We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
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HI STEVE Growing up in the 1950s I had a set of A list heroes and heroines Heston, The Duke, Widmark, Greg, Doris, Mumbles etc and a group of B list idols such as Audie Murphy, Dale Robertson, Richard Conte, Rhonda Fleming, John Payne, Cornel Wilde and well above all of those Rory Calhoun.
2 It’s a good job that like apparently most regulars of this site I don’t let a star’s private life prejudice me against his/her screen persona because by all accounts Rory was not a very nice guy in real life being for example an alleged wife-beater of his first spouse Lita Baron, Spanish spitfire and Hollywood B movie actress. Surprising therefore them being a Hollywood couple they stayed married for 22 years [1948-1970]. Indeed when she divorced him it was for her charge that he had had adulterous affairs with 79 other women including Betty Grable. His response to the charge was “Heck she’s listed only half of them.”
3 What a very consistent run of marvellous posters there are in your selection! and it’s only with ruthless fine-tuning that I can say that on balance these are my favourites and certainly many of the movies represented are “old friends” of mine. Black Spurs and Apache Uprising [2 A C Lyles productions] A Bullet is Waiting, Treasure of Pancho Villa, The Gun Hawk, Powder River, The Spoilers, River of No Return and Dawn at Socorro and Red Sundown. For me personally those last two stand even further apart from the pack than the rest because (1) the lush prints of Dawn at Socorro in its day encouraged one leading critic to hail it as an epitome of Universal’s great technicolor era (2) I can still hear the theme song from Red Sundown:
Caroline, oh Caroline,
Keep a wearing your wedding gown,
For Caroline believe me
I’ll be back by the Red Sundown,
[Ah paradise lost – to some extent!]
4 And the stills don’t let down the posters so in my opinion these were marvelous (1) the one from Colossus of Rhodes for which the posters too were 1st class (2) the ones of Rory separately with Piper Laurie, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Susan Hayward and Monroe. And of course it’s perfectly fitting that you should near the end include Rory with one of the passionate “79” that Lita Baron mentioned!
5 Your fine selection of posters take me back down Nostalgic Lane as probably few other pictorials could and that factor and the quality of the pictorial itself dictate from me a 98% rating. Really super! I’ve almost forgiven you for your hyperbole about Something’s Gotta Give!
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Rory Calhoun video, always appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed the posters and stills.
There were films here I’d never come across before, 20 of the 30 were westerns!
I knew Calhoun primarily as Robert Mitchum’s adversary in River of No Return, so I was kind of surprised to find he was playing western heroes most of the time!
None of Calhoun’s films scored 10 or 9 from my sources, there are two 8s – With a Song in My Heart and How to Marry a Millionaire.
Highest rated at IMDB are ‘Millionaire’, ‘Song’ and I’d Climb the Highest Mountain, each scored 7. Top rated at Rotten Tomatoes is ‘Song’.
Calhoun’s highest rated ‘top billed’ movie is Way of a Gaucho, which looks very colorful and also stars gorgeous Gene Tierney, though one reviewer says Calhoun was miscast as a South American gaucho.
My next video subject is featured in the lyrics from the musical Grease, who could it be? [bites fist]
I try to keep my posts to a reasonable length so there were many other good points that I could have emphasised about your Calhoun video. For example although he was a B movie actor your video nevertheless perfectly illustrates the large number of stand-alone movies that he made. Thanks as always for the feedback
Hey Bob and Steve. Rory Calhoun? Not too aware of his career. I will be viewing and watching the video when I get home. Good information on his career.
1 Sorry that Rory doesn’t mean much to you and certainly none of his own B movies got rave reviews from the critics in Rory’s day!
2 However your adjusted domestic grosses for two of Calhoun’s A C Lyles “graveyard” flicks, Young Fury on Ginny Mayo’s page and Black Spurs on Linda Darnell’s are a paltry $8.6 million and $12.7 million respectively though you do give Rory his due by listing him as the leading man in both of those cases and indeed he was in fact THE star of the two movies.
3 It would be unusual if no matter how vague the topic you didn’t give us SOMETHING to chew on and your Calhoun figures for those 2 obscure Lyles horse operas once more illustrate how comprehensive and versatile your site is and that show how makes it invaluable to anyone interested in classic era films and those from other bygone eras.
4 Of course you have provided stats for some of Calhoun’s A list films on the pages of for example Betty Grable and Susan Hayward [How to Marry a Millionaire and With a Song in My Heart respectively] and there the grosses are much healthier but he wasn’t the star of those though he was the leading man in the Hayward flick and got star billing with Susan.
