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Since he was considered to be the greatest actor of his generation by his peers, I will pick Spencer Tracy.
Next:
Tony Randall or Jack Klugmaan
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Stuart Whitman was in The Sound and the Fury with Yul Bryner
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Fred was great. When someone starts a thread “Greatest Slimeball Ever?” I may nominate him. Beauttiful modulated performance. Paul probably would have been okay but I worry he might have been too cardboard-y.
Oh, now I have solved the mystery of how we started talking about Fred as Sheldrake in this thread. I had been talking about him with Limey in the pitchfork thread. I had forgotten that I mentioned him replacing Douglas ....
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In anticipation of the switch to 1941 in the Favourite Performances thread, here are my top 10 movies from 1941 in no order except the first:
1. Here Comes Mr. Jordan
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Citizen Kane
4. How Green Was My Valley
5. Suspicion
6. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
7. The Wolf Man
8. You'll Never Get Rich
9. The Sea Wolf
10. Shadow of the Thin Man
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Not 'that type of movie' so much as that movie in particular. Hughes is reported to have run a print of ICE STATION ZEBRA on a continuous loop in his hotel suite in the years preceding his death. He was obsessed with the film.
That makes sense. I saw The Aviator where he would watch The Outlaw outtakes over and over.
Ice station Zebra is a favourite of mine. I wondered about the genre, but it is a very well made suspense film.
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said moment in WAIT UNTIL DARK:
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. I try to watch it only after dark.
Alan Arkin has gone on record saying that he loved Audrey and it made him sick to treat her badly.
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Fred was in more Disney movies as a good guy AFTER The Apartment was made than BEFORE it was made. Therefore doing the film didn't hurt his career as far as I can tell.
As for the character in the film; Remember that this is not a real person but just a fictional character.
Yes, the woman who hit him with her purse made Fred decide to NEVER play a bad guy again.
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Okay, this is strange;
The pitchfork thread still exists, but Lafitte's quote of mine about The Apartment and everyone's subsequent answers are in this thread...
Strange truths indeed.
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Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall.
That is right. I did not mention this in my post because I already read yours, but there was also some anger about lady in the lake.....
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Is there any other actor who normally played good guys whose fans were outraged when he played a bad guy? Henry Fonda?
Probably there were.
Certainly they Clark Gable fans were outraged to see him dancing in Strange Interlude.
And when Robert Montgomery played Phillip Marlowe in Lady in the Lady fans were outraged that they could see him only in the mirror and hear his voice. So MGM got Robert and his leading lady to tack on an ending that suggested Marlowe got the girl and this enraged Robert Montgomery so much that he quit MGM after 20 years and never worked there again.
I love Fred M. in everything he did. I adore Fred in any role he did because he was a great actor. Remember he played a cad in The Caine Mutiny as well.
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Fred did a fine job of acting in The Apartment but can one say the character he played is even in the running for greatest slime ball ever?
But what did he do that was really so bad? All he did was what many men in his position were doing at the time; cheating on his wife with a younger women and placing his needs above those of the women in his life as well as using his power as an executive against underlings.
The acting was fabulous.
I am not talking about Fred the man. But people who loved Disney movies wanted him to bee Disney-friendly.
The fact is, he did not give a damn about the fact that Shirley tried to kill herself and wanted to give her 100 bucks for Christmas. He is the kind of man who makes me wish I were a lesbian.
I feel the need to point out that this is a satire thread, however. Remember I was responding to Limey's comment. Remember too that most people in this film need pitchforking.
The fact that everyone might do it does not mean that it is okay.
And remember too that one of my nominees was the weather network.
EDIT: I SEE THIS I IN STRANGE TRUTHS INSTEAD OF THE PITCHFORK. HAS THE PITCHFORK THREAD BEEN DELETED?
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Hercule Poirot because I am hungry..
Next:
Would you like to have a ride with Steve McQueen on the back of his motorcycle or in a race car?
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Thompson, Emma
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Junior as Senior sounds like a very bad father
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Tommy Tune or Bob Fosse
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Dear Heart
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Fried Food
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Joan Fontaine played the title character in Damsel in Distress, so Joan Fontaine
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Soft spoken
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John Ireland was in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral with Deforest Kelley
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Howard Hughes gave it two thumbs up.
