Bronxgirl48
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15 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I agree about the lip thing. I do not find Victor Mature attractive at all. There's something about his mouth ugh. I do like his noir films though.
Speaking of noir...
ROBERT MITCHUM.
He doesn't change his acting style, and can be super hot or a super creep, that is somehow still also still attractive. I could listen to Mitchum talk all day. "Baby, I don't care."
I know what you mean about Victor Mature. Blubbery type lips. An underrated actor imo and good in the noir films. I think my favorite is I WAKE UP SCREAMING. (Laird as a modern urban Javert type is great)
Robert Mitchum has always creeped me out, even before I ever saw NOTH or CF. Very fine actor, great in noir. First time I watched HOLIDAY AFFAIR I was a bit afraid for Janet Leigh's character, lol.
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1 minute ago, kingrat said:
Claude Rains would probably have gone for you, Speedy. He was married six times, usually to much younger women.
Boris Karloff was also married six times, one more than even Bela.
Boris looked like a mummy IRL so it doesn't surprise me how marvelously creepy he was as Ardeth Bay. And his justly famous speaking voice was never used more effectively imo.
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6 minutes ago, laffite said:
Alas, my inner Bronson and my inner Kangaroo has not served me well. They look past that and just see ole Laffite. (sigh)
You gotta get an eye patch and parrot.
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I just read about Alan Baxter on imdb. Interestingly it says that he essentially was Alan Ladd before Alan Ladd became popular. I knew that's why I like him!
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My favorite bad guy is Tom Tyler. Luke Plummer and the Mummy! (in fact, that's my handle on a certain classic horror film message board, lol) He was SO good-looking. (not as Kharis, however, which is as it should be, lol)
I prefer thin-lipped men.
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Yes, Lawrence! THANK YOU! Alan Baxter! Now let me just say that I don't find him attractive at all in that particular role, but in stalwart parts where he's on the other side of the law.
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14 minutes ago, laffite said:
You all might be fascinated to know that I was once taken for Charles Bronson while sitting in a coffee shop in Columbus Circle. Please know that this is a true story because I have already posted this on the Board and I never lie twice. To be perfectly frank, I don't think a I look a bit like Mr Bronson (so you can ignore your meters now). I have been told more than once however that I resemble Captain Kangaroo (no lie). I'm not sure how the Captain does on a meter but I am not too hopeful.
Jeepers! Charles Bronson and Captain Kangaroo -- the girls would not run away.
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You know who also appeals to me? I can NEVER remember the actor's name. Scores of films but my old Baby Boomer memory fails me -- he was in the car with Robert Cummings, SABOTEUR, telling Bob how his mother loved to dress him up in girl's clothes and had his hair in ringlets as a child. (that said it all very chillingly about the character) I think the guy basically played upright types but can't be sure. Taciturn, low-key, let's just say limited range but I'm drawn to him, lol. Had a wooden way of talking, too.
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Lawrence A, great shot of Edmond as the poet in HUNCHBACK. Thanks for uploading it for us.
I tell you that I have always thought Troy Donahue looked like The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
No, really.
(fish lips and just a certain hybrid marine quality. Never more so than in MY BLOOD RUNS COLD. Troy actually has a scene in a sea cave!)
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3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
Paul Douglas is like the nicer Broderick Crawford.
I love this description.
Broderick Crawford. NO. Not even on a desert island.
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6 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
Clark Gable also has giant ears. Sometimes I think he's attractive and sometimes I think he looks like the guy from Mad Magazine.
George Raft isn't unattractive, but I find him so bland that he hardly registers a negative nor positive reaction for me.
LOL I exactly what you mean about Clark. And sometimes I also think he's rather ape-like in appearance.
Georgie lost his looks for me right after THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT. He's a cutie-pie in SCARFACE.
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Speedracer, the only Wally Cox type who isn't Wally Cox -- what about John Qualen? Scrawny of course but not without a certain everyman appeal.