1 STEVE: It is perhaps ironic that before Mia Farrow you profiled Anne Bancroft because one of Anne’s most admired roles by critics was as the woman who had an obsession with bearing children in The Pumpkin Eater. Mia Farrow seems to have the same fondness for them as she has 14 children although 10 of them are adopted.
2 I am not over-familiar with her films but am of course aware of Rosemary’s Baby, The Great Gatsby [1974] and her collaboration with Woody Allen, Hannah and her Sisters being one of the big successes of that collaboration.
3 Because of the gaps in my knowledge your video was enlightening for me as well as entertaining. My pick of a fine set of posters are Dandy in Aspic [with the unforgettable Laurence Harvey] September, Alice, Full Circle, See No Evil, Broadway Danny Rose, both ones for Purple Rose of Cairo, and Death on the Nile, perhaps the movie in which I most enjoyed a Farrow performance [as the villainess of the piece]. Good reproduction of Time cover.
4 All of the stills were interesting but on balance I most liked (1) solo of Mia with camera (2) Her with Dustin (3) Shadows and Fog (4) sleeping with Liz – lucky girl!(5) an unusual one of Mia with long hair (6) and of course any still with Sir Maurice is always welcome.
5 I welcome this video as a film buff should always be interested in any woman who was married to Sinatra for 2 years and lived with Allan Stewart Konigsberg for 13 years but I thought the presentation was worth a 97% rating in its own right. All that’s missing now to complete the package are some stats on Mia’s movies but of course that’s not your department! Nice philosophical opening quote.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Mia Farrow video, appreciate the info and comment. Happy you enjoyed the visual presentation.
Flora must have opened this video with a feeling of mounting dread knowing there would be posters and stills featuring ‘he who must not be named’… and I don’t mean Cthulhu the unspeakable or Harry’s nemesis Lord Voldermont. I mean… Woody Allen, oh drat, it’s there in print. [cue thunderclap]
And perhaps worse, Mia’s no.1 movie was directed by… dare I utter his name… (dare! dare!) Roman… Polanski… [cue gasps, boos, a yawn and a fainting in the back row]. 😉
I’ve only seen a handful of Woody’s films so I’m not overly familiar with his oeuvre.
Bruce has just wagged his finger at me for putting Crimes and Misdemeanors ahead of the Hannah and her Sisters, I know the latter stars Sir Michael but the score does not lie, Crimes had a better score average.
I recently watched Mia in the remake of the horror classic The Omen, a completely unnecessary remake as the original is still very effective. Mia was pretty good as the ‘apostate from hell’ Mrs. Baylock, nanny of the Antichrist. An interesting twist on her most famous role as Rosemary Woodehouse, the mother of Satan’s child.
Four films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Husbands and Wives, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Rosemary’s Baby. Three scored 9 – Another Woman, Secret Ceremony and Purple Rose of Cairo.
There is no overall winner at IMDB, my top 3 each scored 8.
I don’t think Bruce has rated Rosemary’s Baby yet but Hannah top’s his Mia / Allen chart with a score of 9. Crimes is 2nd with 8.7.
My final actress in this current wave of videos will also feature plenty of Woody. [cue more booing and a few shrugs]
1 Your feedback was worth waiting for as usual. Flora is not alone in detesting Woody as my father hated him too. Also I remember playing snooker once with a few friends and a Woody Allen film came onto the TV in the room and one of my pals looked up from his cue and said “Oh look, there’s that bXXXXXXs Woody Allen – it’s enough to put me off my shot!” However I’ve read that Wood is the most quoted celebrity in the world today with quips like “For a long time I couldn’t have an oXXXXXXm and when I finally did my shrink told me that it was the wrong kind!”
2 The Work Horse too may have earned Flora’s disfavour for being so quick to plug your Farrow/Allen video. Still it’s nice to see the old Work Horse being the bad guy for once instead of me.
Bob, I had something similar happen when I posted pictures of Jane Fonda on my movie forum. “What’s that woman doing here?” and “Why are you posting pictures of Hanoi Jane?” were some of the reactions from, I presume, the older members of the forum. I didn’t expect that from movie fans.
Kevin Spacey has become a pariah in Hollywood recently over his past conduct but it’s not the kind of thing thats going to stop me from watching and enjoying my DVDs of The Usual Suspects or LA Confidential.
1 Yes, you, the Work Horse and I have all learned to roll with the punches and we try to state our contrary opinions in a reasoned and unemotional way whereas a viewer like for example Flora can apparently take things very much to heart. Mind you I can emphasise where Flora’s coming from when I read some of the critiques of You Know Whom!
