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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:13 PM
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Poll question: Greatest Actor of the Classic era of films (30's-mid 50's)
Ok, now I'm probably getting beyond the years of some of you unless you are cinema buffs like me. I'm only doing actors rather than actresses but maybe there will be a poll on actresses later on.
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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:19 PM
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1. Gary Cooper...the quintessential American actor.
Cooper was The Man...great actor. Very few like him nowadays.
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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:42 PM
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8. Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy in that order.
Cooper was an amazing actor, way ahead of his time.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:25 PM
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2. I voted for Cary Grant who is my all time favorite.. Next time..
can we add the divine Robert Mitchum to the poll? :loveya:
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:27 PM
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3. yep
and Henry Fonda and James Stewart. Hate it when I think of these after I post it. Stewart should have been a natural.
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 09:38 PM
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11. Mitchum wasn't really...
a great actor. But he sure was cute. :loveya:

So, sue me. I like incredibly handsome men. :shrug:
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:02 PM
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16. Mitchum was a great actor when the material was good...
otherwise he would just walk through the part with his singular cool contempt
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:30 PM
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4. Where's Jimmy Stewart?
?
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:31 PM
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5. you're right
I struck out on that one. How I could forget Jimmy is beyond words. Or Spencer Tracy.
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:33 PM
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6. jimmy stewart
best actor during those years.
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DODI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:33 PM
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7. Cagney
He could and did it all! Crazed lune, wonderful singer/dancer, great at comedy. Nothing the guy couldn't do. I do love Cary, Clark, Jimmy, Greg, Spence -- and William Powell also.
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 08:54 PM
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9. Gable was such a good looking cad...
and he reminds me of my late father... so of course he gets my vote...but alas all those gentlemen..including Wayne were great..

I always associate the men of that era with my dad...but then again my dad was born in 1919.. so he kinda was...
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 09:06 PM
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10. Cary and Greg
are leading the way, though I wonder had I remembered Jimmy Stewart how the results would look?
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 09:50 PM
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12. Gregory Peck and Cary Grant
and in France, Jean Gabin (rent 'Grand Illusion' some night!)
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 10:00 PM
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13. Montgomery Cliff...
Jimmy Stewart
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JackSwift Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 10:02 PM
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14. Bogart
And Peck couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:00 PM
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15. Even though he was a wingnut sot, Holden is the best actor on your list.
Edited on Thu Aug-21-03 11:04 PM by mitchum
It's hard to believe that he started in the last 30s when the phony stagey style still dominated. Holden was a very subtle and nuanced actor. The rest of those guys are, for the most part, hams and stiffs
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 11:33 PM
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17. I didn't vote........
....... I couldn't narrow the list down to less than four. I'm also a fan of Tracy ("Inherit the Wind", "Old Man and the Sea"), Fonda and Stewart.
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:32 AM
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18. Peck, Cary, and Bogie
not bad.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:37 AM
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19. WILLIAM POWELL?? MONTGOMERY CLIFT??
Edited on Fri Aug-22-03 10:39 AM by arwalden


Once again, I am deeply offended. How could you choose to leave these two out? ;-)

-- Allen
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DemNoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-22-03 10:43 AM
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20. Omission
The list really needs to include Henry Fonda in my opinion
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