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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 28, 2019 14:21:09 GMT
Labeled as "Box Office Poison", some recovered and flourished. Some ultimately failed. Some actors have merely had what can be best described as "career slumps" followed by renewed success. Essays, comments and images, as always, welcomed and encouraged.
Katharine Hepburn"From the period 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937); the many flops included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937) and the now- classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).
With so many flops, she came to be labeled "box-office poison." She decided to go back to Broadway to star in "The Philadelphia Story" (1938), and was rewarded with a smash. She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars."
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 28, 2019 14:34:04 GMT
She sure showed them -- don't mess with the Kate!
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 28, 2019 15:44:40 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Mar 28, 2019 19:25:20 GMT
 Marlene kicked her way back, by sending up her old movie persona, with Destry Rides Again 1939, while seeing what the boys in the back room would have.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 29, 2019 0:22:52 GMT
Labeled as Box Office Poison, some recovered and flourished. Some ultimately failed. Essays, comments and images, as always, welcomed and encouraged.
Katharine Hepburn"From the period 1935-1938, she had only two hits: Alice Adams (1935), which brought her her second Oscar nomination, and Stage Door (1937); the many flops included Break of Hearts (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Mary of Scotland (1936), Quality Street (1937) and the now- classic Bringing Up Baby (1938).
With so many flops, she came to be labeled "box-office poison." She decided to go back to Broadway to star in "The Philadelphia Story" (1938), and was rewarded with a smash. She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms, including her choice of director and co-stars."
Poor thing, I wonder what ever became of her? 
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2019 2:23:54 GMT
Frank Sinatra experienced a MAJOR career slump and made a comeback via FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (complete with an Academy Award.)
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 29, 2019 2:48:49 GMT
I should have researched this a little more than just watching MOMMIE DEAREST but, apparently, Joan Crawford was labeled BO Poison until her triumphant Oscar winning role in MILDRED PIERCE.   |
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 29, 2019 3:02:06 GMT
This makes me want to create a new thread about European revivals...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2019 3:52:42 GMT
This makes me want to create a new thread about European revivals... Great idea ! I love spinoffs … EDIT : I see it .. "Second Careers in Europe " 
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Post by london777 on Mar 29, 2019 4:20:52 GMT
I am always reading that John Travolta's career nose-dived after Grease (1978) until Tarantino resurrected him with Pulp Fiction (1994). But Look Who's Talking (1989) was enormously profitable and generated two sequels, while Blow Out (1981) was a decent thriller.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 29, 2019 12:53:27 GMT
Al Pacino didn’t appear on film for four years after the box office failure of Revolution (1985).
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Post by teleadm on Mar 29, 2019 19:46:25 GMT
Edward Arnold was mentioned in the article. Was he ever box-office material? Since I've always seen him as one of the great Supporting actor stars.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2019 23:49:45 GMT
Not Box Office Poison and not a slump === she just took a long break between pictures ! GLORIA STUART <-- IMDb link with too much good stuff to copy out She left film making in 1946.. made three films in the 1980s and followed them up with TITANIC in 1997 .with an Oscar Nom !   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 30, 2019 1:50:34 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 30, 2019 13:47:52 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 30, 2019 13:50:08 GMT
Tony Scott's first film (The Hunger) was so disliked that he didn't get to direct another for four years; that was Top Gun.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 30, 2019 14:22:38 GMT
I debated with myself whether to put this on the poison/slum thread or on the teleadm thread on Warner Baxter. I picked this one just because it was the first on I saw when I opened the computer this morning. Baxter was a popular leading man in early sound pictures. He won Best Actor at the Second Annual Oscars as The Cisco Kid for “In Old Arizona” (1928), you can read all about it in the Baxter thread. He immediately went into a two year downward spiral until he went back to the Kid in “The Cisco Kid” (1931). After that wore off, he got “42nd Street” (1933). All this is by Baxter’s own account. The final career resurgence for Baxter was a 10-picture series based on a popular radio mystery, Crime Doctor, which ran from 1943 to 1949. He was in just three more minor movies until his death in 1951.  |
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Post by teleadm on Mar 30, 2019 14:39:29 GMT
I debated with myself whether to put this on the poison/slum thread or on the teleadm thread on Warner Baxter. I picked this one just because it was the first on I saw when I opened the computer this morning. Baxter was a popular leading man in early sound pictures. He won Best Actor at the Second Annual Oscars as The Cisco Kid for “In Old Arizona” (1928), you can read all about it in the Baxter thread. He immediately went into a two year downward spiral until he went back to the Kid in “The Cisco Kid” (1931). After that wore off, he got “42nd Street” (1933). All this is by Baxter’s own account. The final career resurgence for Baxter was a 10-picture series based on a popular radio mystery, Crime Doctor, which ran from 1943 to 1949. He was in just three more minor movies until his death in 1951. Was it worth it to follow Dr. Robert Ordway? I thought he was a criminal who once he woke up became a sort of pre-CSI solving crimes, but it might be another serial I was thinking of.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 30, 2019 14:56:33 GMT
I debated with myself whether to put this on the poison/slum thread or on the teleadm thread on Warner Baxter. I picked this one just because it was the first on I saw when I opened the computer this morning. Baxter was a popular leading man in early sound pictures. He won Best Actor at the Second Annual Oscars as The Cisco Kid for “In Old Arizona” (1928), you can read all about it in the Baxter thread. He immediately went into a two year downward spiral until he went back to the Kid in “The Cisco Kid” (1931). After that wore off, he got “42nd Street” (1933). All this is by Baxter’s own account. The final career resurgence for Baxter was a 10-picture series based on a popular radio mystery, Crime Doctor, which ran from 1943 to 1949. He was in just three more minor movies until his death in 1951. Was it worth it to follow Dr. Robert Ordway? I thought he was a criminal who once he woke up became a sort of pre-CSI solving crimes, but it might be another serial I was thinking of. I have seen three or four of the 10 Crime Doctor films. The best is the first which is an origin story. Like all series of this type (Charlie Chan, Mr. Moto) they are short, fast-moving and entertaining even though sometimes on the routine side. The Crime Doctor series is mostly let down by poor scripts which fail to provide a compelling mystery. Still, worth dipping into although a marathon of all 10 movies is not recommended. They were popular, however, as a draw for 1940s theater goers.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 31, 2019 1:07:32 GMT
 Mae West re-invented herself as a Las Vegas act, using "well-developed" men in her acts
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