Robin Johnson – Page 10 – The Life and Career of the Actress Robin Johnson

Robin steppin’ out in London, January 1981

29 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Robin doesn’t remember exactly where this photo was taken, but it was during her publicity tour of the UK for Times Square, and probably in London. She also doesn’t think much of it as a photograph, but I think there’s something enchanting and 1940s-glamorous about it. It was

Screen International No. 276, January 24-31, 1981

18 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The number one film in mid-January 1981 London was, unsurprisingly, Flash Gordon, which had already been open for six weeks to Times Square’s one. Times Square debuted at number seven and was falling fast, but its “tepid” performance hadn’t yet doomed it to closure when this issue of

Times Square Press Synopsis and Credits

7 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This was sold as a “Press Kit,” but it’s just the one sheet of A4-size paper with a very complete synopsis of the film on one side and the full cast and credits on the other. It was definitely used for publicity purposes in the UK, but the logo on

Musica Original de la Pelicula “Times Square”

26 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I should have posted this along with the other versions of the soundtrack album I have, but I somehow had it in my head that it was released in 1981. It wasn’t; all the international editions of the soundtrack were released in 1980, with only one exception I know of,

Record Mirror, January 31, 1981

15 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“‘Oh, I’ve been known to curse in my time…'” RSO had evidently come to the realization that Robin was the film’s major selling point, so they sent her to England accompanied by her mom to promote Times Square’s opening and herself. The interviews she gave must have occurred even

TIMES SQUARE soundtrack album promotional mirror

Record Mirror, 1980

4 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

No, not the magazine Record Mirror. This was a promotional item given by an RSO music rep to the music director of WLKI in Angola, Indiana, along with 25 copies of the soundtrack album to give away as contest prizes. It was on display as part of his enormous

“6”

24 March, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This, I believe, is one of the photos missing from my copy of the UK Press Kit. The photo caption sheet in the press kit lists photos 6, 7, and 8 as pictures of Robin all with the same caption, and my copy only has a 7 and

New Musical Express, 24 January 1981

13 March, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“No, this won’t do.” Monty Smith’s review of Times Square is true to form, giving some light praise to Robin’s and Trini’s performances while tearing the movie itself to shreds. Although he does sometimes go a bit over the top with a particularly English-flavored cooler-than-thou sneering (“a real

Screen International No. 246, June 21-28, 1980

2 March, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This is the fifth appearance Times Square made in the press that I know of. The first was a mention in Radio and Records, the date of which I’m uncertain, but since it describes the movie as coming out in the summer I’m placing it first — possibly even as

Record Mirror, January 24, 1981

19 February, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“All things vaguely sensible suddenly disappear in a puff of smoke.” Chris Westwood’s review of Times Square in the January 24, 1981, Record Mirror was sadly typical, finding it an unbelievable melodramatic mess that “tries too many things and pulls none of them off.” He sees some value