Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simply stand on his mark and stammer out his lines. He wore his renown comfortably, like a pair of overalls, and enjoyed as scandal-free a life as any top Hollywood star. "My husband," said Stewart's one and only wife Gloria, "is much too normal to be an actor." The man himself considered his job well done "if you can get through a film and not have the acting show...
Waaaaal, he could run from the charge, but he couldn't hide. And now we can say it out loud: James Stewart was a great actor...
Good, bad or worse, exploitation directors were the independent filmmakers in an era dominated by Hollywood. No one made black films for black audiences, so Micheaux did, beginning in 1918; and if his films often showed an actor waiting for him to bark out a stage direction, they satisfied their constituency. Edgar G. Ulmer, the vagabond king of grade-Z films, directed the black musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie...
DIED. BRIAN KEITH, 75, sturdy actor who played a police chief, a President and just about every other authority but God; by shooting himself, ending his struggle with cancer; in Malibu, Calif. Audiences preferred Keith as a father figure: he was the dad in The Parent Trap and a guardian in TV's Family Affair...
...jobs, and wanderings, and in 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana at the home of a starlet. In interviews, Mitchum liked to blame his image on publicists, calling himself "the ugly leading man" who needed the myth to cover his "lack of glamour." After a best supporting actor nomination in 1945 for "The Story of G.I. Joe," Mitchum hit the A-list and worked constantly, starring in over 100 films, including "Cape Fear," "River of No Return," and "Ryan's Daughter." In all of them, he was Mitchum, from the film noir shadow-dwelling of his early stardom...