Judy Carne Movies
Best remembered as the "sock it to me" girl from the popular 1960s NBC television show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (1968), Judy Carne also played leads in a few films and on television. She was once married to actor Burt Reynolds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
The tough and tender sides of New York's homeless underground are documented in this independent drama. After a bicycle accident wounds her body and a rape by her landlord (Rockets Redglare) crushes her spirit, Lisa Napolitano (Rachel Amodeo) finds herself living on the streets of New York City. As Lisa makes her way into the city's homeless community, she's befriended by Nick (Richard Edson), a disturbed but good-hearted Vietnam veteran. However, while she grows to be quite close to Nick, his emotional instability only intensifies her own problems, especially after he disappears. Shot on New York's Lower East Side in and around Tompkins Square Park, an infamous haven for the city's homeless, What About Me features cameo appearances by a number of leading figures in New York's underground rock and art community, including Richard Hell, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Nick Zedd, and Gregory Corso; Thunders also contributed to the film's musical score. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rachel Amodeo, Richard Edson, (more)
- 1974
Someone has been bootlegging the songs performed by a popular musical quartet. Investigating the situation, Ed (Don Galloway) and Fran (Elizabeth Baur) are "treated" to the spectacle of the death-by-electrocution of the group's lead singer Joey (Kip Niven). Clearly, the man has been murdered--but when the two detectives and their boss Ironside (Raymond Burr) launch their investigation, they learn to their surprise that none of the suspects had any reason on earth to hate the dead man. In a curious chain of casting choices, the character of Manning is played by former Laugh-In regular Judy Carne; Mo is played by Geoffrey Deuel, the brother of the late Pete Deuel), who'd costarred with Carne on the 1966 sitcom Love on a Rooftop; and Willie is played by Roger Davis, who'd appeared on the popular TV western Alias Smith and Jones... as as last-minute replacement for star Pete Deuel! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1974
In this family drama, a young couple discovers that they are going to have quintuplets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1974
In this made-for-television comedy, a young woman gets herself into trouble when she begins fulfilling her man-craving with a string of married men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1973
Filmed in England, Someone at the Top of the Stairs stars Donna Mills and Judy Carne as a pair of American tourists roaming at large in London. Taking rooms in a Victorian-era boarding house, Mills and Carne are terrified by the house's weird inhabits. Be assured that there's worse to come in this updated derivation of the 1944 mystery film The Night Has Eyes. Someone at the Top of the Stairs was first telecast in Great Britain in 1973, then shipped out to American television a few months later. It debuted in the US as part of ABC's Wide World Mystery anthology series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1971
Tom Bell plays a disgruntled young Brit who becomes bored by his job and his marriage. Bell impulsively launches an affair with 15-year-old actress Olivia Hussey. But fear not: this isn't going to be "The Joey Buttafuco Story". Rather, both Bell and Hussey are brought to their senses when she thinks she's pregnant. Judy Carne, at the tail end of her Laugh-In-generated fame, is adequate as Bell's loving wife. Director Gerry O'Hara based the screenplay for All the Right Noises on his own novel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Bell, Olivia Hussey, (more)
- 1971
Photographer Christopher George is mistaken for an assassination target by paid killers. Since the actual victim-to-be is now safe, George cannot count on the protection of the authorities, so he takes it on the lam. He is sheltered by former girlfriend Judy Carne, who is kidnapped and threatened with death for her troubles. George decides to take matters in his own hands when it becomes impossible for him to separate the good guys from the bad. Made for television, Dead Men Tell No Tales would dearly love to be a Hitchcock film; it falls short of this goal, but is diverting fun all the same. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1969
This episode was originally designed as a lead-in for the zany variety series Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, which I Dream of Jeannie preceded on NBC's Monday-night lineup during the 1968-69 season. Thanks to her zany behavior, Jeannie (Barbara Eden) is invited to appear as a guest on Laugh-In, whereupon Roger (Bill Daily) appoints himself as her agent. Appearing in cameo roles as themselves are Laugh-In regulars Judy Carne, Arte Johnson and Gary Owens, as well as the series' producer George H. Schlatter. (Trivia note: As originally conceived, the Laugh-In installment which followed this episode on February 24, 1969, was to have included a production number in which Barbara Eden's navel would make its first network TV appearance; alas, this gag was scuttled, reportedly at the insistence of the I Dream of Jeannie production staff!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1966
Jeannie (Barbara Eden is just about worn to a frazzle serving as genie to two masters, namely Tony (Larry Hagman) and Roger (Bill Daily). More work comes her way when Roger begs Jeannie to get him out of trouble when he keeps his date Sheila (a pre-Laugh-In Judy Carne), the niece of Dr. Bellows (Hayden Rorke) out too late one night. Jeannie's solution to this crisis is to provide Roger with a genie of his own--her cousin Myrt, played by Emmaline Henry before she was established on I Dream of Jeannie in the role of Dr. Bellows' wife Amanda. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1965
Anne (Betty Conner) and John (Peter Deuel), the sister and brother and law of "Gidget" Lawrence (Sally Field), have decided that the time has come for the 15 1/2-year-old surfin' girl to start preparing for proper womanhood. With this in mind, the couple draws up plans to send Gidget to an exclusive finishing school in Paris. Featured in the cast as is Kevin O'Neal, brother of film star Ryan O'Neal, and future Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In "Sock-It-To-Me" gal Judy Carne. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward. While his comrades sail off to their deaths, Garner makes himself scarce, generally hiding out in the London flat of his lothario navy buddy James Coburn. Garner falls in love with virtuous war widow Julie Andrews (the "Emily" of the title), but she can't abide his yellow streak. Meanwhile, crack-brained admiral Melvyn Douglas decides that he needs a hero--the first man to die on Omaha Beach during the D-Day Invasion. Coburn is at first elected for this sacrifice, but it is the quivering Garner who ends up hitting the beach. He survives to become a hero in spite of himself, winning Andrews in the process. Paddy Chayefsky's script, based on the novel by William Bradford Huie, attempts to extract humor out of the horrors of war by using broad, vulgar comedy instead of the light satirical touch that would seem to be called for. Americanization of Emily was Julie Andrews' second film; it should have led to a steady stream of adult-oriented roles, but the box-office clout of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music consigned her to "wholesome family entertainment". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Garner, Julie Andrews, (more)
- 1963
In this drama, two young attorneys working for their uncle, find themselves facing off in court. One of the is defending a wife; the other, her husband who is suing for conjugal rights. As both lawyers are fresh from law school, things in court are often chaotic, and they suffer several fiascoes to the point where the judge is ready to disbar them. At the end of the tumultuous case, it looks as if the wife will win, when the other lawyer learns that the wife was afraid her husband would blackmail her if he found out that she was already married to a millionaire. Finally all is resolved and justice served. The two lawyers then decide to get married. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1963
A gang of bandits attacks the stagecoach carrying Hoss Cartwright and two nuns, elderly Mother Veronica (Ilka Windish) and young Sister Mary Kathleen (Judy Carne). When the younger of the nuns anxiously surrenders the money collected for a new convent hospital, the older nun rebukes her, informing the girl that she hasn't got what it takes to enter the sisterhood. Determined to prove her mettle to both Mother Veronica and herself, Sister Mary Kathleen sets out to recover the stolen money-with Hoss tagging along to make certain that the headstrong nun won't get in over her head. Written by Frank Cleaver, "A Question of Strength" first aired October 27, 1963. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, (more)