2 Regarding Spacey I agree with you and would add to the flicks you name his fantastic TV series House of Cards. There’s something in the Bible about those without sin casting the first stone and certainly we must continue to support a man who was an open admirer of Mr Mumbles and even found a way to pay homage to Mr M on screen in Superman Returns.
3 Incidentally somebody recently described the latter as “the forgotten Superman movie” so the Work Horse and his like have a lot to answer for!
Wiping the tears away…..I do a massive horror movie page because Steve requested it…..and yet he fails to remember it when talking about Rosemary’s Baby….sniff sniff. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/horror-movies/ we only have 10 pages…you’d think Steve could remember those 10 pages…..lol.
Hannah is one of Woody’s most popular movies….I had even forgotten Sir Caine was in the movie….lol. Good information on Mia Farrow….one of these days she will get an UMR page.
When did you do a horror page? [cue Bruce screaming]
Rosemary’s Baby did quite well on that horror chart, it’s in the top 10 with 8.9, a respectable score. And it did very well at the box office too, opening the way for The Exorcist to smash records 5 years later.
Btw is that a new updated chart? I’m sure a few of us commented on your horror page a few months ago.
Hello Bob, I hope you enjoyed your mini-holiday, welcome back.
Thanks for reviewing and rating my Mrs. Robinson video, appreciate the comment and info. Happy you liked the posters and stills.
I had 40 of her films listed in my database before cutting it down to size, I removed a bunch of her supporting roles in modern films e.g. Malice, Honeymoon in Vegas, Lipstick and Home for the Holidays so I could include as many of her pre-Graduate movies as I could. I don’t think anyone will complain.
It’s been ages since I last watched Gorilla at Large, it used to turn up regularly on TV during the 70s along with another 50s gorilla movie – Phantom of the Rue Morgue, does remember that one? the latter was based loosely on Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Anne Bancroft was very pretty when she was young, I had to include that first still somewhere on the video. And a still with her hubby Mel Brooks was a given, that opening quote made me smile.
Looking at my datafiles three of her films scored 10 out of 10 – The Elephant Man, The Miracle Worker and The Graduate. Three scored 9 – Agnes of God, Prisoner of Second Avenue and 84 Charing Cross Road.
Highest rated at IMDB is The Elephant Man with 8.2, followed by The Miracle Worker, The Graduate came in third.
Bruce hasn’t rated The Miracle Worker yet but he does give The Elephant Man a score of 8.8 and The Graduate 8.5.
1 STEVE Thanks for once again giving me a behind the scenes look at how the Lensman wheels revolve. I enjoyed Berlin and indeed couldn’t help thinking of you while I was there. My wife told me that Berlin was a very film-orientated city and so it proved to be at least in the part where I was staying.
2 You’d have loved a restaurant where we dined as one of its large walls was covered in massive stills [but regretfully no posters] of Hollywood film stars such as Bogie, The Duke, Dean and Sinatra and there was even a photo of Ronnie Reagan in a cowboy outfit from one of his movies. On the wall opposite there were both posters and stills relating solely to German movies which of course meant nothing to me.
3 At a nearby shop instead of the usual scenic postcards there were picture postcards of celebrities mainly from the movies – for example (1) Chaplin in a 1923 movie (2) Laurel and Hardy from a Chump at Oxford (3) Hitchcock in profile (4) Dean leaning out of a sports car (5) Mumbles and Tony Quinn playing pool between scenes of the 1952 Viva Zapata. Mr M was in an ordinary street T shirt whilst Tony was still in his Mexican costume from the film (6) another of Quinn in 1963 holding up his new-born baby son Francesco*** and cuddling him and (7) JFK who has transcended politics to become a kind of cult celebrity.
***Sadly Francesco who was the image of his dad died in 2011 of a heart attack aged just 48
4 The movie house nearby was not the modern purpose-build multi-screen complex but an ancient building probably historically preserved with just one screen showing the latest Murder on the Orient Express. Darned entertaining film by the way – I saw in back here in Belfast.
Hey Bob
1. Glad you liked Berlin….glad you were able to have a fun weekend.
2. Sounds like a cool restaurant….almost like the Planet Hollywoods.
3. Good postcards as well.
Thanks for the tour……it is greatly appreciated.
1 I loved the postcards, posters and stills of Berlin but I was sadden about Tony Quinn’s son. I never knew that before.
2 I have been reviewing the Esther Williams page in my database and although I have faithfully copied all your latest updates our figures do not completely agree-
Bruce’s Ready Reckoner $117.30 X 28 = $3.284.40 billion
Bob’s figure $122.06 X 28 = $3,417.70 billion.
