Bartlett

The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Jerome Cowan?

I agree, his flair for comedy was also outstanding! His role as "Sakini" in 1956's "Teahouse of the August Moon" was great! His banter with Glenn Ford was classic in it. Another good role where he had a morbid sense of humor was opposite Jack Nicholson in 1976's, "The Missouri Breaks". Also his talents in westerns not only shine in "Viva Zapata", but also in 1961's, "One Eyed Jacks". To me this was a complete MAGNIFICENT OUTSTANDING Actor!!! Bartlett

It's not on DVD, I must confess I rented it a few years ago from a local video store that's since closed and got a bootleg copy of it using two VCR's. I don't recall TCM ever showing this movie, such a shame because it is really a good one! Bartlett

Bartlett, have you ever seen Viva Zapata? > Is this a good film? One of my favorite Brando movies. Quinn won the academy award for best supporting actor in it. The best line in the movie Brando " A monkey in silk is still a monkey". It has an ironic ending that will you will long remember! Outstanding movie!! Bartlett

> Well, Fear Strikes Out is a very good biography of > baseball player Jimmy Piersall, which tells the story > of his struggles with a domineering father and mental > illness, and has very good performances from Anthony > Perkins and Karl Malden. I've only seen it once, I'm > happy to see it on Essentials. > Jimmy Piersall once said that "Anthony Perkins plays baseball like an old lady wearing a tight dress". He also said that the scene with his losing it in the dugout swinging the bat at all his teammates was "Simply Hollywood" and never happened." He also said the scene where he climbs the net behind home plate during his breakdown, used to protect the fans from foul balls, was laughable and never happened. Wouldn't it have been better if "The Natural" starring Robert Redford who looked and played like a baseball player were shown instead of the garbage that Piersall hated and walked out in the middle of the premiere because he was so disgusted of Perkins portrayal? Besides "The Natural" was a much better and entertaining movie than "Fear Strikes Out"!! Bartlett

> It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World didn't make it to the > top 100 for the AFI. This has got to be one of the > funniest silliest movies ever made with dozens of big > stars. I cannot imagine why it didn't make the list. > Just my opinion.. This is going to be an essential and did not make the top 100? Something stinks in this survey and it just goes to show you how inaccurate these so called experts are!

> > The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes. Mongo, was he Cremated?

> That is so funny Bartlett!!!! I thought the doctor > slapped the mother instead of the baby when she was > born.... No the Mother he knocked out with a Right Cross!

> Bartlett are you trying to say you're not attacted to > Penny Marshall? I always wondered why she couldn't > fix the buck teeth? She was good in the Odd Couple > though. I'm only going by what the doctor that delivered her at birth said! "I didn't know which end to slap!"

So Marty, what do you want to do tonight? Hey lets take an adventure on "The Poseidon", and after that a "Flight on the Phoenix". No? OK so what do you want to do tonight? Happy Birthday Ernest Borgnine, I hope you don't have a "Bad Day at Black Rock" with "The Wild Bunch"!

> Wasn't Peter Marshalls sister Penny Marshall from > Laverne and Shirley? > Can't see her playing Brando's love interest - LOL Yes Penny Marshall is Garry's sister, and I wouldn't see her in a movie if I got a free pass. She is a pretty good director though. ( A League of Their Own). Maybe also if she was the upper left corner box on Joanne Dru's brothers Peter Marshall show, "The Hollywood Squares" ( Now my turn LOL! ) Bartlett

Jean Simmons would have been a good choice. I was thinking even the sister of Peter Marshall who emceed "The Hollywood Squares" and starred in "All the Kings Men" Joanne Dru or even Gale Storm who's acting abilities were more than just "My Little Margie" could have been perfect for the part.

The last movie I remember Richard Erdman was in was "Tora! Tora! Tora!". He is a good actor ( I think he is still living ) and am surprised he didn't star in more movies. I don't know about Teresa Wright..I'm might get hell for this but I thought she was miscast in "Pride of the Yankees". She was great in "Shadow of a Doubt" though. Who would you have casted instead of her in "The Men"? Bartlett

> But I'm curious. If our friend Ken, who has admitted > to being a left leaner, is unbiased, how do you > define bias? > > PS - I'm not trying to start a fight, just curious LuckyDan Similar to the Lyndon Johnson camp when Barry Goldwater ran as a Conservative on the Republican ticket against Johnson in 1964! My how times have changed! I am not trying to start a fight either, just my personal observation from 1964!

