Monday, January 27, 2014

WHERE ARE THEY NOW: TUESDAY WELD


As teenagers started to be the driving forced behind ticket sales in the 1950s, more younger actresses were becoming famous and popular. Rock 'n' roll not only was changing the music industry but it was changing the movies as well. One such actress that emerged during those changes was the pretty Tuesday Weld. Weld was born Susan Ker Weld in New York City in 1943. Her father, Lathrop Motley Weld, was a member of the Weld family of Massachusetts, and he died in 1947, shortly before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Weld's fourth and final wife, the former Yosene Balfour Ker, the daughter of the artist and Life illustrator William Balfour Ker. Weld had her name legally changed to Tuesday Weld on October 9, 1959.

Weld made her acting debut on television at age 12 and her feature film debut the same year in a bit role in the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock crime drama, The Wrong Man. The pressures of her career, however, resulted in a nervous breakdown at age nine, alcoholism by age 12, and a suicide attempt around the same time. In 1956, Weld played the lead in Rock, Rock, Rock, which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette. In the film, Connie Francis performed the vocals for Weld's singing parts. In 1959, having appeared as "Dorothy" in The Five Pennies, she was cast as Thalia Menninger in the CBS television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Although Weld was a cast member for only a single season, the show gave her considerable national publicity, and she was named a co-winner of a "Most Promising Newcomer" award at the Golden Globe Awards.


She was put under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox and appeared in feature films and episdodes of Fox-produced TV series. In 1960, she appeared as Joy, a free-spirited university student in High Time, starring Bing Crosby and Fabian. She also guest-starred that season on NBC's The Tab Hunter Show. On November 12, 1961, she played a young singer, Cherie, in the seventh episode of ABC's television series Bus Stop, with Marilyn Maxwell and Gary Lockwood. This was the same role Marilyn Monroe had played in the 1956 film Bus Stop, based on William Inge's play. Kim Stanley played Cherie on Broadway.

Weld's mother was scandalized by her teenage daughter's affairs with older men, such as actor John Ireland, but Weld resisted, saying, "'If you don’t leave me alone, I’ll quit being an actress — which means there ain’t gonna be no more money for you, Mama.'  In 1961, when Weld was 18, she had an off-screen romance with Elvis Presley, her costar in Wild in the Country.


She was well received for her portrayal of an abuse victim in Return to Peyton Place, the sequel to the 1956 film Peyton Place, but the film was less successful than its predecessor. Weld appeared with Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen in the 1963 comedy Soldier in the Rain; her performance was well received, but the film was only a minor success. That same year she and former co-star Dwayne Hickman appeared in Jack Palance's circus drama, The Greatest Show on Earth on ABC, but in separate episodes. Later in her career, she turned down roles in films that became great successes, such as Bonnie and Clyde, Rosemary's Baby, True Grit, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.

In her thirties, Weld performed in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) opposite Nick Nolte; and Michael Mann's acclaimed 1981 film Thief, opposite James Caan. In 1984, she appeared in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, playing a jeweler's secretary who is in on a plan to steal a shipment of diamonds. While the robbery is happening she goads Robert De Niro's character, David "Noodles" Aaronson, into "raping" her with her complicity.

Weld has also appeared in a number of television movies, including a remake of the much-filmed tearjerker Madame X (1981), Circle of Violence (1986), Reflections of Murder (1974) (an American remake of the French film Les Diaboliques), and A Question of Guilt, in which she plays a woman accused of murdering her children. In 1993, she played a police officer's neurotic wife in Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall.

Weld and her demanding stage mother were definitively on the outs in the mid 1980s, and she began telling people that her mother was dead even though she was still alive. “I hated Mama,” Weld told The New York Times. “She took my childhood away from me. I was expected to make up for everything that had gone wrong with Mama’s life. She became obsessed with me, pouring out all her pent-up love—alleged love—on me. It’s been heavy on my shoulders ever since. I didn’t feel really free until she died. Otherwise her death didn’t really affect me much.” Tuesday’s mother retorted to the press, “I didn’t like being called dead."  In reality Tuesday's mom was very much alive. (She did pass away in 2001 at the age of 90).    


Weld was married to conductor Pinchas Zuckerman from 1985 to 1998. When he divorced her, Zuckerman complained that she had stopped caring about his career: “Why do I have to go to another concert when I’ve heard the piece before?” she would ask him. In Ethan Hawke’s dorm-roomy Chelsea Walls (2001), Weld’s unpredictability has gone to such an extreme that there’s almost a total disconnection between her oddball reactions and what Hawke has given her to say. Since 2001, Weld has lived quietly in Aspen, Colorado, and not much has been heard from her, but she knows full well that silence is much more intriguing than any further work might be. Since the ‘70s, she’s been rumored to have occult interests and connections, but her main project has always been her own ravenous mind, and at this point she just wants to be alone with it. “I like to be alone in general,” she once said. “I have a hunger for it. I eat up silence".