3 Perhaps when you’ve time you’d check it out – many thanks.
4 I have only a handful of your classic era updates to include in my database and then I’m on to the modern era stars. It strikes me that I’ve only had to query a few of the classic era updates with you so both of us must be doing something right, especially you as you have many more pages of different kinds to cover than I have.
5 Anyway Jeanette is another page that I love so I don’t mind how much time I spend getting it exactly right. I’m surprised though that this time the GUYS in W o C’s work haven’t been after your skull for ignoring poor old Nelson!
Hey Bob
1. I agree that is a shame about Quinn’s son.
2. Are we talking about Esther Williams? My page and database have 23 movies….not 28. Then the average is $144.90 per movie….which would be a total of $3.33 billion.
3. Nelson Eddy is on the mental list of actors to do a page on in the future.
4. Glad you have caught up….though you know in a few months there will be a new average ticket price coming.
Good feedback.
BRUCE
1 Sincerest apologies as the conflicting figures in para 2 of my 8.50 am Nov 29 post relate to Jeanette MacDonald and not to Esther as you have already rectified the latter issue I have illustrated the pitfall in trying to cover more than one topic in a single post.
2 I have though double-checked the MacDonald figures and confirmed that there seems to be an inconsistency unless my own maths are wrong.
Hey Bob…..your number is correct. I must not have updated that part of the page when this page got the update. But your math is correct. I think looking at https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/100-million-movies-1930-2015/ when you see a difference might help. I just updated that entire page about a month ago….and it has all the updated averages. Sorry for the confusion.
Hey Steve….one of the negatives about all the changes….it is now harder to see the information in the database….at least when I want to see an actors career….so it is easier to do a table and and look at that career on the table. So the final part of your comment got me wondering which movies were ranked the highest of the movies in the database. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/anne-bancroft-movies/
It is only 35 of her movies…..but all of her main movies are in that 35…..but like your rankings…The Graduate, Elephant Man and Miracle Worker all did well…..the surprising one was 1956’s Nightfall….never heard of that movie. Obviously this is not a complete page….will have to finish it later. Good video and good comment.
HI STEVE: 1 Obviously to most people Anne will always probably be Mrs Robinson or else Mrs Mel Brooks but when Graduate was released Anne’s features had hardened in comparison with the fresh-faced beautiful young actress who adorned lightweight 1950s B movies such as Audie’s Walk the Proud Land and Victor Mature’s The Last Frontier. I loved her in those.
2 However even well before The Graduate Anne had transcended the harmless B movie scene and treated us to two power-house performances in (1) the 1962 Miracle Worker in which Anne played the real-life Anne Sullivan blind tutor to Helen Keller and (2) The Pumpkin Eater [1964] in which Anne was an over-fertile woman addicted to having children non-stop and who also had a cheating husband [the terrific Peter Finch].
3 The Miracle Worker was only a modest commercial success and Pumpkin Eater has been described as one of the most under-rated British films in the history of the cinema, and it is doubtful if even the Daddy Christmas of grosses will be able to throw much at it by way of earnings if he ever gets round to a Bancroft page. However none of these considerations stopped the brilliant Anne from winning an Oscar for Miracle Worker and an Oscar nomination for Pumpkin Eater. Golden Globes reversed the situation with nom for Miracle Worker and a win for Pumpkin Eater!
4 Your Bancroft profile does not underestimate ANY aspect of Anne’s career as for example it gives her fine marks for the two movies I have just mentioned and lets your viewers have as well some glorious posters of her lighter 1950s fare, and as usual you have carefully noted many of Anne’s major acting awards Overall these are my picks of the posters:- The Restless Breed, Gorilla at Large, The Last Frontier, The Turning Point, Nightfall and The Raid. However for partly nostalgic reasons I must pay special tribute to your for me unique posters for New York Confidential one of my favourite 1950s programmers starring Brodie Crawford as a small time “Godfather” whom The Mob itself has assassinated at the end by friend and hit man Richard Conte for whom Anne has a shine in the movie.
5 Excellent stills are those of (1) the opening solo of the gorgeous young Anne (2) with Audie in Walk the Proud Land (3) Anne with hubby Mel (4) Anne in the Pumpkin Eater (5) her in 7 Women and of course (6) an iconic bedroom scene from Graduate accompanied by a fine poster for that flick. For someone like me who has been following Anne’s career since the 1950s this was an enthralling presentation well worth a 97% rating. Hats off the WH as well for being quick off the mark in promoting the Anne Bancroft video – he doesn’t hang about, does he?
HI STEVE Growing up in the 1950s I had a set of A list heroes and heroines Heston, The Duke, Widmark, Greg, Doris, Mumbles etc and a group of B list idols such as Audie Murphy, Dale Robertson, Richard Conte, Rhonda Fleming, John Payne, Cornel Wilde and well above all of those Rory Calhoun.
