Nancy Kovack

Film she references is "Diary Of A Madman" 1963.

Lucky Vincent.

Nice find.

I don't know what kind of horla possessed me last night [<--lame, ham-handed topical allusion] but unusually for me I was lazily channel-surfing and happened to alight upon Turner Classic Movies and its airing of Diary of a Madman. Never having seen this movie, I was intrigued enough to watch the whole thing, and at the end host Ben Mankiewicz came on in the standard TCM post-film commentary and related a version of the above anecdote about Kovack (whose name he kept mispronouncing as "Kovacs," I guess thinking of TV pioneer Ernie Kovacs--any physical similarity I sincerely doubt). "Intrigued" even more, mainly because I've lusted after that sultry, high-cheekboned vixen Kovack ever since I saw her bare feet and midriff in the "A Private Little War" episode of the original Star Trek, I discovered the following fuller account of the story right on TCM's own page for the film:


Here is the referenced scene (the parts that actually made it onto film, anyway, sadly):

tcklft said:

Lucky Vincent.

For the love of God, Montressor!

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Indeed, just another reason Price remains my Bro-God. Now we just need some video-editing genius to take the above clip and make an oversized feather or electric toothbrush be what he menacingly draws out of his overcoat instead of that butcher knife.

Too bad they showed the murder and not the tickling in the film.

One of my favorite actors just became MORE favorite! Thanks for posting this.