MISS TUESDAY WELD
(August 27, 1943)
An overbearing stage mother; a nervous breakdown by age nine; alcoholism by age twelve; and a suicide attempt soon after -- if ever Lifetime decides to make The Tuesday Weld Story, Drew Barrymore will have the role she was born to play.
Mixing an ingenue's charm with a hoyden's brashness, Tuesday cut a pretty wild path in 1960's Hollywood, somehow finding time to film such Stirred, Straight Up with a Twist favorites as Sex Kittens Go to College (1960), Return to Peyton Place (1961) and Lord Love a Duck (1966). Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, Weld was a frequent fixture in films and television, earning a reputation as a terrific actress who was often better than the movies she appeared in -- she even earned an Oscar nomination for one of the worst, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
With her final film credit listed as 2001, we hope that Miss Tuesday Weld still has a few tricks up her sleeve for us. Happy Birthday, Tuesday Weld! You're the prettiest poison we ever did see.
Just think...those day of the week panties are always her monogram once a week.
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There's something (and I mean this in the nicest possible way) slightly dirty and sticky about Ms. Weld's screen persona which makes me imagine that her monogram is worn a few consecutive days.
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