maximillian1917
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How about Eugene Pallette in...well, just about anything he appeared in. He's memorably p.o.ed in "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "My Man Godfrey", and "The Bride Came C.O.D." Someone once said that at some time in each of his movies he bellows, "Take your hands off my daughter!"
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Come on, Paty!! Please give us the dish on your encounters with Orson Welles, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Crawford, Lucille Ball, etc. I don't think that I'm the only one who wants to hear these tales! Please?
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A couple of memorable hotheads come to mind, at several degrees,going from low simmer to boiling over:
Character Actors who seem to have been cast for their ability to show anger in alot of roles:
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Victor Jory--
A wonderful actor, especially good at playing fellas who are injustice collectors, seething with a longing for revenge. A man with 'a burr under his saddle'. Especially evident in "Gone With the Wind" as white trash overseer, but very effective in numerous westerns, where he was inevitably a purveyor of hooch & guns to Native Americans.
Charles Bickford--
Excellent leading actor in early talkies, who became a character man who could play a man struggling to control a volcanic temper, (not surprising for a man who actually killed a streetcar conducter at age ten for running over his dog. Honest. And he was acquitted!). Great anger sequence in "Johnny Belinda" as he follows slimeball Stephen MacNally after realizing that he was the man who'd raped his daughter.
Jose Ferrer--
Aside from looking as though he'd just smelled something foul, Ferrer could express cold, intellectual rage very well, as in the climactic party scene in "The Caine Mutiny."
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Frightening Angry Folk on Film. These actors made it look a little too real sometimes:
Robert Mitchum--
Was it his physical presence or that 'baby, I don't care' insouciance? Mitchum was downright scary in "Night of the Hunter" & "Cape Fear".
Barbara Stanwyck--
Davis and Crawford had some great furies, but Stanwyck expressed a whole rainbow of rage of some hue in almost every role! Some samples of Bab's unleashing of her personal dogs of war: "Executive Suite", "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers", & fittingly, "The Furies". Come to think of it, even her last big role, in "The Thorn Birds" she was mad at the world there too! And throughout her career, she could play tenderness as well!
James Stewart--
He might seem an oddly mild-mannered choice for this list, but that's probably what makes him so compelling when he loses it. Stewart's conflicted about his anger, but it overwhelms him in some roles, such as the scene in "Vertigo" where he hauls Kim Novak up into the tower, or the wonderful, 'film-noirish' Anthony Mann Westerns such as "The Naked Spur".
Robert Ryan--
Perenially steamed about something, Ryan's underappreciated for his long career as a big angry lug, usually one with a brain. See "Billy Budd", "On Dangerous Ground", "Odds Against Tomorrow" for some of his most acerbic work.
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After the breakfast dishes are done and the Sunday morning papers and the tube's talking heads have had their say, is there anything cozier than a "perfect" movie in the afternoon on a rainy Sunday? Forget the laundry, leave the bills for another day, listen for the raindrops on the window and curl up to view...what's your favorite Sunday kind of movie?
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This is a shot in the dark, but it would be nice if the blurb that you quote had been used to advertise Kate's comeback vehicle, "The Philadelphia Story"(1940).
This hit came, of course, after Hepburn had been labeled 'box office poison', (and this is AFTER "Bringing Up Baby" & "Stage Door"!?!).
Or, as Kate would say years later...
"I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."--Katharine Hepburn
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Some posts indicate that visitors would like to know Robert Osborne's take on the Oscar show. If you'd like to read his appreciation of the appearance by past Academy Award recipients, you might visit the link below:
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gina, maybe the ying-yang of war and peace, good and evil, happiness and sadness can't exist without each other. While war does seem more "cinemagraphic", peace is usually effectively portrayed with war somewhere in the background, to make it a bit sweeter...here are a few films that come to mind to illustrate this point:
"Lost Horizon" (1937)- Frank Capra's naive, compelling view of life as it might be, complete with art deco architecture, in the lost Himalayan kingdom of Shangri-La, as seen through the world weary eyes of Ronald Colman.
"Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" (1945)- a beautifully acted story of a Norwegian farm family in Wisconsin during the Second World War. Edward G. Robinson, Agnes Moorehead, and Margaret O'Brien illustrate that a full range of human experience can be found within the walls of one house, within one family. Simply told, without too much forced sentimentality.
"Friendly Persuasion" (1956)- a Currier & Ives print of a Quaker family trying to keep their values and their family's idyllic existence intact in Civil War Indiana. Gary Cooper and the magnificent Dorothy Maguire play the parents.
"The Last Valley" (1967)- Michael Caine and Omar Sharif are mercenaries/refugees from the Thirty Years War who stumble into an incredibly beautiful Alpine valley untouched by the war that rages, along with the Black Plague, beyond the ridges of the eden's mountains. James Clavell's handling of the impact of the violent intruders, and their gradual softening, is compelling--and you must see this for the visual beauty of the Tyrolean landscape--it will take your breath away.
Trivia -- Week of April 14, 2003
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You made it a little too easy today, coffeedan. A baby faced Robert Stack gave Miss Durbin her first peck in FIRST LOVE.