Quote of the Week, Coppertone & Sharon, and "12 + 1" Producer Says that Film was Jinxed from the Start

Here is our quote of the week:

By Warren Beatty:


"I had never seen a woman who could stop traffic with her beauty like Sharon ... and that in a town like Hollywood known for its gorgeous girls."

Kerstien Matondang has made a website for Sharon and her Coppertone ads:

http://www.kerstien.se/Coppertone.htm

I found this article in the Stars and Stripes Military Newspaper for Saturday, November 29, 1969:

Tate Film Producer Tells of Jinx


LONDON (AP) -- Canadian Film Producer Claude Giroux said Friday that, unless the murderers of Sharon Tate are found, he will release her last film next April.


"If the murderers are discovered then the movie is finished," he said in an interview.  "It's a comedy, and, let's face it and no one wants to watch a comedy when the star has been wiped out in a real-life drama."


Miss Tate and four others were found murdered at her Bel Air home in California last August. 


(Recap of the murder and names of the victims here).


Producer Giroux said the movie had been jinxed from the start.


He said the film, originally titled 'Thirteen,'  had been renamed "12 plus 1" for superstitious reasons.


"Miss Tate said that her first movie had been called 'Thirteen' and she hoped this was not going to be her first and last film," he said.


"We laughed and assured her otherwise, but I changed it to '12 Plus One,' " Giroux said.


Then Giroux related a series of mishaps that hit his movie before he changed it's title.


Giroux said the camera crew when an actor's foot slipped off the break to the accelorator and his car plunged into them. 


Then a young actress fell down steps and broke her jaw. 


An assistant director suffered a heart attack and Italian Actor Vittorio Gassman fell ill with hepatitis.


"You could say that the whole business ceased to be a joke when Miss Tate told me she was pregnant," Giroux said. 


Giroux was in London for his film "Sweet Hunters," at the London Film Festival friday.


"I used to not be superstitious.  But I certainly am now," he said.

Quote of the Week, Another Translated Article: Sharon Tate Knew Her Child Was a Boy and More on the Polanski Case

I thought I would start a quote of the week.  It will be by someone who knew Sharon, or by Sharon herself, or a quote that makes you think of her.

First one:  "She was nineteen years old, she was absolutely beautiful. I mean Sharon was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen."--Martin Ransohoff

Part of the translated article I referred to earlier:

Novella 2000 August 21, 1969


The terrible death of Sharon Tate, the most beautiful of Hollywood (Part I)


They killed the baby she was carrying


Bel Air, among the most elegant neighborhoods of the "Mecca of cinema," was the scene of a crime unprecedented five people were brutally killed, their bodies were desecrated. Among the victims, the actress Sharon Tate, who was to be a mother within the month.

 

By Paolo Pietroni
 
She spoke often of her child. Two months ago, Sharon Tate was at the sixth month of pregnancy. She was in London filming the latest scenes of her fifth film, Thirteen, and the 'belly' was so obvious that the director Lucignani was forced to devise special optical tricks to hide it.
 
And so she showed. "It will be a male, I know, I feel it," she told Vittorio Gassman, to Orson Welles, Terry Thomas, to all friends of the crew. And she said the usual things that mothers say. That the child must look like her in looks but as for the brain it had to be just like his father--as smart as his father. And sometimes, during pauses in work, it was easy to see Sharon in a corner talking to herself. It seemed that she spoke to her baby. Instead she spoke to her son as if he was already born. And she spoke as if he were already large and needed her advice. Once they heard her say, "You can be fat as Orson Welles, my friend. But only if you're talented like him. Otherwise, you will not eat much."
 
"She always spoke to him in the masculine," recalls the director Luciano Lucignani. "She was one hundred percent sure it was a male. She also accepted bets on it."
 
Sunday Aug. 10 in Los Angeles, the morgue, the coroner Thomas Noguchi has done the autopsy on the body of Sharon Tate, assassinanted the night between Friday 8 and Saturday 9 August. Thomas Noguchi announced that the baby that the actress had carried was that of a male.

More coming...

 
Polanski appeal may take a year?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gGv7Eto9BYbJ3i-BvAxEBtlKtOzQ

http://www.theimproper.com/?p=3303