Posted on 03/18/2009 6:36:29 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
No, it’s not any of those celebrities we’re told are stars. DiCaprio and George Clooney didn’t even make the top 10. Neither did Ashton Kutcher, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Seth Rogen, Matt Damon, Will Farrell, or Tom Cruise.
Every year for about 15 years now, Harris Interactive has conducted a nationwide poll and asked a very simple question: “Who is your favorite movie star?” And every year since the taking of the poll one particular individual has placed in the top ten — 13 of those years in the top 3.
This year, 2,388 U.S. adults were surveyed and this star rose three places to tie Will Smith for third. Only Denzel Washington and Clint Eastwood rank as more popular.
One last hint before the reveal: This star is the only actor in the history of the poll to rank posthumously:
Here’s the 2009 rundown:
Denzel Washington
Clint Eastwood
John Wayne
Will Smith
Harrison Ford
Julia Roberts
Tom Hanks
Johnny Depp
Angelina Jolie
Morgan Freeman
In 2007, Time Magazine’s Richard Corliss (a film writer I respect) got it kinda wrong when Wayne ranked #3 back in 2007:
Nothing radical there, except that Pitt, Jolie and, oh, Tom Cruise were among the missing. …
Forget the youthquake. What America really loves is… old. Whatever Wayne represents - the Old Testament God, a Mount Rushmore face with a permanent scowl, the craggy soul of Frontier or Sunbelt America[.] …
Will Hollywood take any lessons from this poll - say, to make movies with, and for, older people. Nah. The moguls have read the small print in the Harris poll, and noted that it was weighted for many variables, but not to mirror the average age of moviegoers.
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Well, you definitly have me on “Cool Hand Luke”.
Signature American cinema.
Now that you bring that up,George Kennedy is one of my favorite character actors.
“Thunderbolt and Lightfoot”,etc.
Cool Hand Luke is my favorite movie of all time and I think the best, it captures things about men better than any other movie ever has.
“...captures things about men...”
I can’t put it any better myself.
John Wayne
Clint Eastwood
Harrison Ford
Johnny Depp
Gabby Hanes
Barbara Stanwick
Clint Walker
Gary Cooper
Jerry Lewis
Jim Carey
What I always loved about Maureen O’Hara was that she was so firey and feisty and tough, yet she was SUCH a Lady, with a capital L. Talk about class!
Bogart, Newman, Wayne, Holden, Glen Ford, Jimmy Stuart, Natalie Wood, Ida Lupino, Burt Lancaster, Betty Davis, Susan Hayward, Rita Hayworth, Hedy lamar just to name a few great ones.
I love Jack Elam! He is one of my all time favorites.
>>>I just watched The Horse Soldiers the other night. It was a bit corny at times, but still one of the most enjoyable movies I’ve seen for a while.
That it is. And based on a true story though gussied up for Hollywood. How do you think Wayne would have portrayed the Colonel had they used his actual background, a college music professor with an 18 inch long beard. I will say though that songwriter Stan Jones (”Ghostriders in the Sky” “Aha, San Antone” “I Left My Love”) made the best US Grant I’ve seen on film.
“In 16 days of nearly continuous riding, he had led his men on a 600-mile path down the length of Mississippi. They had disrupted between 50 and 60 miles of vital rail and telegraph lines leading from Confederate headquarters at Jackson east to Alabama and Georgia and south to the river strongholds of Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, and Port Gibson. Grierson estimated the cost to the enemy at 100 dead or wounded, 500 prisoners captured and paroled, 1,000 horses and mules confiscated, 3,000 stand of arms, and huge quantities of army stores and other government property seized and destroyed.
The entire loss sustained by the two Illinois regiments amounted to three killed, seven wounded, and five left along the route. “
February 1996 issue of Civil War Times Magazine.
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/civil_war_times/3807006.html
>>> “A Quiet Man”, and Irish movie starring John Wayne and Maureen O’hara. I have never seen it in its entirety before
At the end of the movie did you notice when O’Hara whispered into Wayne’s ear his mouth drops open and he turns to her with a surprised look ? That was real. John Ford required her to whisper something obscene to Wayne. To this day she won’t reveal what was said.
So , Id , lik,a say fuck you 2009 and whatever thy is new word for ass is “Obama” Thank you very much
I remember him as J.D. Smith on THE DAKOTAS. The series wasn’t given a fair chance.
Do YOU remember THE DAKOTAS? Probably not old enough.
I was still in diapers when that show aired.
“Was John Wayne faithful?”
To his wives? No. Was pretty public with his affairs. Sorry.
I would bet that there are is a significant number of Americans, mostly over fifty like yours truly, who couldn’t name more than a few current young movie emoters. Like me, they probably haven’t gone to a movie in years or decades and can’t stand ninetey percent of the p.c. lib garbage of the premium channels. HBO’s agenda is obviously tilted far to the left. Showtime (I don’t get it but can see the titles advertised on my provider’s browser) seems to have a homosexual bent. Encore is about the only premium channel worth watching. And guess what they show? Mostly older movies.
Nor Strother Martin, Dub Taylor, Ben Johnson, Paul Koslo, Anthony Zerbe, and a long list of other "character" actors who were great but never mentioned on the all-time movie great actors list.
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges." He's the head bandito from Bogart's "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was the best western ever. Except for maybe Unforgiven.
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