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Written by James M. Tate / 10/11/2025 / No comments / barbara cowan , barboura morris , dick miller , drama , exploitation , fifties , joan lora , june kenney , roger corman , susan cabot

JUNE KENNEY MANIPULATED BY SUSAN CABOT AS 'SORORITY GIRL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokiFSdoL344fSw0wLQzDKsGVgCwU7he5gNOUyShAktBQVvQqHtz1lxfX3VhqPYuMiEKzlsnQZPyGsT_zcjlsLAd8Er39qPGr7b1llqy0WA_6QDT3NM_1IYXipkCePrepxi3MvuEOMv9WtybS1_44qh5Bte2O-n3AToIPeOK07Gy8EKNrDBmDEnGZRBjwa/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%205.22.03%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiokiFSdoL344fSw0wLQzDKsGVgCwU7he5gNOUyShAktBQVvQqHtz1lxfX3VhqPYuMiEKzlsnQZPyGsT_zcjlsLAd8Er39qPGr7b1llqy0WA_6QDT3NM_1IYXipkCePrepxi3MvuEOMv9WtybS1_44qh5Bte2O-n3AToIPeOK07Gy8EKNrDBmDEnGZRBjwa/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-07%20at%205.22.03%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June Kenney in SORORITY GIRL Year: 1957 Grade: C+</td></tr></tbody></table>Whether playing Charles Bronson's tough moll in MACHINE GUN KELLEY or a beauty queen mogul turned monstrous WASP WOMAN, Susan Cabot was b-movie director Roger Corman's greatest leading lady, combining a raw, formidable prowess with brooding melancholy, often within the same character... With dark hair and full lips, she was pretty, even beautiful, but only when she needed to be... until morphing into a bitter scowl as intense as any comparably well-known character actress...

barbara cowan, barboura morris, dick miller, drama, exploitation, fifties, joan lora, june kenney, roger corman, susan cabot

JUNE KENNEY MANIPULATED BY SUSAN CABOT AS 'SORORITY GIRL'

June Kenney in SORORITY GIRL Year: 1957 Grade: C+ Whether playing Charles Bronson's tough moll in MACHINE GUN KELLEY or a beauty queen m...

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s1818/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="1818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuKOUmVvHuhtFWBTh-BFNIacNwYq22MV23500ZBEHH9EJPffr0sYCmuaFtUYp_DHOsxL5_XyinL0KdS6fncrkKSJuTgOLVg8WJKDd4eGDmy4P5czF-Y-LB_nYM5JRBy0RGiR2v2lKwlkEGgjmQh6vl0yKAnP1vh9NGQ1fa01oiLoeacM4BJZpFoki_Mfrf/s16000/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you walked in ten minutes late... as The Black Widows leader Fay Spain is explaining to her underlings about what happened to one of their own girls, lying already dead outside a dark warehouse... Turns out it was an uptight goody-goody who somehow committed the murder, and, hiding in the shadows, June Kenney's listening to the conversation, knowing these tough young locals are now after her...

barbara wilson, barboura morris, colette jackson, exploitation, fay spain, fifties, gang, jay sayer, john brinkley, june kenney, richard devon, roger corman, sandra smith, ziva rodann

JUNE KENNEY, FAY SPAIN AND JOHN BRINKLEY IN 'TEENAGE DOLL'

Title: TEENAGE DOLL Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 The opening scene in Roger Corman's 1957 girl-gang melodrama TEENAGE DOLL feels like you w...

SUSAN CABOT HAS STING IN ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WASP WOMAN'

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barboura morris, cult, fifties, horror, roger corman, susan cabot, suspense, thriller

SUSAN CABOT HAS STING IN ROGER CORMAN'S 'THE WASP WOMAN'

Susan Cabot in THE WASP WOMAN Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 Michael Marks's beekeeper or actually wasp-keeper character Eric Winthrop has a...

ROGER CORMAN'S 'A BUCKET OF BLOOD' STARRING DICK MILLER

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This is a classic and timeless Roger Corman film about a tortured yet contentedly hollow busboy at a coffee shop, Walter Paisley, who quotes the pretentious "house
 poet" (Maxwell H. Brock), and, guided by memorized verse, isn't yet qualified to reveal his own talents... 
 
This is the iconic Dick Miller at his very best; especially 
since he'd become a staple side-character or cameo and, as he got older, a consummate tough guy after his square jaw turned to blue-collar steel: Yet here in his vulnerable youth, he shapes perfectly into the put-upon, simpleminded zero who accidentally "finds himself" as A BUCKET OF BLOOD 
is a dark comedy way ahead of its time: saying something about 
wannabe artists who live their lives worshiping other so-called geniuses...

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ROGER CORMAN'S 'A BUCKET OF BLOOD' STARRING DICK MILLER

Dick Miller and Judy Bamber in A Bucket of Blood YEAR: 1959 This is a classic and timeless Roger Corman film about a tortured yet conten...

CHARLES BRONSON & SUSAN CABOT IN 'MACHINE-GUN KELLY'

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claustrophobic as Roger Corman directs Charles Bronson as
the title character, MACHINE GUN KELLY, who goes from one noir-lit room to the next... Mostly arguing with moll Susan Cabot about robbing banks while angering his former gang, who
 eventually want to kill him for being so unpredictable: Kelly's either really tough or breaking down like a child. Not the narrowed, tough guy you'd get from Bronson fifteen years later...