There is only one Tura Satana and today is her birthay! In the clip below, she discusses working on Astro-Zombies (1968) and Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (1965).

Birthday Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, The Astro-Zombies, Tura Satana

Happy Birthday to The Wasp Woman (1959) herself, Susan Cabot!

Birthday Susan Cabot, The Wasp Woman

Susan Hayward was a Hollywood original and we simply can’t get enough of her. Below are the super soapy trailers for I Thank A Fool (1962) in which Hayward does time for euthanasia and then goes to work for the mysterious Peter Finch, the man who prosecuted her case. In Ada (1961) she makes her way from the whorehouse to the state house by hooking up with Dean Martin.

Birthday Ada, I Thank A Fool, Susan Hayward

Happy Birthday to the legendary Czecholovakian figure skater turned actress Vera Hruba Ralston! Be sure to check out Vera’s star turn in this months CCT feature review, the Republic western from 1954, Jubilee Trail.

Birthday Jubilee Trail, review, Vera Ralston

Happy Birthday to producer/showman Irwin Allen! Below are clips from one of Allen’s all-star extravaganzas, The Swarm (1978).

Birthday Irwin Allen, The Swarm

We loved her in The Carpetbaggers (1964) and her version of Harlow(1965). Check out her freaky forays into foreign films like Baba Yaga (1973), Cyclone (1978) and Umberto Lenzi’s Paranoia (1970).

Birthday Baba Yaga, Carroll Baker, Cyclone, Harlow, Paranoia, The Carpetbaggers

Birthday girl Barbara Parkins is part of the the all-star cast in Amicus’ horror anthology Asylum (1972).

You can watch Asylum online in its entirety at AMC’s B-Movie Classics.

Birthday AMC, Asylum, B-Movie Classics, Barbara Parkins

Novelist Harold Robbins is best know for his “trashy” bestsellers. Luckily for us, most of that literary “trash” has been adapted into bad movie gold. We simply can’t get enough of The Lonely Lady (1983), The Adventurers (1970) or Where Love Has Gone (1964). Below is the trailer for another one of our Robbins favorites, The Carpetbaggers (1964).

Birthday Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers

Former starlet Diane McBain co-starred alongside some of Hollywood’s greatest stars in some of our favorite cinematic guilty pleasures. She romanced Troy Donahue in Parrish(1961) and survived Joan Crawford in the nut-house drama The Caretakers (1963). Below are the trailers for the babes on bikes flick The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968) and the duo-vision classic Wicked, Wicked (1973).

Birthday Diane McBain, The Mini-Skirt Mob, Wicked Wicked

A virtually unintelligible Orson Wells headlines an all-star cast in one of the greatest Southern-fried tales of love and lust Hollywood has ever served up, The Long, Hot Summer (1958).

Birthday Orson Wells, The Long Hot Summer