It was a battle-ax royale at the box office in early 1964. The Joan Crawford film Strait- Jacket had come out exactly a month before but it was this Bette Davis vehicle, Dead Ringer, that came out on top. Dead Ringer was the number one film in the country two weekends in a row and continued the recent trend of Grand Dame Guignol films -- grotesque horror/thriller movies starring once popular Hollywood actresses moving into middle age.
Dan and Vicky rate Davis's performance in Dead Ringer, her second time after 1946's A Stolen Life portraying twins, and discuss how Hollywood treated and continues to treat it's aging leading ladies. They also look at what was happening in music, movies and history in early 1964 with nods to Beatlemania, John Glenn's inner ear and the Leaning Tower of Pisa and run down the things they've been watching and reading recently. Vicky also does a shout out to her own dead ringer, visiting sister Denise Aguero, and teaches Dan all about barrel chests and Chicago serial killer H.H. Holmes.
It's double the Davis and double the fun. Just in time for Christmas, unwrap a nasty treat on Hot Date 19 with Dan and Vicky!