Barbara Steele (born December 19, 1937 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK) is an English film actress. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. Merseyside is a Metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1365900 England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works She is best known as the scream queen of Italian gothic horror films of the 1960s. A scream queen is an actress who has become associated with Horror films either through an appearance in a notable entry in the Genre, as a frequent victim Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Her breakthrough role came in Italian director Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), now hailed as a masterpiece of the Italian gothic horror genre. Mario Bava ( July 31 1914 – April 25 1980) was an Italian director, Screenwriter, and Cinematographer Black Sunday ( Italian title La maschera del demonio) is a 1960 Italian Horror film directed by Mario Bava [1] Steele starred in a string of horror films, including The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962); The Ghost, directed by Riccardo Freda; and Roger Corman's 1961 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Pit and the Pendulum. The Horrible Dr Hichcock ( Italian title L'Orribile segreto del Dr Riccardo Freda (born in Alexandria, Egypt, February 24, 1909 - died in Paris, France, December 20, 1999 Roger William Corman (born April 5 1926) sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate The Pit and the Pendulum (also known as Pit and the Pendulum) is a 1961 Horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Edgar Allan Poe (January 19 1809 – October 7 1849 was an American poet, short-story Writer, editor and Literary critic, The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such " According to Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies, she is on record as saying that she never wanted "to climb out of another fucking coffin again". Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and Fiction Writer.
R. H. W. Dillard entitled his first collection of poems The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele (1966)