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Watched on Friday May 23, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Ya it's dumb, but no dumber than the slew of other teen comedies from the 80's and not as mean-spirited as many.

A print is held at The Library of Congress.

Presumed lost.

Forgotten silent star Gail Kane carried this cross dressing drama that is now lost.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on its initial broadcast. The sort of TV film you look back at now and are staggered by the cast (Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, Michael Pare, David Caruso, Ernie Hudson, etc. ) that were all on the cusp of their major success but still working their way up at the time.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Simple kids special of the type that ran on Saturday mornings when there was only three channels (plus UHF). Sort of "Escape Room 83".

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Latter career period Constance Talmadge comic vehicle is presumed lost.

Short film about criminal activity in a small town is a lost film.

Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

The film was presumed lost.

Whimsical tale of an accidental marriage is no longer extant.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

While the film is a bit rangy and amblin' and could have moved with more of a purpose it holds the viewer's attention. Mellencamp was wise in surrounding himself with capable performers, though his performance for a first timer is relaxed and solid.

It was also a good decision for the two lead actresses to not only resemble each other but have feisty, strong personalities (though Kay is by far the harder article) making him being drawn to both understandable.

Lillian took a break from weepy melodramas with this adventure full of derring-do, unfortunately it is among her lost films.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Watched on Wednesday May 21, 2025.

Screen debut of Broadway star Emily Stevens's brief career. It has not survived.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

A story of love and betrayal that has not survived.

This film is listed in the American Silent Feature Film Database as lost.

Redemption story that served as a star vehicle for Marguerite Clark has perished.

Silent mystery has not survived.

Silent drama of a couple's downward spiral due to heroin addiction is a lost film.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Unfortunately this film looking at the early settler days of America has not survived.

Reportedly there is one small fragment of this that is extant though its availability is unknown. The remainder is lost.

This is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films. A nice distinction but lost is still lost.

Lost in the MGM film vault fire in 1965.

First version of a story that became the basis for one of Shirley Temple's most popular successes is lost.

This one-reel version of the Poe classic has been lost.

Romantic comedy vehicle for silent star Hazel Dawn is now a lost film.

Based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel this tale of espionage during the American Revolution has not survived.

According to the National Film Preservation Board this sensationalistic drama is lost.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Completed! Though her biggest claim to fame was her inimitable performance as Morticia Addams on TV she was a superlative actress who was perhaps too unique for major film stardom.

1. King Creole

   Elvis's best movie, performance and cast to work with. Carolyn is very moving as the hard luck Ronnie.

2. A Hole in the Head

   A real showpiece role as a free spirit who can't understand Sinatra's feelings of responsible.

3. Career

   A lovely piece of work, the best in the film, as a lonely press agent.

4. Sail A Crooked Ship
5. A Ticklish Affair
6. Who Killed Julie Greer?

   This was the debut episode of The Dick Powell Theatre, which ended up serving as the pilot for the TV series "Burke's Law". It provided a fantastic showcase for Carolyn Jones to display her versatility.

7. Marjorie Morningstar
8. The Bachelor Party

   A depressing slog of a film whose only bright spot is Carolyn's few minutes on screen. So good she was Oscar nominated, one of the shortest ever to receive the honor.

9. The Opposite Sex

   Carolyn's part is small but she's so charming and funny she makes you wish it was larger.

10. Last Train from Gun Hill

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Completed!

The ultra glamorous Miss Francis dressed up many a creaky weeper in her day as well as some fine comedies.

Underrated and more talented than given credit for, apparently even by herself, she became disgusted with the studios and ended up working strictly for the cash until she quit films in the mid-40's. A shame because as her work in In Name Only showed she would have made an excellent villainess in film noir but it was coming into vogue just as she bowed out.

1. In Name Only

   Both Carole and Cary are excellent but it's Kay's silkily rotten to the core Maida who walks away with the picture.

2. One Way age
3. The Feminine Touch
4. Jewel Robbery
5. Trouble in Paradise
6. The Goose and the Gander
7. Girls About Town
8. Man Wanted

   Kay is wonderful too bad she's up against that lump of nothing David Manners. He hurts the film.

9. Four Jills in a Jeep
10. I Found Stella Parish

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Completed!!

Often wasted in standard leading lady roles she could be restrained and dignified but was at her best when she had a chance to cut a little loose and bring forth her ability to infuse her character with a sly knowingness.

1. Written on the Wind
2. The Tarnished Angels
3. Loophole
4. Man of a Thousand Faces
5. The Big Sleep

   She does so much with so little in this.

6. Tip on a Dead Jockey
7. The Last Sunset
8. Battle Cry
9. The Last Voyage
10. Warlock

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A pert and pretty but somewhat bland blonde leading lady of the 30's until her mid-career hair color switch to brunette transformed and sharpened her into a much more vivid and compelling screen presence. She and film noir were made for each other.

Her early films seem to be among the most elusive. I still have one-Week Ends Only-that isn't at present considered lost or tied up in rights issues to try and track down.

1. Scarlet Street

   Bennett and noir were a perfect fit but never more so than when she was under the direction of Fritz Lang and this collaboration is the best of the lot.

2. The Macomber Affair
3. The Reckless Moment
4. The Woman in the Window
5. Man Hunt
6. Hollow Triumph
7. She Knew All the Answers
8. The Pursuit of Happiness
9. Confirm or Deny
10. Father of the Bride

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

1. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
2. Somebody Loves Me
3. The Perils of Pauline
4. And the Angels Sing
5. Annie Get Your Gun
6. Let's Dance
7. Incendiary Blonde
8. Let's Face It
9. Red, Hot and Blue
10. Star Spangled Rhythm

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

A vastly talented performer whose personal demons cost her deeply. Though she apparently preferred the stage, which s for her small cinematic output, she communicated with the camera lens superbly and it's a pity she didn't do more films.

I've completed her filmography as far as seems possible. The very early The Village Squire appears to exist only in a print at the British Film Institute, though there is a clip of some of her performance (or perhaps all of it) on YouTube.

1. Gone with the Wind

   You only need to watch the multitude of screen tests of other actresses who were considered for Scarlett to see Vivien's absolute rightness for the role and how well she understood her.

