cyberella1 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 I admire Angela Lansbury. Who ever she played, she played very well, maybe why she is remembered in films several decades later. She hasn't become invisible in major productions such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gaslight. At a young age she held her own against some heavy hitters: As you mentioned, State of the Union (I'm thinking that may have been a warm-up for MC--the ultra competent calculating bi- - -) with Tracy and Hepburn. Add Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer--not too shabby. Thanks for the posting tip. If you don't get this I'll know I'm a slow learner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberella1 Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Hi TopBilled. Thanks for the welcome and the help. I'm enjoying your topic, character actors. I should offer one with a quote: Joe E. Brown to Jack Lemon, "Well, nobody's perfect." It's a common "great line" but nice to recall now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 I featured Joe E. Brown earlier in the thread. I think I quoted him in ELMER THE GREAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 16, 2013 Author Share Posted January 16, 2013 *Dub Taylor* To Suzanne Pleshette in SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GUNFIGHTER: Patience, you got to stop shooting at people. You know something? If you wasn't such a terrible shot, there wouldn't be a young man alive in all of Purgatory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 17, 2013 Author Share Posted January 17, 2013 *Mary Gordon* To Pat O'Brien in THE IRISH IN US: Did you ever see your father, drunk or sober, go out of that door without kissing me goodbye? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 18, 2013 Author Share Posted January 18, 2013 *Ernest Truex* To Helen Westley in LILLIAN RUSSELL: It's got to be a boy. This one's got to be a boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 *Bonnie Hunt* To Renee Zellweger in JERRY MAGUIRE: Don't cry at the beginning of a date. Cry at the end, like I do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 *Mischa Auer* To James Stewart in DESTRY RIDES AGAIN: Observe my brain in action. Now where would I go if I were a dead body? Would I stay in the open? No - no privacy. Would I go under the ground? No - there's no future in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 21, 2013 Author Share Posted January 21, 2013 *Lynn Redgrave* In GEORGY GIRL: God's always got a custard pie up his sleeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 *Sig Ruman* In STALAG 17: How do you expect to win the war with an army of clowns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 *Esther Rolle* To Morgan Freeman in DRIVING MISS DAISY: I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 *Adolphe Menjou* To Janet Gaynor in A STAR IS BORN: Now, I'm going to turn you over to our demon press agent, Libby. Don't let him frighten you. He has a heart of gold...only harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 *Mrs. Patrick Campbell* It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 It doesn't matterwhat you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. LOL!!! -twink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 That's an actual quote, not a line she delivered in a movie. She was a very outrageous woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twinkeee Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Oh, I believe it to be a quote...can't imagine a writer even coming up with a line like that for a movie.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Mrs. Pat was the very first Eliza Doolittle, on stage in London in 1914 and in NY the following year. Shaw actually wrote Pygmalion for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 And supposedly Marie Dressler's character in DINNER AT EIGHT is based on Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 *Barton MacLane* To a minister in MEN WITHOUT SOULS: This is our rest period, and we don't want any psalm singing rats hanging around. Go peddle your prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I like seeing Barton MacLane in films, but wish he had gotten some more lead role opportunities. Sometime ago TCM aired *Wine, Women and Horses* and he was the lead along with Ann Sheridan. I thought it was a very good little film and would recommend it to others. Like many people of my age my first look at him was on TV's I Dream of Jeannie where he was the General, sadly that was his last credits, he died in 1969 at age 66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 MacLane had top billing in pictures at several studios. At Republic he headlined with Beverly Roberts in I WAS A CONVICT. At Universal he starred in BIG TOWN CZAR with Tom Brown and Eve Arden. And at Columbia he did MEN WITHOUT SOULS with John Litel and Rochelle Hudson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 *Glenda Farrell* In KISSIN' COUSINS: Aw shucks, it ain't nothing but possum tails, owl gizzards, and grits fried in bear grease. And then that there gravy, that's just goat's milk with vulture eggs and mashed catfish eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 *Wallace Beery* To Jean Harlow in CHINA SEAS: Whenever you get tired of running around with an Airedale and you want to run around with a St. Bernard, why you let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 *Joan Davis* In SHOW BUSINESS: When I was born, my father took one look at me, called up the insurance company, and said 'I want to report an accident.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 *Jean Hersholt* In HEIDI: If any man tried to take Heidi away from me, God help him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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