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Barbara Steele
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She was slightly injured by
Vincent Price
while filming her last scene from
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
when he quite aggressively grabbed her by her throat - she shrugged it off because the scene came off so real.
The role of Alice LeBlanc in
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
was written by
James Poe
- her husband - specifically for her, but the studio would not accept her and eventually fired Poe, too.
Sydney Pollack
eventually directed the film and the role was given to
Susannah York
instead.
Has appeared in
The Crimson Cult (1968)
with three other cinema horror masters:
Boris Karloff
,
Michael Gough
and Sir
Christopher Lee
.
She has one child, a son named Jonathan Jackson Poe who was born on August 11, 1970 in Los Angeles with her ex-husband,
James Poe
.
Best remembered by the public for her role as the evil yet sexy witch Princess Asa Vajda in
Mario Bava
's horror classic
Black Sunday (1960)
.
She was the original female lead to
Elvis Presley
in
Flaming Star (1960)
. She walked off the picture after an argument with director
Don Siegel
.
She was reportedly the last person to be signed as a contract player by the J. Arthur Rank Organization.
She was friends with
Jane Wald
, when she was in the United States during the 1960s.
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