2. Waterloo Bridge

   Nothing will top her Scarlett but Vivien's performance as the tragic Myra in this is a very close second. Out of their respective filmographies this was the favorite of both Vivien and costar Robert Taylor.

3. St. Martin's Lane
4. A Streetcar Named Desire
5. That Hamilton Woman
6. Ship of Fools
7. The Deep Blue Sea
8. Anna Karenina
9. Fire Over England
10. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    The picture is somewhat wanting but Vivien acquits herself well though she gets real competition Lotte Lenya as the Contessa.

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

A fine example that still waters run deep. While she always displayed a placid dignified exterior she was able to play complex troubled characters with the best of them. She is difficult to rate because even if the film is not the greatest she was always consistently good and frequently much more than that.

1. All the Way Home

   An extremely heavy film full of woe but it contains what is probably Jean's strongest performance, a high mark to hit.

2. Angel Face
3. Elmer Gantry

   Lancaster is rightly acclaimed for his work here but Jean's Sister Sharon is equally strong. Why she went un-nominated in a year she should have won is a mystery.

4. The Grass Is Greener

   The film is not quite the saucy souffle it wants to be but Jean steals the film from the other three very able performers with a performance full of humor and sly charm.

5. So Long at the Fair
6. The Thorn Birds

   Along with Barbara Stanwyck Jean steals the thunder of the lead duo with work of assured quiet authority. Fee is a tough nut of immense strength, that she doesn't come across as a harsh martinet is entirely thanks to Simmons work.

7. This Could Be the Night
8. Hilda Crane

   The suds are pretty thick but Hilda is a surprisingly liberated progressive woman to find in a 50's film,

9. Trio
10. The Clouded Yellow

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Though he had a solid career he was never really appreciated for just what a fine actor he was, nor is he nowadays.

He worked his way up through many, many bits where if he received any billing at all it was along the lines of "Cop" or "Waiter Captain" so I've left them out and only ranked the roles that had some substance to them.

1. The Hard Way

   Starting out with his usual hale fellow well met persona Carson skillfully navigates Albert's sad descent as he is crushed by his wife's fame and his sister-in-law's ruthlessness.

2. Mildred Pierce

   A perfect example of how his work wasn't fully appreciated, his is the equal of the brilliant work turned in by Eve Arden and Ann Blyth who both received nominations but Carson went unacknowledged.

3. A Star Is Born

   Matt Libby is a reptile but Carson allows us to see how the many indignities heaped upon him by Norman's callous disregard for him helped to make him that way.

4. Romance on the High Seas
5. Roughly Speaking
6. The Strawberry Blonde
7. The Tarnished Angels
8. My Dream Is Yours
9. Blues in the Night
10. April Showers

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Completed. She was beloved and acclaimed but I still think she was undervalued. The woman could do everything! Though I've seen all her TV films I'm ranking only her theatrical features.

1. This Happy Feeling

   Underknown little gem with Debbie at her most delightful, a suave Curt Jurgens bringing just the right touch of Continental charm, a divinely wry Alexis Smith and a scene stealing Estelle Winwood as the tippling housekeeper Mrs. Early.

2. Tammy and the Bachelor
3. Mary, Mary
4. How the West Was Won

   I love this entire long sprawling multi character epic but Debbie is the linchpin and through-line that ties the whole thing together which she carries off well. She also shares a surprisingly simpatico chemistry with Gregory Peck, on paper the two seem mismatched but they work wonderfully together.

5. The Catered Affair
6. My Six Loves
7. The Pleasure of His Company
8. The Rat Race
9. Mother
10. What's the Matter with Helen?

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Being a 20th Century Fox contractee during the box office reign of Shirley Temple Jane was never going to hit the top but she held a strong second position for many years, even remaining at the studio longer than Shirley.

A talented, pert and ebullient screen presence her vehicles were by and large standard affairs designed to show how plucky that determined Jane could be! It's to her credit that she was able to prop them up and keep them entertaining for as long as she did.

Her parents had invested her money wisely and she was able to retire at 21 but after taking a ten year break for marriage and children she returned as a popular and well respected character actress, and renewed fame as TV's Josephine the Plumber, well into her later years.

I still have two of her starring films to see-1937's Wild & Woolly and 1941's Small Town Deb (the screenplay of which she wrote herself) before her filmography is complete.

• Bright Eyes
• Affairs of Geraldine
• The Girl from Avenue A
• Keep Smiling
• High School
• Her First Beau
• The Arizona Wildcat
• A Very Young Lady
• Always in Trouble
• This Is the Life

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

My second favorite actor after John Garfield. Few if any were better than Widmark at playing frighteningly venal characters but was then able by some slight internal adjustment to turn around and play sweethearts with equal ease and believability.

1. Pickup on South Street
2. No Way Out
3. Panic in the Streets
4. Road House
5. Don't Bother to Knock
6. Night and the City
7. My Pal Gus
8. Broken Lance
9. Cold Sassy Tree
10. Brock's Last Case

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!!

Not discussed nearly enough nowadays (odd considering he only made 20 features and garnered 6 Best Actor nominations and a win) Muni was a fine actor. He preferred to bury himself under tons of makeup and those were for the most part the roles he was acclaimed for in his lifetime but I've found his work in regular street clothes much more accessible. His output was small in comparison to most important stars of the day.

1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
2. We Are Not Alone
3. The Last Angry Man
4. Scarface
5. Stranger on the Prowl
6. Bordertown
7. Angel on My Shoulder
8. Dr. Socrates
9. Commandos Strike at Dawn
10. Counter-Attack

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

Perhaps he wasn't an actor of enormous scope but was always reliably good and a welcome presence though never quite big enough in personality for major stardom. His everyman relatability is surely why his biggest success came on the more intimate medium of television.

1. They Won't Believe Me

   Young twists his good guy charm to devious purpose in this making it more slick and oily as an opportunist whose reckless playing with three women's emotions leads to his downfall.

2. Goodbye, My Fancy
3. Last Night?
4. The Mortal Storm
5. The Enchanted Cottage
6. Married Before Breakfast

   The sort of light comedy that Young excelled at. His genial demeanor was able to sell the often preposterous circumstances his character finds himself in.

7. Claudia
8. Cairo
9. The Bride Comes Home
10. Paradise for Three

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Completed! She and Sandra Dee, such similar sunny onscreen personas such different life trajectories, share today as a birthday. How I loved Shirley Temple Theatre every Sunday morning when I was a kid.

1. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

   All the charm Shirley brought to her childhood roles and a fresh faced girlish womanhood and sharp comic touch. She manages to keep up with Cary Grant & Myrna Loy at full speed, no small feat.

2. Bright Eyes

   THE Shirley Temple childhood movie. Every element that you expect in one of her films is here and they all work perfectly plus you get her singing On the Good Ship Lollipop on an airplane no less!

3. Honeymoon
4. Stowaway
5. Poor Little Rich Girl
6. Little Miss Broadway
7. The Little Princess
8. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
9. Susannah of the Mounties
10. Curly Top

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A fine performer with a forceful yet warm presence and a rich mellow voice. While she achieved cult status with The Creature from the Black Lagoon she never found that one role that would have moved her into full fledged stardom.

A pity since she was a very capable actress, nonetheless she had a steady and solid almost 70 year long career appearing in a short based on her autobiography a few months before her recent ing.

She segued from theatrical films to television in the 60's and onward only making brief returns so I've included her television films as well. I have about a half dozen of her films still to find.

1. One Desire

   Julie gives an utterly delicious performance as a total spoiled bitch who will stop at next to nothing to get Rock Hudson and make Anne Baxter's life a misery.

2. The Last Movie

   The movie is a self indulgent mess with an out of control Dennis Hopper at the helm but in the middle of the mire is a gem of a performance by Miss Adams. So good in fact it's like watching another film when she's on screen.

3. Bend of the River
4. Horizons West
5. The Lawless Breed
6. The Looters
7. Slaughter on 10th Avenue
8. The Private War of Major Benson
9. Four Girls in Town
10. Goodbye, Franklin High

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

1. Saboteur
2. Rear Window
3. Lifeboat
4. The Birds
5. Strangers on a Train
6. North by Northwest
7. Notorious
8. Shadow of a Doubt
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much
10. Sabotage

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

An exquisite blonde with hidden wells of emotion who split her career between features and being one of the queens of high grade TV films. Sadly she was felled by cancer in her prime at the youthful age of 55.

I have only one of her very obscure British films to still track down before her filmography is complete.

1. Days of Wine and Roses

   The film is a bleak and difficult watch, something more to be appreciated than liked but the acting by Lee and Jack Lemmon is searing, complex and masterful.

2. Anatomy of a Murder
3. Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
4. Baby, the Rain Must Fall
5. The Running Man
6. Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

   A rare dip into malevolence which Lee performs with great skill hiding her character's evil behind a placid, refined mask.

7. Haywire
8. The Europeans
9. Wild River
10. Experiment in Terror

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Completed!

Hardly the most subtle of performers, though he is capable of conveying deep emotion, he is an intense compelling actor.

1. Ace in the Hole
2. Spartacus
3. The Bad and the Beautiful
4. Lonely Are the Brave
5. The Devil's Disciple
6. A Letter to Three Wives
7. Detective Story
8. Out of the Past
9. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
10. Champion

...plus 68 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One of my favorites!

A very underappreciated actress who came along in the wrong decade to suit her assertive, forceful screen presence. She would have been ideal in the 30's and 40's but in the 50's where the model was a more timid perfect wife/girlfriend rather than a hard charging career woman she was somewhat left adrift. Still she gave several exemplary performances in some interesting films before moving into television.

I have only one very obscure film of hers-Desert Desperados-to still locate before her filmography is complete.

1. 5 Steps to Danger
2. The Bottom of the Bottle
3. Lightning Strikes Twice
4. Three Secrets
5. Down Three Dark Streets
6. Joe Macbeth
7. Bitter Victory
8. The Shanghai Story

   The picture is routine but benefits from performances that are better than the material deserves.

9. Rebel in Town
10. Invitation

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A very fine actor with definite segments to his career. His initial good work in journeyman pictures, distinguished star, ing paycheck actor and finally a minor career resurgence through quality TV films and a final graceful swan song.

1. The Ox-Bow Incident
2. The Lady Eve
3. Clarence Darrow
4. You Only Live Once
5. My Darling Clementine
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Fort Apache
8. Young Mr. Lincoln
9. The Grapes of Wrath
10. Once Upon a Time in the West

...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

A actress capable of great insight and heartbreaking delicacy but also, especially as she grew older, a performer who was completely unafraid to display her inner hambone to the nth degree. She could boomerang from a completely undisciplined showoff to an exemplary thespian from one picture to the next but she was always watchable.

She did a great deal of television work so I've included those movies.

1. The Chapman Report

   As an affluent but neglected wife whose loneliness leads her to a foolish decision Shelley cuts through the script's soap opera leanings to show the complexities of her situation.

2. The Poseidon Adventure
3. Executive Suite

   Shelley's role is small in this all-star cast but she makes the lonely but proud Eva memorable.

4. The Night of the Hunter
5. Wives and Lovers

   A award worthy comic gem of a performance by Shelley who teams wonderfully with Ray Walston.

6. A Double Life
7. A Place in the Sun
8. Tennessee Champ

   Shelley and Keenan Wynn make a wonderfully wry couple who are backing naive fighter Dewey Martin.

9. To Dorothy, a Son

   An outrageous premise but a good spotlight role for Shelley to show off her comic side. She's quite slender here and is decked out in quite a few sharp outfits.

10. Mambo

    The picture has some problems but Shelley's performance as a coded lesbian isn't one of them. She's the best thing about the film.

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Completed! While she made a few decent TV movies-Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring, Home for the Holidays and Madame X most of the remainder were negligible so I haven't included any of them. A gracious and dignified lady.

1. Home from the Hill
2. The Voice of the Turtle
3. The Sound of Music

   Her role may be small but she owns her role handily stealing her scenes.

4. The Seventh Sin
5. A Hole in the Head
6. Detective Story
7. Scaramouche
8. Between Two Worlds
9. Three Secrets
10. Never Say Goodbye

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Quite the urbane gentleman and a facile comedic actor which limited his opportunities until The Lost Weekend showed his range.

Very prolific, and late in his career indiscriminate to keep working, I have about 20 of his films left to see.

1. The Lost Weekend

   The film is too harrowing and depressing to enjoy but it does contain one of if not Milland's best performance.

