: Thursday Night-Early Friday Morning at 1:15 a.m. ET, TCM shows Arthur Dreifuss, Josef Mischel and Ben Markson’s Prison Ship (1945), with Richard Loo, followed at 2:30 a.m. by Lewis Allen, W.R. Burnett, James R. Webb and Frank J. Collins’ Illegal (1955) with Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Albert Dekker and Jayne Mansfield
[“See Frank Sinatra’s Virtuoso Performance as a Presidential Assassin in Suddenly (1954) Saturday/Sunday at Midnight on TCM!]
By David in TN
wednesday, july 12, 2023 at 10:09:00 p.m.
A must for Nina Foch (1924-2008) fans, with two of her best films. Thursday Night-Early Friday Morning at 1:15 a.m. ET, TCM shows Prison Ship (1945) with a young Nina Foch and Richard Loo. A group of Allied prisoners are being transported on a Japanese ship as a decoy to lure American submarines. Foch is one of the prisoners, a female war correspondent in disguise. Loo plays his usual Japanese bad guy character as the ship’s captain.
Prison Ship is on TCM for the first time and has rarely been seen, probably due to the anti-Japanese slant. The film is said to be very good.
After Prison Ship at 2:30 a.m. ET, TCM has Lewis Allen’s Illegal (1955) with Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Albert Dekker and Jayne Mansfield. Edward G. Robinson chews the scenery as a prosecutor who turns defense attorney for Dekker’s mob. Nina Foch is first his assistant, then his client.
Lewis Allen directed Suddenly (1954), starring Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Jimmy Gleason and Ellen Gates.
Nina Foch gave excellent performances in An American in Paris (1951), and Spartacus (1960). In the first, she played the gorgeous, kind, and vulnerable American art-patron, who should have gotten the heel, er, hero (Gene Kelly), while in the second, she played an aristocratic nymph who lusts after Woody Strode, which serves to tell viewers that anti-Communists are racists who not-so-secretly desire black men.
Spartacus was a masterpiece, but it was also Communist propaganda.
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I remember reading about her being violently mugged in the street in NYC's Greenwich Village sometime in the 1980s.
Wasn't suddenly released in 1963? It was pulled from the theaters due to so many similarities to the Kennedy assassination.
From wikipedia:She was born,Nina Consuelo Maud Fock,but changed her name to Foch--go figure.
--GRA
Suddenly had been released in the mid-50s. By 1963 it was sometimes on the late show. Frank Sinatra did ask for Suddenly (and The Manchurian Candidate) to be shelved. It fell into the public domain and was put on VHS in the 1980s. About 5-6 years ago it was on DVD.
When Nina started in Hollywood it was felt her name needed to be changed from Fock to Foch.
Of course it's been a long time ago,but if you're going to change your name,change it--especially since she was attempting to avoid having an obscene sounding name.
For instance,actress Olivia Wilde was born Olivia Cockburn(true),which if she followed what Ms.Foch did,would have only changed her name to Cockbern.
Diane Keaton was originally Diane Hall(I did not know that).
Audrey Hepburn's real last name was Ruston.
I was amused by Miss Foch's choice of name change,is all.
--GRA
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