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https://deadline.com/2021/02/christopher-plummer-dies-91-sound-of-music-all-the-money-in-the-world-star-1234688379/ Christopher Plummer Dies: Oscar Winner & ‘Sound Of Music,’ ‘All The Money In The World’ Star A True Hollywood Legend Christopher Plummer, who starred in The Sound of Music, won an Oscar for Beginners and was nominated for All the Money in the World and The Last Station, peacefully today at his home in Connecticut, his family confirmed. Elaine Taylor, his wife and true best friend for 53 years, was by his side. Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager of 46 years said; “Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words. He was a National Treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.” Plummer spent the past 75 years as a stalwart of stage and screen, the latter of which covered more than 100 film. He is best known for playing Captain John Von Trapp in 1965 Robert Wise-directed classic The Sound of Music, but he won his Oscar for the 2010 film Beginners, and he was most recently Oscar nominated for the Ridley Scott-directed All The Money In The World. In that film, he replaced Kevin Spacey in the role of J Paul Getty, after Spacey had an #MeToo downfall. Plummer most recently costarred in the ensemble of the Rian Johnson-directed Knives Out. Raised in Montreal, Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954) he went on to star in many celebrated productions on Broadway and London’s West End winning accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. He won two Tony Awards for the musical Cyranoand for Barrymore plus seven Tony nominations, his latest for his King Lear (2004) and for his Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind (2007); also three Drama Desk Awards and the National Arts Club Medal. A former leading member of the Royal National Theatre under Sir Laurence Olivier and the Royal Shakespeare Company under Sir Peter Hall, where he won London’s Evening Standard Award for Best Actor in Becket; he has also led Canada’s Stratford Festival in its formative years under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham. Since Sidney Lumet introduced him to the screen in Stage Struck (1958), his range of notable films include The Man Who Would Be King, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, Fall of The Roman Empire, Star Trek VI, Twelve Monkeys and the 1965 Oscar-winning The Sound of Music. More recent films include The Insider as Mike Wallace; (National Film Critics Award), the acclaimed A Beautiful Mind, Man in the Chair, Must Love Dogs, National Treasure, Syriana and Inside Man. His TV appearances, which number close to 100, include the Emmy-winning BBC Hamlet at Elsinore playing the title role; the Emmy-winning productions The Thornbirds, Nuremberg, Little Moon of Alban and HBO’s Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight earning him seven Emmy nominations and taking home two Emmys. He was last seen in the Canadian series, Departures. Apart from honors in the UK, USA, Austria and Canada, he was the first performer to receive the Jason Robards Award in memory of his great friend, the Edwin Booth Award and the Sir John Gielgud Quill Award. In 1968, sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada (an honorary knighthood). An Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at Juilliard, he also received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. In 1986 he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and in 2000 Canada’s Walk of Fame. Plummer’s projects include the highly praised animated films Up, 9 as well as the title role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed by Terry Gilliam. He played the great novelist Tolstoy opposite Helen Mirren in The Last Station for Sony Classics where he received his first Academy Award nomination in 2010. He followed that up the next year with another nomination and a win for Best Supporting Actor in Beginners from writer/director Mike Mills and appeared in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo that same year. In July and August 2012, he returned to the Stratford Festival to perform his one-man show that he created entitled A Word or Two, directed by Des McAnuff. In 2013, he starred opposite Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine in Elsa & Fred directed by Michael Radford, Hector And The Search for Happiness directed by Peter Chelsom, Danny Collins opposite Al Pacino and Annette Benning for writer/director Dan Fogelman and The Forger opposite John Travolta directed by Phillip Martin. In 2015, he starred in Remember, directed by Atom Egoyan and in 2017 The Exception, based on the novel “The Kaiser’s Last Kiss” co-starring Lily James, Jai Courtney and Janet McTeer and The Man Who Invented Christmas, co-starring Dan Stevens. That same year he replaced Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World, earning him his fourth Golden Globe and third Academy Award nominations. Boundaries for Sony Classics, co-starring Vera Farmiga in 2018, and Last Full Measure with Sebastian Stan, Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson. He was recently seen in the very successful KNIVES OUT starring Daniel Craig and Chris Evans. His recent self-written best selling memoir, In Spite of Myself (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers) praised by critics and public remains a best seller.

