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Post by telegonus on Sept 11, 2019 7:14:46 GMT
Josephine Hull's worth a mention. Two classic films (and what else is she known for?): Arsenic And Old Lace and Harvey.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 13, 2019 16:06:51 GMT
Richard Roundtree (Shaft) Abe Vigoda and James Castellano (The Godfather) Same with the actors who played Luca Brasi and Sollonzo) Wendell Burton (The Sterile Cuckoo) Come to think of it, Liza Minelli was as big as you can get for a few years.Minnelli pretty much squeaked past making this list by one film. Everybody knows Cabaret; beyond that, it's (in chrono order) The Sterile Cuckoo, New York, New York and Arthur. I daresay few remember ones like Lucky Lady (terrible) , A Matter Of Time (misbegotten) or Stepping Out (derivative and purely lightweight, but enjoyable enough). 'Course, she's famous for so many other things - concerts, B'way, television - that she has a built-in advantage over most suggestions on the thread.
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Post by sostie on Sept 13, 2019 16:25:06 GMT
Richard Roundtree (Shaft) Abe Vigoda and James Castellano (The Godfather) Same with the actors who played Luca Brasi and Sollonzo) Wendell Burton (The Sterile Cuckoo) Come to think of it, Liza Minelli was as big as you can get for a few years.I daresay few remember ones like Lucky Lady (terrible) In the early days of VHS there were a few films I had on VHS taped from TV that I would watch constantly (i guess being spoilt for choice being a kid watching and the novelty of recorded film meant I did that a lot)...along with Star Wars, Hooper, Smokey & The Bandit etc Lucky Lady was another constant re-watch. Remember loving it. Another long forgotten rewatch - it's just come back to me - was Last remake Of Beau Geste!!!
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 13, 2019 16:42:24 GMT
I daresay few remember ones like Lucky Lady (terrible) In the early days of VHS there were a few films I had on VHS taped from TV that I would watch constantly (i guess being spoilt for choice being a kid watching and the novelty of recorded film meant I did that a lot)...along with Star Wars, Hooper, Smokey & The Bandit etc Lucky Lady was another constant re-watch. Remember loving it. Another long forgotten rewatch - it's just come back to me - was Last remake Of Beau Geste!!! I did that when I got my first VCR in the early '80s...and I was 30 at the time. Still had only broadcast channels where I lived (seven of them) so having a little "library" of films recorded off air was a luxury. Hope I didn't step on any toes about Lucky Lady. Saw it only the one time in '75.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 13, 2019 17:31:43 GMT
Alicia Rhett, India Wilkes in Gone With the Wind. Her one and only film Credit. She was a South Carolinian who hated Hollywood and never went back. Sje became a portrait painter. Ironically, she painted a young Alexandra Ripley, who wrote the sequel to GWTW.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 13, 2019 18:04:53 GMT
American actress Louise Brooks, a former Ziegfield Follies and George White Scandals revue girl, though it's a German silent she is famous for, Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Pandora's Box ( Die Büchse der Pandora) 1929, few have seen it but many have heard or seen pictures from the movie. Her last movie was co-starring with a pre-fame John Wayne, when he was part of The Three Mesquiteers low-budget westerns, Overland Stage Raiders 1938
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Post by sostie on Sept 13, 2019 19:08:30 GMT
In the early days of VHS there were a few films I had on VHS taped from TV that I would watch constantly (i guess being spoilt for choice being a kid watching and the novelty of recorded film meant I did that a lot)...along with Star Wars, Hooper, Smokey & The Bandit etc Lucky Lady was another constant re-watch. Remember loving it. Another long forgotten rewatch - it's just come back to me - was Last remake Of Beau Geste!!! Hope I didn't step on any toes about Lucky Lady. Saw it only the one time in '75. Don't worry...I'm sure through adult eyes I would say it is pretty bad now.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 13, 2019 19:26:44 GMT
Hope I didn't step on any toes about Lucky Lady. Saw it only the one time in '75. Don't worry...I'm sure through adult eyes I would say it is pretty bad now. Y'know what's really nice? When the opposite occurs: seeing some film again that you thought was a waste of time when you were young, and discovering with maturity how good it actually was.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 13, 2019 20:02:01 GMT
Don't worry...I'm sure through adult eyes I would say it is pretty bad now. Y'know what's really nice? When the opposite occurs: seeing some film again that you thought was a waste of time when you were young, and discovering with maturity how good it actually was. That's one of the reasons I always enjoying reading the reviews by Lebowskidoo 🦞 … of rewatched or skipped classics
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 13, 2019 20:48:03 GMT
American actress Louise Brooks, a former Ziegfield Follies and George White Scandals revue girl, though it's a German silent she is famous for, Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Pandora's Box ( Die Büchse der Pandora) 1929, few have seen it but many have heard or seen pictures from the movie. Her last movie was co-starring with a pre-fame John Wayne, when he was part of The Three Mesquiteers low-budget westerns, Overland Stage Raiders 1938 Brooks did a decent amount of starring/co-starring movies. The followup to Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, just as good. Prix de Beauty, made in 1930, was well received, but her career fell off the tracks after. Tow other big films of hers were A Girl in Every Port, a Howard Hawks silent, and The Canary Murder Case, with William Powell and Jean Arthur. She committed career suicide by turning down the lead in The Public Enemy. And she was swept under the rug, like most silent stars. She was ridiculously beautiful also. I'd don't usually go agog over movie stars but wow.
