Post by teleadm on Sept 3, 2022 0:09:36 GMT
He was a star of early sound cinema, who could adapt his skills to what was needed, comedy, drama, epics and even horror, and when he got a little older smoothly moved over to important character roles, and skillfully move over his talents to 1950's "Golden Age of Television".
He won two Best Actor Tony Awards: in 1947 for the play Years Ago, written by Ruth Gordon and in 1957 for his performance as James Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Fredric March (1897–1975)
This year we celebrate his 125th birth date.
Received his first Oscar nomination out of five for The Royal Family of Broadway 1930, said to be a parody of the Barrymore's.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 gave him an Oscar, one of the few for horror movies.
As Marcus Superbus in Cecil B deMille's Sign of the Cross 1932 with Claudette Colbert
Fighting for Miriam Hopkins affection in Ernst Lubitsch take on Noel Coward's Design for Living 1933 rivaling Gary Cooper.
The lighter side of The Grim Reaper in Death Takes a Holiday 1934.
As poet Robert Browning in The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934
As Jean Valjean in Les Miserables 1935 with Charles Laughton as Javert
As Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina 1935, with Greta Garbo.
In Warner's prestige movie Anthony Adverse 1936, the kid is Scotty Beckett (one of the sad stories of the Our Gang movies)
As Norman Maine in A Star is Born 1937, March's third Oscar nomination, but no cigar this time.
The crème de la crème of 30's screwball comedies? Nothing Sacred 1937 with Carole Lombard, in early Technicolor.
As Jean Lafitte in Cecil B. DeMille's big movie The Buccaneer 1938
As Mark Twain in The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944, with Alexis Smith
Winning his Second Oscar for The Best Years of Our Lives 1946, lovely Myrna Loy played his wife.
As that famous explorer in Christopher Columbus 1948, it was a British production.
As Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman 1951, Fredric's fifth and last Oscar Nomination.
Executive Suite 1954
As Ebenezer Scrooge in a TV Special 1954 of A Christmas Carol 1954.
With Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours 1955
Falling in love at old age in Middle of the Night 1959, with Kim Novak
Going head to head with Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind 1960
With Sophia Loren in Vittorio de Sica's The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona) 1962.
As POTUS in Seven Days in May 1964
With Paul Newman in Martin Ritt's Western Hombre 1967
As a quarrelsome old Mayor in ...tick... tick... tick.. 1970
Screen farewell came with an adaptation of a nearly four hour version of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh 1973
One might think that he acted in hundreds of movies, but in fact it was under 80, still a few had to be left out.
Maybe a special treat, What's My Line 1954, picture quality not the best
First published in 2013.
Thanks for watching!
All kinds of opinions are welcome!
He won two Best Actor Tony Awards: in 1947 for the play Years Ago, written by Ruth Gordon and in 1957 for his performance as James Tyrone in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.
This year we celebrate his 125th birth date.
Received his first Oscar nomination out of five for The Royal Family of Broadway 1930, said to be a parody of the Barrymore's.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 gave him an Oscar, one of the few for horror movies.
As Marcus Superbus in Cecil B deMille's Sign of the Cross 1932 with Claudette Colbert
Fighting for Miriam Hopkins affection in Ernst Lubitsch take on Noel Coward's Design for Living 1933 rivaling Gary Cooper.
The lighter side of The Grim Reaper in Death Takes a Holiday 1934.
As poet Robert Browning in The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934
As Jean Valjean in Les Miserables 1935 with Charles Laughton as Javert
As Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina 1935, with Greta Garbo.
In Warner's prestige movie Anthony Adverse 1936, the kid is Scotty Beckett (one of the sad stories of the Our Gang movies)
As Norman Maine in A Star is Born 1937, March's third Oscar nomination, but no cigar this time.
The crème de la crème of 30's screwball comedies? Nothing Sacred 1937 with Carole Lombard, in early Technicolor.
As Jean Lafitte in Cecil B. DeMille's big movie The Buccaneer 1938
As Mark Twain in The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944, with Alexis Smith
Winning his Second Oscar for The Best Years of Our Lives 1946, lovely Myrna Loy played his wife.
As that famous explorer in Christopher Columbus 1948, it was a British production.
As Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman 1951, Fredric's fifth and last Oscar Nomination.
Executive Suite 1954
As Ebenezer Scrooge in a TV Special 1954 of A Christmas Carol 1954.
With Humphrey Bogart in The Desperate Hours 1955
Falling in love at old age in Middle of the Night 1959, with Kim Novak
Going head to head with Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind 1960
With Sophia Loren in Vittorio de Sica's The Condemned of Altona (I sequestrati di Altona) 1962.
As POTUS in Seven Days in May 1964
With Paul Newman in Martin Ritt's Western Hombre 1967
As a quarrelsome old Mayor in ...tick... tick... tick.. 1970
Screen farewell came with an adaptation of a nearly four hour version of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh 1973
One might think that he acted in hundreds of movies, but in fact it was under 80, still a few had to be left out.
Maybe a special treat, What's My Line 1954, picture quality not the best
First published in 2013.
Thanks for watching!
All kinds of opinions are welcome!
a wonderful "Appreciation" tele - one of your finest to date.
