We figured it was time to have a place to talk about Steve’s latest video subjects that do not have an UMR page.
2,998 thoughts on “Steve’s Top 10 Charts YouTube Forum”
1 STEVE I see you’re missing and are probably ping for the old Work Horse. He apparently doesn’t take a leaf from the book of his great idol Myrna who claims that she always gave her fan mail a priority no matter how busy she was. Indeed Miss Loy claimed the same for my Joan ironically often regarded as one of Hollywood’s “Bad girls”.
2 As it is only WH’s own Guru appears to receive any consistent attention on this site these days and the Big Guy’s devotion to Hirsch coupled with his apparent unfailing idolising of Harrison Ford possibly displays a morbid fascination with both the dead and the Undead.
3 Your witty post of 4.43am today made me laugh and reminds me of the quotation from the 1934 Leslie Howard/Merle Oberon classic with which Leslie in his other identity of the deceptively foppish and therefore virtually disregard Sir Percy Blakeney got away with publicly taunting the Scarlet Pimpernel’s powerful sworn enemies:
“They seek him here, they seek him there,
Indeed they seek him everywhere.
Is he in Heaven or is he in Hell?
That damned elusive Pimpernel”
4 Ah well absence makes the heart grow fonder and I suppose that we must give ole WH credit for at last addressing the criticism in the concluding paragraph my August Sandra Dee post to you which I have just reproduced on HER new Cogerson page and as usual a fine profile it is and again well complements your own presentation. Good stuff from you both.
HI STEVE
1 I think it’s unrealistic to expect today’s audiences to bestow to stars from the 20s/30s/40s the same weight that they would place on more modern stars as even 25 years ago half of the people surveyed didn’t know Gable.
2 Within that context older stars do not do too badly in the EW list I gave you because by my reckoning 12 of those listed began their careers in the 1950s or earlier and at least a further 6 or so started out in the 1960s which leaves just 11 from the more modern decades.
3 But that list was taken among EW readers interested primarily in GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT with for example The Beatles topping it. “There’ll always be an England while there’s a country lane!”
4 However EW took a separate list of MOVIE BUFFS’ perceptions and it is much more balanced in its selections from the classic and modern eras and indeed probably favour the older thespians if anything. I’ll send you part of it in my next post.
1 HI STEVE First thanks for the interesting feedback/backchat about Vanessa. I always look forward to that. I make no bones about my own opinion that the Duke and Chaplin [though I personally never liked him] should jointly occupy the No 1 spot in any ranking list of movie stars with probably Bogie, Jimmy Stewart and Archie Leach next in line. Anyway here is some of EW’s ranked alternative list of Greatest Movie Stars as such.
2 TOP 10
1/Bogie
2/Katie Hep
3/Jimmy Stewart
4/Sexy Marilyn
5/The Duke
6/Mumbles
7/King Gable
8/Chaplin
9/Bette Davis
10/Liz Taylor
3 SELECTED OTHERS
24/Sir Sean
26/Hanks
30/Redford
31/Cruise
32/Rudy Valentino – the Great Lover himself!
39/Lancaster
46/The Relic from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones and Blade Runner franchises
47My Joan Crawford
52/Chuck
56/McQueen
4 MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENTS – For ME Neither Glenn Ford, Laddie,nor my gals Deanna or Doris mentioned anywhere in the 100. Possibly for OTHERS complete exclusion also of Archie, Mr Demi Moore and Sir Maurice.
Just deleted about a dozen of your videos….that should help the page come up faster…..I had tears in my eyes as I said goodbye to the James Caan video….lol.
STEVE:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S LIST OF THE GREATEST ENTERTAINERS AMONG MOVIE ACTORS – IN RANKING ORDER
Taking up 29% of a very comprehensive list of 100 entries movie stars did exceptionally well as the list was very diverse and included film makers of many disciplines, musicians and vocalists of all descriptions, TV stars and TV series, animated characters like the Simpsons, Variety comedians and comediennes, book authors and even puppeteers!
