Juliet Mills

You made history and made history for Beyond the Gates coming in.

One of my highlights was seeing Juliette Mills and Maxwell Caulfield.

I am, I hate Grease 2, so I'll get me started.

But I loved, I loved Dynasty of the Colby, so I liked him on that.

Natalie Wood's old friend, Tab Hunter, told me he was convinced it was an accident.

Juliet Mills, who'd known Natalie for decades, told me she was almost certain there was no foul play because Juliet's also very psychic and gets a feeling when she drives past Natalie's old home...

And the feeling is not one of anything nefarious, you know, as if this woman is kind of crying out from some dark space.

And you think about Robert Wagner, he's now 96, and he often posts these loving tributes to Natalie on his social media bits.

the Leslie Kaye, the Leslie Kaye, who's going to be representing As The World Turns.

We're going to see the iconic Nanny herself, Juliette Mills representing passions.

The Joe Landon, yes, Dr. Quinn medicine women.

Yeah, her, yeah.

Yeah, why are they so special? Why are we devoting this whole programme to him?

Later in the programme, you'll hear me talking to two people who knew Billy Wilder and his work firsthand, actress Juliette Mills, who starred opposite Jack Lemmon in Wilder's 1972 film Avanti, and acclaimed German director Volker Schlöndorff, who got the chance to ask his cinematic hero, Billy, how did you do it, in a series of conversations filmed in the late 1980s and later broadcast by the BBC.

But, Ellen, you're up first.

Yeah, as I've said, the films of Billy Wilder that I'm most familiar with are mostly those ones from the 1940s and 50s, the kind of early, mid to mid point of his career.

Now, as Pamela noted, not all of Billy Wilder's films were hits, at least not at first.

Take, for example, Avanti, Wilder's 1972 Italian-set travelogue rom-com which underwhelmed at the box office and was marketed under the tagline When someone knocks on your door and says permesso, be careful before you say Avanti.

The film earned Golden Globe nominations for its stars Jack Lemmon, who won, and Juliette Mills, playing chalk-and-cheese travellers who meet en route to Ischia to recover the bodies of their respective dead parents.

Turns out the parents were having an affair, and both died in the same car crash.

But it was the hardest work I've ever done.

Yeah, I wanted to talk to you because, you know, we've had people, Juliette Mills, of course, did a soap for a long time.

And she said it was, it was, I mean, what'd you have, like 10 pages a day normally? Let's put

it this way.

Sophia Ward from Young Charlotte Combs.

pre-Diana Torrey, post-Michael Wetter, Martin Casares, John Ireland, Alex Goodenough from Die Hard, Maxwell Caulfield, David Carradine, Juliet Mills, and even Drew Barrymore in an uncredited role as the victim of a vampire.

They could have made 5,000 waxwork movies and I would watch every single one.

This is the one you want to watch.