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Post by llanwydd on Sept 13, 2019 20:57:10 GMT
American actress Louise Brooks, a former Ziegfield Follies and George White Scandals revue girl, though it's a German silent she is famous for, Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Pandora's Box ( Die Büchse der Pandora) 1929, few have seen it but many have heard or seen pictures from the movie. Her last movie was co-starring with a pre-fame John Wayne, when he was part of The Three Mesquiteers low-budget westerns, Overland Stage Raiders 1938 Brooks did a decent amount of starring/co-starring movies. The followup to Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, just as good. Prix de Beauty, made in 1930, was well received, but her career fell off the tracks after. Tow other big films of hers were A Girl in Every Port, a Howard Hawks silent, and The Canary Murder Case, with William Powell and Jean Arthur. She committed career suicide by turning down the lead in The Public Enemy. And she was swept under the rug, like most silent stars. She was ridiculously beautiful also. I'd don't usually go agog over movie stars but wow. I would not say she committed suicide in any way. She went the way of Clara Bow for the same reason that Clara did. Her voice did not compliment her looks. Public Enemy could not have helped her. By the way, I put Louise on a par with Greta Garbo.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 13, 2019 21:16:24 GMT
Brooks did a decent amount of starring/co-starring movies. The followup to Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, just as good. Prix de Beauty, made in 1930, was well received, but her career fell off the tracks after. Tow other big films of hers were A Girl in Every Port, a Howard Hawks silent, and The Canary Murder Case, with William Powell and Jean Arthur. She committed career suicide by turning down the lead in The Public Enemy. And she was swept under the rug, like most silent stars. She was ridiculously beautiful also. I'd don't usually go agog over movie stars but wow. I would not say she committed suicide in any way. She went the way of Clara Bow for the same reason that Clara did. Her voice did not compliment her looks. Public Enemy could not have helped her. By the way, I put Louise on a par with Greta Garbo. I've heard Brooks speaking voice and, like John Gilbert, there was nothing wrong with it. I think her career might have had some life if she had made The Public Enemy. In reality, none of the big silent stars had much of a career in talkies. Even the crossovers, like John Barrymore and Greta Garbo were done by the 40's. Some were steered into lousy roles (the studio dictated what movies you were in) than made them box office poison. Some were blacklisted because of their morals (that would be Louise Brooks and Clara Bow somewhat, neither of which were exactly prim and proper.) And a few were dumped due to their voices, but most of those were due to foreign accents, Emil Jannings and Pola Negri for example. Ramon Novarro had an effeminate voice, incompatible for a leading man. I think a lot of the silent stars were dumped just because they were makings too much money. Out with the old, in with the new.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 13, 2019 21:18:04 GMT
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 13, 2019 21:34:50 GMT
From The Canary Murder Case.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 13, 2019 22:09:14 GMT
How many Harold Young movies have you seen lately? Never heard of him? A movie editor since the early 1920s, started directing two movies in the early sound era, got invited to Britain and Producer Alexander Korda to direct what is now called a classic The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 with Leslie Howard, and a big budget. Returned to America and did mostly B-movies and programmers, though he did The Mummy's Tomb 1942 at Universal and the live sequences in Disney's Three Caballeros 1944, but nothing even close to Pimpernel.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 13, 2019 22:31:48 GMT
Karen Lynn Gorney. A few credits but Saturday Night Fever is the only thing that rings a bell. She did an episode of The Sopranos but I wouldn't remember her.
