jakeem Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 In the new movie "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent," the Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage plays an exaggerated version of himself. Of course, this has been done before, which leads to the question: "What are your favorite movies in which stars appear as themselves?" My favorite movie appearance is Cary Grant's cameo in "Without Reservations," the 1946 Mervyn LeRoy comedy starring Claudette Colbert as a writer who had been hoping the film adaptation of her best seller would star the British-born actor. John Wayne co-starred as a U.S. Marine pilot she considered as a possible replacement for Grant. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoShear Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (1942): Getting to see Babe Ruth - even an aged Ruth - in motion 'n sound was a treat for this then-Little League-r. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Proulx Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich Mike Tyson in The Hangover. Hedda Hopper in Sunset Boulevard (and others) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Rat Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 What if you played yourself in a film and people thought you were unconvincing? Hedda Hopper and Cecil B. DeMille in Sunset Boulevard would be among the better examples. Among the not-so-great there's Bruce Willis in Ocean's Twelve. Nothing against Willis, but the script of Ocean's Twelve, especially the scene in which he appears, is such a piece of caca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 It is recent but Bill Murray is a perfectly wonderful treasure playing himself in: Zombieland (2009). I have not watched it but the entire cast of: This Is the End (2013) are modern celebrities playing themselves. "Six Los Angeles celebrities are stuck in James Franco's house after a series of devastating events just destroyed the city. Inside, the group not only have to face the apocalypse, but themselves." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peebs Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Ava Gardner in The Band Wagon 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gorman Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 I recall BRODERICK CRAWFORD played himself in the '79 movie A LITTLE ROMANCE (the one with L. Olivier hamming it up!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starliteyes Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Joan Crawford in It's a Great Feeling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricJ Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 39 minutes ago, Mr. Gorman said: the '79 movie A LITTLE ROMANCE (the one with L. Olivier hamming it up!). ...The ONE?? 😄 (Oh, right, that one he did in the late 70's.) My favorite is when Fred Allen got a real starring picture of his own in It's in the Bag (1945), and made sure to give Jack Benny a nice big cameo: Fred (disguised as a reporter to get info): "Tell me, Mr. Benny, how do you come up with those hilarious gags on your radio show every week?" Jack: "Well, it's easy, y'see, I...just start laughing, and...then I work backwards to try and figure out what I'm laughing AT." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 A raft of stars played themselves in Hollywood Canteen, among them the two stars who founded the organization, Bette Davis and John Garfield. The same was true of another Warner Brothers bond raiser, Thank Your Lucky Stars, this time with many of the stars performing routines, often musical, with which they were normally not associated. Among them, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. Davis is sport enough to let herself get thrown around by a jitterbug at one point in her number while Flynn, spoofing his heroic wartime screen image, is hilarious. Of note, Flynn filmed this sequence over three days, completing it two days before his trial for statutory rape was about to begin. He later wrote that he had a pilot and plane ready to escape the country if found guilty but here, watching him in this number, he looks carefree and like he doesn't have a worry in the world. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougieB Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Robert Altman had some fun with the idea of movie star cameos in Nashville (1975). He'd worked with Julie Christie in McCabe and Mrs. Miller and maybe she was visiting the Nashville set...Who knows?..so he used her in a quick scene. In a Nashville club Julie was being ushered around by a publicist and they stopped at a table of country stars. After some small talk (Henry Gibson: 'This morning I was talking about The Christy Minstrels and now here you are...Julie Christie.") Julie was led away and Karen Black asked Henry Gibson who that was, to which he replied that it was Julie Christie, the movie star, to which she replied: "She can't be a movie star. She can't even comb her hair." Pretty funny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 There's a raft of cameos in The Phynx, including this exchange between Marilyn Maxwell and Pat O'Brien: Quote Marilyn Maxwell: What's the matter, Pat? You look so thoughtful? Pat O'Brien: Oh, Marilyn, I was just thinking. If I had played the other part, I'd be in Sacramento today and Ronald Reagan would be here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedya Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 And for another World War II movie about stars entertaining the troops, there's Four Jills in a Jeep. There's another one with Phil Silvers: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Al Jolson and Oscar Levant played themselves in RHAPSODY IN BLUE. Laurel and Hardy played themselves (not just L&H characters) in PICK A STAR (also HOLLYWOOD PARTY, but virtually everyone played themselves in that one). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 The 1965 comedy "Dear Brigitte" starred James Stewart and Glynis Johns as the parents of a precocious 8-year-old boy (Billy Mumy) who wrote fan letters to La Bardot and received an invitation to visit her in France. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 IS this thread about CAMEOS? Or some other type of thing. For instance.... People always said JOHN WAYNE played himself in every movie he ever made! Sepiatone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Sepiatone said: IS this thread about CAMEOS? Or some other type of thing. For instance.... People always said JOHN WAYNE played himself in every movie he ever made! Sepiatone Actually, Wayne made a couple of cameo appearances as himself in the 1958 comedy "I Married a Woman," which starred George Gobel and Diana Dors. Interestingly, the black-and-white film switched to Technicolor whenever Wayne popped up on the screen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Cab Calloway played himself in STORMY WEATHER. Fats Waller and The Nicholas brothers also appeared as themselves in the nightclub scenes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmnoirguy Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Lucille Ball starred as Lucille Ball the movie star who, as a publicity stunt, accepts an invitation to be a young cadet's date at his military school's prom in the 1943 musical comedy Best Foot Forward based on the hit Broadway show. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toto Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 65 celebrities make cameos in the film "The Player" (1992) directed by Robert Altman and starring Tim Robbins. All the movie star appearances are great in this story about Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evette Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 The Andrew Sisters in the Abott and Costello movie Buck Privates (1941). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Rat Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Louis Armstrong appeared as himself in many films. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LsDoorMat Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Marion Davies as Marion Davies in "Show People" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LsDoorMat Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Not really what you meant, but - Gig Young played someone named Gig Young in "The Gay Sisters" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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