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3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
John Garfield is another actor that is short but built well and I think is really hot.
Laffite, I am thinking of a Wally Cox type that I find attractive that is not Wally Cox. That is a no-go for me.
Garfield is very sexy. Huge ears but I think I could get past that.
Same thing with George Raft.
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3 hours ago, laffite said:
Enjoying all this girl talk here. Who's the hunk, who's the punk, etc., eye candy from a feminine sweet tooth. Interesting because the matinee idols are not dominating the field. The rank and file are getting their fun in the sun. Wait to go, girls. So how about Wally Cox and his ilk. Any activity on the meter?
Hi, Lafitte!
I think the only female attracted to Wally is Agnes the computer on that TZ episode.
Then again, "she" seemed to fall in love with every guy who "worked" on her. La donna mobile!
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3 hours ago, lavenderblue19 said:
I'm attracted to Paul Douglas if we want to talk about atypical eye candy. He's a great big teddy bear, just love him
Yes! He's normally not my type but you just know if Paul loved you, he'd give you the shirt off his back!
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3 hours ago, speedracer5 said:
I will watch Hunchback. It seems like it'd be good Halloween viewing. I saw the Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame in the 6th grade. I know the classic version will be better.
I saw DOA, the only thing I didn't like about it was the weird whistle sound every time O'Brien saw an attractive woman. I loved loved the club he visits in that movie.
Haha. George Murphy wasn't bad. But he was no Gene Kelly.
Re: Rudy Vallee. I know him from The Palm Beach Story. But prior to that, I only knew him from his appearance as himself on the first episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. I knew his song, "Bye Bye Sweetheart," and the "My Time is Your Time" which is the song Desi Arnaz and Cesar Romero made fun of in the show.
I always thought Bogart was kind of cute in Casablanca. That white dinner jacket is really working for him.
The 1939 HUNCHBACK will blow your mind. That's all. (my Miranda Priestly impersonation)
It's actually not George Murphy in any musical sense that appeals to me, but a certain...how shall I say...fuddy-duddy authoritarian quality that really serves him well in TOM, DICK AND HARRY, CYNTHIA, and some others of that ilk I can't remember off the top of my head. Curiously, Rudy Vallee, while demonstrating superior comedic skills in THE PALM BEACH STORY, THE BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY-SOXER and HTSIBWRT, also has that fuddy-duddy air about him. Same thing with another of my heartthrobs, Nelson Eddy!
Guess I just prefer the goodie-goodies to those bad boys, lol.
I like Bogart in a trenchcoat but must admit Alan Ladd looks much better in them.
Yeah, those corny wolf whistles in D.O.A. What were they thinking?
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I'll be back for replies -- watching JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS right now -- my recorder is on the fritz.
Then -- ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT. Who can resist?
See you later guys!
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6 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I thought Edmond O'Brien was kind of cute when he was younger. I haven't seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame yet, but I have it on my DVR. I first saw him in a movie with Lucille Ball, A Girl a Guy and a Gob, and I could hardly believe it was the same person that I'd seen in The Barefoot Contessa. If I were Lucy, I also would have been more interested in O'Brien than George Murphy.
I was on an Edmond O'Brien kick earlier this year, so I watched a lot of his films. I thought he was looking pretty good in The Killers, A Double Life, even White Heat, Backfire, and even Another Part of the Forest (despite his mustache).
That would be terrifying if Jarrett had a headache during an intimate moment. Can you imagine if he summoned Ma to help him?
First things first, YOU MUST SEE THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME RIGHT NOW! DO YOU HEAR ME, RIGHT NOW!!! You will be rewarded immensely!!!
Haven't seen every Edmond O'Brien film but D.O.A.is my fave so far.
Oh my goodness, Ma, Cody and Verna....trying to get that image out of my mind, lol.
I have a terrible confession to make: I've always been attracted to George Murphy.
Even worse: Rudy Vallee.
Go figure.