2. Alias Nick Beal
3. The Major and the Minor
4. The Uninvited
5. The Big Clock
6. Ministry of Fear
7. The Thief
8. Kitty
9. Let's Do It Again
10. The Well Groomed Bride

...plus 105 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed! My all-time favorite actress. Terribly undervalued in her day she's undergone a reevaluation through the years but her reputation should be greater.

1. A Letter to Three Wives
2. No Way Out
3. Hangover Square
4. This Is My Love
5. It Happens in Roma
6. Fallen Angel
7. Summer Storm
8. Angels of Darkness
9. Forever Amber
10. Dakota Incident

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Feature film career completed!

The gravel voiced goddess was perhaps too similar to Anne Bancroft, to the point of taking over Bancroft's role in The Miracle Worker stage production when she left to make the movie, to achieve top tier film stardom but she was a tremendous always reliable and interesting actress. After her initial burst of film activity the majority of her work was on the small screen so I've included her output there.

1. The Birds

   What could have been a nothing ing role is made memorable by Suzanne's tough demeanor and no nonsense screen persona.

2. A Rage to Live

   Though it's geared to the sensationalistic Suzie's work as a woman driven by her desires makes this palatable and entertaining.

3. Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean

   The main character was a disgusting gorgon but Suzanne finds every possible nuance in the role.

4. If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
5. Along Came a Spider
6. Wall of Noise
7. Your Local Gunfighter
8. Blackbeard's Ghost
9. The Ugly Dachshund
10. The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

One of my top ten favorites, A complex deeply troubled woman off-screen she was an entrancing minx before the camera with far more ability than she was given credit for. A mix of her prickly, difficult personality and the studio's poor decisions in her casting after her initial burst of success made her time at the top brief but she shimmers in her best films.

1. I Married a Witch

   The crowning glory of her best year. Aptly named because Veronica is bewitching throughout.

2. This Gun for Hire
3. So Proudly We Hail
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. The Blue Dahlia
6. The Glass Key
7. I Wanted Wings
8. Ramrod
9. Saigon
10. The Hour Before the Dawn

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A great exotic beauty (more exotic than she was willing to it since she had her Indian mother pose as her maid to kept her mixed heritage a secret). Not the greatest actress, and at times quite stiff, but often better than she was given credit for. If she connected with the character she could be quite good actually.

Save a few uncredited bits and the lost "Men of Tomorrow" I've seen her complete filmography.

1. Wuthering Heights
2. The Price of Fear

   Sly drama with one of Merle's more accomplished performances deserves to be better known.

3. The Scarlet Pimpernel
4. 'Til We Meet Again
5. The Lodger
6. These Three
7. Berlin Express
8. Désirée

   Only average story of Napoleon but Merle makes quite an impact as a melancholy Josephine.

9. That Uncertain Feeling
10. Lydia

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed. A petite dynamo, sometimes given to a bit florid excess but most of the time a fine actress.

1. One Desire
2. Three Violent People
3. All About Eve
4. The Ten Commandments

   Anne goes full bore as Nefretiri giving what is almost a vaudeville turn but considering the overripe nature of the film it's the right reading and she owns her scenes.

5. Chase a Crooked Shadow
6. The Blue Gardenia
7. The Razor's Edge
8. Guest in the House
9. Carnival Story
10. O. Henry's Full House

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Everyday is somebody's birthday so my goal with this list is to watch a film each day of the year that I haven't seen before with a performer that I ire and who happened to be born on that day.

January 1st-Charles Bickford-Queen of the Yukon
January 2nd-Anna Lee-The Man Who Changed His Mind
January 3rd-Robert Loggia-Mercy Mission: The Rescue of
Flight 771
January 4th-Sterling Holloway-Girl o' My Dreams
January 5th-Robert Duvall-The 6th Day
January 6th-Sylvia Syms-The Birthday Present
January 7th-Butterfly McQueen-Killer Diller
January 8th-Yvette Mimeux-The Caper of the Golden Bulls*
January 9th-Susannah York-Brotherly Love
January 10th-Bernard Lee-Father Brown
January 11th-Rod Taylor-Trader Horn
January 12th-Anthony Andrews-Marple: By the Pricking of My Thumbs
January 13th-Patrick Demsey-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
January 14th-Holland Taylor-Ann*
January 15th-Lloyd Bridges-Rocketship X-M
January 16th-Katy Jurado-San Antone
January 17th-Sheree North-Destination Inner Space
January 18th-Constance Moore-Charlie McCarthy, Detective
January 19th-Jean Stapleton-Lily Dale
January 20th-Leon Ames-East Side Kids
January 21st-J. Carrol Naish-Confidential
January 22nd-Diane Lane-My New Gun
January 23rd-Randolph Scott-The Thundering Herd
January 24th-Ernest Borgnine-Legend in Granite
January 25th-Jenifer Lewis-Jackie's Back
January 26th-David Strathairn-Walkaway Joe
January 27th-Michael Craig-Sandra*
January 28th-Alan Alda-To Kill a Clown
January 29th-Katharine Ross-Get to Know Your Rabbit
January 30th-Gene Hackman-Misunderstood
January 31st-Suzanne Pleshette-Law and Order

February 1st-Nancy Gates-Target Hong Kong
February 2nd-Frank Albertson-Girl on the Run*
February 3rd-Pamela Franklin-And Soon the Darkness*
February 4th-Nigel Bruce-Channel Crossing
February 5th-Charlotte Rampling-Paris by Night
February 6th-Rip Torn-By Dawn's Early Light
February 7th-Derek Farr-Murder Without Crime
February 8th-Charlie Ruggles-Carousel
February 9th-Heather Angel-The Bold Caballero
February 10th-Robert Wagner-City Beneath the Sea
February 11th-Eva Gabor-Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
February 12th-Forrest Tucker-Break in the Circle
February 13th-Stockard Channing-Edie & Pen
February 14th-Stuart Erwin-Mr. Boggs Steps Out
February 15th-Cesar Romero-The Jungle
February 16th-Chester Morris-Tornado
February 17th-Alan Bates-The Caretaker
February 18th-George Kennedy-The "Human" Factor
February 19th-Lee Marvin-Hell in the Pacific
February 20th-Margot Grahame-Broken Journey
February 21st-Alan Rickman-Judas Kiss
February 22nd-John Mills-The Rocking Horse Winner*
February 23rd-Kathleen Harrison-Where There's a Will
February 24th-Marjorie Main-King of the Newsboys
February 25th-Warren Hymer-Hold 'Em Yale
February 26th-Madeleine Carroll-The Dictator
February 27th-Edward Brophy-Come On, Leathernecks!
February 28th-Stanley Baker-In the French Style