1/Elvis Presley
2/Marilyn Monroe
3/Frank Sinatra
4/Marlon Brando
5/Barbara Streisand
6/Audrey Hepburn
7/John Wayne
8/Liz Taylor
9/Robert De Niro
10/Jack Nicholson
11/Robert Redford
12/Woody Allen
13/Clint Eastwood
14/Paul Newman
15/James Dean
16/Tom Hanks
17/Jane Fonda
18/Julia Roberts
19/Tom Cruise
20/Dustin Hoffman
21/Warren Beatty
22/Jim Carrey
23/Jodie Foster
24/Steve Martin
25/Arnie
26/Sir Sean Connery
27/Robin Williams
28/Diane Keaton
29/James Garner
But there are so many missing greats from the list Bob, I know they could include so many but most of these are fairly recent, where are the likes of Cary Grant, James Stewart and the Great Kate? No Bogart either! Or am I misreading the intent of the list?
1 HI STEVE The staple top stars of the 50s British Cinema in its heyday such as Dirk Bogarde, John Mills and Kenneth More never make any list of All Time Movie Greats. Entertainment Weekly [EW] published a list of those whom its readers considered the 100 greatest ENTERTAINERS of the 20th Century and among the movie stars no Great of the old British film industry is mentioned. Sir Sean is I think the sole Brit movie actor on it but he transcended the British film industry with Bond and a fine run of Hollywood flicks. In a post to immediately follow I will give you the names of all the movie stars on the EW list which may be of passing interest to you.
2 Anyway your Vanessa video is most welcome and I sincerely hope you can give us further Brit profiles now or in the future. Sufficient unto the day though and Vanessa makes it a good day with your fine 97.8% rated profile of an exceptional career. Splendid posters I thought were Evening, White Countess, 7pc Solution, the raunchy one from Venus, Anonymous, Mary Queen of Scots, Morgan, Isadora, Blow Up and – par excellence – the two for Charge of the Light Brigade.
3 Stills that I admired are the two of the young Vanessa in Camelot, her with Cruise in Mission Impossible, a riveting one from The Devils, Howard’s End, Vanessa half nude with David Hemmings in the controversial Blow Up and the closing one showing how iconically sultry and sexy the young Vanessa was. Great! You and WH give us different but to me equally satisfying takes on the movie world but I suppose that one advantage that you have in compiling your presentations is that you don’t need to know the grosses whereas he’s hamstrung when they are so obscure that he can’t locate them
4 Vanessa, a highly active “political animal” as well as a brilliant actress has long been a courageous champion of human rights and in keeping with that ethos gave a brilliant performance in the 2017 TV mini-series Man in an Orange Shirt which I watched recently and which studied the persecution of persons of certain sexual orientation after the 2nd World War. I see that IMDB gives the production an 82% rating and I can verify that the 80 year old Redgrave’s compassionate on-screen contribution would have helped the series earn that rating. A wonderful woman – sure she’s English? !!
Thanks Bob, appreciate the comment, review and generous rating!
Glad the visual presentation met with your approval.
One of the perks of making these videos is seeing which film comes out on top. When I mark them down I make my guesses and I sometimes get it wrong, here I thought Blow Up would be no.1, but it did make the top 5.
Vanessa had an uncredited cameo as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons, that would have been her no.1 film if I’d included it. Let’s see if Bruce includes it if he ever does a page on Redgrave. 😉
Five of her films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Charge of the Light Brigade, Prick up your ears, Julia, Atonement and Howards End. Three more scored 9 – Blow Up, Isadora and Morgan.
Her two highest scorers at IMDB are Atonement and The Devils, each scoring 7.8.
1 STEVE I see you’re missing and are probably ping for the old Work Horse. He apparently doesn’t take a leaf from the book of his great idol Myrna who claims that she always gave her fan mail a priority no matter how busy she was. Indeed Miss Loy claimed the same for my Joan ironically often regarded as one of Hollywood’s “Bad girls”.