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Post by telegonus on Sept 21, 2019 6:03:27 GMT
Richard Roundtree (Shaft) Abe Vigoda and James Castellano (The Godfather) Same with the actors who played Luca Brasi and Sollonzo) Wendell Burton (The Sterile Cuckoo) Come to think of it, Liza Minelli was as big as you can get for a few years.Minnelli pretty much squeaked past making this list by one film. Everybody knows Cabaret; beyond that, it's (in chrono order) The Sterile Cuckoo, New York, New York and Arthur. I daresay few remember ones like Lucky Lady (terrible) , A Matter Of Time (misbegotten) or Stepping Out (derivative and purely lightweight, but enjoyable enough). 'Course, she's famous for so many other things - concerts, B'way, television - that she has a built-in advantage over most suggestions on the thread. Yes to Liza being a multi-media star. Her name got me to thinking of some of her fellow players from Cabaret, notably her leading man, Michael York, who's enjoyed a long career, but to be honest, if he died tomorrow every edition of every newspaper would lead his obit with something along the lines of "Michael York, best remembered for starring in the 1972 musical Cabaret opposite Liza Minnelli, had died...". That film would. I'd betcha' dollars to donuts, be in probably every mention of the actor's death (nothing against York at my end, a good actor, he was unable to sustain a major starring career despite that big push he got from Cabaret. Also from that film, Joel Grey, who's best remembered by most people for having been in it. As to Marisa Berenson, I'm trying to think of some others movies she's been in...
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 21, 2019 23:11:27 GMT
Bud Cort was mentioned elsewhere on the Classics board. He was famous for Brewster McCloud, MASH, and Harold and Maude.
Michael J Pollard? Bonnie and Clyde, Hannibal Brooks, and Little Fauss and Big Halsy. I guess only the first is well remembered.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 22, 2019 1:30:59 GMT
Minnelli pretty much squeaked past making this list by one film. Everybody knows Cabaret; beyond that, it's (in chrono order) The Sterile Cuckoo, New York, New York and Arthur. I daresay few remember ones like Lucky Lady (terrible) , A Matter Of Time (misbegotten) or Stepping Out (derivative and purely lightweight, but enjoyable enough). 'Course, she's famous for so many other things - concerts, B'way, television - that she has a built-in advantage over most suggestions on the thread. Yes to Liza being a multi-media star. Her name got me to thinking of some of her fellow players from Cabaret, notably her leading man, Michael York, who's enjoyed a long career, but to be honest, if he died tomorrow every edition of every newspaper would lead his obit with something along the lines of "Michael York, best remembered for starring in the 1972 musical Cabaret opposite Liza Minnelli, had died...". That film would. I'd betcha' dollars to donuts, be in probably every mention of the actor's death (nothing against York at my end, a good actor, he was unable to sustain a major starring career despite that big push he got from Cabaret. Also from that film, Joel Grey, who's best remembered by most people for having been in it. As to Marisa Berenson, I'm trying to think of some others movies she's been in... Yup, I daresay Cabaret will (or, in some cases, has) top the obit for pretty much everyone involved. And what a landmark film: an "intimate" and offbeat musical of convention-shattering subject matter and cinematic technique; an instant classic positioned by happenstance amid the dying gasps of a long-revered form, but which - perhaps by virtue of its difficult-to-surpass virtuosity - didn't spur a resurgence of the genre. Can you tell that I like this film? And as for Berenson, I can think only of Barry Lyndon without consulting her filmography. Without the perspective of a career performer, I wonder which any of them would prefer as lasting tribute: an extensive body of work with perhaps a few notable highlights, or an indelible association with a single, iconic film so culturally prominent that it's known even by those who've never seen it.
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Post by MCDemuth on Sept 22, 2019 2:57:31 GMT
Romy Windor (AKA) Romy Walthall " Romy Windsor was born on September 16, 1963 in Pasadena, Texas, USA as Romy Walthall." www.imdb.com/name/nm0934806/?ref_=tt_cl_t1She was the lead star in "Howling IV: The Original Nightmare" (1988)... & Starred in the short lived TV Show: "Hotel Malibu" (1994). She also appeared in many movies including: "A Bunny's Tale" (1985) (TV Movie) "Howling: New Moon Rising" (1995)... "Face/Off" (1997) with John Travolta... And she made guest appearances on several TV Shows including: "Silk Stalkings" (1992) "Diagnosis Murder" (1994) As I recall, she first came to my attention on the TV Series: "Quantum Leap"... In the episode: "Camikazi Kid" (1989), She played "Cheryl Wilson", a young woman who was desined to marry an abusive alcoholic and would be forced to give up her dream of joining the Peace Corps... Thankfully, Sam leaps into the body of her gawky younger brother, and he shows her the true monstrous nature of her Fiance... While she still acts, it seems that the Late 1980s and Early 1990s were the best years of her career... It's a shame, because she's quite beautiful, and very talented!
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