2 It’s a good job that like apparently most regulars of this site I don’t let a star’s private life prejudice me against his/her screen persona because by all accounts Rory was not a very nice guy in real life being for example an alleged wife-beater of his first spouse Lita Baron, Spanish spitfire and Hollywood B movie actress. Surprising therefore them being a Hollywood couple they stayed married for 22 years [1948-1970]. Indeed when she divorced him it was for her charge that he had had adulterous affairs with 79 other women including Betty Grable. His response to the charge was “Heck she’s listed only half of them.”
3 What a very consistent run of marvellous posters there are in your selection! and it’s only with ruthless fine-tuning that I can say that on balance these are my favourites and certainly many of the movies represented are “old friends” of mine. Black Spurs and Apache Uprising [2 A C Lyles productions] A Bullet is Waiting, Treasure of Pancho Villa, The Gun Hawk, Powder River, The Spoilers, River of No Return and Dawn at Socorro and Red Sundown. For me personally those last two stand even further apart from the pack than the rest because (1) the lush prints of Dawn at Socorro in its day encouraged one leading critic to hail it as an epitome of Universal’s great technicolor era (2) I can still hear the theme song from Red Sundown:
Caroline, oh Caroline,
Keep a wearing your wedding gown,
For Caroline believe me
I’ll be back by the Red Sundown,
[Ah paradise lost – to some extent!]
4 And the stills don’t let down the posters so in my opinion these were marvelous (1) the one from Colossus of Rhodes for which the posters too were 1st class (2) the ones of Rory separately with Piper Laurie, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Susan Hayward and Monroe. And of course it’s perfectly fitting that you should near the end include Rory with one of the passionate “79” that Lita Baron mentioned!
5 Your fine selection of posters take me back down Nostalgic Lane as probably few other pictorials could and that factor and the quality of the pictorial itself dictate from me a 98% rating. Really super! I’ve almost forgiven you for your hyperbole about Something’s Gotta Give!
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Rory Calhoun video, always appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed the posters and stills.
There were films here I’d never come across before, 20 of the 30 were westerns!
I knew Calhoun primarily as Robert Mitchum’s adversary in River of No Return, so I was kind of surprised to find he was playing western heroes most of the time!
None of Calhoun’s films scored 10 or 9 from my sources, there are two 8s – With a Song in My Heart and How to Marry a Millionaire.
Highest rated at IMDB are ‘Millionaire’, ‘Song’ and I’d Climb the Highest Mountain, each scored 7. Top rated at Rotten Tomatoes is ‘Song’.
Calhoun’s highest rated ‘top billed’ movie is Way of a Gaucho, which looks very colorful and also stars gorgeous Gene Tierney, though one reviewer says Calhoun was miscast as a South American gaucho.
My next video subject is featured in the lyrics from the musical Grease, who could it be? [bites fist]
STEVE
I try to keep my posts to a reasonable length so there were many other good points that I could have emphasised about your Calhoun video. For example although he was a B movie actor your video nevertheless perfectly illustrates the large number of stand-alone movies that he made. Thanks as always for the feedback
Hey Bob and Steve. Rory Calhoun? Not too aware of his career. I will be viewing and watching the video when I get home. Good information on his career.
HI BRUCE
1 Sorry that Rory doesn’t mean much to you and certainly none of his own B movies got rave reviews from the critics in Rory’s day!
2 However your adjusted domestic grosses for two of Calhoun’s A C Lyles “graveyard” flicks, Young Fury on Ginny Mayo’s page and Black Spurs on Linda Darnell’s are a paltry $8.6 million and $12.7 million respectively though you do give Rory his due by listing him as the leading man in both of those cases and indeed he was in fact THE star of the two movies.
3 It would be unusual if no matter how vague the topic you didn’t give us SOMETHING to chew on and your Calhoun figures for those 2 obscure Lyles horse operas once more illustrate how comprehensive and versatile your site is and that show how makes it invaluable to anyone interested in classic era films and those from other bygone eras.
4 Of course you have provided stats for some of Calhoun’s A list films on the pages of for example Betty Grable and Susan Hayward [How to Marry a Millionaire and With a Song in My Heart respectively] and there the grosses are much healthier but he wasn’t the star of those though he was the leading man in the Hayward flick and got star billing with Susan.
Mia Farrow video is here.
Merci beaucoup!
Here to help.
1 STEVE: It is perhaps ironic that before Mia Farrow you profiled Anne Bancroft because one of Anne’s most admired roles by critics was as the woman who had an obsession with bearing children in The Pumpkin Eater. Mia Farrow seems to have the same fondness for them as she has 14 children although 10 of them are adopted.
