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Scud49 said:
What western actor, very early in his career, refused to have his nose surgically altered to appear less menacing to audiences....?

The actor took a lesser non speaking role in this 1952 film, and years later became a major western star in his own right.
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I’m thinking Lee van Cleef. No idea about the 1952 film.
 
veryolddog said:
Tracy was the lead male actor. The lead female actor who actually had top billing was Sylvia Sydney. In what movies did Tracy win the Academy Award?
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Boys Town & Captains Courageous in 2 successive years, I believe. Who was the female actress who won 2 in successive years and in which films?
 
NY Fan said:
Boys Town & Captains Courageous in 2 successive years, I believe. Who was the female actress who won 2 in successive years and in which films?
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Dang, I can't think of her name. She's not as well remembered as a lot of the older stars. I think either her first or last name begins with an "L"
 
It has to be either Bette Davis or Katherine Hepburn but I do no know their movies.
 
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Bigboote said:
I’m thinking Lee van Cleef. No idea about the 1952 film.
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stormsurge said:
wasn't the 1952 film

High Noon?
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Very good guys- it was Lee Van Cleef and the film was High Noon. It was LVC's first ever role in a western. Not giving in to the demand for cosmetic nose surgery proved very shrewd and wise for his career. In 1965 Sergio Leone remembered him for that hawk like look and cast him as one of the two main leads opposite Clint Eastwood in "For a Few Dollars More". The rest, as they say, is history.
 
Cuango said:
What comedy was Elsa Lanchester in along with Peter Ustinov?
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Blackbeard's Ghost. Also starred Suzanne Pleshette, one of my favorite ladies.
 
Scud49 said:
Very good guys- it was Lee Van Cleef and the film was High Noon. It was LVC's first ever role in a western. Not giving in to the demand for cosmetic nose surgery proved very shrewd and wise for his career. In 1965 Sergio Leone remembered him for that hawk like look and cast him as one of the two main leads opposite Clint Eastwood in "For a Few Dollars More". The rest, as they say, is history.
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And The Good Bad and Ugly. For Bonus points what was the common denominator in the Spaghetti Westerns, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, and Cinema Paradiso?
 
NY Fan said:
And The Good Bad and Ugly. For Bonus points what was the common denominator in the Spaghetti Westerns, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, and Cinema Paradiso?
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Ennio Morricone - his score for Cinema Paradiso is beautiful
 
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NY Fan said:
Very well done; my only disagreement is that all the scores were terrific. Still waiting for the other answer (the actress).
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I think her name was Louise Rainer or Ranier, and that her wins were in the late 20's or early 30's. I've never seen her work, so she doesn't pop into my head easily
 
And in an interesting tie-in, in Cinema Paradiso, the character Alfredo quotes Spencer Tracy in "Fury", which started this thread
 
NY Fan said:
Superb sleeper of a film [Tales of Manhattan], and what an ensemble of stars! EGR's performance was dynamite. That film also has some wonderful supporting cast scene stealers.
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When I was growing up they never showed the WC Fields segment on TV (I think it may have been cut from the film in general distribution [or a re-release], but I'm vague on that). Anyway, a number of years ago I got a DVD that included the segment; not great Fields, but as an obsessive I needed to have it.
 
Anyone know what future Academy Award winner turned down the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind because he thought it was going to be the biggest flop in movie history?
 
f1f1ferrari said:
I think her name was Louise Rainer or Ranier, and that her wins were in the late 20's or early 30's. I've never seen her work, so she doesn't pop into my head easily
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Luise Rainer (spell check needed) in The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth.
 
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NY Fan said:
Very well done; my only disagreement is that all the scores were terrific. Still waiting for the other answer (the actress).
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Kate Hepburn won back to back best actress awards in 1967 and 1968. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter. If that is the "actress" question I think you mean.
 
NY Fan said:
Luise Rainer (spell check needed) in The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth.
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The Great Ziegfeld was on TCM this week, but I did not watch it.
 
Bama fan said:
Kate Hepburn won back to back best actress awards in 1967 and 1968. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter. If that is the "actress" question I think you mean.
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Credits to you, I missed that one. It was Luise Reiner I was thinking off.
 
NY Fan said:
And The Good Bad and Ugly. For Bonus points what was the common denominator in the Spaghetti Westerns, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, and Cinema Paradiso?
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Some classic LVC - he was just made for these roles in movies like TGTBTU and FAFDM:
 
browns said:
Anyone know what future Academy Award winner turned down the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind because he thought it was going to be the biggest flop in movie history?
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It wasn't Errol Flynn who was considered and who might have pulled it off. But no way he would have turned it down. So who?
 
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browns said:
Anyone know what future Academy Award winner turned down the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind because he thought it was going to be the biggest flop in movie history?
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EDIT: Not Errol Flynn. He was offered and would have killed for it but Warners wanted full distribution rights and at that point Selznik didn't want to give that up. Of course he wound up giving up even more than that to MGM.

Some key points. The actor in question was not going to be allowed to do the movie when he made those comments, which thus could be considered sour grapes. He would have had to break a contract with Goldwyn and he was (contrary to some outside bravado) very insecure as an actor and was not going to do that. In fact he later said his real reason for turning it down was he didn't see himself as a smooth kind of character, much more rough-hewn. Despite all that he regretted turning it down the rest of his life, though he was very complimentary of Gable's performance..

Finally, it's been years since I read the novel, but my opinion then and that of many was that this guy was closer to Rhett Butler as written than was Gable (though Gable was the public's first choice). You have to remember that he was Selznik's first choice over Gable.
 
Bama fan said:
Kate Hepburn won back to back best actress awards in 1967 and 1968. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Lion in Winter. If that is the "actress" question I think you mean.
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I had been thinking of Jennifer Jones, but I just looked her up. She was nominated (not all for leading actress) four years in a row, but only won for Song of Bernadette.
 
boy on the GOTW Rhett Butler ... you got me interested

who could have been such a big star then that could have pulled off that role?

wild guess....Gary Cooper?
 
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