tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post7730886055401114..comments2024-03-27T08:00:18.425-04:00Comments on Poseidon's Underworld: Can I Quote You On That?Poseidon3http://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-70222337151791569752016-11-29T13:34:54.846-05:002016-11-29T13:34:54.846-05:00Armando, glad you liked this! I love the Judith An...Armando, glad you liked this! I love the Judith Anderson quote, too. As an actor of sorts, I love to hear people's compliments! LOL I don't wanna hear how you can't find the words to build up my ego...!<br /><br />DevilYouKnow, I sort of got the same feeling about Henry/Joan. I thought it was a bit telling that he added, "more of a monster than she was" !! God knows she had to be hard to live under, but I will never believe all of what Christina wrote. Even she has taken back some of it! As for Doris, I always thought the chilliness had been between Lauren Bacall and her more than with Kirk! But I think they both sort of clicked together and shut her out. And considering the love that poured out for James Dean after his premature demise, it sort of took guts for Rock to offer a dissenting viewpoint, I think. :-)Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-85116232382064214792016-11-25T01:42:34.660-05:002016-11-25T01:42:34.660-05:00I had to snicker at Henry Fonda's quote about ...I had to snicker at Henry Fonda's quote about Joan Crawford. I doubt she would smack her kids around at a party so that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of her innocence! While I have some serious doubts about everything Christina Crawford has blamed Joanie for, I think she was probably abusive to some degree. I read her book My Way of Life (a must have by the way) and I can't imagine living with her was easy and she didn't flip out and bust the kids in the mouth if things didn't go according to her meticulous plans. <br /><br />Had no idea Doris Day didn't like Kirk Douglas. I've heard rumors that Douglas is a jerk (and more rumors about him being involved with an extra named Jean Spangler who disappeared and possibly raping Natalie Wood(!)), so I'm not terribly surprised. It's just so odd to hear that the perennially perky and sweet Doris Day didn't like someone!<br /><br />Love the Rock Hudson quote about James Dean. I bet being on the set of Giant was nonstop drama! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-30981935185959064892016-11-22T22:23:45.615-05:002016-11-22T22:23:45.615-05:00Excellent collection of quotes and anecdotes. Judi...Excellent collection of quotes and anecdotes. Judith Anderson's is my favorite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-67888955484121549082016-11-22T18:22:43.590-05:002016-11-22T18:22:43.590-05:00Oh I've read both Film Stars Don't Die in ...Oh I've read both Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, the Gloria book you reference and another bio of her, Suicide Blonde. To say she had a messy private life is a massive understatement!! Did you know there is a film version of Film Stars underway at the moment starring Annette Bening as Gloria? If it turns out okay it should be fascinating.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-61313991945053627352016-11-22T15:24:37.984-05:002016-11-22T15:24:37.984-05:00Joel, so many of us (myself included!) have a tend...Joel, so many of us (myself included!) have a tendency to take what's handed to us by arts or the media and accept it at face value. Fanciful people like myself have to try more often to see the truth behind the facade, but the facade is often so much more appealing & desirable than the reality. I hate when my illusions are shattered. LOL Gloria Grahame, by the way, had a fair amount of personal issues. Let's just say that when she did a movie about a mental institution, it was surprising to find her playing a doctor's wife and not one of the patients! Ha! And I do believe I recall hearing of her causing issues during "Oklamhoma!" if not on other projects beyond that. There's a slim book that was written about her final year(s) and she was a bit of a mess. Glad you liked Marlon's photo! To go with the quote, it really ought to have been one from "Julius Caesar" but I couldn't resist that one from his research for "The Men." :-)Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-39120452473674058152016-11-21T19:39:52.581-05:002016-11-21T19:39:52.581-05:00Marvelous and entertaining. I've heard a few o...Marvelous and entertaining. I've heard a few of these before, the Judith Anderson quote never gets old and the Doris/Kirk snipe fest, but good quotes are always fun no matter if you've heard them before or not.<br /><br />I can see why way back in the early silents that the public's perception would be so closely aligned with the star's onscreen persona as Theda Bara mentioned. But the crazy thing is that in this day and age of over-information many people still believe that the people on the screen are those characters. It's amusing in a way but also scary and rather sad.<br /><br />Love the Gloria Grahame quote. The thing about it is though is that I've always read that Richard Widmark was one of the nicest easiest to get along with actors in film and that Gloria while not "difficult" was on the odd side and often remote from her coworkers. So perhaps he was put off by that. The Cobweb is one crazy mess of a movie though, it HAD to read better on the page than what ended up on film!<br /><br />Gotta love Greer Garson's directness and that is a perfect picture of the young beautiful Marlon to accompany the quote!joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-64573647721835446192016-11-21T11:41:14.398-05:002016-11-21T11:41:14.398-05:00Hi Scooter! Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed this ...Hi Scooter! Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed this one.<br /><br />Gingerguy, I'm glad I could dig up some less common quotes. Like I said, not earth-shaking, but also hopefully not the same old ones we're used to. I'll be doing more of these in the future. <br /><br />BTW, I didn't like it in the post, but if you click the tag/label: celebrity quotes, you'll find older posts I did that are more snarky than this one! I got those out of a book called The 367 Meanest Things Ever Said (or something close to that... don't have it at hand to check the title!)Poseidon3https://www.blogger.com/profile/10465785002285422594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-4254687732473127062016-11-21T10:43:02.010-05:002016-11-21T10:43:02.010-05:00Interesting quotes and none I had ever heard befor...Interesting quotes and none I had ever heard before. I had to think really hard about what Ann and Oliver Reed did together in the 60's, but it was the 70's, "Tommy" and a really nice thing for him to say about someone I adore. <br />Love the dirty pic of Stephen Boyd.<br />OUCH! Roddy on Mia-but just what I thought she would be like.<br />This was super fun.Gingerguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17989371210392669145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4006108502645191096.post-1545133020436308502016-11-21T07:52:47.437-05:002016-11-21T07:52:47.437-05:00Good stuff here. From the down right bitchy to th...Good stuff here. From the down right bitchy to the poignant. These are a nice little window into who got along and who didn't...or at least what they really thought of one another.Scooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874254346853382934noreply@blogger.com