2 I am not over-familiar with her films but am of course aware of Rosemary’s Baby, The Great Gatsby [1974] and her collaboration with Woody Allen, Hannah and her Sisters being one of the big successes of that collaboration.
3 Because of the gaps in my knowledge your video was enlightening for me as well as entertaining. My pick of a fine set of posters are Dandy in Aspic [with the unforgettable Laurence Harvey] September, Alice, Full Circle, See No Evil, Broadway Danny Rose, both ones for Purple Rose of Cairo, and Death on the Nile, perhaps the movie in which I most enjoyed a Farrow performance [as the villainess of the piece]. Good reproduction of Time cover.
4 All of the stills were interesting but on balance I most liked (1) solo of Mia with camera (2) Her with Dustin (3) Shadows and Fog (4) sleeping with Liz – lucky girl!(5) an unusual one of Mia with long hair (6) and of course any still with Sir Maurice is always welcome.
5 I welcome this video as a film buff should always be interested in any woman who was married to Sinatra for 2 years and lived with Allan Stewart Konigsberg for 13 years but I thought the presentation was worth a 97% rating in its own right. All that’s missing now to complete the package are some stats on Mia’s movies but of course that’s not your department! Nice philosophical opening quote.
So Mia….has a new You Tube video…..I will have to check that out….maybe I can knock that out before work.
Hi Bob, thanks for reviewing and rating my Mia Farrow video, appreciate the info and comment. Happy you enjoyed the visual presentation.
Flora must have opened this video with a feeling of mounting dread knowing there would be posters and stills featuring ‘he who must not be named’… and I don’t mean Cthulhu the unspeakable or Harry’s nemesis Lord Voldermont. I mean… Woody Allen, oh drat, it’s there in print. [cue thunderclap]
And perhaps worse, Mia’s no.1 movie was directed by… dare I utter his name… (dare! dare!) Roman… Polanski… [cue gasps, boos, a yawn and a fainting in the back row]. 😉
I’ve only seen a handful of Woody’s films so I’m not overly familiar with his oeuvre.
Bruce has just wagged his finger at me for putting Crimes and Misdemeanors ahead of the Hannah and her Sisters, I know the latter stars Sir Michael but the score does not lie, Crimes had a better score average.
I recently watched Mia in the remake of the horror classic The Omen, a completely unnecessary remake as the original is still very effective. Mia was pretty good as the ‘apostate from hell’ Mrs. Baylock, nanny of the Antichrist. An interesting twist on her most famous role as Rosemary Woodehouse, the mother of Satan’s child.
Four films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Husbands and Wives, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors and Rosemary’s Baby. Three scored 9 – Another Woman, Secret Ceremony and Purple Rose of Cairo.
There is no overall winner at IMDB, my top 3 each scored 8.
I don’t think Bruce has rated Rosemary’s Baby yet but Hannah top’s his Mia / Allen chart with a score of 9. Crimes is 2nd with 8.7.
My final actress in this current wave of videos will also feature plenty of Woody. [cue more booing and a few shrugs]
HI STEVE
1 Your feedback was worth waiting for as usual. Flora is not alone in detesting Woody as my father hated him too. Also I remember playing snooker once with a few friends and a Woody Allen film came onto the TV in the room and one of my pals looked up from his cue and said “Oh look, there’s that bXXXXXXs Woody Allen – it’s enough to put me off my shot!” However I’ve read that Wood is the most quoted celebrity in the world today with quips like “For a long time I couldn’t have an oXXXXXXm and when I finally did my shrink told me that it was the wrong kind!”
2 The Work Horse too may have earned Flora’s disfavour for being so quick to plug your Farrow/Allen video. Still it’s nice to see the old Work Horse being the bad guy for once instead of me.
Steve makes them I share them….lol.
Bob, I had something similar happen when I posted pictures of Jane Fonda on my movie forum. “What’s that woman doing here?” and “Why are you posting pictures of Hanoi Jane?” were some of the reactions from, I presume, the older members of the forum. I didn’t expect that from movie fans.
Kevin Spacey has become a pariah in Hollywood recently over his past conduct but it’s not the kind of thing thats going to stop me from watching and enjoying my DVDs of The Usual Suspects or LA Confidential.
HI STEVE
1 Yes, you, the Work Horse and I have all learned to roll with the punches and we try to state our contrary opinions in a reasoned and unemotional way whereas a viewer like for example Flora can apparently take things very much to heart. Mind you I can emphasise where Flora’s coming from when I read some of the critiques of You Know Whom!
