I got this photo at the same time as the Nicky hair and make up test and the preparing-to-shoot-the-excised-scene-of-the-girls-looking-for-Nicky's-father. Somehow, in my excitement over those two true behind-the-scenes photographs, since there are so very few…
Way back in October 2014, I posted a photo of Robin and Trini getting ready to shoot a scene that was later cut from the film, and complained that although the vast majority of Times…
The May 1980 issue of Photoplay mentioned Times Square's production in Ken Johns' Last Word column. [gallery columns="2" size="medium" ids="857,859"] The image of Nicky singing "Damn Dog" in the Cleo Club was later published in…
I confess I don't quite understand what that title means. Am I missing something clever? This article was published at the end of April 1980, from an interview done when there were two weeks…
[gallery ids="718,720,719"]I'm breaking my rule of one picture per post again, but these are so similar to each other it seemed silly to stretch them out over three posts. These are the last of the…
[caption id="attachment_592" align="alignleft" width="300"] Left to right: Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Artie Weinstein, Paul Sass. Just beyond the periphery: Billy Mernit[/caption] Back to the 8 x 10 Kodak prints... here's another shot of Robin as…
"Words cannot express the sheer unbelievability of this performer and her material." Here we have Robin on set at the Cleo Club, in the full Aggie Doon getup. Her hair is now slicked back, and…
Black limbo, that is. This photo isn't one of the "Kodak paper" series, but I'm going through these photos in the order they'd appear in the film (since I don't know the order in which…
"I'm not dancing topless." 12-year-old Trini Alvarado enacts 13-year-old Pamela Pearl making her debut as an exotic dancer, thankfully not topless. There are other images of this scene that were taken at the same…