It is reported that Weld suffers from bipolar disorder, and as she turns 70 she is being cared for by her daughter. However, that report has not been fully proven or disproven. In recent years she has been scheduled to appear at movie fan shows and film festivals, but often she will cancel the appearance at the last minute. Despite having the demanding stage mother, Weld resisted the fame and still does late in her life. Even though she is not seen much these days, hopefully she is at peace with her life and knows how many fans she still has...  
 

124 comments:

  1. She is a couple of years older than me. I remember when she started out...I thought she was so cute and wished I looked like her .. for a while.
    I wondered why she called herself Tuesday. Because people would remember? or is there some story behind it?
    Yeah...Tuesday Weld and Carol Lynley.....I used to read all the stories about them in Photoplay and the other movie magazines.

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    1. I did too - I wanted to wispy and blonde, and kind of wild, yet refined. People today cannot realize unless they go back into old files or old magazines how very popular Tuesday and Carol both were. I have been told when I had long blonde hair that I actually DID look like Tuesday Weld - I wonder if wishing it made it happen??

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    2. Her little cousin pronounced Susan as Tu-Tu. She was in the business at a very early age and by 16 changed her name legally to Tuesday. She also moved out and bought her own house. Great stage name.

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    3. Her real name was SUSAN,but when she was little she pronounced it as 'Tuesday' & it stuck.

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    4. She obviously had some mental anguish due to a demanding mother and growing up too fast.however, what girl doesn't say or think "I'm mature for my age," I've heard that from so many girls. Its immature to say or think that but girls keep saying it....... Too bad

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    5. Tuesday Weld and Carol Baker were my favorites along with Marilyn Monroe, of course.

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    6. I never understood any femail wanting to look like some "star," or living like one, such as Weld. My mother tried hard to push me into modeling (school, head shots, won contests, had 4 agencies wanting me to sign, etc. I had a moral compass, which Weld never had. I wanted to marry & have children. My house was a show place, and we were all so happy. Why would I want to be like Weld? She was an unpaid prostiute, and Presley was a pedophile - even promisin the parents of the 14-year-old that she'd have the best education, & he'd never touch her till he married her when she became of age. All lies.

      Clearly, Weld had a mental problem, but she made money for her "mommie dearest." I wouldn't wish that life on anyone. Look at her now. Where are her true friends? Where is the help she's neneded all her life? She's a very sad story, now wrapped up in the occcult and no one to help her find reality or anywhere near a normal life.

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    7. So your house was a showplace. So what? Tuesday Weld was abused as are many women who are not celebrities, I being one of them. Your moral compass is a bit harsh. Presley was a typical man his celebrity had nothing to do with his sexual misconduct. Growing up my girl friends married their rapists, I was one of the few who refused. Unpaid prostitute you say? Prostitutes do it for money honey. You ass-ume a great deal for someone who never met Ms Weld.

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    8. I really never stopped thinking about Tuesday. Did I have a crush on her?...sure did! I thought she looked and was, amazing! A beautiful and a brilliant actress. “Pretty Poison” May not have been her best work according to critic...but, I remember being glued to the screen. To me Tuesday Weld will always be sweet and lovely.

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    9. Pretty Poison was a terrific little sleeper, attributable almost entirely to her performance. Whichever critic mistakenly said it wasn't her 'best work' is not a critic worth following.

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    10. It said she was being cared for by her daughter. She didn't have a daughter. I have always been soooo impressed with her and I am a gay male so my interest is not sexual. She was ALWAYS amazing in everything especially her wonderull work in Goodbar and Play it as it Lays. She has the greatest line in film in that one. The line is: When you really think about it--you're not that young. It's taken out of context and you have to see the film to understand WHY it's so wonderful.

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  2. Good article - but it missed the 1968 thriller, Pretty Poison, starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld. Perkins was fantastic - compare to Psycho - and the role was a real change from Tuesday's cutes-sweet teen image, too. If you've missed it, check it out. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Anyway, best wishes to Tuesday and her happy solitude.

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    1. Makes sense she likes her privacy, her life path number is 7. Also, when she changed her name from Susan to Tuesday, her first vowel of U was not dropped. She kept it. According to some numerologists, when people change to a nick name and/or make a name change and the first vowel is changed, it can mean they hold back in life and for whatever their reasons are, others will never truly know them.