March 1st-Joan Hackett-The Other Man
March 2nd-Daniel Craig-Daredevils of the Desert
March 3rd-Cathy Downs-The Sundowners
March 4th-Joan Greenwood-The Bad Lord Byron
March 5th-Virginia Christine-Women in the Night
March 6th-Rochelle Hudson-Queen of Broadway
March 7th-Rachel Weisz-The Mercy
March 8th-Louise Beavers-Rainbow on the River
March 9th-Raul Julia-Florida Straits
March 10th-Barry Fitzgerald-Broth of a Boy
March 11th-Albert Salmi-Moonshine County Express
March 12th-Helen Parrish-Sunset Serenade
March 13th-Paul Fix-Roar of the Press
March 14th-Michael Caine-The Whistle Blower
March 15th-John Gregson-Tomorrow at Ten*
March 16th-Jerry Lewis-Visit to a Small Planet
March 17th-Lesley-Anne Down-You Belong to Me
March 18th-Edward Everett Horton-Wild Money
March 19th-Patrick McGoohan-The Hard Way
March 20th-Edgar Buchanan-Devil's Partner
March 21st-Jonathan Hale-Happy-Go-Lucky
March 22nd-James Wolk-Front of the Class
March 23rd-Barbara Rhoades-Twin Detectives
March 24th-Richard Conte-The Sleeping City
March 25th-Ed Begley-The Monitors
March 26th-Alan Arkin-Necessary Parties
March 27th-Mary Treen-Hands Across the Border
March 28th-Dirk Bogarde-The High Bright Sun
March 29th-Arthur O'Connell-Hello, Annapolis
March 30th-Richard Dysart-Moving Target
March 31st-Ewan McGregor-Blue Juice

April 1st-George Grizzard-Not in My Family
April 2nd-Christopher Meloni-Awful Nice
April 3rd-Marlon Brando-Candy
April 4th-Christine Lahti-Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
April 5th-Gale Storm-Campus Rhythm
April 6th-Roy Thinnes-Journey to the Far Side of the Sun*
April 7th-James Garner-Decoration Day
April 8th-Walter Connelly/Ilka Chase-Soak the Rich
April 9th-Ward Bond-Park Avenue Logger
April 10th-Harry Morgan-The Cat from Outer Space
April 11th-Shirley Grey-The Girl Who Came Back
April 12th-Jane Withers-Faces in the Fog
April 13th-Mari Blanchard-Machete
April 14th-John Gielgud-The Canterville Ghost
April 15th-Hans Conried-Brothers O'Toole
April 16th-Barry Nelson-The Man with My Face
April 17th-Anne Shirley-Liliom*
April 18th-Hayley Mills-The Kingfisher Caper
April 19th-Hugh O'Brian-The Raiders
April 20th-Nina Foch-In the Arms of a Killer
April 21st-Anthony Quinn-High Risk
April 22nd-Eddie Albert-The Borrowers
April 23rd-John Hannah-Madagascar Skin
April 24th-Jill Ireland-Violent City
April 25th-Jeffrey DeMunn-Young Harry Houdini
April 26th-Cecilia Parker-Below the Deadline
April 27th-James Le Gros-Blood & Concrete
April 28th-Ann-Margret-Following Her Heart
April 29th-Daniel Day-Lewis-How Many Miles to Babylon?
April 30th-Jill Clayburgh-Fear Stalk

May 1st-Glenn Ford-Men Without Souls
May 2nd-Christine Baranski-Crackers
May 3rd-Mary Astor-Dressed to Kill
May 4th-Paul Gleason-Challenge of a Lifetime
May 5th-Roger Rees-Double Platinum
May 6th-Rudolph Valentino-The Married Virgin
May 7th-Darren McGavin-Captain America
May 8th-Phyllida Law-Otley
May 9th-Glenda Jackson-Business as Usual
May 10th-Charles McGraw-Perilous Journey
May 11th-Margaret Rutherford-Meet Me at Dawn
May 12th-Susan Hampshire-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
May 13th-Harvey Keitel-A Beginner's Guide to Endings
May 14th-Tim Roth-Killing Emmet Young
May 15th-James Mason-Child's Play**
May 16th-Henry Fonda-Gideon's Trumpet**
May 17th-Bill Paxton-Slipstream
May 18th-Gail Strickland-The President's Mistress
May 19th-Bruce Bennett-Amateur Crook
May 20th-Tony Goldwyn-The Godfather of Green Bay
May 21st-Bill Williams-Pawnee
May 22nd-Laurence Olivier-The Dance of Death*
May 23rd-Joan Collins-Quest for Love
May 24th-Lilli Palmer-Crackerjack
May 25th-Steve Cochran-Mozambique
May 26th-Helena Bonham Carter-Keep the Aspidistra Flying
May 27th-Vincent Price-The Monster Club
May 28th-Carroll Baker-Knife of Ice
May 29th-Iris Adrian-Spotlight Scandals
May 30th-Douglas Fowley-Hay Foot
May 31st-Denholm Elliott-The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

June 1st-Robert Newton-Night Boat to Dublin
June 2nd-Joanna Gleason-Wedding Daze
June 3rd-Leo Gorcey-Boys of the City
June 4th-Clara Blandick-The Drums of Jeopardy
June 5th-Sheila Sim-West of Zanzibar
June 6th-Walter Abel-Glamour Boy
June 7th-Marion Martin-The Phantom Speaks
June 8th-Robert Preston-September Gun
June 9th-Robert Cummings-Bomber's Moon
June 10th-Hattie McDaniel-Sky Racket
June 11th-Richard Todd-The Long and the Short and the Tall*
June 12th-William Lundigan-Dangerous Voyage
June 13th-Mary Wickes-The Canterville Ghost
June 14th-Sam Wanamaker-Mousey
June 15th-James Robertson Justice-Poet's Pub
June 16th-Jack Albertson-A Clear and Present Danger
June 17th-Ralph Bellamy-The Fourth Wise Man
June 18th-E. G. Marshall-The Little Foxes
June 19th-Gena Rowlands-Best Friends for Life
June 20th-Olympia Dukakis-My Beautiful Son
June 21st-Maureen Stapleton-Family Secrets
June 22nd-Wanda McKay-The Golden Eye
June 23rd-Dennis Price-Song of Paris
June 24th-Michele Lee-The Fatal Image
June 25th-June Lockhart-It's a Joke, Son
June 26th-Peter Lorre-Hell Ship Mutiny
June 27th-John McIntire-Powderkeg
June 28th-Kathy Bates-Complete Unknown
June 29th-Jean Kent-Warn That Man
June 30th-George Chandler-It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!