For years, he was one of the notable actors who had never received an Academy Award nomination. Then he wound up with three in the 2010s -- all in the Best Supporting Actor category. His 2012 acceptance speech for "Beginners" is one of my all-time favorites.

A long time ago he pushed me out of the way in order to get to the bar.

Absolutely marvelous on stage as Barrymore.

Only he can quote Shakespeare in the original Klingon.

Jane Austen's EMMA NORMA RAE LILI

Bancroft, Anne

I saw CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER in a production of Inherit The Wind opposite BRIAN DENNEHY. Plummer was a wonderful talent. Good night, CHRISTOPHER.

Just last night I watched my DVD of THE SILENT PARTNER('77) Lost a good 'un this time. Rest In Peace, Chris. Sepiatone

Man, they are dropping like flies. Sad news. Rest in peace Captain Von Trapp.

The Mississippi Gambler (1953). Next: Boating on a Lake.

Threadgoode, Ninny--Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes

Baby Boom Lover Come Back Wild The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Trip to Bountiful Dear Heart Sister Kenny Klute Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Maisie's always out on her own. Things never go as planned. Midnight (1939)

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Great actor, excelled and took most pride in his classical roles. As King Lear, Lincoln Center Theater, 2004

THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

Remembering Christopher Plummer (1929-2021) We celebrate the life and career of Oscar winner, Christopher Plummer. https://m.imdb.com/gallery/rg1214552832/mediaviewer/rm2614023681?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=d4e24641-7610-4c1c-9a26-c208c9635c23&pf_rd_r=PABX0B3CHYVZ2P4AQWYM&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_t=15011&pf_rd_i=nm0001626&ref_=m_nm_ecw_tty_plummer_sm And a photo gallery from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2021/feb/05/christopher-plummer-a-life-in-pictures-sound-of-music

Filmography: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001626/filmotype/actor?ref_=m_nmfm_1

Wow. Somehow I missed this posting until today. Sure, my first familiarity of him was back in the early '60's, when a Jr. high teacher brought in and played an LP of Holbrook doing mark Twain, and shortly after seeing him do it on a TV special. Had a good run at life and a well done career. He will be missed for sure. Rest In Peace, Hal Sepiatone

They're not leaving. They're escaping!

ARROW IN THE DUST (1954)

Ward, Rachel

Kiss of Death Miracle on 34th Street Marty David and Lisa Goldfinger Wild Strawberries Ed Wood Nashville Lust for Life The Wild Bunch

I doubt they ever turned the lights on!

Here's Hal's 1984 venture in Off-Broadway theater. It was The Country Girl, by Clifford Odets. Many serious theater actors like playing in a variety of venues, even the small "broken down" ones. Hal and Julie Harris were two actors who loved to tour and play in all types of theaters. I think there's a greater tradition of that in the UK. http://www.iobdb.com/Production/2217

Tomorrow on Svengoolie, February 6, 2021: I don't think I know this film, but it is from that great year, 1957.