Interesting. I did not realize he liked that type of movie.
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Before we move on to 1941 on Sunday I would just like to mention that I am going with 1941 with regards The Invaders aka 49th Parallel and Johnny Eager.
The Powell Pressburger 49th Parellel was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1942 but released in the UK in 1941.
Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Johnny Eager in 1942 but the film was released in December 1941.
I find it interesting when the match-ups change significantly when we adjust the year of release. Just wait until we get to Casablanca in 1942 instead of 1943!
Duly noted:
Johnny Eager and 49th Parellel are on my 1941 list. Yikes! I have to keep writing these down in a variety of places as I keep misplacing my books of notes.
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Thanks. This was available to me and it looks like a combined version of the Disney film and Sabu's version. As such, I will enjoy it.
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This is kind of a petty comment, I admit, but has anyone ever noticed what really terrible teeth Peter Lorre had around this time, in Stranger on the Third Floor, for example, as opposed to the following year in The Maltese Falcon?
I always assumed it may have had something to do with his drug use and by the time of the Huston film, of course, he had a new set of choppers in his mouth.
He understandably doesn't do much smiling in this film but what few glimpses you get of his teeth, they were spaced apart and looking in pretty bad condition.
Well, he might have gotten a Hollywood makeover like a lot of stars did. That is my guess.
For the first few English language movies he made, he did not yet know how to speak English, so he had to memorize his dialogue without understanding what he was saying.
Amazing.
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Actually, it's not animated. The environments and the kid playing Mowgli are real. The animals are CGI, but as realistically as possible.
Also, while Lorna didn't like it, that's the minority opinion, as it's sitting at 94% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and a has a Cinemascore rating of A, and it's been one of the best reviewed movies yet this year. There were also a few other posters here who gave it positive reviews when it came out last week, or whenever it was.
I have no desire to see it, as it's not my cup of tea, but I don't want you to write it off due to one bad review.
Oh, okay, Lawrence. It's CGI animated and real people too.
I will keep this in mind.
I do love The Jungle Book itself and I do try to see everything based upon his writing if possible as he is my ancestor, but I might not go out to the big screen to see it.
Lorna did amend her review a bit saying that she was in a bad mood because of Prince dying.
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well, again...i was in a bad mood...but let's just say I was in a better one, i don't think i'd rate it higher than a "D."
The songs did not blend with the story and felt tacked-on, again (because it bears mentioning again)- the kid who played Mowgli was baaaaaaaaad (and the character is even more annoying than he is in the animated version,) i thought the voice overs were uninspired-to-poor, save for Bill Murray who did okay I guess, but Idris Elba (Sher Khan [sp?] ) and Scarlet Johanson (Kaa the Boa) were outright bad), it's too violent, the emotions are forced, there's no heart, it's needlessly crass (I'm really irked by how CRASS so many kids movies are), it's too drawn out, the dialogue is ludicrous, it's just....
no.
ps- there's a lot more to Kipling's original THE JUNGLE BOOK than the Mowgli stories....would've been nice to've seen a streamlined (45 minute perhaps) version of that tale (which was MORE THAN POSSIBLE, since the 1 hour 51minute run time for this was waaaay TOO LONG and loaded with filler moments) appear along with 30 minute versions of RIKKI TIKKI TAVI and THE WHITE SEAL- which is the best story in the whole damn thing and why it's never been adapted is beyond me.)
Yes, I have a hard-bound book of The Jungle Book and re-read it every now and then.
I know that from the original animated version, the songs that were originally written were all thrown out by Disney - with the exception of one - as he considered them to be too dark and he wanted it to be a light ending and romantic.
The one song that was kept was;
The Bare Necessities of life.
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Okay, so the reviews of the new The Jungle Book animated version give it an F, so as I love the original, I will skip this new version.
The first actor/actress that comes to mind..
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Marsha and I both answered a minute apart with Joan Fontaine for a Damsel in Distress.
I had asked for soft spoken. But Marsha asked for a mob thug playwright.
Soft spoken; PETER LORRE never raised his voice really.
Mob thug playwright: tricky. I'll say E.G. Robinson because he played a lot of mobsters and some of them must have been play-inspired.
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Terrifying laugh