July 1st-Constance Ford-99 and 44/100% Dead
July 2nd-Ron Silver-The Goodbye People
July 3rd-Wynne Gibson-Mystery Broadcast
July 4th-Gloria Stuart-The Girl on the Front Page
July 5th-Milburn Stone-The Judge
July 6th-Luana Patten-They Ran for Their Lives
July 7th-Joe Spano-The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children
July 8th-Eugene Pallette-Cross Country Cruise
July 9th-Tom Hanks-The Circle
July 10th-Jeff Donnell-Bristle Face
July 11th-Thomas Mitchell-A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
July 12th-Jean Hersholt-They Meet Again
July 13th-Eric Portman-The Mark of Cain
July 14th-Dale Robertson-Fast and Sexy
July 15th-Linda Ronstadt-Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
July 16th-Barnard Hughes-A Memory of Two Mondays
July 17th-Helen Walker-My True Story
July 18th-Chill Wills-Loaded Pistols
July 19th-Isabel Jewell-The Leathernecks Have Landed
July 20th-Sally Ann Howes-The History of Mr. Polly
July 21st-C. Aubrey Smith-Scotland Yard Investigator
July 22nd-Danny Glover-Night Train
July 23rd-Coral Browne-Mrs. Warren's Profession**
July 24th-Alan Curtis- Pearl Harbor
July 25th-Estelle Getty-Copacabana
July 26th-Jason Robards Jr.-The Bat
July 27th-Keenan Wynn-The Losers
July 28th-Brenda de Banzie-The Happiness of Three Women
July 29th-William Powell-The Four Feathers
July 30th-Simon Baker-I Give It a Year
July 31st-Don Murray-Deadly Hero

August 1st-Henry Jones-Project X
August 2nd-Nehemiah Persoff-St. Helens
August 3rd-Martin Sheen-The Double
August 4th-Anita Page-Speedway
August 5th-Mark Strong-Sharpe's Mission
August 6th-Leo Carrillo-Ghost Catchers
August 7th-Ann Harding-East Lynne
August 8th-Sylvia Sidney-The Shadow Box
August 9th-Leo Genn-Circus of Fear
August 10th-Martha Hyer-Pyro
August 11th-Lloyd Nolan-Galyon
August 12th-Marjorie Reynolds-Mr. Wong in Chinatown
August 13th-Buddy Rogers-Let's Make a Night of It
August 14th-Alice Ghostley-Not for Publication
August 15th-Janice Rule-Doctors' Wives
August 16th-Mae Clarke-Parole Girl
August 17th-Dewey Robinson-The Missing Lady
August 18th-Alan Mowbray-Her Secret
August 19th-Adam Arkin-A Slight Case of Murder
August 20th-Ray Wise-Runaway Heart
August 21st-David Farrar-Headline
August 22nd-Honor Blackman-The Glass Cage
August 23d-Vera Miles-Molly and Lawless John
August 24th-Frank Craven-City Limits
August 25th-Richard Greene-Don't Take It to Heart
August 26th-Jane Merrow-The System
August 27th-Cecil Kellaway-Destination Space
August 28th-Ben Gazzara-High Velocity
August 29th-Richard Attenborough-SOS Pacific
August 30th-Elizabeth Ashley-Your Money or Your Wife
August 31st-Fredric March-The Condemned of Altona**

September 1st-Richard Arlen-Alaska Highway
September 2nd-Linda Purl-A Last Cry for Help
September 3rd-Cecil Parker-Happy is the Bride
September 4th-Judith Ivey-Big Stone Gap
September 5th-William Devane-The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
September 6th-John Ridgely-Fort Osage
September 7th-Anthony Quayle-East of Sudan
September 8th-Hillary Brooke-The House Across the Lake
September 9th-Cliff Robertson-Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
September 10th-Dermot Walsh-To the Public Danger
September 11th-Herbert Lom-The Ringer
September 12th-Ian Holm-Night Falls on Manhattan
September 13th-Ruth McDevitt-Winter Kill
September 14th-Jack Hawkins-The Prisoner
September 15th-Margaret Lockwood-Cardboard Cavalier
September 16th-Peter Falk-Money Kings
September 17th-Roddy McDowell-Tuna Clipper
September 18th-Jack Warden-The Adventures of Gallegher
September 19th-Rosemary Harris-Blithe Spirit
September 20th-Kenneth More-Raising a Riot
September 21st-Larry Hagman-Up in the Cellar
September 22nd-Minerva Urecal-The Ape Man
September 23rd-Colin Blakely-The Hellions
September 24th-Larry Gates-The Henderson Monster
September 25th-John Ericson-I Am Semiramis
September 26th-Patrick O'Neal-Once the Killing Starts
September 27th-Sada Thompson-Any Mother's Son
September 28th-William Windom-Hunters of the Reef
September 29th-Virginia Bruce-The Reluctant Bride
September 30th-George Bancroft-The Mighty

