Posted on 04/03/2014 8:39:42 PM PDT by This Just In
How could Jimmy Stewart not be on this list? My favorite actor of all time!
Barry was priceless in the film!
I’m astonished that Dustin Hoffman isn’t on any list (unless I missed it)
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This top ten was made by a bunch of Gen X’ers and Millenials who don’t even remember the 1990s...
I hate when these popularity contests of children are placed into the News as if it was some historical fact. That’s why we see crap headlines like “Bill Clinton, voted America’s second best president”, etc.
I would have loved to be the poll taker here. Imagine if I asked even one of them, Who is Jean Harlow/Betty Davis/Robert Mitchum/Dana Andrews/Van Johnson, you’d only get a deer in the headlights stare and a “Who?”
The very next step would be to close my polling book and say “You are too stupid to vote in this survey. Thanks for trying.”
How many PSA’s, in some form, has he done?
EXACTLTY SO!! It’s an abiding mystery to me why some things in art, in the movies,some performances, just “get “ to us, and all others , while they may delight to some degree, and be judged as merely “ good”, tend to “fall by the wayside”.
Walter Huston’s performance in every moment seamlessly captures something called a “feeling tone” which is the hallmark of all great art.
“What thou lovest well, remains. The rest is dross”. said Ezra Pound.
And don’t forget, this film was from a period when the big Hollywood studios were still finding value in he project of trying to make film art out of solid works of literary art.
hell, his horse was priceless. Regardless, it stops in front of the gin joint. Michaeleen agrees with the horse.
None of which I’m aware...
Like it or not, the scenes were always always mimics of Taming of the Shrew...
Duvall and Hackman are the two premiere “older” movie actors in America. Mine was a very hasty list, and I was just considering the real old -timers.I meant to add Cagney and Edward G. also.
Shoulda added clifford Broan, the greatest and most lyrical jazz trumpeter of his or any period. Dead in a car accident while still 25 years old, in 1956.Just listen to Stardust, or anything else from Clifford brown with Strings.
The Quiet Man is often reported as John Wayne’s favorite film he ever made.
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