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Post by politicidal on Oct 9, 2018 0:04:22 GMT
It may sound mean spirited but let's face it, this does happen sometimes. The wrong people are miscast as the hot chick, the handsome lead, or the sexy (insert random job here). I'll start with Melina Mercouri in Topkapi (1964). Perhaps it was the lighting or bad makeup but she was just fugly! Even the poser makes her seem far more attractive than she was onscreen. Let the roasting begin!
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 9, 2018 1:00:25 GMT
LOL That is a good one. Topkaki. You are right on the money with that pick.
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Post by snsurone on Oct 9, 2018 11:56:32 GMT
Sigrid Gurie in THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO. She was a :Norwegian" actress (from Flatbush!) who was badly made up to look Chinese.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 13:56:53 GMT
Sigrid Gurie in THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO. OMG ... they should have made her act with a bag over her head so as not to scare the children and the weak of heart. !
Ugly? Maybe in The Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder"-Land.
RE: "Norwegian" Born in Brooklyn of Norwegian parents "Sigrid and her family went back to Norway in 1912 and were not too far away from The Titanic when it sank." "Sigrid Gurie came to Hollywood in 1936 as a newly discovered talent whom Samuel Goldwyn introduced in the 1937 production of The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938). He promoted her a Norwegian goddess but made her an oriental princess teamed with Gary Cooper." Nickname The Norwegian Garbo
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Post by Doghouse6 on Oct 9, 2018 14:11:51 GMT
Each to their own, I guess. I find Melina Mercouri infinitely more attractive than any number of pouty waifs or human Barbie dolls of the 21st century.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 9, 2018 14:19:42 GMT
Sigrid Gurie in THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO. She was a :Norwegian" actress (from Flatbush!) who was badly made up to look Chinese. She is not Norwegian as she was not born in Norway. She is an American as she was born in the United States.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 14:27:47 GMT
It may sound mean spirited …. Let the roasting begin!
Yes it does ! Very ! Why ? What does it actually accomplish other than to start disagreements ?
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 9, 2018 14:33:49 GMT
Pretty subjective thread, but I always thought that Anthony Perkins was too wimpy and unattractive to seduce (or be seduced) by another Melina Mercouri character in the film, Phaedra. Very interesting story though, and the Aston Martin Perkins drives is the real star of the film...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 14:34:55 GMT
She is not Norwegian as she was not born in Norway. She is an American as she was born in the United States. Americans are often referred to as "Whatever country your ancestors are from (Hyphen ) - Americans." Sigrids parents were both from Norway. Producer Goldwin, promoted her as actually having been born in Norway. "She made a sensation in the early 1940s when the press found out she was born in Brooklyn and not in Norway."
REL Her twin brother : Knut Haukelid gained fame as a war hero. A leader of the Norwegian Resistance during WWII, his story was eventually told in the movie The Heroes of Telemark (1965). He was portrayed by Richard Harris (as Knut Straud).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 14:39:36 GMT
Each to their own, I guess. I find Melina Mercouri infinitely more attractive than any number of pouty waifs or human Barbie dolls of the 21st century. To paraphrase Norma : THEY HAD FACES THEN !
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 14:46:38 GMT
She is not Norwegian as she was not born in Norway. She is an American as she was born in the United States. Americans are often referred to as "Whatever country your ancestors are from (Hyphen ) - Americans." Sigrids parents were both from Norway.
Producer Goldwin, promoted her as actually having been born in Norway, thus the "Norwegian" in quotes.. "She made a sensation in the early 1940s when the press found out she was born in Brooklyn and not in Norway."
REL Her twin brother : Knut Haukelid gained fame as a war hero. A leader of the Norwegian Resistance during WWII, his story was eventually told in the movie The Heroes of Telemark (1965). He was portrayed by Richard Harris (as Knut Straud).
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Post by Aj_June on Oct 9, 2018 14:55:20 GMT
It may sound mean spirited but let's face it, this does happen sometimes.
Sorry, I do not agree. Beauty is a totally subjective measure so what you are claiming only happens is subjective opinions of certain individuals. Whom you may not find beautiful may be beautiful for other people. There is no objective criteria to measure it and thus it's meaningless to say "let's face it, it does happen sometimes." as if it happens as a fact.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 15:00:49 GMT
RE: Melina Mercouri in Topkapi .. … you've made a very bad choice as to who to call "fugly", politicidal and Primemovermithrax PejorativeShe's a mature woman and shows character and life experience !
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 9, 2018 15:04:47 GMT
She is not Norwegian as she was not born in Norway. She is an American as she was born in the United States. Americans are often referred to as "Whatever country your ancestors are from (Hyphen ) - Americans." Sigrids parents were both from Norway. Producer Goldwin, promoted her as actually having been born in Norway. "She made a sensation in the early 1940s when the press found out she was born in Brooklyn and not in Norway."
REL Her twin brother : Knut Haukelid gained fame as a war hero. A leader of the Norwegian Resistance during WWII, his story was eventually told in the movie The Heroes of Telemark (1965). He was portrayed by Richard Harris (as Knut Straud). Yes i know Americans does that, but as i see it as a Norwegian too be a Norwegian you have too be born in Norway or become a Norwegian citizen after taken a citizenship test.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 9, 2018 15:04:55 GMT
RE: Melina Mercouri in Topkapi .. … you've made a very bad choice as to who to call "fugly", politicidal and Primemovermithrax PejorativeShe's a mature woman and shows character and life experience ! You can show all those things without looking like an aged past-her-prime Parisian courtesan. Btw those pics don’t really do her justice.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 9, 2018 15:09:12 GMT
Pretty subjective thread, but I always thought that Anthony Perkins was too wimpy and unattractive to seduce (or be seduced) by another Melina Mercouri character in the film, Phaedra. Very interesting story though, and the Aston Martin Perkins drives is the real star of the film... Interestingly enough, I found him pretty unconvincing for the male lead role in Green Mansions.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 9, 2018 15:18:33 GMT
The wrong people are miscast as the hot chick, the handsome lead, or the sexy (insert random job here). I'll start with Melina Mercouri in Topkapi (1964). Perhaps it was the lighting or bad makeup but she was just fugly!
Are you saying that she was cast as a "hot chick" in Topkapi ? Or a "sexy (insert random job here)" ? She and her looks were in keeping with the ages of the men in the cast. Imo, she looked fine in the film ! I really don't see the problem you are having with her .. perhaps it's just a way to start off a "let's see what disagreements I can start" type thread ? Bottom line .. "fugly" as well as "beauty" are in the eye of the beholder as, I suppose, are "mean spirited" posts.
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Post by snsurone on Oct 9, 2018 15:50:29 GMT
Sigrid Gurie in THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO. She was a :Norwegian" actress (from Flatbush!) who was badly made up to look Chinese. She is not Norwegian as she was not born in Norway. She is an American as she was born in the United States. That's the point! She was supposed to be Goldwyn's "Norwegian discovery" until it was found out thar she was from Brooklyn.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 9, 2018 18:22:18 GMT
Silvana Mangano in Bitter Rice 1949, but... ...on What's My Line? 1956 she looked like this, I can only guess that it has to do with a strange make-up and lightning, and maybe the tape has aged badly
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 9, 2018 18:49:29 GMT
Maria Ouspenskaya in the Wolfman. I would have rather seen Ingrid Bergman.
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