OUR NEIGHBORS, THE CARTERS

THEY GOT ME COVERED

1941

Mike Henry, the former National Football League linebacker who became the 16th movie Tarzan in the 1960s, died last month in Burbank, California at the age of 84. He reportedly succumbed to complications from Parkinson's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), caused by repeated head injuries in sports. A California native, Henry played college football at the University of Southern California in the late 1950s. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the ninth round of the 1958 NFL draft. After three seasons with the Steelers, he joined the Los Angeles Rams in 1962. After occasional appearances in movie and television productions during his playing days, Henry succeeded Jock Mahoney as the screen version of Tarzan. In 1965, he filmed three movies about Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero. They were released in consecutive years. The first, "Tarzan and the Valley of Gold" (1966), teamed Henry with the actress Nancy Kovack. "Tarzan and the Great River" (1967) focused on the African adventurer's Tarzan in Brazil, where he battled a cult group that threatened local villages. The action film also starred Jan Murray, Rafer Johnson, Diana Millay and Manuel Padilla, Jr. "Tarzan and the Jungle Boy" (1968) marked Henry's final screen appearance as the man also known as Lord Greystoke. The storyline revolved around the search for a missing teen (played by the future "General Hospital" regular Steve Bond) in an African jungle. Also starring in the film: the Olympic great Johnson (as a different character from the previous movie) and Aliza Gur (pictured below with Bond and Henry). Henry (pictured second from the left below) co-starred with Charlton Heston in the 1969 drama "Number One" (originally titled "Pro"). Heston played Ron "Cat" Catlan, a longtime New Orleans Saints quarterback struggling to make it through another NFL season. Henry played one of the state prison guards in "The Longest Yard" (1974), which starred Burt Reynolds as a former pro quarterback who led a ragtag squad of prisoners against a team of guardsmen. In the 1977 Reynolds-Sally Field action comedy "Smokey and the Bandit," Henry played Junior Justice, the hapless Texas deputy and son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason). The film, which was second only to "Star Wars" as a box-office attraction, spawned two sequels that featured Henry and Gleason. Henry reunited with Heston in the 1972 thriller"Skyjacked." They played the pilots of an imperiled Boeing 707 en route to Minneapolis. Directed by John Guillermin ("The Towering Inferno"), the film also starred Yvette Mimieux (pictured below), James Brolin, Claude Akins, Susan Dey, Roosevelt Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon and Jeanne Crain (in her final feature film). In a Season 6 episode of the CBS series "M*A*S*H," Henry appeared as Lt. Col. Donald Penobscott, the husband of Major Margaret Houlihan (played by series regular Loretta Swit). The installment, titled "The M*A*S*H Olympics," originally aired on November 22, 1977.

(The) Electric Company

Music in the Air (1934)

A different type of story about a woman on her own: THE KILLER THAT STALKED NEW YORK (1950)

Mank (2020) -- 4/10 Source: Netflix An astonishing letdown in almost every respect, Mank is an overstuffed biopic that is all surface, no substance, and not even the surface is that good. It is another in the long line of Hollywood as a cesspool films that go back through the days of The Day of the Locust, Inside Daisy Clover, The Bad and the Beautiful, and the ultimate, Sunset Boulevard. It differs from the others in using real-life figures, instead of creating fictional characters. The film centers on Herman Mankiewicz, the writer of Citizen Kane, and supposes that he was driven to write the thinly disguised look at William Randolph Hearst by his lingering frustration at being associated with Hearst and Louis B Mayer's successful attempt to take down the political aspirations of Upton Sinclair. (In real life, Mankiewicz wasn't even involved with the whole situation). The problem is that the film gums almost everything up. The story is cluttered and unfocused. The black and white photography lacks the silkiness of the silvery film of the time; its modern-looking, harsh and unpleasant. The music never sounds period appropriate. Aside from Arliss Howard (hilariously on point as the preening, overly theatrical Mayer) and Amanda Seyfried (who captures Marion Davies' personality, if not quite her voice [she sounds more like Jean Harlow or Lesley Ann Warren in Victor/Victoria]), the cast is boring and lifeless. Gary Oldman is a blank in the central role. The film feels it is making a giant statement (about the toxic relationship between politics and powerful individuals), but it has all been made before, and, as for its depiction of the era, the more you know about the classic Hollywood era, the more disjointed and maddening it is. Instead of a tribute to the distinguished writer of a masterpiece, this is an insult. This is one of the biggest disappointments I have had in a very long time.

Julia (TV Show) That Girl (Marlo Thomas) Two Women (with Sophia Loren) Ziva David (NCIS) Mary Poppins

The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane (1976)

Mary Martin provided Margaret Sullivan's singing voice in the film THE SHOPWORN ANGEL. She was adorable singing "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" in NIGHT AND DAY, but I thought her voice was a little thin compared to the powerhouses who played in the film versions on those musicals. Then my mother told me "but when Mary sings, she is the role". That was something I had completely missed because I didn't have the visual. A Great actress can often sing and be wonderful even though they may not be the best singer, but a great singer isn't necessarily a great or even good actress.

