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Women in Danger: 1950s Thrillers DVD Review: Highly Recommended
When soldiers pass their prime, they look forward to assistance from the VA. When a judge retires, he or she starts to count on their local bartender for support. But when it came time for an actress like Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino, Esther Williams, or Merle Oberon to be cast astray from the studios that made them famous, they had but one place to go: Universal-International. During the ’50s, the recently renamed company began to pick up former A-List starlets for a reasonable “Well, at least I’m still working” rates, catering to them with specially-written screenplays based on their own needs (or perhaps tribulations).
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