There is this movie the Uninvited that is pretty universally praised by critics as a very scary horror movie.  It wasn’t available on DVD for years and I looked once and then kind of just forgot about it.  It is finally out, someone somewhere mentioned it, I watched it.  It was pretty solid, I wouldn’t say scary but it took the supernatural and it’s frights seriously, which is definitely unique for it’s time.  One thing that stood out to me though was the very pretty girl in the movie.  The actress’ name was Gail Russell but she was not familiar to me.  I was kind of confused because she was pretty and I thought she did a pretty good job.  Now, I knew the studio system could chew people up and spit them out but it usually gave them a bunch of films in rapid succession if any were good so I looked a little deeper.  It seems poor, sad Gail was a victim of alcoholism.  She started drinking on the Uninvited, only her second movie when she was just 20, and never stopped really.  I was looking for pictures and I noticed I was having a hard time finding ones where she looked as nice as she did in the movie, thus I threw in a pair of screen shots.  It turns out her alcoholism famously took not just her talent but her looks.  She was dead by 36 thanks to liver damage.  It’s pretty tragic and sad.  Kind of a depressing thing to write about but that’s how it works sometimes, celebrity life is glamorous but it doesn’t do a lot of good to ignore that sometimes there is a darker side.  This can be a chance to remember the promising talent she once was though, she was very pretty.  I will remember her that way.  Today I want to fuck Gail Russell.