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I love the photo of Vivien and Marlon - they were both gorgeous to look at. Vivien Leigh couldn't stand the way Clarke Gable's breath smelled cause he wore false teeth and she had to hold her breath and pull away from him every time he had to kiss her in a scene. I always hold my nose too cause I can see how Viv was cringing and pulling back.

all of them...I don't like remakes - nothing tops the original film.

one of the most beautiful actresses. Please post a photo of Vivien and Marlon in Streetcar Named Desire - they both were gorgeous looking people.

I would say Crash was the worst film to win a Best Picture award. Chariots of Fire, Shakespeare in Love and Million Dollar Baby are also high on my list of duds.

Wow the August Schedule looks great! I look forward to the Richard Widmark day of films - and Pickup on South Street is a terrific film - I'm glad TCM will be showing this! The other day I look forward to in August is the Marlon Brando day of films on August 29th. He's one of my favorite actors and I'm glad TCM is devoting a day to him. Thanks TCM for the Richard Widmark and Marlon Brando "days in August" !!!! Note: I would have loved to see Streetcar Named Desire on the Brando day as well as The Men and Viva Zapata - I wonder if TCM will ever show these Brando films as they are some of his best work. Message was edited by: newclassicfilmfan

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I think Brando is the actor who was most gifted. His string of films in the early 50's were so great - who else had a string of films that include The Men (his 1st film), A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, Julius Caesar, On the Waterfront, The Wild One and Guys & Dolls? That's a pretty good start to a film career - and I do believe he got nominated for Best Actor 4 times in a row and finally won for On The Waterfront. For those who didn't like Streetcar, it's obvioulsy individual taste - but there are very few films I can watch countless times without getting tired of it, and this film is one of them. The chemistry between Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando was outstanding and the performance by Brando ranks as one of the best I've seen - maybe only second to his On The Waterfront performance. So I think there's not enough superlatives to describe Brando.

That's a great story. I like Brando also and would love to see some photos as well.

Great thread and some real nice photos of Widmark. Keep 'em coming!

Not a favorite film of mine, but I like the Brando version. Actually I watch most films Brando's in. I think he was a terrific actor.

I just saw BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. I hadn't seen it for 2 years and decided to watch it again. It was very difficult to watch this film due to the recent passing of Heath Ledger - but I recall that I liked this film very much and wanted to see it again in honor of this great young actor. I think Heath Ledger should have won an award for playing Ennis Del Marr in this film. He was terrific and showed great depth in his acting abilities. I'm sadded that he is no longer with us and one must think what this young talent might have given us in future films. He was a bright, shining star that faded too fast - I'm very sad that he is gone. R.I.P. Heath Ledger - always in our heart.

I say NAY to Tom Cruise. I think he's highly overated. He was "okay" in films like "Rain Man", but I never think he is versatile and quite frankly, he's scary looking - almost like a werewolf with the huge eye teeth hanging out of his mouth and when he turns to the side, his nose is huge. I see nothing good looking about this guy, his acting is only "average" at best, and he has demonstrated in his personal life that the elevator does not go up to the top floor - for those reasons, I'm not a Tom Cruise fan.

Here's another vote of "YES" for Johnny Depp. I like him and his films. I recently saw Sweeney Todd and he was awesome. I can't believe Depp is going to be 45 years old. I remember him from 21 Jump Street days.

This is a very hard question. There are so many classic actors and actresses who had tremendous screen presence. Off the top of my head, I'll choose the following - Actors: William Holden, Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando Actresses: Vivien Leigh, Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor

My choices for: Overated: Casablanca - very boring even though everyone seems to like it Citizen Kane - fall asleep on it everytime Shane - boring, boring, boring and the acting was atrocious Vertigo - an average film, but I like other Jimmy Stewart films better All About Eve - I watched it cause so many people rave about it, but I couldn't stand the film Underated: Patch of Blue - love this film Blackboard Jungle - terrific film One-Eyed Jacks - one of the best westerns, but hardly ever shown Yankee Doodle Dandy - a great musical Poseiden Adventure East of Eden Dead Ringer

I love the photos of Lucy - such a beautiful and talented lady!

