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Post by petrolino on Jan 1, 2020 22:04:47 GMT
Ronee Blakley
Glenn Close
Sissy Spacek
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Post by Archelaus on Jan 1, 2020 22:16:05 GMT
Will Smith. He started out as a rapper for DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince and started acting in the hit sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and starred in several blockbuster films. He was nominated an Oscar in Ali.
I'm not sure if Liza Minnelli counts. She did start performing at an early age in theater, but she was a nightclub singer and released several studio albums during the 1960s. She was nominated an Oscar in The Sterile Cuckoo and won one in Cabaret.
Lady Gaga. She was nominated an Oscar in A Star is Born (2018).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2020 22:30:38 GMT
jervistetchAND Bikel's Oscar went to fellow Folk Singer Burl Ives …. OUCH !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2020 22:35:22 GMT
Frank Sinatra
was also a Nominee for Lead in The MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
in addition to the win for Supporting in From Here to Eternity
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 1, 2020 22:42:08 GMT
Ronee Blakley
Glenn Close
Sissy Spacek
Ronee Blakely I get 100%. But Glenn Close and Sissy Spacek are real surprises. And now I understand why both could sing so well in their films (though I'm not sure either was committed to singing as a career, but that probably doesn't matter). Very interesting stuff, petrolino. Thanks.
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 1, 2020 22:51:03 GMT
Will Smith. He started out as a rapper for DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince and started acting in the hit sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and starred in several blockbuster films. He was nominated an Oscar in Ali. I'm not sure if Liza Minnelli counts. She did start performing at an early age in theater, but she was a nightclub singer and released several studio albums during the 1960s. She was nominated an Oscar in The Sterile Cuckoo and won one in Cabaret. Lady Gaga. She was nominated an Oscar in A Star is Born (2018).
Yes, in my research I was surprised to learn about Will Smith. A rapper, wow! As for Liza, I'm not sure. It's close enough to debate, I guess. First job on Broadway at 19, but apparently she was singing in nightclubs in her adolescence. I say let's give it to her. Like mother, like daughter. Seems right. 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2020 23:08:12 GMT
Maurice Chevalier Before he went to Hollywood he worked as a farmer, circus acrobat, cabaret singer… 1930 Oscar Nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Big Pond (1930)  same year also Nominated:Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Love Parade (1929)  1959 Winner Honorary Award For his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2020 23:19:41 GMT
Diahann Carroll 1975 Nominee Best Actress in a Leading Role Claudine (1974)  "Music was an important part of her life as a child, singing at age six with her Harlem church choir. While taking voice and piano lessons, she contemplated an operatic career after becoming the 10-year-old recipient of a Metropolitan Opera scholarship for studies at New York's High School of Music and Art. As a teenager she sought modeling work but it was her voice, in addition to her beauty, that provided the magic and the allure. When she was 16, she teamed up with a girlfriend from school and auditioned for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show using the more exotic sounding name of Diahann Carroll. She alone was invited to appear and won the contest. She subsequently performed on the daily radio show for three weeks. In her late teens, she began focusing on a nightclub career and it was here that she began formulating a chic, glamorous image. Another TV talent show appearance earned her a week's engagement at the Latin Quarter. Broadway roles for black singers were rare but at age nineteen, Diahann was cast in the Harold Arlen/Truman Capote musical "House of Flowers"... www.imdb.com/name/nm0140792/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2020 23:28:24 GMT
Michael Dunn1966 Nominee - Best Actor in a Supporting Role Ship of Fools (1965)  He supported himself while at college by singing at local bars. In the 60s, encouraged by actor Roddy McDowall, he and actress Phoebe Dorin formed a slightly bizarre but popular New York song-and-comedy nightclub act, which eventually led to their being cast on TV's The Wild Wild West (1965) as evil Dr. Loveless and his assistant, Antoinette.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jan 1, 2020 23:40:17 GMT
Angela Lansbury started out as an actress who also sang and became a star of stage musicals later in her long career. BUT that's a whole other thread.  2014 Winner Honorary Award: To Angela Lansbury, an entertainment icon ... 1963 Nominee - Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role- The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 1946 Nominee Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role -The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) She sings in this one   1945 Nominee Oscar Best Actress in a Supporting Role Gaslight (1944)
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Post by sostie on Jan 2, 2020 0:59:17 GMT
How about an actor who was a singer who became an Oscar winning writer/director? Peter Capaldi  Before becoming an actor was the lead singer in punk band The Dreamboys (which featured Craig Feguson on drums). In 1995 he won the Oscar for Live Action Short Film for his film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life |
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Post by sostie on Jan 2, 2020 1:14:41 GMT
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
Queen Latifa - Chicago
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 2, 2020 5:06:46 GMT
Joe Pesci was in Joey Dee and the Starliters at some point, though not as a singer.
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 2, 2020 5:54:07 GMT
Lady Gaga - of course.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 2, 2020 14:41:39 GMT
Diane KeatonWhile never really known as a singer, she did support herself with gigs at small New York clubs while studying acting in the '60s, and was in the original B'way cast of HAIR. She can be heard on the OBC album as the soloist in the song Black Boys (pictured at center below). Two months into the show's run, she took over the role of Sheila (Easy To Be Hard, Good Morning Starshine) from Lynn Kellogg.  Publicity photos with cast members Steve Curry and Barry McGuire: 
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 2, 2020 14:58:47 GMT
Diane KeatonWhile never really known as a singer, she did support herself with gigs at small New York clubs while studying acting in the '60s, and was in the original B'way cast of HAIR. She can be heard on the OBC album as the soloist in the song Black Boys (pictured at center below). Two months into the show's run, she took over the role of Sheila (Easy To Be Hard, Good Morning Starshine) from Lynn Kellogg.
Amazing what I'm learning from this thread. Thanks.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jan 2, 2020 16:00:27 GMT
Walter Pidgeon
While working in banking in the '20s, he was studying voice at the New England Conservatory Of Music. By 1924 (a year before his B'way debut and two before his film debut), he was recording for Victor Records. Here's his rendition of Irving Berlin's What'll I Do?
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 2, 2020 18:03:53 GMT
Walter PidgeonWhile working in banking in the '20s, he was studying voice at the New England Conservatory Of Music. By 1924 (a year before his B'way debut and two before his film debut), he was recording for Victor Records. Here's his rendition of Irving Berlin's What'll I Do? Unbelievable! Thanks.
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Post by teleadm on Jan 2, 2020 19:08:40 GMT
Alan Arkin dropped out of college to form the folk music group The Tarriers, in which Arkin was the lead singer and played guitar.  At that time, he co-wrote the 1956 hit "The Banana Boat Song" - a Jamaican calypso folk song, which became better known as Harry Belafonte's popular version, and reached #4 on the Billboard chart. The group also appeared in the movie Calypso Heat Wave 1957. Before making his Off-Broadway acting debut. He would later be Oscar nominated for The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming 1966, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 1968 and Argo 2012. Plus winning an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine 2006. |
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Post by spiderwort on Jan 2, 2020 22:35:41 GMT
Alan Arkin dropped out of college to form the folk music group The Tarriers, in which Arkin was the lead singer and played guitar. . . At that time, he co-wrote the 1956 hit "The Banana Boat Song" - a Jamaican calypso folk song, which became better known as Harry Belafonte's popular version, and reached #4 on the Billboard chart. The group also appeared in the movie Calypso Heat Wave 1957. Before making his Off-Broadway acting debut.
Had no idea, teleadm! What a surprise. Thanks.
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