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Fannish Friday: old-school acting faves
Inspired by me nominating Thelma Ritter for the women's round of Vintage Hotties poll spectacular over on Tumblr dot com (look, if Peter Falk can make it this far, there is no reason Ms. Ritter shouldn't too):
Tell me about an actor--tv, film, stage, whatever--from before, say, 1980 that you really love.
I have a zillion, but today I will focus on Ms. Ritter, Character Actress Extraordinaire.
She was a very small middle-aged lady with a thick Brooklyn accent and she's unforgettable onscreen. If you've ever seen her in anything, you will be absolutely thrilled to see her again. Her first few film roles were so small that they were uncredited--a customer in Miracle on 34th Street, a servant in A Letter to Three Wives--but she made such an impact that Joseph L. Mankiewicz called her up for All About Eve, which I believe was her first credited role...and which got her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. She later got 5 more nominations in that category, but she never won.
She played larger supporting roles in Rear Window and Pillow Talk and The Misfits and How the West Was Won (and nobody asked for my opinion about that movie but the cast is incredible, the score is even better, and it's 10000% Manifest Destiny propaganda. Now you know!). And she's just so good in everything! All the time! I love her!
Having compared her to Falk, it is now the great tragedy of my life that she didn't get to play a schlumpy detective on a beloved TV show for years. She would have knocked it out of the park.
Anyway, tell me about someone you're fond of (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit I'm looking at you). You don't have to go into great detail, you can literally just be like, "I really like Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins" or something. I am just feeling the love for classic stars today!
Tell me about an actor--tv, film, stage, whatever--from before, say, 1980 that you really love.
I have a zillion, but today I will focus on Ms. Ritter, Character Actress Extraordinaire.
She was a very small middle-aged lady with a thick Brooklyn accent and she's unforgettable onscreen. If you've ever seen her in anything, you will be absolutely thrilled to see her again. Her first few film roles were so small that they were uncredited--a customer in Miracle on 34th Street, a servant in A Letter to Three Wives--but she made such an impact that Joseph L. Mankiewicz called her up for All About Eve, which I believe was her first credited role...and which got her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. She later got 5 more nominations in that category, but she never won.
She played larger supporting roles in Rear Window and Pillow Talk and The Misfits and How the West Was Won (and nobody asked for my opinion about that movie but the cast is incredible, the score is even better, and it's 10000% Manifest Destiny propaganda. Now you know!). And she's just so good in everything! All the time! I love her!
Having compared her to Falk, it is now the great tragedy of my life that she didn't get to play a schlumpy detective on a beloved TV show for years. She would have knocked it out of the park.
Anyway, tell me about someone you're fond of (
thisbluespirit I'm looking at you). You don't have to go into great detail, you can literally just be like, "I really like Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins" or something. I am just feeling the love for classic stars today!
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