I also like Vic Morrow. I think Blackboard Jungle was a good film and Vic Morrow played the bad student Artie West with such believability. He was very impressive and I also want to add that Richard Kiley and Glenn Ford were great in that film as well. Jennifer Jason Leigh is quite an actress, but I don't hear too much about her. I have also seen her comments on TCM about Barbara Stanwyck and I thought it was a very interesting piece. Perhaps TCM can have her as a guest programmer sometime. Jennifer was 2 years old when her parents divorced - so I don't really know what type of relationship she had with him after that. I once read that Vic Morrow viewed his daughter's name change to rid herself of the Morrow last name as the ultimate act of disloyalty (I read this on a Vic Morrow tribute website years ago where they had lots of articles and magazine clippings on Vic) But in any case, I think there is a lot more to their estrangement than her name change. I don't think anyone has a definitive answer about that and it's a private family matter. I also read that Jennifer paid for, and had the gravestone made for her father's final resting place - and I thought that was touching. She has been on the Actor's Studio with James Lipton and I had read articles where she said she respected Vic as an actor, but he was like a stranger to her - how sad that is. Also, I watched Twilight Zone, the movie - on TVLand a few days ago and I felt it was a terrible film. It's too bad this awful film was Vic's last work and I had read he was embarrassed by this film and thought it was a piece of garbage - plus they were asking him to do dangerous things that he wasn't comfortable with. The actual scene with the tragedy was not in the film. I wouldn't recommend this film - but maybe others might have a different opinion. If you want to see Vic Morrow at his best, see Blackboard Jungle and COMBAT t.v. series - he was spectacular in these and one can easily see what a supberb talent he was. Not only that, he was incredibly sexy and handsome in COMBAT playing Sgt. Saunders. I have the DVD's and was hooked on the show immediately. It's too bad Vic Morrow's career didn't skyrocket right after COMBAT because he was very popular during the latd 1960's and I vividly remember watching the show on Tuesday nights with my family when I was a young child. R.I.P. Vic Morrow

To John, I have some DVD's of Combat as well. I really think it was one of the best shows ever made. I think Vic Morrow was instrumental in making that show a success. His acting was flawless in it, and if you see an episode called Survival, you can easily see how talented an actor he was. It's an episode where he gets his arms and hands burned and his pain looks so realistic throughout the show - it was his only Emmy nomination for that episode.

Jennifer Jason Leigh is a great actress, and I hear she might get Best Actress Oscar for her upcoming film Margot at the Wedding which comes out in November. Vic Morrow, Jennifer's father, was a supberb actor, albeit very underated. I loved him in Combat. The resemblence between Jennifer and her father Vic Morrow is astounding.

I have the Chase on DVD. It's a good movie - not one of my favorite Brando films and I cringe when he gets brutally beaten. Robert Redford and Angie Dickinson were okay as were Jane Fonda...but I don't really like the film too much.

How about mixing in and combining 2 stars in a 1/2 day showing of their films since some of them didn't make enough films to cover a full day? My list would be: August 1- James Dean/Linda Darnell August 2- Vic Morrow/Ralph Meeker August 3- Lee J. Cobb/Dana Andrews August 4- Bette Davis August 5- Paul Newman August 6- Joan Crawford August 7- Thelma Ritter August 8- Richard Widmark August 9- Glenn Ford August 10- Marlon Brando August 11- Paul Muni August 12- Rita Hayworth August 13- Errol Flynn August 14- William Holden August 15- Joseph Cotten August 16- Yul Brynner August 17- Gene Kelly August 18- James Cagney August 19- Steve McQueen August 20- Shelley Winters August 21- Montgomery Clift August 22- Sidney Poitier August 23- John Garfield August 24- Patricia Neal August 25- Sal Mineo August 26- Natalie Wood August 27- Robert Mitchum August 28- Vincent Price August 29- Jeffrey Hunter/John Payne August 30- Lloyd Nolan/Marc Stevens August 31- Edward G. Robinson Message was edited by: newclassicfilmfan

OMG - what a disgusting thought! Brando must have had a penchant for "mooning" because he did it in Last Tango in Paris on the ballroom floor and it was unscripted and a lady looked like she was gonna pass out - I don't blame her, Brando had the biggest tush I've ever seen.

Interesting tidbit about Gary Cooper: Although Cooper dismissed the new school of actors in the 1950s as "a bunch of goof balls" and could be caustic about "the Method" advanced by the Actors Studio in New York, Lee Strasberg told everyone that Cooper was a natural Method actor, he just didn't know it. Cooper did at least admire Marlon Brando's work, and became a producing partner with his father, Marlon Brando Sr..

That photo on Life magazine is Gary Cooper??? I thought it was Robin Gibb from the Bee Gees or Tiny Tim.

This woman committed suicide while pregnant? I feel badly about what happened to her - but she also took another life - she gave no thought to the poor baby. Many people who want babies can't have one and here's a person who should have been happy to be having a child - even if it wasn't with the man she wanted it to be.

I love this thread too. I wonder if someone can post baby photos of William Holden, Richard Widmark, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, Vic Morrow, Paul Newman, Marlon Brando and Jimmy Stewart - all favorite actors of mine. I would love to guess any baby photos that is posted - excellent thread.