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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 3:14:39 GMT
Please, share your favorite from this legendary career.  pacinoyes - Perhaps THE contender for your "Actor with the Most Impressive Co-Stars" thread? |
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Post by stephen on Feb 3, 2021 3:18:18 GMT
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 3, 2021 3:21:37 GMT
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Post by stephen on Feb 3, 2021 3:22:06 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 3, 2021 3:58:34 GMT
I love The Apartment, but she is every bit as good in her debut:  |
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Feb 3, 2021 4:19:55 GMT
Irma la Douce
Most people will say The Apartment, but I prefer her other collaboration with Lemmon and Wilder.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 3, 2021 5:36:11 GMT
BTW, still not done - fnck yeah: EXCLUSIVE: Peter Dinklage and Shirley MacLaine are set to star in American Dreamer, an indie which has been set to begin production March 15 in Vancouver. The film is written by Academy Award nominee Theodore Melfi, and will be directed by award winning commercial director Paul Dektor. American Dreamer is produced by Peter Dinklage and David Ginsberg’s Estuary Films, Theodore Melfi and Kim Quinn’s Goldenlight Films, Paul Dektor and Flying Firebird LLC. Quinn will also act in the film, playing MacLaine’s daughter Maggie. The film is currently in pre-production.
Pic is told in a similar tone as Melfi’s St. Vincent and based on a true story segment from the This American Life podcast. The film follows Dr. Phil Loder (Dinklage), a low-level, adjunct professor of economics at Harvard, whose grand dream of owning a home is tragically out of reach…until an incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes his way when a lonely, childless, near-death widow (MacLaine) offers Phil her sprawling estate for pennies. But Phil quickly learns the deal is too good to be truedeadline.com/2021/02/peter-dinklage-shirley-maclaine-to-star-in-paul-dektor-helmed-american-dreamer-ted-melfi-script-1234685650/ |
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 3, 2021 6:23:36 GMT
Irma la Douce!!!!
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Post by urbanpatrician on Feb 3, 2021 6:29:38 GMT
Two Mules for Sister Sara, easily.
I liked her approximately 3 times, but it's Two Mules EASILY.
Martin_Stett hit the nail on the head. Her debut is much better than those Wilder collaborations.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 3, 2021 6:55:59 GMT
I haven't seen it. Is it your favourite performance of hers? Not The Apartment or Some Came Running? |
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Post by speeders on Feb 3, 2021 12:30:05 GMT
The Apartment, easily.
Also loved her in The Children's Hour.
Really want to see Some Came Running.
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Post by thomasjerome on Feb 3, 2021 13:09:24 GMT
The Children's Hour
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 17:08:15 GMT
pacinoyes - So what's your choice for her best? 
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 3, 2021 17:51:27 GMT
pacinoyes - So what's your choice for her best? for me - now, I haven't seen that in a long while but I remember being struck at "un-herself" she is there - by that I mean she isn't just affected or mannered, she's thought out in how she presents herself. There's several scenes where when she speaks she's "breathless" and it is not an agitated situation - it's an actor's conscious choice - she's always breathless - when she speaks normally, the words tumble out because her mind is somewhere else, when she's quiet and thinking you can see the effort going on inside of her to suppress the words.........when she "comes out" to Hepburn it's almost physically painful to watch how her heart might break through her chest. I often talk about how the late 50s-mid 60s was for US female actresses their own "Brando" breakthrough period but it took several females to do it - Page/Remick/Laurie/MacLaine/Wood - etc. well this performance is one of the first female performances to use a physical attribute to convey a mental/emotional state. I think that influenced a lot of actresses tbh........crucial kind of deeper level things in that portrayal....... |
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 3, 2021 18:18:08 GMT
I would say The Children's Hour which pacinoyes is spot on about. Amazing that the movie got made with such caliber - Wyler coming off his Best Pic winner Ben Hur, MacLaine off her Oscar nom and Best Pic winner The Apartment... audiences having just seen Hepburn as Golightly a few months before. Daring for all I'd say and it worked out. Two others I'd put near the top, both ignored by the Oscars.... Two for the Seesaw which isn't a good movie but it's a star perf where she's so vibrant, not only carrying the movie but picking it up off the floor. Postcards from the Edge too (BAFTA nom'd over Meryl, cough) which has some of her career best scenes. |
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Post by michael128 on Feb 3, 2021 18:26:33 GMT
Singin in the Rain easily.
Although it is the only movie of hers I’ve seen, but I can’t imagine anything ever surpassing it.
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Post by TerryMontana on Feb 3, 2021 20:23:04 GMT
Singin in the Rain easily. Although it is the only movie of hers I’ve seen, but I can’t imagine anything ever surpassing it. Then you haven't seen any movie of hers... |
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Post by michael128 on Feb 3, 2021 21:04:53 GMT
Singin in the Rain easily. Although it is the only movie of hers I’ve seen, but I can’t imagine anything ever surpassing it. Then you haven't seen any movie of hers... Oh my gosh lol. They look identical But you’re right, I’m a Shirley virgin |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 3, 2021 21:18:53 GMT
The Apartment, and then maybe Postcards from the Edge. She's fun in Steel magnolias too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 2:25:37 GMT
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Post by sirjeremy on Feb 5, 2021 8:31:03 GMT
Madame Sousatzka. Loved her in Postcards from the Edge, too.
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Post by hugobolso on Feb 5, 2021 12:04:56 GMT
The one she married like 8 times
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Post by Martin Stett on Feb 5, 2021 17:10:04 GMT
Then you haven't seen any movie of hers... Oh my gosh lol. They look identical But you’re right, I’m a Shirley virgin She played Debbie (in all but name) in Postcards from the Edge, written by Carrie Fisher. It seems that somebody else had the same idea. |
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Post by franklin on Feb 6, 2021 1:04:47 GMT
No one said Terms of Endearment yet??
Wow.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2022 14:51:29 GMT
She has amazing chemistry with her co-stars - male and female - definitely one of her strongest qualities. I caught Gambit earlier today - (dated obviously, with MacLaine playing a Eurasian woman), but she and Michael Caine are simply delightful.   |
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