      May she enjoy her privacy. One more thing as to the comments about her son...would you all want others to comment from afar about your life when in fact they know little?

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    2. Tuesday was so pretty she the small size Brigitte bardot

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  3. I have Weld ancestors, in Massachusetts; I only saw her in Dobie Gillis but remember those appearances.

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    1. Greeting, I’m a Bostonian and believe I’m related to Tuesday Weld,perhaps you as well! If you’re interested in connecting - google my name - it would be nice to expand my family connections!

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    2. Are you one of Governer Weld's relatives? Tuesday's mother, Jo spoke of him over the years.

      Tuesday was / is a spoiled bitch who blamed her mother for everything - after her mother gave up everything for herself and 2 other children - just to let Tuesday pursue her career in Hollywood! Once Tuesday became famous, she shunned her mother and wouldn't give her a penny!
      She's bi-polar, gave insane interviews in her younger days, said her mother was DEAD, and continues to not show up at events & appointments! I was Personal Assistant to actor Dudley Moore for 16 years (he was married to Weld and had a son, Patrick). He and I helped Tuesday's mother, Josene Weld for many years until she died. I published a book about Tuesday and her career titled "If It's Tuesday...I Must Be DEAD!" - taken from daily diary accounts of her mother's from over the years.

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  4. You failed to mention The Cincinnati Kid, Lord Love a Duck, Pretty Poison, I Walk the Line, Play It As It Lays, etc....
    Weak article. Tuesday only backed out of 1 film festival that I ever heard of.

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    1. Wow, "Anonymous" (I see you have several relatives here as well), it sure is easy to write that this is a "weak article" and only mention what the author "failed to mention" while hiding your name and face. THAT is the only weakness I see here.
      This is a great web site, I am so glad to have found it tonight! There is information about so many actors and actresses from a time I prefer so much to the current one, so I do not expect to see a full 200+ page Biography on each star. You are welcome to buy a book or write one with your vast knowledge about Ms. Weld, Anonymous. We will look for it at major book stores, under your name: Anonymous!

      Also I would like to remind readers that there is already a very comprehensive and well established website that has most actors, along with other performers, Directors etc, and you can find a (usually) full list of that person's work. Just go to IMDB dot com. That site actually does need to be complete - this one can share what it wants, IMHO.

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  5. It should be mentioned (although I can't exactly figure out why) that when they first starred together, Tuesday was 16 and Dwayne Hickman was 25. But Dwayne had this boyish charm and look about him that allowed him to pass for a teen. Then again, Tuesday did have this attraction to older men that must have helped make the series work even if was only for one season. I, too, hope that Tuesday has found peace in her life now. It's hard enough growing into old age just having had a normal life out of the limelight. Having the baggage that comes with being a child star and a demanding mother in the wings, not to mention possibly being bi-polar must compound the difficulties beyond endurance. Gotta admire her for her resiliance.

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    1. Tuesday's early work was much shaped by the natural ease with which she flirted. Both this dynamic, especially with older men, and a marked sexual shyness are far from uncommon consequences when girls lose their fathers early in life. Add mania and throw the child into a sexually licentious environment, sans effective, welcome adult supervision and voila! From what I understand, she had either unusual common sense about such things or unusual luck in her choice of paramours, as she seems always to have weathered with aplomb whatever squalls came her way. Not having an obsessive need for the company or regard of others no doubt helped her in this. (The triple whammy of bipolar disease, a selfish and manipulative stage mother, and an early immersion as chum into the shark-infested waters of the Dream Factory would have and did wreck many a young life. Good on her for surviving it so well.

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  6. My first and most enduring "crush."

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  7. My concern with Tuesday is how come she was not in her son Patrick's life like a mother should be.i mean before he had that run down apartment he was homeless and for his parents who were both famous why were they not there for him.i read about how Dudley was not a terrific father but I would like to know where was Tuesday when her son needed her?

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    1. I agree! How can two famous wealthy actors allow their child to live homeless! Selfish and disgusting! Shame on them both!

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    2. You are wrong about Dudley Moore being wealthy. He died poor in Metuchen, NJ in a house that was a wreck.

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    3. You are ASSuming Patrick wanted or would accept help. Clearly his lifestyle is his choice and there is nothing his mother can do about it, though I am sure it breaks her heart.

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    4. Perhaps he treated them badly and they refused to accept that sort of treatment.

