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Monique Corzilius Luiz (The Daisy Girl) had also done a Susan Spotless ad around the same time as the 1964 Daisy ad.


Found at Univ of Chicago Press - Seeing Green

For anyone not familiar, she was featured in an advert for Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 campaign against Barry Goldwater...known as Daisy ("Daisy Girl" or "Peace, Little Girl") which showed a young girl counting daisy petals, from one to ten. Immediately following this scene, a voiceover counted down from ten to one. The child's face was shown as a still photograph followed by images of nuclear explosions and mushroom clouds.



The same year, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964).

In his unsuccessful 1996 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Bob Dole used a short clip of "Daisy" in his "The Threat" commercial; with a voice-over emphatically states "Thirty years ago, the biggest threat to her [the 'Daisy' girl] was nuclear war. Today, the threat is drugs."

Ironically, in 2016, Hillary Clinton recruited Monique Luiz to participate in a sequel of the ad used in her unsuccessful campaign against Donald Trump. In the ad Monique said, "The fear of nuclear war that we had as children, I never thought our children would ever have to deal with that again. And to see that coming forward in this election is really scary."


June 12, 1958, Arthur Hailey's Air Force One thriller "Course for Collision" aired as the final live episode of NBC's MATINEE THEATER. The premise of AF1 nearly colliding with a Soviet bomber in the near future of 1968 was controversial.

Matinee Theater was an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from October 31, 1955, to June 27, 1958. Its name is often seen as Matinee Theatre and the series had many notable guest stars.

New York Times coverage of Arthur Hailey's controversial Air Force One thriller "Course for Collision." Hailey's play had already been produced by Canadian TV and had aired twice on BBC. CBS got cold feet when the US Air Force objected. Then NBC got it.



A later production of Arthur Hailey's Air Force One thriller "Course for Collision" was filmed for Australian TV and broadcast in 1966.



Course for Collision (IMDB) | Arthur Hailey full IMDB credit listing

Arthur Hailey's "Collision Course" as produced for NBC's MATINEE THEATER (aired June 12, 1958) is not online, but a physical copy of the teleplay is available at the NY Public Library.


"Actually Filmed in Florida and Haiti!" UNTAMED YOUTH, a 1957 American teen film starring American actress, singer, and sex symbol, Mamie Van Doren (born February 6, 1931; still kickin) & and Lori Nelson aka Dixie Kay Nelson (August 15, 1933 – August 23, 2020) as two starstruck sisters who are sentenced to prison farm labor. Premiered June 13, 1957 at the "Scientifically Air Conditioned" Pheil Theatre in St Petersburg, Florida.



It was actually filmed in Bakersfield, California, on a farm.

Apparently, the IMDB site is having issues today...after searching on "UNTAMED YOUTH" it has a fit and throws up...



...Or it has decided I've given it one too many searches. Or the servers are located in steamy hot Florida and the scientific air conditioners have failed. Now, I'm even more interested in that film. NVM, found it on Youtube.


Rodney Dangerfield's BACK TO SCHOOL opened today in 1986. With Kurt Vonnegut as himself and Sam Kinison as an unhinged history professor. With Ned Beatty as 'Dean Martin.' "Registration starts Today."



Also, today in 1986, Marshall Brickman's THE MANHATTAN PROJECT opened in theaters. Starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet & Cynthia Nixon...a huge LGBT rights & women's health advocate, supported the legalization of marijuana, breast cancer survivor, and her eldest child is transgender.



Short 1986 interview clip with Bran about the film here.


Speaking of Trump's Florida lawyers. Too bad Ned Racine is still in prison.



The Oppenheimer marketing team will drop one nuclear bomb on each Barbie press city.


https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1...5899339776


Annual rewatch of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine during pride month and had to post this...LOL!