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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 28, 2019 15:15:12 GMT
The Oscar Jinx, said to have put the whammy on certain winners since the 1930s, Fact or Fiction ?
"In 1936 and 1937 Louis Rainer won back to back Best Actress awards. She then finished five mediocre movies in the next year and, except for one film in 1943, promptly disappeared from the screen. Some said it was a series of bad choices of movies that made her career to collapse. Others blamed the mysterious jinx, and she herself said 'Those two Academy Awards I got were bad for me . I later did one bad film. I was treated as if I had never done anything good in my life'."
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 28, 2019 16:35:44 GMT
George Chakiris' career didn't exactly take off after his Supporting Actor win for West Side Story (1961). He had retired from movies by the end of that decade except for two film appearances in the intervening years until now.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 29, 2019 23:35:56 GMT
Looks like some sort of jinx has put the whammy on the thread   |
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Post by teleadm on Mar 29, 2019 23:52:05 GMT
OK ! how about Rita Moreno and West Side Story never built anything upon it, because she had so many other engagements. I thoyght she had Broadway assignments, while researching, with dear Rita still among us,
Was the special engagements cuddling with Marlon Brando for 8 years?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 31, 2019 3:50:57 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 31, 2019 3:56:51 GMT
no jinx.
there are only -
1 poor career decisions
2 poor personal decisions
3 bad luck (more important a factor than many think)
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 31, 2019 4:14:10 GMT
no jinx. there are only - 1 poor career decisions 2 poor personal decisions 3 bad luck (more important a factor than many think) Yeah, some of the offers went off the rails for those ppl. Some of those awards were for flash in the pan performances anyways - Gooding Jr, Basinger...
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 31, 2019 5:18:06 GMT
no jinx. there are only - 1 poor career decisions 2 poor personal decisions 3 bad luck (more important a factor than many think) BUT might #3 be caused by the jinx ?
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Post by OldAussie on Mar 31, 2019 8:20:21 GMT
no jinx. there are only - 1 poor career decisions 2 poor personal decisions 3 bad luck (more important a factor than many think) BUT might #3 be caused by the jinx ?
well.........
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Post by kijii on Mar 31, 2019 14:08:17 GMT
Some have poor agents.
Some what don't want to pursue their career anymore.
Some make poor decisions.
Some won the Oscar because of personal qualities that fit that story--and ONLY that story--Harold Russell (1947)
Many go on to have stellar careers because of their Oscars.
Some should never have won an Oscar in the FIRST PLACE.
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