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bowling-with-skulls · 2 years

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this is the 19k notes johnny frid post, reblog to blow a kiss to canada for johnny frid

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doraemonmon · 10 months

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Bozo and Barnabus

#Dark Shadows #Barnabus Collins #Jonathan Frid

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haveyouseenthisseries-poll · 2 months

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#tv shows #tv series #polls #dark shadows #jonathan frid #grayson hall #alexandra isles #1960s series #us american series #have you seen this series poll

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cirilee · 4 months

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time for a redraw !!!

#cirileeart #dark shadows #willie loomis #barnabas collins #julia hoffman #grayson hall #jonathan frid #john karlen #vampire

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fitsofgloom · 1 year

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A Contest You Can Sink Your Teeth Into! Jonathan Frid crowning New Jersey's Christine Domaniecki as the regional winner of The Miss American Vampire Contest, 1970. This was a promotional gimmick on the part of MGM for the "Dark Shadows" feature film "House of Dark Shadows," the winner awarded a trip to New York and a guest spot on the TV series. Weirdly, Sacheen Littlefeather -- later to appear at the Oscars three years later to decline Marlon Brando's award for "The Godfather" on his behalf -- would take the final crown, but ultimately never claim the grand prize, Domaniecki appearing on the series instead.

#dark shadows #miss american vampire #beauty pageant #jonathan frid #chrstine domaniecki #house of dark shadows #1970

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theglitterdome · 3 days

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The crowning of Sacheen Littlefeather as Miss American Vampire by Jonathan Frid who played Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows - 1970

#sacheen littlefeather #jonathan frid #barnabas collins #dark shadows #miss american vampire #1970 #20th century #nostalgia #70s #vampire

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schlock-luster-video · 15 days

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quentin-collins-hate-club · 26 days

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Today's mood: Jonathan Frid mistakenly walking through the end credits, Dark Shadows S11E8

#dark shadows #barnabas collins #jonathan frid #1960s #horror #dan curtis

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oldshowbiz · 2 months

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Dark Shadows premieres tonight on Channel 44

#dark shadows #jonathan frid #mary hartman mary hartman #Channel 44 #KBHK

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razziecat · 6 months

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The vampire to end all vampires

#The one #the only #Barnabas Collins #Jonathan Frid #accept no substitutes #sorry johnny yours was a travesty #vampires

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 3 months

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Jonathan Frid Crowns Christine Domaniecki "Miss American Vampire" (1970)

#jonathan frid #christine domaniecki #miss american vampire #1970 #1970s #70s #dark shadows #black and white photography #monochrome #vampirecore #vampire #vampires #gothcore #gothic beauty #goth #gothic

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citizenscreen · 5 months

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Birthday remembrance - Jonathan Frid #botd

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vintage1981 · 7 months

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Actress and Author, Lara Parker, of Dark Shadows, Passes at 84

Lara Parker, who found the role of a lifetime at just 28 years old when she was cast by Dark Shadows producer Dan Curtis as the beautiful, vengeful and altogether evil witch Angelique Bouchard Collins, died October 12 in her sleep in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer. She was 84.

Her death was announced by producer Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions, on behalf of Parker’s family.

“I’m heartbroken, as all of us are who knew and loved her,” said her Dark Shadows co-star and longtime friend Kathryn Leigh Scott in a statement. “She graced our lives with her beauty, talent and friendship, and we are all richer for having had her in our lives.”

Parker was born Mary Lamar Rickey on Oct. 27, 1938, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Albert, was an attorney, and her mother, Ann, was active in civic groups.

She graduated from Central High School in Memphis and attended Vassar — she roomed with Jane Fonda there — and Rhodes College in Memphis, where at 19 she served as Wink Martindale’s assistant on his WHBQ-TV show, Dance Party. She then earned a master’s degree from the University of Iowa.

Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998-2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins. Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show.

During breaks in production, Parker acted on Broadway in September 1968 in��Woman Is My Idea, which lasted just five performances, and in the early Brian De Palma film Hi, Mom! (1970), starring Robert De Niro.

And toward the end of the daytime serial, she and fellow castmembers including John Karlen, Kate Jackson, David Selby and Grayson Hall appeared in the poorly received MGM film Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

In 1972, Parker relocated to Los Angeles and went on to appear on episodes of such shows as Medical Center, Kojak, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Kolchak: The Night Stalker (as a witch) and The Incredible Hulk, where she played David Banner’s first wife in a flashback sequence in the pilot.

In her later years, Parker turned to writing and teaching — her novels include Angelique’s Descent (1998), The Salem Branch (2006), Wolf Moon Rising (2013) and Heiress of Collinwood (2016). The books proved popular among Dark Shadows‘ still-devoted, conventions-attending fan base, as well as devotees of romance and horror genre novels.

Parker kept in touch with her co-stars including Scott, Selby, Roger Davis, the late John Karlen and others throughout her life, particularly once the conventions became annual events in the late 1980s through the 1990s and up to the 50th anniversary celebration in 2017.

Many of the original cast, including Parker, recorded a series of Dark Shadows audio dramas in the 2000s released by Big Finish Productions. They also reunited for a “Smartphone Theatre” Zoom-style, Covid-era performance of A Christmas Carol in 2021 and, on Halloween night 2020, a YouTube/Zoom Dark Shadows cast reunion.

Parker is survived by second husband Jim Hawkins, daughter Caitlin, sons Rick and Andy, and their wives Miranda and Celia; and grandson Wesley.

#Lara Parker #Dark Shadows #Dan Curtis #Jonathan Frid #The Incredible Hulk #Kojak #Kathryn Leigh Scott #Big Finish Productions #David Selby #Grayson Hall #Angelique Bouchard #Angelique Bouchard Collins #Barnabas Collins

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barnabasshadows · 5 months

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