2 Regarding Spacey I agree with you and would add to the flicks you name his fantastic TV series House of Cards. There’s something in the Bible about those without sin casting the first stone and certainly we must continue to support a man who was an open admirer of Mr Mumbles and even found a way to pay homage to Mr M on screen in Superman Returns.
3 Incidentally somebody recently described the latter as “the forgotten Superman movie” so the Work Horse and his like have a lot to answer for!
Wiping the tears away…..I do a massive horror movie page because Steve requested it…..and yet he fails to remember it when talking about Rosemary’s Baby….sniff sniff. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/horror-movies/ we only have 10 pages…you’d think Steve could remember those 10 pages…..lol.
Hannah is one of Woody’s most popular movies….I had even forgotten Sir Caine was in the movie….lol. Good information on Mia Farrow….one of these days she will get an UMR page.
When did you do a horror page? [cue Bruce screaming]
Rosemary’s Baby did quite well on that horror chart, it’s in the top 10 with 8.9, a respectable score. And it did very well at the box office too, opening the way for The Exorcist to smash records 5 years later.
Btw is that a new updated chart? I’m sure a few of us commented on your horror page a few months ago.
STEVE – in para 1 of my previous post I spelt empathize wrong – sorry>
Hello Bob, I hope you enjoyed your mini-holiday, welcome back.
Thanks for reviewing and rating my Mrs. Robinson video, appreciate the comment and info. Happy you liked the posters and stills.
I had 40 of her films listed in my database before cutting it down to size, I removed a bunch of her supporting roles in modern films e.g. Malice, Honeymoon in Vegas, Lipstick and Home for the Holidays so I could include as many of her pre-Graduate movies as I could. I don’t think anyone will complain.
It’s been ages since I last watched Gorilla at Large, it used to turn up regularly on TV during the 70s along with another 50s gorilla movie – Phantom of the Rue Morgue, does remember that one? the latter was based loosely on Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Anne Bancroft was very pretty when she was young, I had to include that first still somewhere on the video. And a still with her hubby Mel Brooks was a given, that opening quote made me smile.
Looking at my datafiles three of her films scored 10 out of 10 – The Elephant Man, The Miracle Worker and The Graduate. Three scored 9 – Agnes of God, Prisoner of Second Avenue and 84 Charing Cross Road.
Highest rated at IMDB is The Elephant Man with 8.2, followed by The Miracle Worker, The Graduate came in third.
Bruce hasn’t rated The Miracle Worker yet but he does give The Elephant Man a score of 8.8 and The Graduate 8.5.
Rosemary Woodhouse next.
1 STEVE Thanks for once again giving me a behind the scenes look at how the Lensman wheels revolve. I enjoyed Berlin and indeed couldn’t help thinking of you while I was there. My wife told me that Berlin was a very film-orientated city and so it proved to be at least in the part where I was staying.
2 You’d have loved a restaurant where we dined as one of its large walls was covered in massive stills [but regretfully no posters] of Hollywood film stars such as Bogie, The Duke, Dean and Sinatra and there was even a photo of Ronnie Reagan in a cowboy outfit from one of his movies. On the wall opposite there were both posters and stills relating solely to German movies which of course meant nothing to me.
3 At a nearby shop instead of the usual scenic postcards there were picture postcards of celebrities mainly from the movies – for example (1) Chaplin in a 1923 movie (2) Laurel and Hardy from a Chump at Oxford (3) Hitchcock in profile (4) Dean leaning out of a sports car (5) Mumbles and Tony Quinn playing pool between scenes of the 1952 Viva Zapata. Mr M was in an ordinary street T shirt whilst Tony was still in his Mexican costume from the film (6) another of Quinn in 1963 holding up his new-born baby son Francesco*** and cuddling him and (7) JFK who has transcended politics to become a kind of cult celebrity.
***Sadly Francesco who was the image of his dad died in 2011 of a heart attack aged just 48
4 The movie house nearby was not the modern purpose-build multi-screen complex but an ancient building probably historically preserved with just one screen showing the latest Murder on the Orient Express. Darned entertaining film by the way – I saw in back here in Belfast.
Hey Bob
1. Glad you liked Berlin….glad you were able to have a fun weekend.
2. Sounds like a cool restaurant….almost like the Planet Hollywoods.
3. Good postcards as well.
Thanks for the tour……it is greatly appreciated.
HI BRUCE:
1 I loved the postcards, posters and stills of Berlin but I was sadden about Tony Quinn’s son. I never knew that before.
2 I have been reviewing the Esther Williams page in my database and although I have faithfully copied all your latest updates our figures do not completely agree-
Bruce’s Ready Reckoner $117.30 X 28 = $3.284.40 billion
Bob’s figure $122.06 X 28 = $3,417.70 billion.
