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Post by spiderwort on Jun 24, 2018 13:42:38 GMT
Singers who became actors with substantial, enduring careers, as stars or in supporting roles.
My all-time favorites:
Bing Crosby (Oscar win)
Doris Day (Oscar nom) Barbra Streisand (Oscar win) Frank Sinatra (Oscar win)
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 24, 2018 13:47:16 GMT
Johnny Fontaine!
Dean Martin
Dwight Yoakam has done a little acting
Julie London
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Post by divtal on Jun 24, 2018 16:50:13 GMT
I was surprised to see that Bobby Darin did a lot of film, and TV acting. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Captain Newman, M.D..
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 24, 2018 16:55:26 GMT
Here's Dean and Ricky in Rio Bravo. (Dean's son sang and acted before his early death.)
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 24, 2018 17:04:41 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2018 20:10:52 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Jun 24, 2018 20:14:11 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 24, 2018 20:18:57 GMT
David Bowie
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 24, 2018 20:24:03 GMT
Madonna, although technically she was an actress in A Certain Sacrifice, made in 1979 prior to becoming a singer.
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Post by snsurone on Jun 24, 2018 22:38:22 GMT
Frankie Laine.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jun 24, 2018 23:09:59 GMT
Cyndi Lauper
Personally, I thought Cyndi Lauper did a good job playing "Sylvia Pickel"...
I also I enjoyed the movie... and I like the song too...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 24, 2018 23:22:17 GMT
Julie Andrewsseems to fit the requirements: Singers who became actors with substantial, enduring careers, as stars or in supporting roles.
Julie started out as a singer and then got acting jobs on stage and in films. In many of her films she sings nary a note !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 25, 2018 3:35:27 GMT
Dick PowellHe worked his way through schooling, sidelining as a soda jerk and a grocery clerk before entering the world of show biz as a singer (tenor) and banjo player with the Royal Peacock Orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky. He then got a gig with the Charlie Davis band and toured with them throughout the mid-west, appearing at dance halls and picture theatres. He next worked as a master of ceremonies and this rounded him off as an entertainer even before he was signed by a Warner Brothers talent scout in 1932. Looking rather younger than his actual years, Powell soon found himself typecast as clean-cut singing juveniles in a series of exuberant musicals with lavish production numbers like 42nd Street (1933), one of two dozen similar pictures he made for the studio. more at the link about how he became a non-singing actor in films like MURDER MY SWEET.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 25, 2018 3:42:24 GMT
Roy Rogers link" Roy Rogers (born Leonard Slye) moved to California in 1930, aged 18. He played in such musical groups as The Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws, and his own group, the International Cowboys. In 1934 he formed a group with Bob Nolan called Sons of the Pioneers. While in that group he was known as Leonard Slye, then Dick Weston. Their songs included "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". They first appeared in the western Rhythm on the Range (1936), starring Bing Crosby and Martha Raye. In 1936 he appeared as a bandit opposite Gene Autry in "The Old Coral". In 1937 Rogers went solo from "The Sons Of The Pioneres", and made his first starring film in 1938, Under Western Stars (1938).
He made almost 100 films. The Roy Rogers Show (1951) ran on NBC from October 1951 through 1957 and on CBS from 1961 to September 1964. In 1955, 67 of his feature films were released to television."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 25, 2018 3:53:20 GMT
Burl Ives"Summer stock in the late 1930s led to a job with CBS radio in 1940; through his "Wayfaring Stranger" he popularized many of the folksongs he had collected in his travels. By the 1960s, he had hits on both popular and country charts. He recorded over 30 albums for Decca and another dozen for Columbia. In 1964 he was singer-narrator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), an often-repeated Christmas television special. His Broadway debut was in 1938, though he is best remembered for creating the role of Big Daddy in the 1950's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) when it ran on Broadway through the early 1950s. His four-decade, 30+ movie career began with Ives playing a singing cowboy in Smoky (1946) and reached its peak with his role as Big Daddy role in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and winning an Oscar for best supporting actor in The Big Country (1958). "
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 25, 2018 3:59:34 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 25, 2018 4:10:42 GMT
Bette MidlerGrammy Award winner and Two Time Academy Award Nominee
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jun 25, 2018 5:22:01 GMT
Cyndi LauperPersonally, I thought Cyndi Lauper did a good job playing "Sylvia Pickel"... I also I enjoyed the movie... and I like the song too... I love that movie. Peter Falk was incredible. I met Julian Sands at the Central Park's Children Zoo, and mentioned Vibes (by which he seemed particularly embarrassed). Also mentioned Boxing Helena and Arachnaphobia, neither of which he seemed very proud of. Those are 3 movies that I really like.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 25, 2018 15:21:04 GMT
James Best, though primarily known for his acting, was quite a guitar player...
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Post by telegonus on Jun 25, 2018 19:13:26 GMT
Glenn Strange, from country singer to Frankenstein monster to Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke.
Judy Canova, also a country style singer, appeared in many films and did some straight dramatic roles on television, notably a Hitchcock show in which she couldn't stay off the phone.
Gale Storm spent many years as a sort of B Judy Garland, was with Monogram in the Forties, later switched to comedy only on the small screen as My Little Margie and, later, with The Gale Storm Show.
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