Mr. Gorman Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 LonesomePolecat: The first time I ever heard Marlon Brando's name I remember thinking "I wonder what his real name is; sounds so much like an invented stage name." I was surprised years later to find out it was his real name. An actor whose name I figured had to be his real name was JOHN HODIAK (1914-1955). EVE ARDEN's real name was 'Eunice Quedens'. Very uncinematic. Actor TED KNIGHT's real name is amazing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Sandra Dee- Alexandra Patty Duke- Anna Sean Connery-Thomas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gorman Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Singer/songwriter/actor BOBBY DARIN's real name was 'Walden Robert Cassotto'. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 Patty Duke- Anna Great example. Her autobiography was titled 'Call Me Anna.' It was published in 1987. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 two hundred fortieth category Classic movie mothers I REMEMBER MAMA with Irene Dunne MILDRED PIERCE with Joan Crawford PSYCHO with Mother Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarmaGirl Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 two hundred forty-second category Classic movie mothers I REMEMBER MAMA with Irene Dunne MILDRED PIERCE with Joan Crawford PSYCHO with Mother Bates Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck (still not seen this tearjerker) Lolita with Bad Mother Shelly Winters Night of the Hunter with Doomed Mother Shelly Winters Meet Me in St. Louis with Mary Astor The Yearling with Jane Wyman (tearjerker I have seen) Little Women with Mary Astor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 Meet Me in St. Louis with Mary Astor Little Women with Mary Astor Speaking of Mary Astor-- she plays a single woman who gets pregnant in THE GREAT LIE. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulll Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 Nice/generous/caring/reformed mothers: Life with Father, Irene Dunne Imitation of Life, Juanita Moore Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow Terminator/Terminator 2, Linda Hamilton The Blind Slide, Sandra Bullock The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews Miracle on 34th Street, Maureen O'Hara Mean/deranged/unstable mothers: Carrie, Piper Laurie Cinderella (1950) (2015), Lady Tremaine (1950, 2015)/Cate Blanchett (2015) Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway (Joan Crawford) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews Cinderella (1950) (2015), Lady Tremaine (1950, 2015)/Cate Blanchett (2015) There was a film called STEPMOM, where Susan Sarandon had cancer and her ex-husband had been remarried, to Julia Roberts (who played the title character). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted May 8, 2016 Share Posted May 8, 2016 All kinds of classic mothers in film: Sophia Loren - "Two Women", "Marriage Italian Style", Adelina in "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" Mae Questal - "Oedipus Wrecks" from "New York Stories" Dorothy McGuire - "Friendly Persuasion", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "Old Yeller", "Swiss Family Robinson" Alice Brady - "My Man Godfrey", "In Old Chicago" Jane Darwell - "The Grapes of Wrath", "All Through The Night" Irene Dunne - "Penny Serenade", "My Favorite Wife" Thelma Ritter - "The Mating Season", "Pickup On South Street", "Birdman of Alcatraz", "For Love or Money" Olivia De Havilland - "To Each His Own", "Light In The Piazza" Bette Davis - "The Old Maid", "The Star", "The Great Lie", "Watch On The Rhine" Claudette Colbert - "Since You Went Away", "Imitation of Life" Anne Revere - "National Velvet", "Gentlemen's Agreement", "Body And Soul" Ginger Rogers - "Bachelor Mother", "Tender Comrade", "Roxie Hart", "Teenage Rebel" Beulah Bondi - "Of Human Hearts", "It's A Wonderful Life", "Remember The Night", "Make Way For Tomorrow", "Vivacious Lady" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 8, 2016 Author Share Posted May 8, 2016 Jane Darwell - "The Grapes of Wrath" One of the best..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIPPER Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Nancy Davis ---- "THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR" Betty Grable --- "MOTHER WORE TIGHTS" Glynis Johns ---- "MARY POPPINS" Myrna Loy --- "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN", "BELLES ON THEIR TOES" Barbara O'Neil --- "GONE WITH THE WIND" Ruth Hussey --- "LOUISA" Lucille Ball --- "YOURS, MINE AND OURS" Doris Day --- "WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL" , "PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES" Jane Wyman --- "POLLYANNA" (aunt, but "mother figure" good or bad) Debbie Reynolds --- "MOTHER" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Good ones: Greer Garson in THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE and MRS MINIVER Fay Bainter & Beulah Bondi in OUR TOWN Maureen O'Hara in THE PARENT TRAP and MR HOBBES TAKES A VACATION Jean Arthur in SHANE Glynis Johns in DEAR BRIGITTE Deborah Kerr in THE KING AND I Marsha Mason in THE GOODBYE GIRL Rosemary DeCamp in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY Spring Byington in YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MEET JOHN DOE, A FAMILY AFFAIR, A LETTER FOR EVIE, etc Janet Leigh in A HOLIDAY AFFAIR Vera Miles in THE WRONG MAN Doris Day in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Katharine Hepburn in ON GOLDEN POND Olivia de Havilland in GONE WITH THE WIND Bad ones: Gladys Cooper in NOW VOYAGER Gertrude Lawrence in THE GLASS MENAGERIE Una Merkel in SUMMER