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    5. It is a thankless job to be famous. Complete strangers will judge and lie and spread ugly rumors. Is it any wonder that Ms Weld and others prefered to live away from prying eyes, especially now that 90% of you have camera phones in your pockets, and feel you are also allowed to take a photo of anyone at any time. We very well might all be surprised to know what goes on behind closed doors - be it good or bad. But it just isn't OK to use a guess as a "fact", or talk about & judge the parenting or lack thereof of people you do not know. Please treat others as you would like to be treated and remember that famous people - well, they are just people. With different jobs than you or I have.

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    6. I have always been a huge fan. Tuesday was born three years ahead of me. Her performance's were so very special. Her & elvis performance was my favorite movie of his thanks to her. Love you Tuesday. Lee

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    7. HOw sad for a grown man (Patrick) to not be able to support himself and people want o blame his parents. His father left him half of his sizable estate and was still supporting him after his death. I see a lot of self centered people in these comments who should not be judging Ms Weld or Mr Moore.

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    8. You and everything about you become public property when you decide to make living off of the public.
      Fame has a heavy price. When you sign up for it, don't complain about the down side on your way to the bank.

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  8. I would just like to know why is Tuesday's relationship with her son not so good.i read an article by Patrick saying he was homeless at one point then after awhile he managed to get a run down apartment.from Patrick's point of view I know why Dudley his father was not in his life much but one thing stood out was that there was no mention of his mother anywhere.

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    1. Why do you want to know so badly?
      Why are people so concerned with celebrities private lives.
      I wouldn't believe any article.
      You ,nor anyone knows the situation

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    2. CURIOSITY, can you say that Martin? If that's your name. The same reason that brought you to this page.

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    3. Martin Woyzeck: Are you really THAT naive? Public figures have put themselvs out there, and there are always going to be people who "think" they know them, and read everything about them. I've never bought one magazine about movie stars, etc. I just heard her name on a TV talk program, and I wondered if she was still alive, which brought me here. I can't believe all of you folks, or a foolish questions, such as you asked!

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    4. At least Martin is not afraid to put his own name and not be anonymous. I also like to know what is happening with some not all celebrities. Personally I hope they and their children live happy & healthy lives. In some cases how they got to their success helps me in some way that I cannot explain.

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    5. Considering the poor relationship ms weld had nwith her mother I don't know where she would have learned the skills to be a good parent. Maybe that is part of it. Patrick did go to ms. Weld and Mr Moore for help but I don't think he wanted to give up the drug use. So that is one reason he wasn't helped. You have to want it.

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  9. She would have been incredible as Supergirl !!

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  10. Magnificent actress. I'll always remember her best in "Who'll Stop The Rain". Tuesday, Nolte, Moriarty and Zerbe were over-the-top fantastic.

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    1. Madame X is the best movie ever, cannot get the heartbreak out of my head and hate for the evil mother in law.

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    2. She was not in Madam X that was Sandra Dee. Shame on you people that talk about her did you not read how she was an alcholic at the age of 12. I praise her for not wanting to be seen. At least she is straight and no drugs. Nothing wrong with wanting to be a lone. I hope she is happy. And on the son how old was he. Old enough to work and pay for a place to live. When I got old enough my parents didn't pay my way.just be happy for her.

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  11. I just finished watching her for the first time in a movie where her character's name was Alma and she starred with Gregory Peck.

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    1. Just watched her for the first time also . I Walk the Line was filmed in small town Gainesboro, Tennessee. Her protection of her little brother Buddy and her moonshine family was interesting. Seemed like a complicated role.

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  12. She was stunningly pert on "What's My Line?" so much so that one would easily wish to put the wood to her in ravishingly insistent thrusts again and again to conjure on her turned rapt visage the blushing realization of her swaying enchanted ecstasy.

    Any Mouse

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    1. Ya finished now, phhttt !

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    2. That was hot! I'm with ya on that one, pal.

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    3. I'm not entirely certain that it ever needed to be said, though. She was a pretty effective acid test for E.D. If one didn't or doesn't spring quickly to life, after any sort of dry period, then one should most definitely seek the help of a urologist or mortician.

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    4. What are you talking about. Never mind I don't think I would care to know.

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    5. Melissa my dear , please do not abandon us as this blog never would be the same without you ! Maybe you don't know but you're a cult figure to us caucasian blue eyes european like me because you're a an american gipsy and we love gipsy dark skin and dark hair like you ! Well we hope the photo of your profile no be false...that would be a shame...

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  13. I do believe she is bi polar my dad was and they are their own worst enemies. I dont think she ever had a normal life.

