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Jaqueline Mayro, Broke Co-Star
Actress Jacqueline Mayro, seen here onstage with intense actor John Savage in the early seventies, not long before she would co-star as the woman whose kidnapping sparks the plot of LET'S GO FOR BROKE.
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Colorized Christa
Was searching for Christa Helm info online when I stumbled across this nifty colorized version of what is arguably her most famous image...on a porn site! It was accompanied by other familiar shots as...
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Christa Makes the List
http://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-most-fascinating-unsolved-hollywood-murders/william-neckardThe murder of Christa Helm made this recent list of the 13 most fascinating unsolved Hollywood murders at...
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Another Earl Wilson column--April 18th, 1973
Below: Stuart Duncan in 2010 when he ran for office.
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Lady J Ad!
Okay, now THIS is fascinating! Best size and resolution I could get without spending a fortune to access the VARIETY archives but this is a trade ad touting the 1975-76 releases from Joseph Brenner and...
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Original Broke Director Alex Stevens
I ran across another photo of Alex Stevens, the stuntman who was verified by Chitra to have been the original director of LET'S GO FOR BROKE's Haiti scenes. He was replaced by Producer Stuart Duncan...
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Christa Makes the List
Thanks to Lou Mougin for pointing out this recently posted look at the Top Ten show business careers cut short by mysterious deaths or disappearances. Thanks to CBS, John O' Dowd and myself, the once...
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Warning!
I just spotted a site online offering LET'S GO FOR BROKE on a 2 disc Blu-Ray set with extras and subs and everything like that. Pardon me if I don't believe it as it's my understanding there are less...
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Chitra in The Premonition
Found this still of LET'S GO FOR BROKE villain, Chitra (Neogy) in the 1975 movie THE PREMONITION, probably the first film she did after BROKE. Seen here with actor Jeff Corey (l).
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Jonas (Joseph) Middleton Interview
Thanks to April S on Facebook for bringing to my attention this recent audio interview with Jonas Middleton, director of the X-rated cult classic THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS and a figure in Christa...
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New Christa Helm Podcast
Recently Rene and myself, along with our original co-author and researcher John O'Dowd, participated in a podcast regarding the life and murder of Christa Helm for Movie Geeks United. Christa's...
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New Photo Surfaces
This actually surfaced a couple of years ago on eBay in a group of negatives of photos snapped in 1973 at a party thrown by AFTER DARK magazine for Bette Midler. Christa had appeared previously in...
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R.I.P. Alex Stevens
Tim Lucas reports the recent passing of Alex Stevens, best known as the DARK SHADOWS werewolf. Sadly, I was never able to contact him about LET'S GO FOR BROKE. Below is what I wrote on Facebook:Alex...
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Newly Discovered Broke Ad
Proving what I've said all along--that LET'S GO FOR BROKE played for a full 2 weeks rather than the 4 days alleged by the TV documentary and picked up by others since--here's a variant ad highlighting...
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Frank Raiter in North Carolina
Double click to read this long 1978 piece on LET'S GO FOR BROKE's villain, Frank Raiter. Later a Broadway star, at this time, he had settled in as a local stage favorite in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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J. Herbert Kerr, Jr.
Ran across this 1973 article about J. Herbert Kerr, Jr's appearance in BROKE. In 1972, he had a breakout role in the controversial A PLACE CALLED TODAY in which he took the lead--a radical black...
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The 39th Anniversary
Today is the 39th anniversary of the unsolved murder of Christa Helm. Every year there are numerous reports of cold case crimes being solved so hope springs eternal. R.I.P.
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