Post by teleadm on Jul 1, 2022 19:12:44 GMT
Strong willed women are always a threat to men in any positions, and she nearly made a career playing those kind of characters, but sometimes contracts forced her to be weaker and just smile understandably.
This year we celebrate her birth in Cedarville Ohio as she would have been 100 if she lived.
The girl who worked as a waitress on Martha's Vinyard got an offer from 20th Century Fox, but she stubbornly said "Wait till I get to California".
Eleanor Parker (1922–2013)
Once in California she got a contract with Warner Bros, and her screen debut was cut from They Died with Their Boots On 1941. It was usually hard work to get through the 1940's. Though she got her big break with John Garfield in Pride of the Marines 1945 she when the forced to make two box-office disappointments with Errol Flynn, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye 1946 and the drama Escape Me Never 1947.
With Garfield in The Pride of the Marines 1945.
She heard about a film Warner's were making of a woman in prison, Caged 1950, and actively lobbied the role. She got it, and won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Warner's eventually grew tired of her, and gave her a cheerful goodbye, not.
In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films.
This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story 1951 for director William Wyler, playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (played by Kirk Douglas); She was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance, which, to date, remains the shortest ever to be nominated in the category.
She followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (played by Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche 1952, a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. She later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry, and the film was a massive hit.
MGM rushed her into Above and Beyond 1952, a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit.
She also signed a contract with MGM, while still having to make a Paramount movie a year.
She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, ""My Most Intimate Friend and of "One More Time", from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made.
Back at Paramount, she starred with Charlton Heston as a 1901 mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle 1954, directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal. A solid hit with angry ants special effects.
She made some forgettable movies in the 1950's too.
MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody 1955. This was a big hit and earned her a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favorite film.
She appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm 1955, directed by Otto Preminger and released through United Artists. She played Zosh, a woman confined to a wheelchair and the wife of heroin-addicted would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success.
after a few lesser movies
She supported Sinatra once more in the at the time popular A Hole in the Head 1959.
Sadly there is something that actresses ages faster than men doctrine in movies and not all actress are ready to play grandmothers yet after 50th birthday. Men in their 60's can still still get 23 year olds, the opposite would have been God forbid.
A nearly forgotten movie called Madison Avenue 1961, surrounded by Dana Andrews and Eddie Albert, said to have inspired the popular TV series Mad Men.
The Baroness in the super mega hit The Sound of Music 1965, and that more or less makes her immortal.
Personal notice here since I've seen a few theatrical version were the Baroness is usually played liked something lesser than the wicked witch of the north.
Parker on the other hand plays the Baroness rather fragile and understanding that she came too late.
Eye of the Cat 1969 at least gave her a bigger than usual later day role.
She continued to act up until 1991
There was an old route that old actors and actress made in late 1970's to late 1980's on television that included Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel and Murder She Wrote, and Eleanor guested them all.
From 2003 until her death, she lived a quiet retirement in Palm Springs, California.
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This year we celebrate her birth in Cedarville Ohio as she would have been 100 if she lived.
The girl who worked as a waitress on Martha's Vinyard got an offer from 20th Century Fox, but she stubbornly said "Wait till I get to California".
Eleanor Parker (1922–2013)
Once in California she got a contract with Warner Bros, and her screen debut was cut from They Died with Their Boots On 1941. It was usually hard work to get through the 1940's. Though she got her big break with John Garfield in Pride of the Marines 1945 she when the forced to make two box-office disappointments with Errol Flynn, the romantic comedy Never Say Goodbye 1946 and the drama Escape Me Never 1947.
With Garfield in The Pride of the Marines 1945.
She heard about a film Warner's were making of a woman in prison, Caged 1950, and actively lobbied the role. She got it, and won the 1950 Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Warner's eventually grew tired of her, and gave her a cheerful goodbye, not.
In 1951, Parker signed a contract with Paramount for one film a year, with an option for outside films.
This arrangement began brilliantly with Detective Story 1951 for director William Wyler, playing Mary McLeod, the woman who doesn't understand the position of her unstable detective husband (played by Kirk Douglas); She was nominated for the Oscar in 1951 for her performance, which, to date, remains the shortest ever to be nominated in the category.
She followed Detective Story with her portrayal of an actress in love with a swashbuckling nobleman (played by Stewart Granger) in Scaramouche 1952, a role originally intended for Ava Gardner. She later claimed that Granger was the only person she didn't get along with during her entire career. However, they had good chemistry, and the film was a massive hit.
MGM rushed her into Above and Beyond 1952, a biopic of Lt. Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor), the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was a solid hit.
She also signed a contract with MGM, while still having to make a Paramount movie a year.
She was named as star of a Sidney Sheldon script, ""My Most Intimate Friend and of "One More Time", from a script by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin directed by George Cukor, but neither film was made.
Back at Paramount, she starred with Charlton Heston as a 1901 mail-order bride in The Naked Jungle 1954, directed by Byron Haskin and produced by George Pal. A solid hit with angry ants special effects.
She made some forgettable movies in the 1950's too.
MGM gave her one of her best roles as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody 1955. This was a big hit and earned her a third Oscar nomination; she later said it was her favorite film.
She appeared in the film adaptation of the National Book Award-winner The Man with the Golden Arm 1955, directed by Otto Preminger and released through United Artists. She played Zosh, a woman confined to a wheelchair and the wife of heroin-addicted would-be jazz drummer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra). It was a major commercial and critical success.
after a few lesser movies
She supported Sinatra once more in the at the time popular A Hole in the Head 1959.
Sadly there is something that actresses ages faster than men doctrine in movies and not all actress are ready to play grandmothers yet after 50th birthday. Men in their 60's can still still get 23 year olds, the opposite would have been God forbid.
A nearly forgotten movie called Madison Avenue 1961, surrounded by Dana Andrews and Eddie Albert, said to have inspired the popular TV series Mad Men.
The Baroness in the super mega hit The Sound of Music 1965, and that more or less makes her immortal.
Personal notice here since I've seen a few theatrical version were the Baroness is usually played liked something lesser than the wicked witch of the north.
Parker on the other hand plays the Baroness rather fragile and understanding that she came too late.
Eye of the Cat 1969 at least gave her a bigger than usual later day role.
She continued to act up until 1991
There was an old route that old actors and actress made in late 1970's to late 1980's on television that included Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel and Murder She Wrote, and Eleanor guested them all.
From 2003 until her death, she lived a quiet retirement in Palm Springs, California.
Thanks for watching!
All kind of opinions are welcome
nice tribute
This one was the SPEED of 1942, with a bomb on a bus finale - sadly its Julie Bishop that gets to play Sandra Bullock, not Eleanor
This one was released in 1944 but had been on the shelf a while. Wyman & Cowan lead as comic amateur Tecs - Eleanor a mystery woman a Poor man's THIN MAN but fun nonethleless
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