AND SMOKE Georgia Caine in REMEMBER THE NIGHT Rosalind Russell in GYPSY Shelley Winters in THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and A PATCH OF BLUE Marion Lorne in STRANGERS ON A TRAIN Katharine Hepburn in LION IN WINTER Vivien Leigh in GONE WITH THE WIND 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 Nice job everyone on yesterday's classic mom category. There were some very good examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 two hundred forty-first category Strongly associated with swashbucklers Maureen O’Hara Errol Flynn Cornel Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarshaKatz Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Ronald Colman Tyrone Power Burt Lancaster Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Stewart Granger Louis Hayward Basil Rathbone Danny Kaye Torin Thatcher Walter Slezak J. Carroll Naish Binnie Barnes Paulette Goddard Brenda Marshall Olivia De Havilland Virginia Mayo Gregory Peck Arturo De Cordova Johnny Depp John Gilbert Rudolph Valentino 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Anthony Quinn Alan Hale, Sr. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 Anthony Quinn Alan Hale, Sr. Yeah, I think it's important to mention the character actors for this category. Eugene Pallette is another one-- having played opposite Flynn in ROBIN HOOD and Tyrone Power in ZORRO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulll Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 Leonardo DiCaprio Antonio Banderas Keira Knightley Orlando Bloom Robert Taylor Sean Bean Raquel Welch Mel Ferrer Guy Pearce Cary Elwes Robert Shaw 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 9, 2016 Author Share Posted May 9, 2016 Thanks Paulll for mentioning some of the more recent ones, as well as Robert Taylor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 two hundred forty-second category Stars from the northeastern U.S. Massachusetts—Bette Davis (from Lowell); Charles Bickford (from Cambridge); Edna May Oliver (from Malden); Wendell Corey (from Dracut). New York—William Daniels (from Brooklyn); Helen Jerome Eddy (from New York City); James Whitmore (from White Plains); Amanda Blake (from Buffalo). Connecticut—Mariette Hartley (from Weston); Ed Begley Sr. (from Hartford); Glenn Close (from Greenwich); Robert Mitchum (from Bridgeport). Pennsylvania—Sharon Stone (from Meadville); Aldo Ray (from Pen Argyl); Pat Crowley (from Olyphant); Allyn Joslyn (from Milford). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregoryPeckfan Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 Richard Widmark was from Sunrise, Conn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulll Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Go Edna May Oliver! (I'm from Malden, MA!) New Hampshire: Ilene Woods (Portsmouth) Massachusetts: Geena Davis (Wareham) Chris Evans, Eliza Dushku, Leonard Nimoy, Madeleine Kahn, Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, John Slattery, Jane Curtin, Ray Bolger, (Boston) Kurt Russell, Chloe Sevigny (Springfield) Jean Louisa Kelly (Worcester) Matt LeBlanc, Jack Lemmon, (Newton) Matthew Perry (Williamstown) Jack Albertson (Malden) Marcia Cross (Marlborough) Lee Remick, (Quincy) Connecticut: Katharine Hepburn (Hartford) Meg Ryan (Fairfield) Pennsylvania:Richard Gere, Grace Kelly, (Philadelphia) Gene Kelly, (Pittsburgh) Jayne Mansfield (Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township) James Stewart, (Indiana) Carroll Baker (Johnstown) New York:George Kennedy, Anthony Perkins, Tony Curtis, Sal Mineo, Rita Hayworth, Jules Munshin, Walter Matthau, Ellen Barkin, Lorraine Bracco, Tim Daly, Jennifer Grey, Christian Slater, Jason Patric, (New York City) Denzel Washington (Mount Vernon) New Jersey: Frank Sinatra, (Hoboken) Maine: Patrick Dempsey (Lewiston) Judd Nelson, Andrea Martin, (Portland) Rhode Island: Debra Messing (born in New York City, at 3 family moved to East Greenwich, RI). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIPPER Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Pennsylvania --- John Barrymore & Lionel Barrymore (Philadelphia), W.C. Fields (Philadelphia), Janet Gaynor (Philadelphia), Jeanette MacDonald (Philadelphia), William Powell (Pittsburgh), Johnny Weissmuller (Windber), Broderick Crawford (Philadelphia), Shirley Jones (Smithton) New York --- Harry Carey (Bronx ), Marion Davies (Brooklyn), Jean Arthur (New York City), Joan Blondell (New York City), James Cagney (New York City), Eddie Cantor (New York City), Paulette Goddard (Great Neck), Robert Montgomery (Beacon), George Raft (New York City), Mickey Rooney (New York City), Sylvia Sidney (Bronx), Barbara Stanwyck (Brooklyn), Franchot Tone (Niiagra Falls), Mae West (Brooklyn), June Allyson (New York City), Lauren Bacall (New York City) Humphrey Borgat (New York City), Lucille Ball (Jamestown), Ann Blyth (Mt Kisco), Dan Dailey (New York City), Dan Duryea (White Plains), John Garfield (New York City), Celeste Holm (New York City), Gloria Jean (Buffalo),Danny Kaye (Brooklyn), Veronica Lake (Brooklyn),Thelma Ritter (Brooklyn),Claire Trevor (New York City), Cornel Wilde (New York City), Teresa Wright (New York City), Tony Curtis (Bronx), Kirk Douglas (Amsterdam), Susan Hayward (Brooklyn) Massachusetts--- Eleanor Powell (Springfield), John F. Kennedy (Boston) New Jersey --- Bud Abbott (Ashbury Park), Lou Costello (Patterson), Joan Bennett (Palisades), Sandra Dee (Bayonne), Jerry Lewis (Newark), Gordon MacRae (East Orange) Rhode Island --- Van Johnson (Newport) Connecticut --- Rosalind Russell (Waterbury) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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