smitty1931 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Was there ever a more handsome leading man than Robert Taylor? With his thin moustache in Waterloo Bridge he was male beauty personified. Anyone disagree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeniaH Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 He was handsome, for sure, but my tastes run more to the Lancaster/Grant type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 RT was lovely, indeed. However, I lean more toward Olivier in "Wuthering Heights," Newman in "The Long Hot Summer," Grant in "Suspicion," Gable in "GWTW," Melvyn Douglas in "Blandings," Jourdan in "Madame Bovary," Lancaster in "From Here to Eternity," Brando in "Streetcar," Rains and Bogart in "Casablanca," Terence Stamp in "Far from the Madding Crowd," Peck in "Mockingbird," and Mitchum in everything! I'm sure there are MANY more, but these are the ones that come to mind right now. Nice topic for those of us stressing about Sandy. Thanks, smitty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I lean towards Fredric March, Toshir? Mifune and Steve McQueen. I like a man's face to show strength and character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I lean toward all attractive men, and wish for them to lean toward me. Hopefully all this leaning provides exciting results. I do not lean toward David Lean, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 A nice definition of "leaning." I'd like Bill Pullman to lean on ME! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sfjltehs7w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 There were a lot of "leading men" who were handsome. There were also many good looking guys who never made the leading man status. Both the young Robert Wagner and George Hamilton were very good looking, but never quite reached the same level of "leading man" territory as did the others mentioned here, for whatever reasons. Someone had a thread about GUY MADISON, another handsome gent, who never made it big in that category. John Derek is another. It's hard to tell just what the public will gravitate to. My wife, for example, said over the years her taste in "leading men" changed regularily. From Warren William to William Powell. Then Clark Gable to William Holden. Over the years she said she had attractions to Gilbert Roland, Kirk Douglas, Robert Ryan, James Garner, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, David MacCullum, Tommy Lee Jones and George Clooney. As of now, I think it's Gerard Butler, but I haven't checked with her this morning! It makes me worry as to where *I* fit into all of this... Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 It's obvious, sepiatone. You have a wife with good taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janet0312 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 > {quote:title=darkblue wrote:}{quote}This is gonna sound strange, and he's not considered a 'leading man' in any respect, but... > > > > > > > > > > > About 7 years ago I heard an actress say on a dvd commentary that virtually every other actress she knows has an inexplicable desire to sleep with Steve Buscemi when they meet or work with him. She said it's kind of a universal phenomenon. > Has anyone seen *Trees Lounge* ? Steve Buscemi wrote, directed, and starred in it. He's actually kind sexy in it, in a weird way. He's got the attractive/repulsive syndrome. Ok, maybe "repulsive" 90% of the time, but that remaining 10%...what a guy ! Either way, he's a good actor, and often very funny ( intentionally, I mean.) I like a lot of the films he's been in. (Besides *Trees Lounge*, he's also kind of sort of attractive in *Ghost World*.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 *There were a lot of "leading men" who were handsome. There were also many good looking guys who never made the leading man status. Both the young Robert Wagner and George Hamilton were very good looking, but never quite reached the same level of "leading man" territory as did the others mentioned here, for whatever reasons.* *Someone had a thread about GUY MADISON, another handsome gent, who never made it big in that category. John Derek is another. It's hard to tell just what the public will gravitate to.* The term "leading man" is here used as synonymous to "star", which they were not. All of these men WERE Leading Men...what they may or may not have been were Stars, actually, Wagner, Madison and Derek did make it from leading men to the ranks of stars, if only among a teenage contigent and/or for an abbreviated period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Double yikes!! You mean the one who's "kinda funny lookin?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 <He's got the attractive/repulsive syndrome> I feel that way about Willem Dafoe, as in "Wild at Heart" (1995). Edited by: dpompper on Oct 31, 2012 8:17 AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 For starters, you should at least be able to act your way out of a paper bag, which Madison and Derek could not do. Edited by: finance on Oct 31, 2012 3:08 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 So that explains why I had that thing stuck on my head for days. It was only after I listened to Katharine Hepburn's "Learn How to Act the Kate H. Way in Your Own Home" that I was able to escape. I've had a phobia of paper bags ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phroso Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I'm still wearing a paper bag over my head, but that's because I'm a Kansas City Chiefs' fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 I understand that the team is going to change its name from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Kansas City Lowest Indians On The Totem Pole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 *For starters, you should at least be able to act your way out of a paper bag, which Madison and Derek could not do.* While this may preclude one from getting respect, it most certainly did not from achieving stardom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpompper Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 <*For starters, you should at least be able to act your way out of a paper bag, which Madison and Derek could not do.* While this may preclude one from getting respect, it most certainly did not from achieving stardom.> Moreover, how many guys of advanced age do you know who can get a **** like Bo?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Name me someone who became a big film star who couldn't act at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Pat O'Brien Adolph Menjou Woody Allen Jayne Mansfield to name but a few... Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasilBruce Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 Robert Taylor was very handsome but I think there are other that are good to, such as: Joel Mcrea, young Jimmy Stewart, young Jack Lemmon, Robert Walker, Albert Finney, and even Bobby Darin from his short life. Come to think of it I think Monty Cliff and Robert Taylor look similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Pat O'Brien couldn't act? He certainly wasn't handsome. What was his secret?...........Menjou wasn't a bad actor. Wardrobe alone wouldn't have made him successful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Both Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Menjou benefitted from their mail-order catalogue package of "How to Act Your Way Out of a Paper Bag, Part 1", featuring Kate Hepburn and her thespian tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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