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Post by london777 on Jun 6, 2020 18:14:04 GMT
He said when he was acting he tried to make it as artless as possible, because when you look at an actor giving a performance and think he's giving a great performance, no, he's not. He's giving a lousy performance ... because you know it's a performance. This is my philosophy about acting. Not shared by most on here, I fear.
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Post by london777 on Jun 6, 2020 18:29:56 GMT
He was extremely good-looking in a Latino (which of course he was not) and boyish way, like Alain Delon and Gael García Bernal. I wonder if his good looks held him back a bit when it comes to serious movies. He made more than his share of matinee-idol crap. But perhaps, coming from an extremely impoverished background, he was wired to take whichever was the quickest big cheque on offer (and who could blame him?)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 6, 2020 18:35:06 GMT
A wonderfully entertaining biography of the master magician .. UNLESS you know anything about the real life of and actual biography of Harry Houdini. IF it was sold as a story about a fictional magician it would have been really good but biographical accuracy ... largely no way ! Rather the same case with The Greatest Showman which is just marginally an actual biography of PT Barnum. Janet and Tony made such a pretty couple though !
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Post by Stammerhead on Jun 6, 2020 21:59:38 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 7, 2020 2:46:30 GMT
Putting Tony into westerns makes about as much sense as using modern urban dwellers like Bogart, Cagney, or John Cassavetes, but they all did time in the old west. Curtis, like the other three I mentioned, is never anything but a New Yorker. Whenever he opens his mouth, you think, “Hey, that’s Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx.” He was in two back-to-back Audie Murphy oaters. The picture is from “Sierra” (1950). On the right in black hat. Audie Murphy in foreground
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Post by petrolino on Jun 7, 2020 3:15:06 GMT
Tony Curtis headlined the great Austrian filmmaker Franz Antel's historical romp 'Casanova & Co.' (1977). Antel recalled Curtis was popular on the continent and said he performed with gusto.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 8, 2020 17:36:44 GMT
The latest Tony Curtis I watched was The Great Impostor 1961, a lighthearted movie based on impostor Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr:
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 8, 2020 18:20:41 GMT
"Yonda lies the castle of my fodda" .. which may be Urban Legend after all Supposedly, Debbie Reynolds did an impression of Tony Curtis with this line on a talk show, and it stuck - much to TC's annoyance.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 8, 2020 18:33:47 GMT
"Yonda lies the castle of my fodda" .. which may be Urban Legend after all Supposedly, Debbie Reynolds did an impression of Tony Curtis with this line on a talk show, and it stuck - much to TC's annoyance. But he DID pronounce it SPA-ti-cus.
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 8, 2020 18:44:04 GMT
Shortly after Curtis did a famous TV spot on which he said, "I quit...cigarettes, that is," he was arrested for marijuana possession. That naturally led to people saying "I quit cigarettes... but I still have a joint every now and then."
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 8, 2020 19:29:16 GMT
Curtis did a segment on TCM in praise of Cary Grant. He recalled being inspired by his performance in Destination Tokyo, then mentioned the remarkable twist of costarring with him in a later submarine movie, Operation Petticoat. There's a scene with Grant showing one of the women his quarters and as they exit, Curtis sees them and draws his conclusion. Grant hems and haws as he tries to say nothing untoward had happened. Curtis smirks and says, "It's your boat, captain!"
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jun 8, 2020 21:57:54 GMT
Everytime I see Tony Curtis, this runs through my mind
And I remember loving The Black Shield of Falworth when I was a kid. Seemed like it was one once a month, that and Blackbeard the Pirate
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Post by petrolino on Jun 10, 2020 1:50:35 GMT
Shortly after Curtis did a famous TV spot on which he said, "I quit...cigarettes, that is," he was arrested for marijuana possession. That naturally led to people saying "I quit cigarettes... but I still have a joint every now and then." "Huh?"
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Post by petrolino on Jun 10, 2020 1:59:56 GMT
Curtis did a segment on TCM in praise of Cary Grant. He recalled being inspired by his performance in Destination Tokyo, then mentioned the remarkable twist of costarring with him in a later submarine movie, Operation Petticoat. There's a scene with Grant showing one of the women his quarters and as they exit, Curtis sees them and draws his conclusion. Grant hems and haws as he tries to say nothing untoward had happened. Curtis smirks and says, "It's your boat, captain!"
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Post by petrolino on Jun 10, 2020 2:01:29 GMT
Everytime I see Tony Curtis, this runs through my mind And I remember loving The Black Shield of Falworth when I was a kid. Seemed like it was one once a month, that and Blackbeard the Pirate
"Bye dear."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 10, 2020 2:03:53 GMT
His Cary Grant imitation in Some Like it Hot is so bad that it is good !
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Post by petrolino on Jun 10, 2020 2:12:43 GMT
His Cary Grant imitation in Some Like it Hot is so bad that it is good ! As good as it gets.
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