hepclassic Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I was thinking a lot about how many classic movie stars maintained stage careers as well as did film, and how many did stage before film. Seeing how theatre is live and rarely taped, and all we have is playbills and ads with these stars mentioned, who would you like to have seen on stage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire. He took New York by storm and all of his contemporaries were flocking to see it. We have the film version but to see it live must have been awesome. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scsu1975 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Bela Lugosi in Dracula 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Bela Lugosi in Dracula Yes, and Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton_Keyes Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 This past February I got to see Dame Angela Lansbury in the Toronto production of Blithe Spirit -- the same role that earned Ms. Lansbury a Tony award in 2008. A couple of nights later I happened to watch part of the film GASLIGHT for the umpteenth time on television and was struck by how privileged I was getting to see such a remarkably talented actress on stage at this late point in her career. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr6666 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Henry Fonda as Clarence Darrow Harrison & Andrews in MFL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 This past February I got to see Dame Angela Lansbury in the Toronto production of Blithe Spirit -- the same role that earned Ms. Lansbury a Tony award in 2008. Ms. Lansbury reprised Blithe Spirit in London last year, winning an Olivier Award at this year's Oliviers, in early April 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Laurence Olivier in Long Day's Journey into Night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Henry Fonda as Clarence Darrow In my case Mr.Six, yep, Hank Fonda also...but in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial"(I understand a very young James Garner also had a small part that one), and in "Mister Roberts". (...figured I'd get that one in before a certain other poster mentions it here) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Ms. Lansbury reprised Blithe Spirit in London last year, winning an Olivier Award at this year's Oliviers, in early April 2015. I saw it in London! She was amazing in it. What a wonderful night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Angela Lansbury, in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A 1978 musical for which she and her costar Len Cariou, won Tony Awards. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I would also liked to have seen Richard Burton in the NYC production of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 My first choices would be Geraldine Page and Marlon Brando. Page and Brando are the best examples of film and stage actors trained in American interpretations of the techniques of Stanislavski, commonly referred to by the general public as "method" acting. (Brando actually hated this term because of its association with Lee Strasberg, whom Brando and his self-acknowledged mentor Stella Adler disdained). Page continued to work on the stage after she began making movies (she actually worked more on the stage) while Brando's last appearance in a stage play was in 1953. While both Page and Brando are considered to be "naturalistic" actors (in contrast to the "classic Hollywood" style), both of them were masters of their craft, able to use their considerable talent, skills and instincts to create real human beings in fictional circumstances. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I would also liked to have seen Richard Burton in the NYC production of Hamlet directed by John Gielgud. FWIW this was filmed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Not Broadway or an original production, but perhaps the stage performance I most wish I could have seen: an LA little theatre production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, starring Warren Oates as McMurphy (1966). Jack Klugman, who saw this as well as Kirk Douglas on Broadway, said it was the best McMurphy ever. Douglas IMHO was totally wrong for the role -- he's a straightforward schemer. Nicholson doesn't quite seem right either -- he's not bad, but he's always been essentially the cleaned-up, acceptable Warren Oates. Oates, with his hillbilly thuggery and causeless rebelliousness crossed with childlike petulance and impetuousness, might have been perfect. IMHO he seems to have been born to play the role. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hepclassic Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 There are too many to name for me. Top of my list would be Katharine Hepburn in A Warrior's Husband and Coco, followed by anything Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh toured in that came States side, followed by Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, and Claudia McNeil in the original production of A Raisin In The Sun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 "Girl Crazy" (1930), with Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers becoming stars, and Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, and Jack Teagarden in the pit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primosprimos Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I was thinking a lot about how many classic movie stars maintained stage careers as well as did film, and how many did stage before film. Seeing how theatre is live and rarely taped, and all we have is playbills and ads with these stars mentioned, who would you like to have seen on stage? I'd like to resurrect Philip Seymour Hoffman, and see him again. What a waste. What a magnificent actor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird66 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I'd like to resurrect Philip Seymour Hoffman, and see him again. What a waste. What a magnificent actor. You took the words out if my mouth. For me I would add Robert Ryan and John Garfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primosprimos Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 You took the words out if my mouth. For me I would add Robert Ryan and John Garfield. Thanks. Ditto on Ryan...and Hayden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hepclassic Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 I'd like to resurrect Philip Seymour Hoffman, and see him again. What a waste. What a magnificent actor. I wouldn't call him a waste, I'd call depression a killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogie56 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 John Wilkes Booth in Richard III. And his master of improv cameo in Our American Cousin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
film lover 293 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Richard Burton & Julie Andrews in Camelot (1960). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 John Wilkes Booth in Richard III. And his master of improv cameo in Our American Cousin. LOL Yep, maybe a bit "sick"...but funny alright, Bogie. (...as you can tell, I'm not one of those who think these kind'a jokes are "still too soon") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieMadness Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 King Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World- too bad he only made once appearance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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