2 As it is only WH’s own Guru appears to receive any consistent attention on this site these days and the Big Guy’s devotion to Hirsch coupled with his apparent unfailing idolising of Harrison Ford possibly displays a morbid fascination with both the dead and the Undead.
3 Your witty post of 4.43am today made me laugh and reminds me of the quotation from the 1934 Leslie Howard/Merle Oberon classic with which Leslie in his other identity of the deceptively foppish and therefore virtually disregard Sir Percy Blakeney got away with publicly taunting the Scarlet Pimpernel’s powerful sworn enemies:
“They seek him here, they seek him there,
Indeed they seek him everywhere.
Is he in Heaven or is he in Hell?
That damned elusive Pimpernel”
4 Ah well absence makes the heart grow fonder and I suppose that we must give ole WH credit for at last addressing the criticism in the concluding paragraph my August Sandra Dee post to you which I have just reproduced on HER new Cogerson page and as usual a fine profile it is and again well complements your own presentation. Good stuff from you both.
HI STEVE
1 I think it’s unrealistic to expect today’s audiences to bestow to stars from the 20s/30s/40s the same weight that they would place on more modern stars as even 25 years ago half of the people surveyed didn’t know Gable.
2 Within that context older stars do not do too badly in the EW list I gave you because by my reckoning 12 of those listed began their careers in the 1950s or earlier and at least a further 6 or so started out in the 1960s which leaves just 11 from the more modern decades.
3 But that list was taken among EW readers interested primarily in GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT with for example The Beatles topping it. “There’ll always be an England while there’s a country lane!”
4 However EW took a separate list of MOVIE BUFFS’ perceptions and it is much more balanced in its selections from the classic and modern eras and indeed probably favour the older thespians if anything. I’ll send you part of it in my next post.
1 HI STEVE First thanks for the interesting feedback/backchat about Vanessa. I always look forward to that. I make no bones about my own opinion that the Duke and Chaplin [though I personally never liked him] should jointly occupy the No 1 spot in any ranking list of movie stars with probably Bogie, Jimmy Stewart and Archie Leach next in line. Anyway here is some of EW’s ranked alternative list of Greatest Movie Stars as such.
2 TOP 10
1/Bogie
2/Katie Hep
3/Jimmy Stewart
4/Sexy Marilyn
5/The Duke
6/Mumbles
7/King Gable
8/Chaplin
9/Bette Davis
10/Liz Taylor
3 SELECTED OTHERS
24/Sir Sean
26/Hanks
30/Redford
31/Cruise
32/Rudy Valentino – the Great Lover himself!
39/Lancaster
46/The Relic from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones and Blade Runner franchises
47My Joan Crawford
52/Chuck
56/McQueen
4 MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENTS – For ME Neither Glenn Ford, Laddie,nor my gals Deanna or Doris mentioned anywhere in the 100. Possibly for OTHERS complete exclusion also of Archie, Mr Demi Moore and Sir Maurice.
Thanks for posting these Bob, but I don’t see our dear Myrna on any of EW’s charts? An oversight maybe? 🙂
These page is running a little long maybe Bruce can remove some of my older videos? Chief?
Just deleted about a dozen of your videos….that should help the page come up faster…..I had tears in my eyes as I said goodbye to the James Caan video….lol.
My heart skipped a bit when I first saw your message… and than I realised this wasn’t my youtube channel. phew! 😉
Chop away Bruce. I appreciate you giving my videos a page on your website. And Bobs reviews, anecdotes and musings are always worth reading.
‘beat’ not bit, what the hell!