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  14. Tuesday Weld was a problem child, but not by her own doing. It's amazing she's still alive! She's always had good performances & should probably get a lifetime award for her acting AND survival abilities COMBINED. All she needs is for some Hollywood type to write her one good part to restart her career! I'm 3 years older than U Tuesday, & fell in love with U after Rock, Rock Rock. Compared to these spoiled ditzes of today like Lindsey & Ariana. Pick yourself up & go back for one more shot. U deserve it & some talented writer, producer will do that 4 U. U watch! Tell U what, I'll be ur date when U get ur award! ok? Luv, MIKE W.. Write to me here, @ MIKE W. leave Ur digits & I'll call U & set up a meeti to finally meet U ok? It will be great! You'll see! MIKE

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  15. She was married to Dudley Moore. I thought see was great in "Serial" 1980 in Marin County Ca.

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  16. She was hot... but sounds like she has spiders in her head....

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  17. I always had the hots for you and still do!

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  18. Underrated and talented actress.I hope she has some happiness in her life now.

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  19. Once Upon a Time in Amercia and Falling Down are two great movies.

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  20. my favorite was BECASUSE THEIR YOUNG where her n micheal mccallan had a steamy but stormy romance.im 65 now but tuesday weld was my dream girl for a lot of years.

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  21. Tuesday is awesome, indeed. Hayley Mills is my personal favorite, however. :-)

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    1. I met Hartley Mills when I was working Security at a museum in Fort Worth. She is a very snoty person. I always liked her till I met her.

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    2. Snotty with two “t’s”

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  22. Tuesday Weld is the most beautiful woman that has ever appeared on film. The close up shots of her in 1971'S
    " A Safe Place " are proof of that.If her life story ever comes to film it will be a mega hit movie.

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    1. Great idea! Her life story would make a great movie. I don't agree, however that she should give up her privacy for one last movie no matter the awards because people today are so critical and cruel and would not be respectful.

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    2. Yes they are. I remember seeing Sandra Dee after not seeing her for years. It was so sad. And Annette Funichelo so sad, let her enjoy the remaining part of her life.

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  23. I'm currently watching 'rock rock rock' on turner channel. I love Tuesday. I had the honor of meeting her and doing her hair years ago when she still lived in NJ/NY. She was beautiful inside and out. A kind, considerate, generous woman. I would love to see her in a new film, however, the important thing is that she is happy living life the way she wants to. Peace, Love and Admiration to you Tuesday!

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  24. If she had married the actor, Frederick March II, she'd be Tuesday, March 2nd. I know - I know - that's an old one.

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  25. Tuesday Weld is absolutely the most beautiful actress to ever appear on film! Her long thick hair, ebony eyes, and uncanny voice sets her apart from anyone. I can't wait to see her life story made into a feature film. It would be the hit of the year !

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    1. I know.....that voice.....why does no one speak of that accent, her voice, so unusual and distinctive.

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    2. I define her voice as sultry.....sexy.

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    3. To me she looks like Lee Remick

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  26. I think when she played in Thief with James Caan that she brought a sense of strong dynamics to that group of men. What a true Michael Mann film. I think it was way ahead of its time!!!

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  27. Please, please, please Tuesday . Come out of your self imposed retirement and do one more film based on your life. I along with your thousands of fans want this to happen .

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  28. Want to know why she won't come out and reveal her reasons, then read my article on line. type in Tuesday Weld High Priestess of the Illuminati. My article was posted by Adam Gorightly. He wrote the first article on Jeffrey Turner's revelations which which make my ideas sound sane. The whole truth is probably somewhere in between. She certainly deserves her retirement.

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  29. rerunning the Dick Cavett shows: the one she was on decades ago was quite interesting.

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    1. On which she talks about doing her life story with herself as her mother.

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  30. Everyone tells me I look just like Tuesday weld

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    1. Lets see a foto of you please! Im a huge Tuesday Weld fan!
      Terrym724@aol.com

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  31. Wasn't she in "The Time Machine" ?

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    1. Yvette Mimieux is another I would like to read/see more of and info is available with current pics etc, but too bad more reruns are not on tv of Tuesday's and Yvette's shows. I remember Yvette on Dr. Kildare, surfing when she had epilepsy.

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  32. Was no one concerned that she was being preyed upon by older men by age 11? "Relationships" with older men is false. It is called rape. No wonder she experienced severe emotional challenges.

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    1. Totally agree. Why werent these men prosecuted for statutory rape? Is Hollywood exempt from state laws??

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  33. I find it interesting how many entertainers suffer from bi-polar disorder, compulsive behaviors, and poor parenting skills. Fans put them up on a pedestal, and feel resentful when they discover they were not the 'ideal' they had maintained about them.

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  34. If one is on the Internet one can answer one's own questions such as who starred in what by looking on the Internet.