3 Perhaps when you’ve time you’d check it out – many thanks.
4 I have only a handful of your classic era updates to include in my database and then I’m on to the modern era stars. It strikes me that I’ve only had to query a few of the classic era updates with you so both of us must be doing something right, especially you as you have many more pages of different kinds to cover than I have.
5 Anyway Jeanette is another page that I love so I don’t mind how much time I spend getting it exactly right. I’m surprised though that this time the GUYS in W o C’s work haven’t been after your skull for ignoring poor old Nelson!
Hey Bob
1. I agree that is a shame about Quinn’s son.
2. Are we talking about Esther Williams? My page and database have 23 movies….not 28. Then the average is $144.90 per movie….which would be a total of $3.33 billion.
3. Nelson Eddy is on the mental list of actors to do a page on in the future.
4. Glad you have caught up….though you know in a few months there will be a new average ticket price coming.
Good feedback.
BRUCE
1 Sincerest apologies as the conflicting figures in para 2 of my 8.50 am Nov 29 post relate to Jeanette MacDonald and not to Esther as you have already rectified the latter issue I have illustrated the pitfall in trying to cover more than one topic in a single post.
2 I have though double-checked the MacDonald figures and confirmed that there seems to be an inconsistency unless my own maths are wrong.
Hey Bob…..your number is correct. I must not have updated that part of the page when this page got the update. But your math is correct. I think looking at https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/100-million-movies-1930-2015/ when you see a difference might help. I just updated that entire page about a month ago….and it has all the updated averages. Sorry for the confusion.
Hey Steve….one of the negatives about all the changes….it is now harder to see the information in the database….at least when I want to see an actors career….so it is easier to do a table and and look at that career on the table. So the final part of your comment got me wondering which movies were ranked the highest of the movies in the database. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/anne-bancroft-movies/
It is only 35 of her movies…..but all of her main movies are in that 35…..but like your rankings…The Graduate, Elephant Man and Miracle Worker all did well…..the surprising one was 1956’s Nightfall….never heard of that movie. Obviously this is not a complete page….will have to finish it later. Good video and good comment.
HI STEVE: 1 Obviously to most people Anne will always probably be Mrs Robinson or else Mrs Mel Brooks but when Graduate was released Anne’s features had hardened in comparison with the fresh-faced beautiful young actress who adorned lightweight 1950s B movies such as Audie’s Walk the Proud Land and Victor Mature’s The Last Frontier. I loved her in those.
2 However even well before The Graduate Anne had transcended the harmless B movie scene and treated us to two power-house performances in (1) the 1962 Miracle Worker in which Anne played the real-life Anne Sullivan blind tutor to Helen Keller and (2) The Pumpkin Eater [1964] in which Anne was an over-fertile woman addicted to having children non-stop and who also had a cheating husband [the terrific Peter Finch].
3 The Miracle Worker was only a modest commercial success and Pumpkin Eater has been described as one of the most under-rated British films in the history of the cinema, and it is doubtful if even the Daddy Christmas of grosses will be able to throw much at it by way of earnings if he ever gets round to a Bancroft page. However none of these considerations stopped the brilliant Anne from winning an Oscar for Miracle Worker and an Oscar nomination for Pumpkin Eater. Golden Globes reversed the situation with nom for Miracle Worker and a win for Pumpkin Eater!
4 Your Bancroft profile does not underestimate ANY aspect of Anne’s career as for example it gives her fine marks for the two movies I have just mentioned and lets your viewers have as well some glorious posters of her lighter 1950s fare, and as usual you have carefully noted many of Anne’s major acting awards Overall these are my picks of the posters:- The Restless Breed, Gorilla at Large, The Last Frontier, The Turning Point, Nightfall and The Raid. However for partly nostalgic reasons I must pay special tribute to your for me unique posters for New York Confidential one of my favourite 1950s programmers starring Brodie Crawford as a small time “Godfather” whom The Mob itself has assassinated at the end by friend and hit man Richard Conte for whom Anne has a shine in the movie.
5 Excellent stills are those of (1) the opening solo of the gorgeous young Anne (2) with Audie in Walk the Proud Land (3) Anne with hubby Mel (4) Anne in the Pumpkin Eater (5) her in 7 Women and of course (6) an iconic bedroom scene from Graduate accompanied by a fine poster for that flick. For someone like me who has been following Anne’s career since the 1950s this was an enthralling presentation well worth a 97% rating. Hats off the WH as well for being quick off the mark in promoting the Anne Bancroft video – he doesn’t hang about, does he?