STEVE:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S LIST OF THE GREATEST ENTERTAINERS AMONG MOVIE ACTORS – IN RANKING ORDER
Taking up 29% of a very comprehensive list of 100 entries movie stars did exceptionally well as the list was very diverse and included film makers of many disciplines, musicians and vocalists of all descriptions, TV stars and TV series, animated characters like the Simpsons, Variety comedians and comediennes, book authors and even puppeteers!
1/Elvis Presley
2/Marilyn Monroe
3/Frank Sinatra
4/Marlon Brando
5/Barbara Streisand
6/Audrey Hepburn
7/John Wayne
8/Liz Taylor
9/Robert De Niro
10/Jack Nicholson
11/Robert Redford
12/Woody Allen
13/Clint Eastwood
14/Paul Newman
15/James Dean
16/Tom Hanks
17/Jane Fonda
18/Julia Roberts
19/Tom Cruise
20/Dustin Hoffman
21/Warren Beatty
22/Jim Carrey
23/Jodie Foster
24/Steve Martin
25/Arnie
26/Sir Sean Connery
27/Robin Williams
28/Diane Keaton
29/James Garner
But there are so many missing greats from the list Bob, I know they could include so many but most of these are fairly recent, where are the likes of Cary Grant, James Stewart and the Great Kate? No Bogart either! Or am I misreading the intent of the list?
1 HI STEVE The staple top stars of the 50s British Cinema in its heyday such as Dirk Bogarde, John Mills and Kenneth More never make any list of All Time Movie Greats. Entertainment Weekly [EW] published a list of those whom its readers considered the 100 greatest ENTERTAINERS of the 20th Century and among the movie stars no Great of the old British film industry is mentioned. Sir Sean is I think the sole Brit movie actor on it but he transcended the British film industry with Bond and a fine run of Hollywood flicks. In a post to immediately follow I will give you the names of all the movie stars on the EW list which may be of passing interest to you.
2 Anyway your Vanessa video is most welcome and I sincerely hope you can give us further Brit profiles now or in the future. Sufficient unto the day though and Vanessa makes it a good day with your fine 97.8% rated profile of an exceptional career. Splendid posters I thought were Evening, White Countess, 7pc Solution, the raunchy one from Venus, Anonymous, Mary Queen of Scots, Morgan, Isadora, Blow Up and – par excellence – the two for Charge of the Light Brigade.
3 Stills that I admired are the two of the young Vanessa in Camelot, her with Cruise in Mission Impossible, a riveting one from The Devils, Howard’s End, Vanessa half nude with David Hemmings in the controversial Blow Up and the closing one showing how iconically sultry and sexy the young Vanessa was. Great! You and WH give us different but to me equally satisfying takes on the movie world but I suppose that one advantage that you have in compiling your presentations is that you don’t need to know the grosses whereas he’s hamstrung when they are so obscure that he can’t locate them
4 Vanessa, a highly active “political animal” as well as a brilliant actress has long been a courageous champion of human rights and in keeping with that ethos gave a brilliant performance in the 2017 TV mini-series Man in an Orange Shirt which I watched recently and which studied the persecution of persons of certain sexual orientation after the 2nd World War. I see that IMDB gives the production an 82% rating and I can verify that the 80 year old Redgrave’s compassionate on-screen contribution would have helped the series earn that rating. A wonderful woman – sure she’s English? !!
Thanks Bob, appreciate the comment, review and generous rating!
Glad the visual presentation met with your approval.
One of the perks of making these videos is seeing which film comes out on top. When I mark them down I make my guesses and I sometimes get it wrong, here I thought Blow Up would be no.1, but it did make the top 5.
Vanessa had an uncredited cameo as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons, that would have been her no.1 film if I’d included it. Let’s see if Bruce includes it if he ever does a page on Redgrave. 😉
Five of her films scored 10 out of 10 from my sources – Charge of the Light Brigade, Prick up your ears, Julia, Atonement and Howards End. Three more scored 9 – Blow Up, Isadora and Morgan.
Her two highest scorers at IMDB are Atonement and The Devils, each scoring 7.8.