Movie stars of yesteryear

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Recently, there was a thread Twitter, started by TCM I believe, on favorite film stars from the past. That thread focused on actors. But this thread can have both actors and actresses.

One of my favorite actors was Marcello Mastroianni, especially when paired with Sophia Loren.

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Here they are.

So, who are your favorites?
 
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As actors, I like Humphrey Bogart, Clint Eastwood, Michael Douglas (also his dad Kirk in a few movies), Martin Sheen, Rosalind Russell, and Bette Davis.

For nostalgia value, I also like to see actors that remind me of my youth, though I don’t think they’re particularly great actors. People like Robby Benson, Annette O’Toole, Glynnis O’Connor, Alfred Lutter, the young John Travolta. They were like the 1970s Brat Pack, you saw them in everything including in a lot of commercials and TV shows. (By the time the real Brat Pack came along I was in my 20s so I didn’t feel any particular attachment to them and got sick of Molly Ringwald really fast. )
 
Basil Rathbone.

Not sure how far back you have to go to be “from the past.” I’ll add Charlton Heston.
 
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Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis
 
I always particularly liked John Wayne as he made every role his own.
 
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Grace Kelly and James Stewart
 
Not my generation but Gregory Peck, James Stewart, John Wayne, Ernest Borgnine, Kirk Douglas, Gene Kelley, Katherine Hepburn, Ava Gardener, Maureen Ohara, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathleen Turner, Danny Devito, so so many more!
 
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Margaret Dumont and Groucho Marx
 
Jane Wyman too…she became a lay Dominican and was buried in her habit.

Edited to add, Bob Newhart is another lifelong Catholic.
 
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Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, William Powell, John Wayne, Robert Mitchum,
Gregory Peck, Burt Lancaster, James Stewart, Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant, Tony
Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Orson Welles, Henry
Fonda, William Holden, Edward G. Robinson, Michael Caine, Montgomery Clift, Charlton Hesston, Joseph Cotten,
Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Anthony Quinn,
Rock Hudson, Glenn Ford.

Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Debbie Reynolds, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Claudette Colbert,
Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Havilland, Jean
Harlow, Loretta Young, Jane Wyman, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Carole Lombard, Doris Day, Rita Hayworth, Ginger
Rogers, Myrna Loy, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland, Susan Haywood, Maureen O’Hara, Gene Tierney,
Kim Novak to name a few.
 
I think for my brain to function well enough to answer the question I would need to divide it into decades or countries or something. ‘Yesteryear’ is a bit too broad for me.
 
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Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, who is 102 years old. I loved the old movies when they paired them together. Lionel Barrymore and Beulah Bondi. John Garfield, George Raft, James Cagney Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed Joan Fontaine ,[ Olivia’s sister ] I love the Golden Age of Hollywood.
 
Kirk and Lana at their best…Gloria Grahame also winning an Oscar for a role that only had 9 minutes of screen time.
This is my favorite Kirk Douglas movie. My second favorite is “Seven Days in May”

 
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Christopher Walken is in his mid-seventies. He stars in two pictures to be released next year, Percy and War with Grandpa. I don’t think he’d feel flattered to be classified as a star of yesteryear!
 
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What we have here is a failure to communicate.

So let me submit the name of Paul Newman.

Typing it here, boss.
 
Does anyone like Harrison Ford? The English film critic David Thompson doesn’t seem to think much of his acting. I just rewatched ‘Blade Runner’ and I can’t decide whether Harrison Ford is just naturally low-key or whether another actor could have filled in for him. The soundtrack to ‘Blade Runner’ by Vangelis is outstanding.
 
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