“I was 19 and Marilyn was there shooting the ‘Misfits,’ but I didn’t meet her. In the summer of 1960, she was performing at the Mapes Hotel where Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Clark Gable stayed during the filming of “The Misfits.” She was already living with Steckler when she landed the role, and they moved to Nevada.
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The TV pilot “The Magic of Sinbad” was never turned into a series, so Glenn got involved in dancing and auditioned for a show in Reno. Some of her classmates over the years were Melinda Wayne, daughter of John Wayne actress/comedian Jo Anne Worley, known for “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and child star Gigi Perreau. She moved to Hollywood in her senior year of high school and graduated from Immaculate Heart in 1958.Īfter high school, she did some theater work in Pasadena, a bit of summer stock and workshops to learn the craft. Glenn was born in New York City and raised in San Francisco. That’s why you see my name as ‘Cee Bee’ in so many films,” she said. “I used my great-grandmother’s name, Brandt. Like many early actors, she changed her name, becoming Carolyn Brandt. At the time, she wasn’t known as Carol Glenn. Glenn appeared in five or six of Steckler’s cult movies. “They were shot in 16mm on Ray’s Bolex,” Glenn recalled. Steckler then self-funded some movies, even borrowing $600 from Glenn’s grandmother. He started as a cameraman in movies like 1962’s “Eegah” (that was listed as a “Grade-Z Atrocity” in the 1978 book “The Fifty Worst Films of All Time”). Steckler produced and directed about 20 movies, though he never made it big in Hollywood. “We started dating after that and then moved in together when I was around 18.” Steckler “walked in during the pilot and I guess liked what he saw,” Glenn said. Glenn met Steckler when she was a teenager working on a TV pilot called “The Magic of Sinbad,” starring Tommy Rettig, the first boy to star alongside Lassie in the TV series. She continued to make movies with Steckler even after they divorced. The cult movies she starred in were produced and directed by her then husband, Ray Dennis Steckler, to whom she was married from 1961 to 1980. She also co-hosts Village TV’s “Trading Post” with Mark Rabinowitch on Wednesday mornings. Zombies! Vampires! Slashers! The ‘Queen of Cult’ looks back – Orange County Register
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