So I was cleaning some stuff off the DVR late last night and decided to give some time to The People That Time Forgot (1977), based oh-so-very-loosely on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. Turner Classics ran it a couple of weeks back, and I knew I'd seen it probably 30 years ago, but what the hey, I'd recorded it, so I switched it on.
Not great. Hell, what starring Doug McClure could be considered great? But it did star Sarah Douglas, who I recall fondly as a Phantom Zone criminal from the Superman movies, and there were dinosaurs. Not particularly good dinosaurs, but I'm not fussy at midnight.
Then "cavegirl" Ajar appeared. My jaw dropped into my lap. How had I forgotten this actress?
Funny thing, I looked up a bio on actress Dana Gillespie (born Richenda Antoinette de Winterstein Gillespie in 1949), and she's a blues singer! In the early 1970s, she did background vocals for David Bowie! (In fact, Bowie produced her first solo LP in 1973!) She also played Mary Magdalene in the first-ever London production of Jesus Christ Superstar! Whatta gal!
And to think that she had enough time to play a very hot prehistoric cavegirl in The People That Time Forgot!
Posted by Wally Conger, who thinks Dana Gillespie has animal magnetism.
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