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Wednesday, March 17. 2010

Men & women of film


Women of film:



Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry


Men of film:



Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Errol Flynn, Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, Richard Burton, Jack Lemmon, Sean Connery, Sidney Poitier, Charlton Heston, Steve McQueen, Peter O'Toole, Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Warren Beatty, Dennis Hopper, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Harrison Ford, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Christopher Walken, Mel Gibson, Sean Penn, John Travolta, Antonio Banderas, Tim Robbins, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, George Clooney

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Out of all, my favoreet is Ginger Rogers. Great dancing --unforgettable and always fresh and surprising --and on the acting side, the sweet but strong heart of Americana --
#1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 13:00 (Reply)
Got a fave movie? Lemme know and I'll give it a shot.

Of course, now that you've covered such 'secondary' skills as acting and dancing, what about looks? You know, the important stuff. My two nominations are above. I'd grant quickly that Gable isn't the best-looking dude on the list, but he's the quintessential 'rogue', and that makes him #1 in my book. And nobody, but nobody, touches Zeta-Jones in her prime. Hey, you know those Welsh -- always turning out international beauties.
#1.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-03-17 13:08 (Reply)
I'm pretty middlebrow --Coen Bros knock me OUT and so does Kubrick --and almost with those two, Peckinpah --who provided an iconic scene to upbraid today's vile monetary-basis-for-all-creation weltanschauung, tho, in The Wild Bunch, when the William Holden (who'd be my fave of the actors) character, angry, snarls at his too-ready-to-leave-a-fellow-in-the-lurch gang:

"We're not gonna get rid of *anybody*! We're gonna stick together, just like it used to be! When you side with a man, you stay with him! And if you can't do that, you're like some *animal*, you're *finished*! We're finished! All of us"!

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isolated fave flix, The Last of the Mohicans, Unforgiven, hell --that'll do fer now --LOL --
#1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 14:15 (Reply)
Buddy - I read your comment twice, and I'm left with this one burning question:

Ginger Rogers was in "Unforgiven"???

Is there, IYHO, a 'best' Ginger Rogers movie? I'm not an old movie buff and know zilch about them, but I like the good ones.
#1.1.1.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-03-17 14:23 (Reply)
singin' & dancin', Flying down to Rio, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet --if you want to boz the compass with a minimum number of titles. Actin', Bachelor Mother (Billy Wilder's first film), Kitty Foyle, for same exersize @ most facet exposure @ least time. Lookswise is de gustibus of course, but she's up there with anybody --inner radiance and all that --
#1.1.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 14:35 (Reply)
BTW, yore faves 'n mine coalesce in Intolerable Cruelty, the hilariously cynical send-up of cynicism by the Coen Bros, starring Zeta-Jones.
#2 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 14:25 (Reply)
"The Coen Bros. helm this battle-of-the-sexes comedy centered on respected attorney Miles Massey (George Clooney) going toe-to-toe with his wealthy client's ex-wife, skilled gold-digger Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones)."

Meh.

I'm going out on a limb and guess that they don't fall in love. Let me know if I was close. In the meantime, it's in the Netflix queue and t'anks for the suggestion. If it's so sweet and gooey that I end up heaving my guts out, you'll owe me.
#2.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-03-17 14:32 (Reply)
without spoiling, let me just say yore fears is unfounded --
#2.1.1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 14:37 (Reply)
LOL:

Merc sez: "Hey, you know those Welsh -- always turning out international beauties."

Wiki sez: Rogers was...of Welsh ancestry.
#3 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 14:51 (Reply)
Bwah-hah! Now I'll have to watch one of her movies. BTW, that was a nice list, but isn't there a best one to see first?
#4 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-03-17 14:55 (Reply)
Try "Top Hat' --awesome dancing aside, and thin plotting fully accepted as charming artifact of the times, there's great music (lotsa that Deco era tom tom riffing in the orchestras) and great optical immersion in art-deco at its highest reach. Watch Rogers in the big dance scenes, watch how she turns her head away in her big moves and looks so beautiful and female you just want to blubber.
#5 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 15:21 (Reply)
BL - Shall do. Looks like it's still a few weeks away on the queue. At the moment, I'm trying to figure out why a new release, 'Inglourous Basterds', has "Long Wait" by it. Was it something I said? Could I...could I have bad breath?

"you just want to blubber."

If you know, will this be the same type of blubbering I do when Miles and Marylin finally surmount their troubles and fall back into each other's arms, or would you classify it as a different sub-group of the blubbering genre?

Or is that 'genus'?

Anyway, I'll compare the two and get back to you on this most delicate of matters. Don't try this at home, folks. Blubbering's not for everyone.
#5.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-03-17 15:34 (Reply)
"Blubbering's not for everyone"

LOL --just had a second sight on meself blubbering middle aged if not worse in front of my tv set watching and old B&W of a 25 yr old movie star from the 30s --

LOL? --I better !
#6 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 15:45 (Reply)
'kay, here's a real cutie --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UJ6WogeJ6s
#7 buddy larsen on 2010-03-17 16:10 (Reply)
What I noticed most about that clip is how much FUN they seem to be having, dancing with each other!
What happened to Hollywierd (or America), that the movie makers think they can't make movies similar to this anymore? Or do they think that they can't find an audience for them anymore?
#8 cas on 2010-03-17 22:54 (Reply)
really wish i could answer those questions --they'd open the door to the whole ball o wax --
#8.1 buddy larsen on 2010-03-18 00:45 (Reply)

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