    Peter Oslin

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  35. Tarantino has revived so many careers travolta the obvious one if he ever made a movie about last the Masonic lodge she would be perfect for a lead role

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  36. The late New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael regarded Weld, along with the late Suzanne Pleshette, as two of the most underrated actors of their time. She was correct. Both had the misfortune of being in an age bracket that put them smack in the middle of the most mysogynistic era of what is still one of the most mysogynistic industries in the world. Weld was good in whatever she did, but she was wonderful in Play It As It Lays.

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  37. I'm with her... I love to be alone with my mind. Never bored. There is always so much to learn.

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  38. Being alone is the only way to truly survive mentally.

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    1. Tell that to prison inmates who are kept in confinement, never hear a voice or see another person and slowly become insane. Being alone is NOT the way to become mentally healthy. Try working in a a prison for 25 years, and see what happens who are foreced to be alone, such as "The Shoe" in CA. And what do you think happens when an insane person is paroled? He moves next door to someone. Then what? It's the same with those who are mistreated, beaten, denied food, etc. They don't come out (over 85% do get out) a better person, but angry, full of hate, and looking for revenge anywhere on anyone. What a stupid thing to write ("Beling alone is the only way to truly survuve mentally."). Why aren't you getting help for your mental illness?

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    2. Agreed. Isolation is nuts. Even when I was so terminal, immune system collapsed, chemically hypersensitive forced to live in a gas mask "bubble lady" the Sun tabloid called me, I never stayed trapped inside. I went dancing on crutches and a gas mask, I cross country skied in a gas mask until I could find areas where I could breath - discovered mountain tops and wilderness or highly airconditioned legion dance halls - point is I live with a horrific disease Parkinsonism & I function because I never allowed myself to let fear of paralyzing stop me from being part of the so-called normal world. Isolation for prisoners is of course a barbaric system unless they are violent maniacs and have to be kept incarcerated. Otherwise they our prison system to be like an out patient clinic - slowly reeducate so they can function in society, put them to work with handicapped children so they learn compassion and give them an education into a trade or something that will allow for them to earn a living on the outside. Sadly we as a species have not yet evolved to an intelligence of that level.

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  39. As others said, Tuesday was a terrific actress. I would love to meet her. I recently finished a screenplay that I think she might like. If anyone has an address to write to, I'd appreciate it if you could leave it here.
    I don't mean her home address, but possibly where it could be forwarded to her. TIA.

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  40. She's always been a favorite actress. Enjoyed the article and it's nice to think she's cared for by her daughter, but what I'd really like to know is what is she doing now? Were there any sightings? How does she look? How is she? Still waiting for answers. Wishing her well.

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  41. She was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, back in the late 60's, I think. Does anyone know where I can view this? I don't see it on YouTube.

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  42. I think I know very well a Tuesday Weld type of person. I am married to her. She is volatile, whimsical, difficult to reason with, but mystically attractive nonetheless.

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  43. Lived in the same building, 335 East 53rd Street, NYC, as Tuesday Weld. She would play with my older sister and I while my mom would babysit her. I have great memories of her from back then. She was a wonderfully kind child. Mom would make us all peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We called her Tu-Tu back then. Loved reading about her successful movie career as I grew up. She was a child model at the time we knew her.

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    1. Thanks for sharing. She seemed like a sweet child. What was the neighborhood like then?

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    2. Does she have a public website to talk to people still interested in her in her retirement.. always non intrusive conversations... Only current events and her thoughts on them.. if not she is still a person that's present day interesting.

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  44. I am 2 years older than Tuesday Weld, but did not see any of her pictures as I was not a fan of Elvis Presley & those sort of pictures. I am just discovering her thanks to TCM & my first impression is that she was being badly used by quick buck movie moguls, directs & such like. I certainly feel for her situation with her mother. I have had a terminal brain disorder Parkinsonism, crippling since the age of 6 & many times when terminal I was abandoned by both my parents, my father had money & influence but unless I could work & make money I was not worth keeping alive. I hope she is happy healthy & enjoying her privacy. Personally my disease has kept me housebound 80% of my life so I prefer to be out in public, fighting for human rights and children who are being systemically poisoned by air-food-water doomed to chronic illness like mine. Suicidal despair is of course part of our disease dilemma. I believe she as I was, were victims of a male worshiping era that treated women like property to be used & abused, & all too often supported by the very women like our mothers who should support us in fact perpetuate our torture. Her acting talents were definitely underrated by everyone. Today it has improved but certainly no where near the equality women deserve in any field, not just movies etc. God bless Ms Tuesday Weld - I hope her suffering days are over and she has found peace & fulfillment in her retirement.