I remember the furor when 1978's "Pretty Baby" starring Brooke Shields was released. I avoided this pictures at the time because I even then thought this picture exploited children in a perverted way. In my opinion these types of films are second only to "Snuff" films which are enjoyed by the deranged. I know some will disagree with my analogy but I am going by my standards. There is nothing entertaining to me about a rape of a woman let alone a twelve year old girl. I would rather see a marathon of Laurel & Hardy and laugh than be disgusted with yet another Hollywood attempt to cash in on shock movies. Child actors are fine..Elizabeth Taylor...Roddy McDowell...Dickie Moore....Daryl Hickman..Mickey Rooney etc. But I bet if you interview any of them they would voice their displeasure of the sleaze that's coming out of Hollywood these days! Bartlett

> What a nation of jaded individuals we have become. > This movie was made 9 years after WWII had ended, > everything was great here in the U.S. This movie was made in one of the rosiest periods in U.S. history, everything was great and we all > loved one another. We didn't lock our doors and > we could walk through the park at night, and we > didn't worry about our kids being abducted. Ah yes the good old days. We only had to worry about total annihilation from a sneaky Hydrogen Bomb attack from Russia with love. The memories of diving beneath our desks at school during H bomb drills so we could "Duck and Cover" bring tears to my eyes. Also the teacher instructing we children to cover yourself with wet newspaper to avoid H bomb burns make me long for the good old days of the 50's! ( Said with tongue in cheek) Bartlett

> My purpose was to show Ford's attitude toward > McCarthy and McCarthyism. It happened to be Ward Bond > who invited Ford to McCarthy's shindig. Ken I didn't mean to say Ward Bond was without bad intentions during the hearings. But he was small potatoes compared to the "Kingfish" Robert Taylor who stuck out like a sore thumb because he was more popular with the movie crowd. More power to John Ford, but I noticed that he still used Bond in most of his movies after the hearings were disbanded. ( i.e. The Searchers) so he must have thought that Bond was less a threat then that sewer rat Robert Taylor who was scum! Bartlett

> In regard to Ward Bond: From " Searching for John > Ford ", by Joseph McBride on page 476 " When Bond > invited Ford to a partying honoring Joseph McCarthy, > Ford reacted with unequivocal disgust;" " You can > take your party and shove it .I wouldn't meet that > guy in a whorehouse. He's a disgrace and a danger to > our country ". Ken to mention Ward Bond with that rat Robert Taylor is a great injustice! Taylor was a sewer rat who threw Howard DaSilva to the wolves. He was scum and a big piece of garbage! His testimony was a sham and I am glad it is on film to show how this bum who always portrayed a hero in films was a vicious name dropper who gave little regard to another actors career. He STANK!

Mark Anthony wasn't in real life long enough, I'm sure they couldn't pad the script to have Brando have a larger part. They went according to the works of Shakespear. How he ended up? He ended up better than George Sanders, Gig Young, John Belushi, Pete Duel, Freddie Prinze and a whole slew of other actors. Bartlett

The movie is dated but still entertaining!

It didn't hurt Brando to have an all star cast of Theresa Wright, Everett Sloane and Jack Webb supporting Brando in 1950's "The Men". It was a great movie and a good one to start with. As far as personal problems, don't we all? His was more magnified being a Super Magnificent Actor. Forgetting his personal life, I am concentrating on his acting abilities. There was none better and the fact that he could pull off a comedy, drama, historical portrayal, western etc. proved it. To me acting begins with Marlon Brando and ended when he drew his last breath. If you are not interested in Shakespeare, you are missing a lot. I suggest you watch a copy of "The Taming of the Shrew", with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Shakespeare was not all drama as displayed in "Hamlet" and "Macbeth". To me it is essential reading and there would be a major void in my life if I didn't have an interest in his ageless works. By the way Brando was MAGNIFICENT!! Bartlett

Sorry, I don't know any links. He said it during an interview in the early 1980's in Playboy. Yes he was GREAT! When he died, a European journalist said he was Americas greatest actor, second to none. I was introduced to him in the movie "The Wild One", and made sure from that point on that I went to see every movie he ever made. Thanks to Marlon I was introduced to Shakespeare, when he appeared as Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar. You are absolutely right there will never be another Marlon Brando! Bartlett

The mere fact that Robert Taylor mentioned the name of Howard DaSilva during a hearing on Un-American activity was uncalled for. It is like when someone accuses a Board Member of being a "Troll". It might not be true but it gets other board members to start thinking about it. I give this to Adolphe Menjoue, he said he would like to be a "Texan" because in Texas they shoot Communists. He didn't mention any particular individual like that gutless rat Robert Taylor did! And I don't have to read the testimony or transcripts as I've seen a film clip of his shoddy testimony many times! He was a BUM! Bartlett

I like Brando and one of his quotes is my favorite when he said in a Playboy interveiw....."Guilt is a useless emotion". I can understand of others dislike for him but I for one thought he was great, even when he did the horrible remake of "Mutiny on the Bounty". I wish he were alive so he could make all those who dislike him "An offer that they cannot refuse". The below mentioned quotes attributed to him are all thought provoking and intelligent. This was truly a MAGNIFICENT actor, an "American Icon" Bartlett