{"id":12869,"date":"2025-11-09T19:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:58:38","slug":"walk-of-fame-adventures-the-death-kiss-and-adrienne-ames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/09\/walk-of-fame-adventures-the-death-kiss-and-adrienne-ames\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Adventures: The Death Kiss and Adrienne Ames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-1.jpg\" alt=\"Adrienne Ames and Bela Lugosi in The Death Kiss.\" class=\"wp-image-12871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:153,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Mary_Sue&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251109072407\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Mary_Sue&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-10 03:47:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-17 19:28:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 13:22:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-07 16:59:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 20:47:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-26 02:07:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 07:46:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-17 00:13:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 01:34:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 14:39:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-14 19:13:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-24 21:13:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 06:18:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 03:04:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 22:08:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 11:36:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 22:57:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 12:22:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 21:21:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 00:25:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-13 15:12:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-20 15:44:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-28 15:12:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-02 19:57:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-02 19:57:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-2.jpg\" alt=\"David Manners, Adrienne Ames, and Bela Lugosi in The Death Kiss.\" class=\"wp-image-12872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hero of this movie is a screenwriter who&#8217;s a better detective than the cops, contaminates evidence without consequence,  solves the crime, and gets the girl. These days he&#8217;d be called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Sue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mary Sue<\/a> (or maybe a Gary Stu).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not a great movie, but it&#8217;s fun to see three of the leads from Dracula in wildly different roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrienne-ames.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Adrienne Ames's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Adrienne Ames.\" class=\"wp-image-12873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrienne-ames.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrienne-ames-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrienne-ames-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adrienne Ames (1612 Vine Street) plays the main suspect, an actress who was recently divorced from the murder victim. In real life she had already been divorced twice, even though she was only in her early twenties. Her first marriage happened when she was 13 or 14. Gross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s fake poster isn&#8217;t very complex, but it did amuse me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for The Death Kiss mimicking the poster for Deep Throat.\" class=\"wp-image-12870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/the-death-kiss.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hero that&#8217;s a movie screenwriter. I wonder what made them think to do that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-12869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions\/12879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}