October 1st-Richard Harris-Martin's Day
October 2nd-William Ching-The Showdown
October 3rd-Henry Hull-Rimfire
October 4th-John Larch-Framed
October 5th-John Hoyt-Operation C.I.A.
October 6th-Jerome Cowan-The Jungle Captive
October 7th-Andy Devine-Wake Up and Dream
October 8th-James Olson-Moon Zero Two
October 9th-Edward Andrews-Birds Do It
October 10th-Richard Jaeckel-Firehouse
October 11th-Ron Liebman-Up the Academy
October 12th-Josephine Hutchinson-The Women Men Marry
October 13th-Laraine Day-The Bad Man
October 14th-Lillian Gish-A Romance of Happy Valley
October 15th-Jane Darwell-Huckleberry Finn
October 16th-Angela Lansbury-Little Women
October 17th-Beverly Garland-Thunder Over Hawaii
October 18th-George C. Scott-Oliver Twist
October 19th-Tony Lo Bianco-Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
October 20th-John Anderson-A Man Called Gannon
October 21st-Georgia Brown-The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
October 22nd-Annette Funicello-The Horsemasters
October 23rd-Coleen Gray-The Leech Woman
October 24th-Oliver Jackson-Cohen-The Healer
October 25th-Jeanne Cooper-Rock All Night
October 26th-Tom Cavanagh-The Capture of the Green River Killer
October 27th-Teresa Wright-Morning's at Seven
October 28th-Joan Plowright-The Summer House
October 29th-Akim Tamiroff-Clear All Wires
October 30th-Juliet Stevenson-When Did You Last See Your Father?
October 31st-Michael Landon-The Legend of Tom Dooley

November 1st-Laura La Plante-The Sea Ghost
November 2nd-Alice Brady-Betsy Ross
November 3rd-Jeremy Brett-The Sign of Four
November 4th-Frank Jenks-The Kid Sister
November 5th-Vivien Leigh-The Skin of Our Teeth
November 6th-Donald Houston-The Flaw
November 7th-Judy Parfitt-The Ruby Ring
November 8th-Alfre Woodard-The Trial of the Moke
November 9th-Ed Wynn-The Man in the Funny Suit**
November 10th-Richard Burton-Waterfront Women
November 11th-Stanley Tucci-Jolt
November 12th-Kim Hunter-Drop-Out Mother
November 13th-Steve Zahn-Calvin Marshall
November 14th-Josh Duhamel-Lost in the Sun
November 15th-Joanna Barnes-B.S. I Love You
November 16th-Halliwell Hobbes-Looking Forward
November 17th-Rock Hudson-The Vegas Strip War
November 18th-David Hemmings-The Night We Called It a Day
November 19th-Anton Walbrook-Dangerous Moonlight
November 20th-Phyllis Thaxter-Holiday Affair
November 21st-Juliet Mills-Twice Round the Daffodils
November 22nd-Michael Callan-Double Exposure
November 23rd-Boris Karloff-The Mystery of Mr. Wong
November 24th-Geraldine Fitzgerald-Pontius Pilate
November 25th-Ricardo Montalban-The Desperate Mission
November 26th-Cyril Cusack-All the Way Boys
November 27th-Mona Washbourne-Child's Play
November 28th-Gloria Grahame-Mr. Griffin and Me
November 29th-Sara Allgood-The ing of the Third Floor Back**
November 30th-Richard Crenna-Wrongfully Accused

December 1st-Allyn Ann McLerie-Where's Charley?
December 2nd-Leo Gordon-Tarzan Goes to India
December 3rd-Steven Culp-Deck the Halls
December 4th-Gemma Jones-The Lady Vanishes
December 5th-Norman Burton-Bad Guys
December 6th-JoBeth Williams-A Chance of Snow
December 7th-Eli Wallach-The Bookfair Murders
December 8th-Lee J. Cobb-The Great Ice Rip-Off
December 9th-Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.-The Hostage Tower
December 10th-Harold Gould-The Red-Light Sting
December 11th-Ronald Lewis-Taste of Fear**
December 12th-Edward G. Robinson-East is West
December 13th-Christopher Plummer-The Pyx
December 14th-Patty Duke-A Season for Miracles
December 15th-Jo Ann Marlowe-Rolling Home
December 16th-Xander Berkeley-Omega Syndrome
December 17th-Bill Pullman-Nervous Ticks
December 18th-Lynn Bari-Trauma
December 19th-Robert Urich-Revolver
December 20th-John Hillerman-Hands of a Murderer
December 21st-Ed Nelson-T-Bird Gang
December 22nd-Frankie Darro-Young Dynamite
December 23rd-Fredric Forrest-Alone
December 24th-Michael Billington-Invasion: UFO
December 25th-Barton MacLane-Wetbacks
December 26th-Donald Moffat-The Long Days of Summer
December 27th-Tovah Feldshuh-The Corruptor
December 28th-Maggie Smith-All the King's Men
December 29th-Viveca Lindfors-Exiled in America
December 30th-Jeanette Nolan-Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?
December 31st-Anthony Hopkins-King Lear

• Queen of the Yukon
• The Man Who Changed His Mind
• Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771
• Girl o' My Dreams
• The 6th Day
• The Birthday Present
• Killer Diller
• The Caper of the Golden Bulls
• Brotherly Love
• Father Brown

...plus 350 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed. A unique and fascinating actress whose messy private life scuttled what should have been a brilliant career landing her in a lot of terrible junk at the end of her career.

1. The Big Heat
2. In a Lonely Place
3. Sudden Fear
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Oklahoma!
6. Human Desire
7. Crossfire
8. Man on a Tightrope
9. Chilly Scenes of Winter
10. The Greatest Show on Earth

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A class act who weathered a ridiculous public shaming with dignity and grace and gave one memorable performance after another.

1. Notorious
2. Indiscreet
3. Fear
4. Autumn Sonata
5. A Woman Called Golda
6. Casablanca
7. The Bells of St. Mary's
8. Cactus Flower
9. Gaslight
10. Anastasia

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Only Conversation Piece left before Burt is all wrapped up.

1. From Here to Eternity
2. Criss Cross
3. Field of Dreams

   Burt's small role as Doc "Moonlight" Graham is one of the best things he ever did.

4. Brute Force
5. Sweet Smell of Success
6. The Swimmer
7. The Crimson Pirate

   These adventures always come with a certain degree of silliness but Burt's brio and athletic ability always made his vigorous entertainments.

8. The Devil's Disciple
9. Birdman of Alcatraz
10. A Child Is Waiting

...plus 69 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

Perhaps the most beautiful of them all, such things are subjective but there is no question she was breathtaking, and as we've come to learn fiercely intelligent and misunderstood.

Not a great actress but certainly better than given credit for, even by herself.

• The Strange Woman

  Perhaps her best work, though it is distracting that she has a Viennese accent while supposedly being born and bred in Maine!