All of my favorite stars have all been the macho types in films. I never really watched a Bette Davis movie but the other day I watched "Old Acquaintance" and I was just blow away by her grace and acting not to mention the dialogue. After I saw that I watched "Old Maid." I've got a new favorite actress!

Sea Devils (1953) Next: desperation

Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs (Noreen Corcoran singing to Donald O'Connor in "I Love Melvin") Next: Song from an Operetta

Jackie (2016) Next: computer

the long extinct paracutin volcano is responsible for the giant Scorpionida Rex. poor Willis O'Brien just didn't have the money to complete the effects. the man was a true giant of stop-motion photography and his protege was Ray Harryhausen.

THE PURPLE PLAIN 1954

Zorina, Vera

From February 3-5, 1921, the Poli featured What’s Your Hurry? starring Wallace Reid as Dusty Rhoades and Lois Wilson as Virginia MacMurran. The release date is uncertain, but it was five reels. A complete copy is held in the Gosfilmofond in Moscow. Plot: Dusty Rhodes is a hero on the speedway. Dusty is in love with Virginia MacMurran. But the romance is frowned upon by her father, Patrick MacMurran, the president of the Packro Motor Company. Before giving his permission for their marriage, MacMurran insists that Dusty find a different line of work. So Dusty accepts a position as a publicity man for the new Packro truck. Dusty gets off to a bad start, and even spends a night in jail after he drives a truck along a prohibited boulevard. Then, an opportunity presents itself. The Cabrillo dam is threatened by raging waters caused by heavy rainfall. Because there is no dynamite present at the camp, a spillway, which would save the area, cannot be blasted. Dusty loads up several trucks, and sets off for the dam. Meanwhile, the weakest part of the dam has given way. As water pours in, it seems there is no hope. Dusty rides his truck into the breach and saves the day. The stills below could not be placed in context. The first shows Reid with Lois Wilson: The second shows Reid with an unidentified boy: The last still may have something to do with a subplot involving the trucks delivering a Christmas tree. I could not find out anything more about that sequence. Besides Lois Wilson at center, the actor at right is Charles Ogle, who portrayed Patrick MacMurran: The film was based upon a Saturday Evening Post story entitled “The Hippopotamus Parade.” A sequel, Too Much Speed, was released in 1921. Motion Picture News wrote “Wally Reid’s latest is a novel picture and one that presents a new angle in a highly entertaining way. The first reel gives Wally innumerable chances to demonstrate his speed and pep and the winning way of his smile. The latter reels place him in a more serious mood and demonstrate to his numerous admirers that, if necessary, he can give us the hairy-chested stuff with equal proficiency.” The film was ripe for promotion, with tie-ins to road safety and Mack trucks, which were used in the picture. The Chicago Motor Club adopted the slogan “What’s Your Hurry” for their “safety first” campaign, which gave a boost to the film. Their sign is shown below: All members of the club were given pennants with the slogan, and were asked to display them prominently on their automobiles. Judge Sheridan P. Frey, who presided over traffic court, obtained one of the pennants, and placed it behind his bench. Charles M. Hayes, the president of the Chicago Motor Club, exhibits one of the pennants below: The Chicago Evening American also hopped on the bandwagon, pasting this sign to one of their trucks: The California Theatre in San Francisco featured Mack trucks with billboards advertising the film: Similar displays were used at the Strand Theatre in Knoxville, and the Rialto Theatre in Denver: In conjunction with the Denver promotion, a dozen street signs, bearing the phrase “What’s Your Hurry?” mysteriously (wink wink) appeared around the city. Somehow the Denver Motor Club, along with The Denver Post, then decided the signs were a good idea in their campaign to discourage speeding.

I ran across this while looking up something else, and it pretty well sums up the TCMFF experience and its fans. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ready-for-our-closeup-the-2017-tcm-film-festival

I know what that's from. Boy, Did I Dial the Wrong Number. That's got one of my favorite Bob Hope/Phyllis Diller lines. She plays his housekeeper and comments on her new hairdo. Bob says, "So that's what happened to the eggbeater."