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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 2, 2020 20:22:46 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 2, 2020 20:28:58 GMT
Yes?
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Post by hippopotamus on Sept 2, 2020 22:18:37 GMT
One of my new favourite games is watching something on Amazon prime and every time an older actor or actress shows up I move the cursor to look up the bio to see how their career panned out. Occasionally it's someone I KNEW I knew from somewhere. Sometimes I find it's a break out role aged 103 or something.
Most recently (not while playing this game) I was most surprised by Celeste Holm as Ted Fandom's mother in 3 men and a baby. I don't know why, but it kinda through me for a loop. She had such a wonky career. (And THEN I found out it was directed by Leonard Nemoy?!)
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 2, 2020 22:51:51 GMT
One of my new favourite games is watching something on Amazon prime and every time an older actor or actress shows up I move the cursor to look up the bio to see how their career panned out. Occasionally it's someone I KNEW I knew from somewhere. Sometimes I find it's a break out role aged 103 or something. I do this kind of thing all the time, except I usually look them up on Wiki or imdb. Sometimes it's frustrating - I'll see someone in a movie or old TV show and think oh, THAT guy, yeah, he used to be in practically EVERYTHING - then I'll look up their filmography and not recognize ANYTHING I would necessarily know them from. |
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Post by hippopotamus on Sept 2, 2020 22:59:40 GMT
I've done this thing since I could read. My dad used to have a "who's who" and Halliwell's by the sofa... So I'd look everything up. IMDB was made for me... But Amazon prime makes it too easy. I probably spend more time looking up all the people than I do watching the thing.
It IS satisfying when you find the one thing you remember them from. But it's particularly interesting when you thought they were so much more famous and prolific than they really were just because you know that one thing really well.
I think the Celeste Holm thing was like that. She's obviously such a major part in All About Eve... Then she sings so horribly in Oklahoma, she's got a really interesting character in a (I think) pretty obscure Frank Sinatra film (the tender trap)... And then she's Ted Danson's mother.
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 2, 2020 23:07:56 GMT
Celeste Holm did a TON of US television. She was "always around."
That said, I mainly remember her as Aunt Polly in the 1973 Reader's Digest-produced movie musical of Tom Sawyer (with Johnny Whittaker as Tom, Jodie Foster as Becky, and Warren Oates as Muff Potter). I saw that a few times as a kid back in the '70s, and saw it again within the last few years - thought it held up surprisingly well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2020 5:26:44 GMT
Better watch out..You might get her as your case worker.. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2020 12:10:04 GMT
There were some beautiful actresses back in the day.  Gene Tierney just looked stunning but also like she'd caused trouble. |
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Post by Crunchy Col on Sept 3, 2020 12:16:14 GMT
Oh, Gene Tierney! now yer talkin'! One of the most beautiful women to ever appear on the silver screen.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Sept 3, 2020 16:25:22 GMT
Getting old sucks.
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Post by daveythefatboy on Sept 3, 2020 17:00:02 GMT
Apropos of nothing - You Only Live Once with Sidney and Henry Fonda (directed by Fritz Lang) is an incredible film.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 4, 2020 16:58:44 GMT
Do you believe I have my middle finger up with both hands waving them at the monitor with your response? |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Sept 4, 2020 17:04:53 GMT
Oh, Gene Tierney! now yer talkin'! One of the most beautiful women to ever appear on the silver screen. I love Tierney, Olivia DeHaviland, Hedy Lamar, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner - there's a bunch. Sometimes I imagine what some of those Hollywood parties were like. Must have been crazy. Liz Sheridan, who played Jerry's mother on the show, was apparently James Dean's girlfriend when he died.   ![]() ![]() |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 21:30:45 GMT
Tangent, dean, meh actor.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 4, 2020 23:56:08 GMT
On the left is the talented Charlize Theron in her Academy Award winning performance as Aileen Wuornos in “Monster” On the right is how she appears outside my window night after night openly pining for me like Greta Bloody Garbo  . |
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