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R. Lee Procter

Mynx Devlin’s Rock and Roll Movie!

A new generation of film lovers are discovering Mynx Devlin in the podcast The Atomic Bombshell. Then they’re taking a deeper dive into her life with her sensational tell-all memoir of the same name. These movie buffs are discovering a singular cinema star: smart, sexy, and charismatic. Mynx was an icon in 1940s film noir….

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Mynx Devlin Meets Samuel Fuller

By 1949, Mynx Devlin was RKO’s biggest star. In her memoir and podcast The Atomic Bombshell, Mynx reveals the story of a failed seduction by Howard Hughes. Hughes was enraged at being spurned. He tried to wreck Mynx’s movie career by loaning her to a poverty row studio, Allied Artists. Director Samuel Fuller wanted her…

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The Mynx Devlin Film That Bombed Twice

Progressive Fable or Anti-Communist Propaganda? Right before Mynx Devlin broke through to top 10 box office success, she made an infamous curio. This film bombed twice: once as a progressive fable, then again as anti-Communist propaganda. In 1945, the progressive left was having its moment. The war was over. Russia was our ally. Mynx’s lover,…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mynx Devlin

In 1935, F. Scott Fitzgerald was in deep trouble. His latest novel, Tender Is the Night had just failed. No major film studio would hire him. Daughter Scottie was in a pricey private school. Wife Zelda was in a pricier sanitarium. How could he save himself? Mynx Devlin’s memoir, The Atomic Bombshell, reveals the surprising…

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Francois Truffaut In Love

In episode #9 of The Atomic Bombshell serial podcast, Mynx Devlin meets Francois Truffaut. This was 1962, right after he’d directed his breakthrough global smash hit, The 400 Blows. Truffaut was a famous (and famously waspish) film critic in the 1950s. He had a sweet tooth for American “termite art” films: gangster films, thrillers, B-musicals,…

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Vampira: Before Mynx Devlin Was Mynx

The Los Angeles Times recently ran a feature about a new biography, Glamour Ghoul, that reveals the wild life of Maila Nurmi. If you know her at all, you know her as “Vampira” from the hideous-sublime cult classic, Plan Nine From Outer Space. Nurmi rocketed to fame in the early 1950s as the original “Ghoul…

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Mynx Devlin Meets Elvis Presley

In episode 8 of “The Atomic Bombshell,” Mynx Devlin saves the free world from nuclear destruction. She does this by revealing the truth about Soviet intentions in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then JFK needs cover for an arms build up in South Florida. What if the Cold War turns hot? That’s why he asks Mynx…

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The 40 Thieves and Mynx Devlin

In episode #7 of The Atomic Bombshell, Mynx tells us how she got into the exploitation film business. She meets threadbare movie producer Herbert W. Zoozman in a graveyard (!) where he asks her to star in his latest quickie, Jail Bait Baby. Zoozman is one of a notorious group of exploitation film producers called……

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Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll

In episode #6 of “The Atomic Bombshell,” Mynx Devlin becomes the first actor to break the blacklist when she teams up with Producer Herbert W. Zoozman to make 18 movies in 18 months—9 double features pitched at drive-in movie theaters. This moment in film history echoes the remarkable rise of American-International Pictures. AIP was founded…

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Fidel Castro and Mynx Devlin’s Cuban Holiday

Episode #5 of The Atomic Bombshell finds Mynx on the run from the blacklist. Like a number of blacklisted writers, Mynx heads for Mexico, but this turns out to be only a stopping off point. She meets the Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñel. He offers her a part in his latest movie, a ‘lucha libre’…

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