TCM Classic Movie Alert 8/30/12

TCM ^ | 8/30/12 | Vision

[Vision]

This is your Turner Classic Movie channel alert!

Tonight...Lady for a Day(1933), 8pm est

"A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter."

[itsahoot]

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Who else would you put on the list?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks for the easy question : )

Jimmy Stewart
Edward G. Robinson
Cary Grant
Humphrey Bogart
Marlene Dietrich
Clark Gable
Dick Powell
John Wayne
Jean Arthur
William Powell
James Cagney
Claude Rains

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ah, some great names—BUT . . .

I could be wrong, but I think a character actor is one who traditionally plays non-leading man/lady roles, such as the sidekick, the leading man’s best friend, the comic foil, the butler, etc.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yikes! I forgot Spencer Tracy & Hepburn

[stephenjohnbanker]

” I think a character actor is one who traditionally plays non-leading man/lady roles, such as the sidekick, the leading man’s best friend, the comic foil, the butler, etc.”

Gotcha. I suppose one should categorize actors.

Leading man/woman
Comic actors(including those who do drama and comedy with equal ease)
Character actors/sidekicks

[wtc911]

Joe Sawyer, Frank Faylen & William Bendix --- any movie with any of these is watchable (except maybe the Sawyer/Bendix comedies where they're taxi drivers).

Add Steve Brodie, Ray Teal, Edgar Buchanan (he was a DDS), Alan Hale, Eric Blore, Akim Tamiroff, and a boatload of contract players.

[wtc911]

Tracy and Hepburn -—— Let’s all celebrate Gay Hollywood —— yes, both of them.

[Vision]

a character actor is one who traditionally plays non-leading man/lady roles, such as the sidekick, the leading man’s best friend, the comic foil, the butler, etc.

That's my understanding. And with that I'd like to add the wonderful Ned Sparks and Nat Pendleton to the all time great character actor list. Kibbee and Sparks are as good as it gets IMO.

[Vision]

Tracy and Hepburn

The two most overrated Hollywood stars.

[wtc911]

You always know that they were always thinking....”Man, am I a great actor or what?” He was bad enough but she was much worse. Never saw two people more in love with themselves.

[Vision]

She was an ice queen with a feminist hangup. (but was attractive when very young in her first few movies).

He had a few good roles but just had a lecturing, shallow air about him- especially in his later movies. Was a nasty alcoholic I believe.

They also seemed to take leftist type roles/movies.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Tracy and Hepburn

The two most overrated Hollywood stars. “

Notice I mentioned them as an afterthought : )

[stephenjohnbanker]

“. And with that I’d like to add the wonderful Ned Sparks and Nat Pendleton to the all time great character actor list.”

Have you seen “Sing and Like It” (1934)?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Here’s a list of character actors I found online; Nat Pendleton is on it but not Sparks:

http://hollywoodthirties.50webs.com/stage15.html

[Vision]

TCM Classic Movie Alert!

Lady for a Day(1933), - 8pm est

Playing again today (2/4/14), great film.

[Arthur McGowan]

One of Capra’s best, better than several of his more famous movies.

I tried watching the remake once. Unwatchable. In color. Sets flooded with light. No sentiment, just loud.

[Ted Grant]

Jackie Chan remade this as “Miracles - Mr Canton & Lady Rose.” It was a very good movie, but not as good as Capra’s original.

[Ted Grant]

One of my favorite character actors is one of Preston Sturges’s favorite “mugs,” Bill Demarest.