Eleanor Parker - Caged

[smmmmg]

I think this movie was trying to make a statment that has yet to be understud as of today.

[stalkermonolith]

Why? WHY??? Why not the fat chick sits in that chair? I'd torturing her with Walter Urdli... Urdli knows, how to torture the shit out of her! Poor Mary Allen...

[siamgodmother]

Thailand Know Eleanor Parker ......She has sweet face and for me she so beautiful

[glimmer2158]

She looks like Sindbad O'Connor lol

[ColumbiaPerna]

I figure it out -- the head shaving scene was real but it was done after the film was done. All the scenes where she has a clipped head are done with wigs. She had to get the shave at the end of shooting because you can't shoot a B film like this over the course of time it takes the hair to grow in -- this was a 22 day shoot. The only thing that makes me thing otherwise is that they do not show the whole shaving process -- they cut away which seems silly if they were really doing it.

[mckd3]

Hello everybody. My name is Sandra. I want to inform you that, along with another person, we are going to make a petition to the Academy in order to get Eleanor Parker a deserving Honorary Award. We don´t know if this is going to work, but we want to try. You can get in touch with me through my channel. It is very important to get as many people as we can, so if you know somebody who likes her tell him about this. Thank you very much.

[diddymuck]

fate worse than death...a haircut!!!! GAAAAAAAAAAA

[ifmanwould]

Ladies, if you went to jail and some prison guard shaved your head like this, what would you do?

[ColumbiaPerna]

SHE DID NOT GET HER HEAD SHAVED!!!!  THAT IS A CAP.

[JohnnyGNV]

@ColumbiaPerna I tend to agree with you ~ I would think even back then they had enough make-up Technique to

make it appear that her hair was being shaved and then to wear a cap with make-up. I'm SURE she was and is a dedicated actress, but I really don't think they actually had to "shave" her head! Later on in the film, her peach fuzzy hair begins to grow in as time moves along, so obviously they had to resort to various length wigs and makeup to accomodate her various hair lengths in scenes!

[Loveviful]

guauu!

[charmedsomeday]

why is it that though technology wasn't as good back then as it is now that most of all the actors back then actually could act?!?! while most of the actors today aren't really good, even suck?!?! wish i lived in her time....

[glawsny]

Eleanor Parker DID NOT get her head shaved.She had a tight skin colored skull cap on and a wig over it,which TO MAKE IT LOOK like her hair was being shaved off.

[JubalCalif]

No one could play a mean bitch like the late great Hope Emerson (who was nominated for an Oscar). A shaved head on a woman was a rare sight in films then (hair today, gone tomorrow). This really is a very powerful film; filled with many outstanding performances. THANKS for sharing this awesome clip with us!

[ClassicDamefan]

I think they really underated Eleanor Parker! She is one of the best and my favorites!

[robphilll]

Famous cameo by Gertrude Hoffman in this priceless flick."Say listen:I've been a con for over 30 years:what I wouldn't give for a sink of dirty dishes.."

[lady00010]

Eleanor Parker really got her head shaved, her commitment to a part was extraordinary, Even Meryl Streep would not have gone this far. We should all ask for her to get a well awaited oscar for her life carreer acheivement for her work. Glamour never go tin her way, she was and probably is so beautiful, dear lady, let us honour her for the superb actress that she was, and is, if one were only to give her a chance for one more wonderful part. Miss Parker, you are wonderful beyond compare

[jgrab1]

@lady00010 > Even Meryl Streep would not have gone this far.

How do you know?

[ItBrandonSilver]

Because Meryl Streep is overrated.

[jgrab1]

@ItBrandonSilver ...And only *under*rated people agree to shave their heads? I'm just trying to follow your "logic" here...

[jatroup12]

@lady00010 Not to take anything away from Eleanor Parker's great performance here, but Meryl Streep DID get her head shaved for a role in a little film called Sophie's Choice (1982).

[ConfusedSponge]

@lady00010 Really? Amazing. People those days wouldn't do shit. She shaved he head. Amazing commitment.

[charmedsomeday]

@lady00010 I agree!

[tyjeffries]

@lady00010 it is shameful that she hasn't been honoured...you are right. she is a brilliant actress. One of the best.

[VTMCompany]

i just bought this dvd...there are SIX oscar-nominated actresses in this flick...well, uh, one did win...jane darwell...eleanor parker in the lead really deserved her 1950 nom, as did hope emerson, as the big brute who keeps the tramps in tow.

[VTMCompany]

i remember, as a kid seeing this, i was SO afraid of the BIG woman who shaves marie allen's hair !

[GmaNadya]

This movie is a cult classic. Eleanor was nominated and faced tough opposition: Norma Desmond, et al. But Judy Holliday won that year for Born Yesterday. All the nominees were winners!

[emerytownblues]

oh saw this on the late, late, late movie show about 25 years ago. I don't remember much except how she went into the prison rather innocent but when she left she was hardened.

[leopoldvs]

@emerytownblues Same here my friend! I remember I was like 10 years old (now I'm 35) but the movie just caught my attention and I just couldn't stop watching it! In the end, Marie Allen (the prisoner) is released from prison, but I still remember the last line said by the Prison's Director (played by Agnes Moorehead or Samantha's Mother in Bewitched): "No, she will come back", after her assistant asked her if she wanted her to close the file of Marie Allen.

[frammyxx]

How do you solve a problem like Maria???

[incrediblehulkmovies]

Cutting all of a woman's hair off is like shaving off her beauty. That was just cruel.  It's practically a rape.

[leopoldvs]

@incrediblehulkmovies Especially 60 years ago!!!

[globehunter2]

Excellent portrayl of angry frustrated females in heat` loved the cruel and heartless

female dyke who shaved the girls head bald):

She looked like a truck driver wearing a skirt` what a big fat thug.

[globehunter2]

Put females in a age together you have the ingedients for a acid punch! vicious and

wreckless images` especially for 1950.Lots of dykes and Fems` a really bull dagers corner.

[tsmith7559]

nothing better for a woman's punishment than to get her hair clipped off by another female. They need to do a remake of this movie.

[ilovepepe2]

this movie is a classic and was extremely daring for 1950...Eleanor Parker, Hope Emerson, and Agnes Moorehead were excellent in their respective roles

[JohnnyGNV]

ELEANOR PARKER really should have won the

Oscar for this ~ she was excellent in this

1950 role.

[myrnaloysboy]

Its about time they gave her an Honorary Award.

[windstorm1000]

@JohnnyGNV Yes, I agree she should have won--searing performance.  And she played the Baroness in Sound of M. 15 years later!!!--totally different performance (of course)--showed what a versatile actress she was--and yet always that fragile--yet strong quality--a bit like Joan Fontaine, but all her own. All hail Eleanor. Yes, she deserves that honorary Oscar.

[Captaingamecube]

was she the only prisoner to have her hair shaved off. ?

[Yugioh257]

It was a punishment because she defied orders