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Post by ck100 on Nov 17, 2021 0:41:47 GMT
The town drunk.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Nov 17, 2021 1:09:44 GMT
Not a should have ... just a could have
Can see him playing Big Daddy in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF possibly because the role is VERY similar to his Will Varner in THE LONG HOT SUMMER.
From IMDb: "Orson Welles had a rough time making this movie and caused plenty of trouble. Used to being in control of his own projects, it was hard for him to do things someone else's way. According to Dame Angela Lansbury, "He was always nudging and pushing for things and wanted to change lines, but had to be carefully handled so that he didn't always get his way because his way wasn't necessarily the best way for everybody else in the scene." Welles irritated his co-stars by overlapping his own lines with their dialogue, ad-libbing, and mumbling to the point where his lines were barely comprehensible. "There was something you couldn't resist about Orson", said Lansbury, "even though he was a son-of-a-bitch at times. I mean, there's no question about it, he was very difficult." Joanne Woodward added in a 2001 interview, "Orson had a hard time. It must have been a terrible, terrible feeling for him to be confronted by all of these young hot shots who thought they were so great because they came from New York and the Actors Studio. It was a problem."
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Post by marshamae on Nov 17, 2021 1:22:59 GMT
ANGELA Lansbury also noted that his weight and the heat, and physical demands of the role were a factor in his bad behavior.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 7, 2022 11:09:45 GMT
I've always wondered how he'd do within a Hitchcock movie, he has the right sort of screen presence and candor to commit to something like Rope or Dial M for Murder. Welles certainly would have been better cast in Rope (also Joseph Cotton, Laurence Olivier, Clifton Webb) than James Stewart was. Hitchcock wanted Charles Laughton There is a very good radio version based on the play (not the film script) w/Victor Jory in the Stewart role.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 7, 2022 11:21:27 GMT
There was talk in the '70s of Welles doing a series of TV mystery movies as Nero Wolfe. Frank Gilroy did a TV movie/pilot in the late '70s w/Thayer David as Wolfe; IMHO this is the best adaptation of Wolfe ever done.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Mar 9, 2022 23:38:44 GMT
If you're including, voice parts. I could see him playing one of the robots , in the transformers film. From 1980's.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Mar 9, 2022 23:39:24 GMT
I've always wondered how he'd do within a Hitchcock movie, he has the right sort of screen presence and candor to commit to something like Rope or Dial M for Murder. Maybe transformers role.
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