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6 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
James Cagney never pinged my eye candy meter, it might be because I'm not really into blonde guys, but strangely enough I would agree about him in White Heat. Though that would never happen because Cody Jarrett is bonkers. I'd probably be more apt to go off with Fallon. I thought Cagney was rocking that jacked up haircut he had in Jimmy the Gent though. Strangely enough, sometimes I find Claude Rains attractive. I think it's his voice.
Edmund O'Brien was starting to pack on the pounds by then (another great talent, though, love him in D.O.A. but he never looked as good again as THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, lol) but I think I'd have to agree with you on preferring Fallon. (what if Cody had one of his headaches during an intimate moment? Eeek!)
I'm actually partial to the fair-haired ones. Maybe because (whatever their height) they remind me of Prince Charming, lol. (Richard Denning comes to mind. I've always been jealous of Evelyn Ankers)
JIMMY THE GENT, sorry but no thanks, lol. The more hair on Cagney the better as far as I'm concerned, ha!
I know what you mean about Claude. Not so much the voice with me but just a general air of self-confidence I think. He was better looking (even cute) when younger -- is downright handsome when we see Griffin finally revealed at the end of THE INVISIBLE MAN. Also was rather handsome as Job in MR. SKEFFINGTON. (Too bad Fanny didn't appreciate him.....until the end) John Gielgud in his CR tribute said that all the girls had crushes on Claude when he was a drama teacher. I could see that.
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41 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I know Cregar lost a bunch of weight right before his untimely death. He did look thinner in Heaven Can Wait.
What I can't believe is that Cregar was only in his late 20s in This Gun For Hire and 30 in Heaven Can Wait. I am older than him and he looks at least 15-20 years older than I do.
Yes, Laird really wanted to be taken seriously not just in character roles but as a romantic leading man. I do think that was unrealistic of him. He went on that strenuous crash diet for HANGOVER SQUARE and it killed him. A great actor no matter what his weight was. Look at Charles Laughton, who did go up and down appearance wise but whose talent was always intact. That's how I feel about Cregar. You can lose the weight but not your innate talent.
Actors always looked older back then. Every mother and father looked like their children's grandparents. (I'm thinking particularly of Lewis Stone as Mickey Rooney's dad in the Andy Hardy series)
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7 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
My husband is 6' so ultimately I didn't go with a small guy, but while Ladd was short, at least he wasn't scrawny. I just can't with the small, scrawny guys. Not appealing. Even someone like Gene Kelly, who is also short, is very muscular, but I think he's very handsome.
I agree. They have to be muscular (but not overly so) -- and good-looking. Gene Kelly, oh YES PLEASE!!
I wouldn't say "no" to James Cagney. Well, except in WHITE HEAT.
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Cregar actually didn't look too bad Down There in HEAVEN CAN WAIT. I think he wore a goatee which in Laird's case can only be considered an artistic improvement...certainly more dapper than Old Scratch from THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER.
Ye gods! Tough choices. I'll go with the anvil salesman, girly-girl. Nah, not really. Probably Preston as well, although in THE MUSIC MAN (one of my favorites too) he looked like Shirley's grandfather.
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18 hours ago, Dr. Somnambula said:
"Presto, chango, Alacazam!"
But now think about this choice: Robert Preston or Laird Cregar?
I'd probably have to kill myself.
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2 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I know, right? I've only seen a couple Alan Ladd movies, I thought he was rather handsome in this film. And I liked that he took such good care of his cat. Ladd's short stature wouldn't bother me, everyone's taller than me... except Veronica Lake. I do have a few inches on her, so there's that.
I've always been rather partial to vertically challenged guys myself. (however, I do not include little Hans from FREAKS, mind you. Not that he wasn't good-looking in his own way, just incredibly bad-tempered)
Raven did love the kitties. I fantasize about him stroking me like that. Gently of course.
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Noir Alley
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Polly, I'm glad you asked this question because there is only one film where I find Pat actually sexy -- I don't remember the name but he plays a cop on the beat in New York. The title eludes me.