Movie stars of yesteryear

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OK, here’s a real oldie…Lillian Gish. What a body of work, from “Broken Blossoms” when she was young, to “Night of the Hunter” with the great Robert Mitchum when she was in late middle age, to “The Wedding” when she was very old (she spends most of it playing a corpse but I really enjoy the first couple minutes of the film where she is alive, just before she dies).

Also, Charles Laughton. “Witness for the Prosecution” with Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power is about the best courtroom drama I have ever seen (and I did not see the plot twists coming either). Also good in the David Lean version of “Hobson’s Choice” (a very fun movie to watch) and as Nero in DeMille’s “The Sign of the Cross” about early Christian martyrs.
 
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Films today could use some more dancing! :man_dancing:t2: :dancer:t2:
 
What about Charles Laughton in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, and Mutiny on the Bounty? He also played Rembrandt in a film of the same name. Honestly, I don’t think there was any film with Laughton in it that I didn’t like…a lot. Bette Davis once remarked that she regretted having never played in a movie with Charles Laughton. She said they could have played the two meanest people who ever lived.
 
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I enjoyed Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees. He was good as Sergeant York and in High Noon too.
 
That’s quite a pairing! I always wondered about that, but she must have had a very good sense of humour. Mel Brooks was a clever man, and she seemed intelligent too so I suppose it makes sense, as,if my opinion matters! Lol.

I wonder how Natalie Wood would’ve have faired over a full lifetime in acting if she hadn’t been called home.
 
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Peter Lorre
 
Bruce Dern

And the sneaky fellow in for a fistful of dollars, had a moustache, very tanned, size ten shoes. Ended up in the graveyard looking for the right grave, you know …

And Dean Martin as a cowboy
 
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I can’t forget to mention another one of my favourites: Van Johnson. He was in so many movies. A great actor and good dancer.
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You’re probably right, but Ten Commandments’ special effects are top notch for a movie of that era. Plus it’s got some other great actors like Edward G. Robinson and Yul Brynner.

Ben Hur is good also, of course. Especially the chariot racing.
 
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