Who is Appasionata Von Climax?

[trof]

Where does she hang out?
Who is her main squeeze?
Would you take her home to meet your mom?
;-)

[GOPisEvil]

1. LOL! Not the kind of girl to bring home to mom.

Bullmoose's girl, right?

[trof]

2. Sharp!

You're older than I thought.

[GOPisEvil]

5. I think I caught the movie once.

Or maybe a local production of the musical. I can't remember now. But, I remember that name. :D

[nostamj]

3. well, she has BEEN to Dogpatch

but she "works" in DC...

(I love that musical!

[nostamj]

4. what are the connections between

A v C and:

Gilligan's Island
The Poseiden Adventure

???

[trof]

6. Tina Louise!

[nostamj]

8. that's half the answer...

Tina Louise was the Broadway AvC

but...........

[trof]

7. The first stage Appassionata

Stella Stevens

CAREER IN THE '60s: After winning a 1960 Golden Globe as the Most Promising Newcomer for her debut as Appassionata von Climax in Li'l Abner, she was one of the title females in Elvis's Girls! Girls! Girls! in '62, she was the wide-eyed innocent Stell in Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor in '63, and she adeptly played it for laughs in Dino's The Silencers in '66. Her awesome screen appeal kept her busy all decade in a wide variety of roles, from college co-ed to scheming seductress to drug addict to even a nun in Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows ('68). Stella worked every year of the decade and had three movies just in '68, though her significance was probably diminishing towards the end. Her long TV career got a strong push in '65 with a regular role on "Ben Casey".

CAREER OUTSIDE THE '60s: She lived a fast life as a teen — from age 15-17 she was married, a mother, then a divorcee. She played a character named Apassionata von Climax in the film Li'l Abner one year before the '60s (with her in the film was Julie Newmar as Stupefyin' Jones and Donna Douglas in a bit part). After the '60s, in '70 she got one of her richest roles in the Sam Peckinpah Western The Ballad of Cable Hogue, and two years later she played the doomed curly-haired hooker married to Ernest Borgnine in The Poseidon Adventure. She's never not worked ever since, building an amazing resume that pushes her big- and small-screen appearances into triple digits. With four projects in '77, five in '79, five more in '90, four in '94, and on into the new millennium with a role on TV's "General Hospital," the sheer number of her movies and TV shows, covering every year from '59 onward, is truly impressive. As if all that weren't enough to keep a star busy, in the '90s she appeared as characters in computer games, she's done stage work, she's twice tried her hand at film directing, in '99 she co-wrote a novel called Razzle Dazzle, and she's working on an autobiography. She even launched her own fragrance company (appropriately enough, Stella's scents are called Sexy, with Gold Label for women and Black Label for men). Stars may come and go, centuries may pass, but Stella Stevens, it appears, is eternal.
http://www.swinginchicks.com/stella_stevens.htm

[nostamj]

9. nope!

She played a character named Apassionata von Climax in the film Li'l Abner

Tina was the B'way original

p.s. was that YOU I saw at swingingchicks.com ??? LOL

[trof]

10. woops

I meant movie, I meant movie.

[Dogmudgeon]

11. What a dame!

As good as The Nutty Professor is, Stella Stevens makes it all that much more watchable. She's one of the most talented of all the Hollywood Sex Bombs, the kind of woman the word "dame" was invented for.

One of the great under-rated talents of the last three generations. And she's still givin' 'em hell!

--bkl

[nostamj]

12. loved her in The Poseiden Adventure too!

"I'm not wearing any panties..."

[nostamj]

13. SS as AvC

[trof]

14. I googled all over for an Al Capp

image of Appasionata. Couldn't find one.

[RebelOne]

15. Why don't you try googling for Li'l Abner, the movie.

[nostamj]

16. that wouldn't get you a Capp cartoon

which is what trof was looking for. (i stuck out too and now I wonder if AvC was actually an Al Capp creation or something that was added for the musical.

don't know, but since she's not listed on Al Capp sites, chances are it was an invention of the bookwriter...

AvC in the movie is in post #13