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Look at majority of modern stars & they had no broadway experience, but almost all did in these days *Tracy & *Hepburn, *Olivier-(best on stage), *Bogie, *Gable, *Cagney, *Brando, etc except for Garbo & a handful of others, they played the boards as they called them first Overall they learned their craft first before HOLLYWOOD

This will likely be a tv movie, not certain yet & only saw it yesterday but the terrific Irish actor Brendan Gleeson may play the president Donald Trump soon. He's a lot bigger than Trump, but I could see it, look at *Crowe as Roger Ailes & Gleeson has been in many films Gangs of New York, the General, In Bruge-(misspelled) & a lot more

Don't remember who it was, I think a female & she posed a superb topic months ago about THE MUSIC BOX being the most perfect movie ever made! Are you out there whom ever write that?

Always wanted to see The Little Tramp in an entire movie in a theater & you picked his two greatest!

She had such class at certain times & pivotal times, when he almost died in '59 at their home (9191 St. Ives Drive in B. hills) wanted to see it, but it's really covered in foliage, her idea she made a pt of living though before the police, meds & media & most if all is wife Louise arrived. She pulled identical thing at his June 1967 funeral at Glendale's, Forest lawn-(all the way at the very top, near *Walt Disney & Errol Flynn) She said she followed the funeral procession -(both *SINATRA *FORD & *JIMMY STEWART WERE AS PALLBEARERS BY THE WAY) until the got to it famous gates & drove off her own way I always strongly felt though she visited up there privately (NOTE: Look for a tremendous docu mostly on him, but she narrates entre special & rom The Thalberg Bldg & all over M-G-M before it was ripped down, this was (1986) THE SPENCER TRACY LEGACY (PBS) but on youtube)

He really hated returning to the stage & that was the final time *Brando also yrs later said same thing, but for different reasons, he said it was boring

That was it Iron Petticoat what bizarre casting, in all books & interviews she never mentioned it Besides *Tracy, she also idolized Garbo-(a friend of the 2) & *Gary Cooper

TopBilled, you on the $$$ about the casting, matter of fact *Gable & Lana did a kinda Western together in **** Tonk (***) What are your top three of *Tracy & his *Kate's-(as he later called her?)

WOW, don't agree at all, look at all the acting heavyweights that were also stars Or, was that a quote from him?

His last film role was Last Angry Man (***) & snagged his 5th nomination for it It's been remade at least once

Just caught some of a Paul Muni-(l895-l967) film on TCM & it reminded me of a couple things, he was vey well known to prefer stage to film & his wife was always said to be n the set & even almost under the camera cooking Hungarian dishes while shooting Virtually all don't even know who he was except for 1932's Hawks & Hughes version of Scarface: Shame of a Nation (UA) (****-stars!) Then if you mention it they immediately think of *Pacino's '83 version instead He was said to be a difficult performer too, though a great actor & the actual first method actor but from the Yiddish theatre instead Only made about 22 films overall He didn't even register as an example in 1999's AFIs 100yrs...100 Stars top 25 actors. Very little is known about *Muni, perhaps the way he wanted it. Never had the following of a *Bogey, *Tracy, *Wayne,etc Though one hold out is *Rod Steger (l925-2002) who always called him his idol. A kinda humorous story, I w2as inside Hollywood Forever, cem several times due to it being right next to Paramount & my motel & smaller at 62 acres then Gendale's 320. & they have a neat computer fir fans to locate each individual, well my friend & I looked up his name, no go His name was Muni Wiesenfreund instead The vast majority of Oscar pundits were stunned when for 1937 he lost to *Tracy in Captains Courageous over his BP winning *Zola, they were certain he'd win 2nd consecutive Best Actor Oscars Of course winning the previous year for Story of Louis Pasteur The NYFCC did vote for him though for *Emile Zola instead Strangely The Great: Spencer Tracy never got a New York Film Critics award though? (TRIVIA: Due to the media mess & coverage of the 1934 Academy awards i.e *Bette Davis snubbed for Of Human Bondage & Myrna Loy in The Thin Man, the following 2yrs the AMPAS/L/B Mayer allowed wrute-ins & Muni was very close to winning, though not nommed for '35's Black fury) THANK YOU

some marvelous pix, especially L & H & *Disney classics, technically today they are greater, but the heart isn't there like it was under *Walt

thanx for stats, it's too bad Jeff Besos has to beg for his dinner huh Knowing trump & his ego, I bet you he's jealous of Besos wealth There are several photos of the 2 together

Can you believe to this day critics look down on R. Cogburn, unfairly I think comparing it to True Grit that was another production where as *Kate says he had to soak his tiny feet, Bacall also talked about it Only a size 5 & 1/2, he was in constant pain, especially the heavier he got

split with you though on what I think is a fantastic film The Rainmaker (l956) she earned yet another of her all leading nominations for it & *Lancaster was dazzling but, is it a true western?

Thank you Princess, I did include Keeper of the Flame above though o the heels of Woman of the Year Another somewhat asinine casting choice-(forget it's name right now) 1957 or so co-starring with BOB HOPE??? She just admired the stage & only made 47 films, where is he started there, but despised returning to it in 1948's Rugged Path he really suffered He made his bones on the stage as Killer Mears in The Last Mile, where the gruff & hard to please *John Ford went to see him every night for 3 days running & immediately offered him to a Fox-not 20th Century fox until '35) contract in1930 where the duo did a fun little prison comedy Up the River, *Bogart's 2nd film role but *Tracy easily stole the show Strangely he & *Ford never worked together again until '58's superb Irish politico The Last Hurrah & if you count it HTWW for 1963, where he only narrated, but perfectly & perfectly ill He did it in a booth with *Kate sitting there reading & knitting all the time watching over him, forcing milk on him & water But he was scheduled to portray Edward G.'s small role in *Ford's 1964 Western Cheyenne Autumn (***)

Coming in very late on this one, what exactly is the topic though, please explain?

And just think Jackson has only snagged just one Academy Award shot to date & at 71 Snakes on a Plane ($48m.) has become another cult flick

NATO should conduct another such revised survey

His Shaft sequel though sure hit the deck

Good one, I remember reading that a few yrs ago about Jackson, he never stops but fans of those two would argue those aren't starring roles all the time A GOOD STAT PAL!

Back in 1994 NATO-(National Association of Theatre 0wners) voted Harrison Ford-(l942-) as A #1 all-time $Box-0ffice$ champion, but over the 6 decades & 154 starring roles of *JOHN "THE DUKE" WAYNE-(l907-79) Who agrees with NATO?

He did indeed write a good long pc though, no matter the subject If Mr. Moore reads us on here, what was MADONNA like when you met her by the way?

To Gershwin fan, is this from another suite or does he read us here?

Also do not agree 100% to take your teens to this, should be 20 & up! I went to Moore's docu's & some are great, but rarely agree Did love his admiration for Ralph Nadar though