Biography: Leslie Parrish |

Peaches-and-cream blonde actress Leslie Parrish entered films in 1955, appearing under her own name, Marjorie Hellen, until 1959. Leslie's two best film roles relied on equal parts acting ability and dazzling beauty: hillbilly heroine Daisy Mae in
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Cast: Elke Sommer Sue Lyon   
Tags: Thriller Psychological Sci-Fi 
Length: 85min
Invisible Strangler tells the story of a boy who strangles his mother and while in a mental institution finds books which give him the key to making himself invisible. He then escapes from the hospital and goes on a murder spree, strangling his...

Length: 97min
Faulkner (Christopher George) is an ATF agent who shut down the moonshine operation of Burl (Ralph Meeker) in his Southern state hideaway. Along with agent Martin (Ron Rifkin), the duo uses eight escaped prisoners for the job, promising their freedom...

Cast: Nehemiah Persoff Lola Albright John Ericson   
Tags: Thriller Mystery 
Length: 95min
The Money Jungle is an innovative mystery concerning some greedy oil companies in competition to secure off-shore drilling rights. Detective Blake Heller (John Ericson) is the hard drinking sleuth hired by the oil companies to try and keep the...

Cast: Janet Leigh Jerry Lewis Fritz Feld   
Tags: Slapstick Romantic Comedy Comedy 
Length: 109min
Artist Christopher Pride (Jerry Lewis) has just been commissioned to work in Paris. Wanting to kill two birds with one stone, he plans to bring his soon-to-be bride along to celebrate their honeymoon. Unfortunately, his girlfriend (Janet Leigh) is a...

Cast: Max Steiner Leslie Parrish Vic Morrow   
Tags: Biopic Drama Crime 
Length: 108min
Prolific director Joseph Pevney is better known for his next venture -- the Star Trek television series -- than this conventional docudrama on mobster "Dutch" Schultz (played by Vic Morrow). Rather than take the focus of 1997's Hoodlum, in which...

Cast: Howard St. John Johnny Mercer Julie Newmar Stubby Kaye Nelson Riddle Daniel L. Fapp Melvin Frank  
Tags: Satire Musical Fantasy Comedy 
Length: 114min
1959's Li'l Abner was adapted from the hit 1956 Broadway musical--which, in turn, was inspired by the satirical comic strip by Al Capp. Peter Palmer recreates his Broadway role as Li'l Abner Yokum, the handsome, muscle-bound, muscle-brained leading...

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