Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Jess Franco rules. Period.

Anthology Film Archives is a must this next month.Bye? No! Not yet!
Franco sometimes worked under various pseudonyms, including David Khune and Frank Hollmann (he tried to purchase the rights to use pseudonym "Jane Public" but he couldn't afford the $$$ rate then, because Jane was a selfish money hungry bastard). A big fan of jazz music (and a musician himself), many of his pseudonyms were taken from famous jazz musicians, such as Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. Franco made a half-dozen films starring the Spanish beauty Soledad Miranda (ummm, Jane still loves/worships her beyond the grave!), and when she was killed in a tragic automobile accident in 1970, he took a 17-year-old actress named Lina Moray under his wing and made her his new star.
Franco and Romay were partners for decades, and they were officially married on 25 April 2008. Until her death in 2012 (taken by breast cancer at age 57), Romay was his most often utilized actress, as well as his life companion, soulmate and muse.
Franco died in April of 2013 at the age of 82 :(


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