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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 10, 2019 21:50:36 GMT
Bette Davis had pretty good range. Did she play a stuttering hillbilly? Lupino was also a director. It is soo unfair to dismiss her as a poor man's anything.
I like the tv movie she did with Lois Nettleton (another underappreciated performer, kinda like the poor man's Helen Mirren), WOMEN IN CHAINS.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 10, 2019 21:58:18 GMT
Bette Davis had pretty good range. Did she play a stuttering hillbilly? Lupino was also a director. It is soo unfair to dismiss her as a poor man's anything.
I like the tv movie she did with Lois Nettleton (another underappreciated performer, kinda like the poor man's Helen Mirren), WOMEN IN CHAINS.
Not as far as i know.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 10, 2019 22:07:20 GMT
Come to think of it--why would Davis want to be a stuttering hillbilly so I guess it does prove Lupino was the poor man's Davis!
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Post by bess1971s on Nov 11, 2019 18:08:33 GMT
I remember on the old IMDB board somebody calling Ida Lupino the poor man`s Bette Davis I was about to write the same thing until I saw your post. I like both ladies and Ida Lupino was good enough on her own without being compared to anyone.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 11, 2019 19:17:56 GMT
Gerald Mohr = Poor Man's Humphrey Bogart (he was really good in A Date With Death-I could have seen Bogart in that)
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Post by marshamae on Nov 11, 2019 19:58:51 GMT
Jayne Meadows started out as the poor man’s Katharine Hepburn. See UNDERCURRENT.
Arthur Shields is the poor man’s Barry Fitzgerald.
Tom Conway is the poor man’s George Sanders
It helps that they are siblings
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Post by marshamae on Nov 11, 2019 20:01:03 GMT
I think Susan Hayward was the poor man’s somebody Bette Davis , Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Hepburn . Hayworth , too is good enough not to be a poor man’s anybody
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Post by fangirl1975 on Nov 11, 2019 21:27:52 GMT
The poor man's (whoever) is a phrase often used to describe performers who because of physical similarity to an A- list star get cast in lower budget films in the same genre that put the A- lister on the A- list.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 15, 2019 17:34:31 GMT
To this day, I get Elias Koteas and Christopher Meloni confused. But I don't know which is the poorer for it.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 19, 2019 7:49:51 GMT
Sam Wanamaker, the poor man's Eli Wallach.
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Post by snsurone on Nov 19, 2019 14:28:59 GMT
Barbara Stanwyck was once called "the poor man's Bette Davis", although, IMO, she was a great actress in her own right.
And I suppose that Josephine Hutchinson could be called "the poor man's Lillian Gish", since there was a strong physical resemblance. I suppose one could call Kyra Segewick "the poor man's Julia Roberts" for the same reason, LOL.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Nov 20, 2019 14:50:31 GMT
I FOUND-OUT who it was. I remembered he was on an episode of either 'The Alfred Hitchcock Hour' OR 'Thriller'. Turned out to be 'Thriller'. His initials are/were (he's now and has been since shortly after the episode) JC. He DIED less than two years and a month afterwards. Any OTHER guesses?! It should be EASY now with the CLUES given.
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 20, 2019 15:50:27 GMT
James Dean --> Michael Parks and Christopher Jones.
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Post by koskiewicz on Nov 20, 2019 17:07:41 GMT
Skeeter Ulrich the poor mans Johnny Depp
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 20, 2019 18:33:16 GMT
Skeeter Ulrich the poor mans Johnny Depp lol and he was hired for SCREAM for that reason.
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 21, 2019 6:19:59 GMT
James Tolkan = the poor man's Donald Pleasence
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Post by telegonus on Nov 23, 2019 7:38:15 GMT
In the old days they'd sometimes use terms like "road company" or "B list" instead or poor man's, but WTF. When I got into stuff like this with a friend of mine years ago he'd put it differently, as in terms of TV, as distinct from movies, or a different nationality, such as Nehemiah Persoff as either a small screen or Yiddish theater version of J. Carrol Naish. Not poor man's or even road show, just a different generation, mostly in another medium, (television), though he did both, as did Naish. Another one might be Eva Marie Saint as an American Maria Schell (borderline there, I admit).
Michael Ansara as a poor man's (or small screen) Anthony Quinn? I'd say maybe. Ansara was better looking than Quinn, and overall was a smoother player, not so (hmm...) primal. Both actors were "ethnic specialists". Although from a somewhat younger generation, Richard Basehart strikes me as a kind of poor man's Joseph Cotten. A poor man's Henry Fonda? I'd say, from roughly the same period, Dana Andrews somewhat qualified; and though he made the A list eventually, his star didn't last and he never became an icon. For a while there I was thinking of John Doucette as a poor man's Ernest Borgnine.
Back in the studio days Joel McCrea called himself the Other Gary Cooper, which is to say the go-to guy when Cooper wasn't available, as in Union Pacific and, a year later, Foreign Correspondent. In his costume hero and swashbuckling days Louis Hayward was rather the poor man's Errol Flynn. During his stint at Universal in the Forties Jon Hall was rather the poor man's Buster Crabbe (but then how big a star was Buster?). Less of a stretch would be Richard Denning as a poor man's Richard Carlson. Bob (or in his pre-TV days, Robert) Cummings was in terms of casting somewhat of a poor man's Fred MacMurray but for his being a somewhat different type (more boyish, shorter, slight build).
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 23, 2019 18:24:00 GMT
James Franciscus - the poor man's Charlton Heston
Paul Burke - the poor man's James Franciscus
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Post by teleadm on Nov 24, 2019 0:31:52 GMT
Rick Lenz, who only co-starred in a few movies in the late 1960's and early 1970s, somehow reminded me of a young James Stewart The real deal!
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 24, 2019 1:11:53 GMT
Robert Hutton -- the poor man's James Stewart
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