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  45. I know she had at least one 45rpm record done (and there have been more) way back when she was a young woman.

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  46. Celebrity romance fantasy - If Tuesday Weld (actress) had married Rick Monday (Dodger baseball player)....she could have been Tuesday Monday.

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  47. Like Judy Garland, Tuesday was the victim of a controlling stage mother. I am glad she had the strength to break away and live her own life. Hooray for Tuesday!

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    1. You really need to read Natalie Wood's biography. Her mother was a real character.

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  48. Nobody ever talks about Miss Weld's superb and underrated performance in "I Walk the Line" (1969) with Gregory Peck--it is spectacular and a great "lost" film. Directed by John Frankenheimer (who wanted Gene Hackman for Peck's role).

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  49. I first saw Tuesday on the "doctor show" that Richard Chamberlain played the main character in. Surprised it wasn't mentioned. Weld was playing a young girl who had seizures. I dont remember the name of the tv show, but it was very popular in the 60s.

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    1. My Dad had a store around the corner from the Welds. My brother dated Sarah, Tuesday’s older sister. The last time I saw David, her brother, he stopped by to see us when he was on leave from the Navy. He was so good looking and a sweetheart. Tuesday was never allowed to just be a kid. She had to support the family.

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  50. Tuesday was / is a spoiled bitch who blamed her mother for everything - after her mother gave up everything for herself and 2 other children - just to let Tuesday pursue her career in Hollywood! Once Tuesday became famous, she shunned her mother and wouldn't give her a penny!
    She's bi-polar, gave insane interviews in her younger days, said her mother was DEAD, and continues to not show up at events & appointments! I was Personal Assistant to actor Dudley Moore for 16 years (he was married to Weld and had a son, Patrick). He and I helped Tuesday's mother, Josene Weld for many years until she died. Tuesday didn't show up to see her mother before she died, but phoned a couple days later demanding that I turn everything over to her, including her mother's ashes! Her mother insisted that Tuesday have NOTHING to do with anything after she had passed. I published a book about Tuesday and her career titled "If It's Tuesday...I Must Be DEAD!" - taken from daily diary accounts of her mother's from over the years.

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    1. Loved the book. Very informative. Her and her mother are very much alike imo. Both modeling at young ages for talented but questionable folks.
      Got to watch your babies every minute.

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  51. I just found this site after watching Tuesday at 16 with Troy Donohue in a 77 Sunset Strip TV episode. Vladimir Nabokov must have had her in mind when he wrote Lolita! (I saw Donald Sutherland in that Broadway play opening night then it closed after 3 shows) I wonder if Hunter Thompson knew Weld while he lived in Aspen Colorado?

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  52. I want to bugger Tuesday Weld (as the bird was in 1961 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).

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  53. I always thought Tuesday Weld was soooo pretty. May God bless u n give u peace n happiness, Tuesday.

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  54. I met Tuesday Weld and Pinchas Zuckerman almost twenty years ago in Montauk. We were neighbors and I spent many wonderful weekends at their home on the cliff over looking the Atlantic.

    They always had great people on weekends where we cooked, drank champagne while wonderful conversations floated over the giant wooden table in the kitchen. Sometimes Pinchas would walk about the house playing his Stradivarius. He was a grand, handsome and generous man with a big heart and every one was always taken by his kindness and love of family. Tuesday was generally quiet but when she spoke it was usually funny and extremely insightful. She has a rare kind of intelligence that is almost arthroscopic when it comes to insights on others.

    One weekend, I was completely taken aback when Pinchas and I were sipping champagne and smoking cigars: He said, “Tuesday wants some space. I’m Israeli and I do not give space”. What he was saying was that the marriage was over. The weekend before I saw no sign of this. After the marriage ended Pinchas cut ties with all of us. On a personal level, that saddens me but there was always clarity and precision in his decision-making and the way he conducted his life.

    I met Tuesday’s son, Patrick Moore, when he was 17. I believe he is now in his early 40’s. He’s one of the most tragic people I’ve ever known. He could have been a movie star. Even though Tuesday and Dudley where not tall, Patrick was almost 6’ with a deep voice and a natural charismatic mystique. Fortunately he has a good heart because he has no filtration system with severe mental problems that has had him in and out of institutions. I did not know Dudley but Patrick was always raised by Tuesday. After Dudley died he left Patrick a trust fund with a fiduciary that paid his expenses for his living needs and a weekly income. The weekly stipend was gone on the same day it was allocated. For anyone to say that Tuesday was anything but caring and attendant to Patrick is a complete distortion. Patrick is a sever Schizophrenic. He didn’t howl at the moon but he would suddenly disappear for weeks without a word. Or he would call Tuesday and blame her for his problems and threaten to kill her. When Patrick got cancer in his leg Tuesday was by his side constantly making sure that he was getting the best possible care at all times. She moved him to LA where she felt there would be better medical attention. But Patrick believed the doctors where trying to kill him. Eventually he got better but he again blamed her for his cancer.

