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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 1:59:46 GMT
Penelope Ann Miller
"It's over."
Penelope Ann Miller was born in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 1964. She trained as a dancer. Actor Al Pacino once described Miller as a "spinning top". At a time when every big-name film and theatre director wished to work with her, Gregory Peck praised Miller as being "one of the finest young actresses" in American cinema.
"We're the Millers."
Fun Fact : Penelope Ann Miller was cast in 'The Artist' (2011) having impressed decades earlier as Pee Wee Herman's main squeeze.
'Holiday Inn' - Elton John
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10 Films
'Big Top Pee-wee' (1988 - Randal Kleiser)
'Miles From Home' (1988 - Gary Sinise)
'Dead Bang' (1989 - John Frankenheimer)
'The Freshman' (1990 - Andrew Bergman)
'Awakenings' (1990 - Penny Marshall)
'Kindergarten Cop' (1990 - Ivan Reitman)
'Other People's Money' (1991 - Norman Jewison)
'The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag' (1992 - Allan Moyle)
'Chaplin' (1992 - Richard Attenborough)
'Carlito's Way' (1993 - Brian De Palma)
'Tiny Dancer'
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Post by politicidal on Feb 2, 2020 2:14:06 GMT
Liked her in what I’ve seen so far. Even stuff like The Shadow or The Relic.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 2:29:20 GMT
Liked her in what I’ve seen so far. Even stuff like The Shadow or The Relic. Funny you mention those two films : I bought 'The Relic' on dvd last year to add to my collection and watched 'The Shadow' for the first time since it's initial release (better than I remembered it to be).
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Post by politicidal on Feb 2, 2020 3:35:32 GMT
Liked her in what I’ve seen so far. Even stuff like The Shadow or The Relic. Funny you mention those two films : I bought 'The Relic' on dvd last year to add to my collection and watched 'The Shadow' for the first time since it's initial release (better than I remembered it to be). I do like it too. It’s got this great noirish atmospheric and Alec Baldwin is a good fit. But the villain could have been better. Out of those early nineties pulp superhero movies, I liked The Phantom better and absolutely loved The Rocketeer. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 3:45:18 GMT
Last film I saw her in was I think Along Came A Spider?
Suddenly she was in mother roles.
Monica Potter was like a blonder Julia Roberts.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 5:39:20 GMT
Last film I saw her in was I think Along Came A Spider? Suddenly she was in mother roles. Monica Potter was like a blonder Julia Roberts. You should start a topic on Monica Potter here. Great actress.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 7:56:19 GMT
You should start a topic on Monica Potter here. Great actress. It's the only movie I had seen her in, but see how I remembered her all these years later.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 16:28:49 GMT
You should start a topic on Monica Potter here. Great actress. It's the only movie I had seen her in, but see how I remembered her all these years later. Monica Potter's from Cleveland, Ohio. I thought you'd seen her in the horror movie 'Saw' (2004).
She often talks to local press back home to Ohio, pictured here in Ohio magazine.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 16:38:33 GMT
Monica Potter's from Cleveland, Ohio. I thought you'd seen her in the horror movie 'Saw' (2004).
She often talks to local press back home to Ohio, pictured here in Ohio magazine.
I don't remember her in that. But then the only characters I remember are the three in the room, Dina Meyer, and the actress from the Blob.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 16:40:36 GMT
Monica Potter's from Cleveland, Ohio. I thought you'd seen her in the horror movie 'Saw' (2004).
She often talks to local press back home to Ohio, pictured here in Ohio magazine.
I don't remember her in that. But then the only characters I remember are the three in the room, Dina Meyer, and the actress from the Blob.
Also, check out 'Con Air' (1997) among her films, I'd say one of the best action pictures of the 1990s and very rewatchable (if you like action pictures).
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 18:43:16 GMT
Also, check out 'Con Air' (1997) among her films, I'd say one of the best action pictures of the 1990s and very rewatchable (if you like action pictures).
I've see that. Wow, she's in there too.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 19:20:32 GMT
Also, check out 'Con Air' (1997) among her films, I'd say one of the best action pictures of the 1990s and very rewatchable (if you like action pictures).
I've see that. Wow, she's in there too.
Yes, that was a breakthrough role for her. Pictures here with John Cusack who's a Catholic from Illinois.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 19:53:10 GMT
Yes, that was a breakthrough role for her. Pictures here with John Cusack who's a Catholic from Illinois.
All I remember about Con Air was the plane stuff with prisoners, Malkovitch, and Rachel Ticotin was one of the guards.
I don't remember Cusack at all in that or what Nicholas Cage was doing! I have seen The Rock a few times.
I'll have to revisit it.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 2, 2020 20:01:46 GMT
Yes, that was a breakthrough role for her. Pictures here with John Cusack who's a Catholic from Illinois.
All I remember about Con Air was the plane stuff with prisoners, Malkovitch, and Rachel Ticotin was one of the guards.
I don't remember Cusack at all in that or what Nicholas Cage was doing! I have seen The Rock a few times.
I'll have to revisit it.
'The Rock' and 'Con Air' were a pair of blockbusters that transformed the fortunes of Nicolas Cage and turned him into a bona fide action hero. I saw them back when I still used to regularly attend cinema screenings and enjoyed both movies, but it's 'Con Air' I return to on tv.
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 2, 2020 22:02:29 GMT
I feel bad for having taken the topic off Penelope Ann Miller.
There's an anecdote about her and John Leguizamo.
That she was a snob when making Carlito's Way so he and a wardrobe mistress kept shrinking her clothes so she would think she was too fat and starve herself.
BS?
That seems like a pretty serious act of revenge that could have got them in a heap of trouble if they were caught.
"Hey remember me, Benny Blanco from the Bronx?"
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Post by petrolino on Feb 3, 2020 6:15:40 GMT
I feel bad for having taken the topic off Penelope Ann Miller. There's an anecdote about her and John Leguizamo. That she was a snob when making Carlito's Way so he and a wardrobe mistress kept shrinking her clothes so she would think she was too fat and starve herself. BS? That seems like a pretty serious act of revenge that could have got them in a heap of trouble if they were caught. "Hey remember me, Benny Blanco from the Bronx?" Sounds like idle gossip, or the usual scaremongering.
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