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Eldergays, tell me about Burt Lancaster.
Burt wanted Clift for the Tino role in Trapeze initially, but iirc he declined and Tony Curtis got the profession. Much better preference IMHO.
He was a good actor but not a amazing one and people like Deborah Kerr, Tony Curtis and Shirley Booth acted circles around him.
But he had an exquisite taste for filmmaking and his movie choices as a producer and actor were of the highest quality. Of all the classic movie stars he was probably the most interesting.
I agree with OP that he was amazing in the Rainmaker, he really nailed the exuberant dreamer called Bill Starbuck and brought some real magic to the role. The Rainmaker unfortunately is not his most famous production but well worth checking out for the wonderful writing, beautiful score and great performances.
It's actually the lesser recognizable movies that I like the optimal . Sorry, Wong Number, Atlantic City, Separate Tables, Come Endorse Little Sheba, A Child Is Waiting, The Unforgiven, Mister , The Crimson Pirate, Trapeze, Jim Thorpe, Kiss The Blood Off My Hands, All My Sons, and of course Sweet Detect of Suc
'Oscar winning Hollywood star propositioned me when I was a teenager' says Nottinghamshire singer
Rock and roll pioneer Vince Eager has revealed how a career in Hollywood vanished after he declined the sexual advances of an Oscar-winning production legend.
Vince was a teenage singer in a London nightclub when he was propositioned by tough guy Burt Lancaster who offered him a movie role if he spent the night with him in his hotel.
“I turned him down and the show offer was immediately withdrawn,” said Vince, who lives in Radcliffe on Trent where he is about to celebrate 60 years in show business.
The year was Grantham-born Vince was doing a late reveal at Churchills nightclub in Soho.
“I did a sweep search of the audience, looking for any celebrities who might be there, and at a table I saw someone who looked remarkably like Burt Lancaster.
“Within 15 minutes of coming off stage I got a phone summon from the maitre d’ who calmly said, ‘Mr Lancaster has invited you to join him for a drink’.
“I was in awe. Burt Lancaster was one of my favourite actors and there we were, chatt
He then connected the all-star cast of Judgment at Nuremberg Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift and Maximilian Schell holy (um) cow what a cast. We acquire another low key recital from Lancaster as one of the judges on trial for war crimes. More brilliant words, more brilliant actors.
He received another Oscar nomination for playing real-life Robert Stroud in Birdman of Alcatraz. This wasn't my favorite Lancaster film but it was quite popular in the face of criticism that Lancaster played Stroud as a real sweet guy when he was in fact a vicious killer. One couldn't go false with a supporting cast like Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien and Thelma Ritter.
In the s Lancaster tapped into another mode of film-making by starting to work wit
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He was, perhaps, born too soon. An artistic perfectionist with his eye always on new projects and new ways of doing things, Burt Lancaster managed repeatedly to sabotage his own superstardom in quest of greater doubt and fulfillment in the Hollywood he once called, "nothing more than a big circus." (Coming from Lancaster, the crack probably wasn't entirely derogatory as the star begin his show business career as a circus artist during the depression.) According to Kate Buford, author of the latest Lancaster biography, "From to , he alternated the artsy with the commercial movie, financing one with the profits of the other to keep himself in play."
Buford says that Lancaster was, "Too earnest to be chic, he hungered to make what he considered grown-up movies that engaged, productively, with the circumstances of hi