Movie stars of yesteryear

[tomarin]

Does anyone like Laurence Harvey? Hardly a household name these days but at one time he was on the verge of stardom. He has a Jude Law type of vibe even if he’s a couple of generations older.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I’ve yet to meet any Irish-American who didn’t love “The Quiet Man”. It’s really a film for us second or third generation expats.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

There was a huge feature on him in my mom’s Good Housekeeping magazine when I was about 10. I think he had just died of cancer. I liked him in “The Manchurian Candidate” but that film was suppressed for many years because Sinatra was too upset over the JFK assassination, so I think a lot of people didn’t really discover Laurence Harvey till way after he died.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I wonder why the Vatican doesn’t promote Catholic feature films?

The last thing the Church needs is to be promoting any media. It’s not really their job and there’s too much risk of corruption.

 

[F_Marturana]

I’ve seen most of those, except Hour of the Wolf. Very good!

 

[Tis_Bearself]

What about Burt in “Elmer Gantry”?
Not as good as the book, but okay.

Also, “Seven Days in May” as the general trying to stage a secret coup.

 

[F_Marturana]

He’s in the Manchurian Candidate and Butterfield 8.

I didn’t like Butterfield 8 very much.

 

[Augustinian]

What about Burt in “Elmer Gantry”?
Not as good as the book, but okay.

I think he won an academy award for Elmer Gantry, no?

 

[tomarin]

And an episode of ‘Columbo’ playing a crooked chess champion.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Witness

Oh man, that was a great movie. I loved that movie. I think of it every time I pass through the Philadelphia train station, and yes the bathrooms there are still totally scary and stuck off down a corridor, they need an upgrade very badly.

 

[LilyM]

Elmer Gantry is great. But casting him with his blue eyes as an injun in “Apache”? A definite head scratcher.

 

[Autumn-Smoke]

David Niven - a fine British actor and one of my favourites

and in “The Bishop’s Wife” - a great Christmas classic

 

[Titivillus]

CilladeRoma:

Witness

Oh man, that was a great movie. I loved that movie. I think of it every time I pass through the Philadelphia train station, and yes the bathrooms there are still totally scary and stuck off down a corridor, they need an upgrade very badly.

Excellent movie! Best scene: Zero dialogue, just suspenseful music as the boy identifies

Spoiler

Danny Glover

's photo in the police trophy case to Harrison Ford across the room. Chilling!

 

[Titivillus]

Claude Rains is good in so many roles.

And who can forget Abe Vigoda in The Godfather?
“Can you get me off the hook, Tom? For old times’ sake?”

 

[Dante221]

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce…
Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwick

The two best Holmes and Watson pairs…don’t ask me to choose

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Claude Rains is good in so many roles.

He used to live a couple blocks from where I am sitting right now. Some of the older people in town remember playing with his kids. He also owned a farm a few miles away for years.

 

[CelticWarlord]

How about this: Edward G. Robinson?

Wait jsut a minute, didn’t he encourage the Children of Israel to make a golden calf…?

 

[CelticWarlord]

who are your favorites?

William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gregory Peck, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers. Who needs anyone else?

 

[KD8TZC]

Love any movie with Bing in it.

 

[KD8TZC]

I loved Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom.

One of my other favorite actors was Audie Murphy. What a story behind that man.