Seven Days In May is on You Tube! You can watch beginning to end, for free.
This movie came out in 1964. It's about a plot to take over U.S. government. There's that fascinating, tense dynamic where Kirk Douglas's character finds out about it, and tries to tell the powers-that-be, but people don't want to believe him.
Ecomcon. (That's the secret -- name of it....)
And there's a secret code tied in with betting on some horse race.
Two actresses in the film, Ava Gardner and Colette Jackson, both appear with "Jackie Kennedy" hair -- the brunette bouffant flip. I doubt it was intentional, that every lady in the movie had to have that hairstyle, but it was real popular at the time.
The year after the assassination, Mrs. Kennedy held a particular, strange place of tragedy and pride and courage, in the public consciousness. And -- the hairstyle might have become popular anyway....
Ava Gardner and Colette Jackson were both born in North Carolina.
Colette Jackson married Solomon Sturges -- "Hollywood royalty" as he was the son of Preston Sturges, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Their daughter Shannon Sturges is an actress best known for her role in the WB primetime soap opera, "Savannah."
Colette Jackson died five years after filming Seven Days In May. She was 35.
I thought she was very good in the small part she played.
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