    I stay in touch with Tuesday and consider her a dear friend. She lives in LA in the hills. In our last conversation she said the fires were coming close to her house and that she was having some health issues. Tuesday never – ever feels sorry for herself. She can talk about her ordeals and there is always an ironic laugh as though she’s not just in on the joke, she’s enjoying it. She recognizes that she can no longer help Patrick and has had to break her communication with him due to an increase of his threats to her. His mental illness seems to have intensified but to say that Tuesday was errant or not attendant to her son comes out from petty people who have no idea what she has had to endure knowing that the son she loves and cared for has now become her greatest danger.
    Gary Swanson

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    1. Patrick sounds slot like his mother who is slot like her mother.
      Your child will watch how you treat your parents and you can expect the same.

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    2. Thanks for your remarkably knowing, insightful post. It is a rarity in the fan-blog world when someone who actually knew the celebrity under discussion can set the record straight. You've done so, and those of us who have long admired Tuesday Weld's work thank you for clearing the air for further discussion untainted by trash-talk and sordid speculation.

      My crush on Tuesday Weld began with the Dobie Gillis show, when I was about ten. She was beautiful and sexy, but also unusually intelligent. And there was that voice! Over the years, my appreciation for her matured with each film that she made. I love them all. No film with her in it was ever uninteresting, and Pretty Poison, in that respect, is my favorite.

      I found this blog while attempting -- unsuccessfully so far -- to find a musical invention of hers that I happened on years ago. It had an infectious beat, and the musical aspect of it was unlike anything else I've ever heard that could be described as music. The hallmark of genius is that it radiates in all directions, and this seems to fit her brand of creativity.

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  55. Tuesday's family had summer homes close to my family's in at Indian Neck in Wareham, MA overlooking Buzzards Bay. She's a lovely person, I do hope that Tuesday is well and found happiness. I remember the days of running around Indian Neck together as kids and swimming in Bourne Cove. She was definitely a wild child but a lovey person!

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  56. This link tells about Tuesday's family https://harvardmagazine.com/1998/nd98/welds.html

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  57. I was pleasantly surprised at the high quality of the information concerning Tuesday Weld on this site. Much of it comes from people who evidently knew her personally. My crush began with Thalia Menninger, and it kept me interested in all of her subsequent movies. My favorite is Pretty Poison, but she stood out in every movie in which she appeared -- particularly Thief, opposite bravura performances by James Caan and an intensely nasty Robert Prosky.

    She is reputed to have had a genius IQ, but even if not, her performances combined sexiness, brains and mischief in a way that made her so alluring.

    Some years ago, looking online to see what she was up to, I came across a musical invention of hers that is hard to describe but delightfully infectious. It was illustrated with stylized birds chirping a beat so odd and original that it could qualify as an invention. It seemed like the work of a busy mind throwing off brilliant sparks.

    I was drawn to this discussion because the bio was so well written and interesting. Some of the comments are off-the-wall and even rude or impertinent, but overall they contain enough information to offer a balanced and seemingly realistic portrait of a gifted actress who even by Hollywood standards was unusual. I hope she ihad found serenity and contentment living as a recluse in L.A.

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    1. I dont know why so many people forget Miss Weld became Zelda Fitzgerald in a telefilm about the writer in Hollywood. Desperation and madness for the writer are here completeley and painfully performed by this singular actress
      abel posadas from Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  58. Even though Tuesday Weld was
    A regular cast member of The
    Many Loves of Soviet Gillian
    For season one only as Thaila
    MennigerI believe that Tuesday Weld retuned to the show
    The Many Loves of DOBIE GILLIS
    For one episode only in a
    Guest Appearance as THALIA.
    I wonder if Tuesday Weld
    Enjoys Rubbing Noses (eskimo
    Kissing)

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  59. Tuesday Weld appears to be nothing more than a little tramp who didn't appreciate anything her mother did for her. Threatened her mother, if she wasn't allowed to screw around.

    A mother who simply tried to help her establish a way to survive.

    Tuesday couldn't love her mother or even be saddened by her death. I hope that if her child is taking care of her, that they will understand that their efforts aren't appreciated, because unfortunately, Tuesday never learned how to truly love.

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