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Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Humphrey Bogart/John Huston
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DAR
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Date Posted:
4/14 10:07pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Grace Kelly
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For my money Grace Kelly may have been the most stunningly beautiful actress I've ever seen.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Date Posted:
4/14 10:09pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Grace Kelly
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DAR posted:
For my money Grace Kelly may have been the most stunningly beautiful actress I've ever seen.
I agree, you've got to credit Hitchcock for good taste in actresses on this one.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
4/29 8:40pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Alfred Hitchcock/Grace Kelly
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Next: Howard Hawks/Cary Grant
Their collaborations are:
Bringing up Baby (1938) Classic screwball comedy, Grant is a nebbish
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Classic cynical adventure-romance
His Girl Friday (1940) Classic comedy, Grant is a hilarious cynical con-man editor
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) Grant is good, but his leading lady is poor
Monkey Business (1952) Ditto
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Zaz
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7/8 8:45pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Howard Hawks/Cary Grant
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Next: Bette Davis/William Wyler
They made only three movies together, but they are three of her best:
"Jezebel", "The Letter" and "The Little Foxes"
Wyler was an extremely tough customer, and he and Davis fought like dogs. But she needed someone to reign in her mannerisms. In "Jezebel", he made her do take after take until she relaxed. All of her roles for Wyler were unsympathetic--one murderess, and two women willing to cause deaths of people in order to get her way--if not directly. They had a short affair on their first movie, "Jezebel"--Davis would later say that Wyler was the love of her life. But he'd already been married to an actress--Margaret Sullavan--and the experience was so unpleasant that he vowed never to do it again. Davis pretended to the end of her life that he'd asked her to marry him.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
7/10 9:53pm
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RE: Best Actor/Director Teams: Now Disc. Bette Davis/William Wyler
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John Huston and Humphrey Bogart became friends in Hollywood in the 30's. They both enjoyed drinking and talking and reading. Huston was an aspiring writer, the son of Walter Huston, a great stage star and character actor in movies; Bogart was a B actor.
Huston wrote several successful screenplays and then got a chance at directing. The film was "The Maltese Falcon" (1941). George Raft was set to star, but he balked at a first-time director. Huston held out for his friend Bogart; the film was a hit. They made the following together:
"Across the Pacific" (1942) (potboiler)
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (terrific)
"Key Largo" (1948) (pretty good)
"The African Queen" (terrific)
"Beat the Devil" (eccentric and very funny)
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