• H.M. Pulham, Esq.
• Come Live with Me
• The Conspirators
• Algiers
• Ziegfeld Girl
• Crossroads
• Samson and Delilah
• The Female Animal

  While it feels at times like a Joan Crawford reject this is still an entertaining melodrama with a decent performance from Hedy.

• Her Highness and the Bellboy

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Completed!! A china doll beauty whose very real skill and potential to be a Noir goddess was wasted by the various studios she worked for through the years. She had a respectable, successful career but what could have been a memorable legacy turned out to be only decorative.

1. Mildred Pierce
2. A Woman's Vengeance
3. Thunder on the Hill
4. The Great Caruso
5. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid
6. Kismet
7. Another Part of the Forest
8. Katie Did It
9. Swell Guy

   One of Ann's few bad girl roles though they script cops out and semi-redeems her towards the end.

10. Once More, My Darling

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He's an actor for whom my iration has grown as I've become more familiar with his filmography beyond his two best known films-Shane & This Gun for Hire. Since before hitting his stride with Gun he was mostly cast in minor often insignificant roles I've only ranked his films from that point on of which I've seen all but one-Hell Below Zero.

1. This Gun for Hire
2. The Great Gatsby

   While all Gatsby versions are flawed (and this one is no exception-Betty Field is all wrong as Daisy) Alan Ladd fits the role better and is more at ease with the language than anyone else I've seen.

3. Lucky Jordan
4. The Blue Dahlia
5. The Glass Key
6. Salty O'Rourke
7. The Man in the Net
8. Shane
9. Chicago Deadline
10. The Proud Rebel

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A perceptive actress on film but the stage was her home, and rightly so, having seen her in The Bell of Amherst in a small Wilmington theatre she was both electric and magical. A memory that will last a lifetime.

That said her picture work (both theatrical and television) is small but there is much fine work in it.

I have two extremely rare films of hers, The Poacher's Daughter & Bronte, still to see.

1. The Belle of Amherst
2. The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
3. The Haunting
4. A Doll's House
5. East of Eden
6. The Christmas Wife
7. Requiem for a Heavyweight
8. I Am a Camera

   The prototype for Cabaret with Julie as a very different (but similar in some ways) Sally Bowles.

9. The Hiding Place
10. How Awful About Allan

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A recent discovery and a delightful one. With her sandpaper voice and comic timing she injects humor into her movies effortlessly. Many of her pictures were low budget affairs but she's always solid gold.

I still have quite a few of her films to see, which is a pleasant prospect. A pity she's not better ed.

1. If You Knew Susie
2. She Wrote the Book
3. Show Business
4. She Gets Her Man
5. The Traveling Saleswoman
6. Two Señoritas from Chicago
7. Two Latins from Manhattan
8. Harem Girl
9. Beautiful But Broke
10. The Groom Wore Spurs

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by others I've seen I thought it would be fun to rank the various performers filmographies that I've either completed or that I've been working towards finishing. I've focused mostly on theatrical films but if they have significant television films on their sheet those are included as well.

Usually the ranking is based on my preference for the performer's work in a particular film not necessarily the overall quality of the picture.

1. Dark age
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
3. The Opposite Sex
4. Since You Went Away
5. Pollyanna
6. Mrs. Parkington
7. Show Boat
8. Black Jack
9. All That Heaven Allows
10. The Big Street

...plus 54 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sunny and effervescent onscreen with a uniquely froggy voice that still sounded good when she sang she managed to extend her dominance at the top by seguing from girl next door of the 40's to the Perfect Wife of the 50's.

1. Good News
2. Woman's World
3. Executive Suite
4. The Glenn Miller Story
5. The Opposite Sex
6. Best Foot Forward
7. A Stranger in My Arms
8. Little Women

   Not bad version of the Louisa May Alcott classic even if at 32 June is really stretching it as Jo.

9. Girl Crazy

   June's only in the film for about 5 minutes but she makes a memorable impression in a musical number where she literally beats the hell out of Mickey Rooney.

10. Two Sisters from Boston

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Completed!

A blonde beauty with a great talent, an odd unsettled vibe and a perplexing and frustrating career.

Apparently of her own choosing she shied away from what would have been mega-stardom by turning down Bonnie & Clyde, Elaine in The Graduate, Lolita, True Grit, Norma Rae, Cactus Flower, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Rosemary's Baby, the 70's version of The Great Gatsby, Polanski's MacBeth, The Stepford Wives and The Rocky Horror Picture Show because she didn't enjoy the spotlight and when fame came knocking pursued projects that interested her rather than ones that would further her career.

1. Play It as It Lays

   Along with A Safe Place these are opaque hard to like films but they represent the zenith of Tuesday's acting prowess. She's amazing in both films.

2. A Safe Place
3. Lord Love a Duck
4. Pretty Poison
5. The Crucible

   A high class TV version of Miller's play with Tuesday a memorably vicious Abigail.

6. Reflections of Murder
7. Something in Common
8. The Rainmaker
9. Scorned and Swindled
10. A Question of Guilt

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Inspired by Evelyn Rose's Classic Movie Birthday Calendar list I'm borrowing her idea and am going to try and watch a new film each day by a performer that I like whose birthday falls on that day. Usually it will be one for each day but occasionally I might watch two different performers films who fall on the same day.

Right now the list will start April 1st but if possible I'll backtrack and fill in the first three months if they qualify.

April 1st-Wallace Beery-The Man from Dakota (I'd prefer Debbie Reynolds or Jane Powell but I've completed their respective filmographies).
April 2nd-Diane Cilanto-The Woman for Joe.
April 3rd-Mary Anderson-Within These Walls
April 4th-Rosemary Lane-Trocadero
April 5th-Walter Huston-Law and Order (Would loved to have done a Bette Davis, Gregory Peck or Melvyn Douglas film but all that I have left for them-only 1 or 2 each-are so obscure I've never been able to find them.)
April 6th-Joi Lansing-The Atomic Submarine (She was really much more of a TV girl so finding something with any kind of significant role, and her part is small, in film that I hadn't seen was tough but she looked great!)
April 7th-James Garner-One Little Indian
April 8th-Walter Connelly-Nancy Steele is Missing
April 9th-Ward Bond-Escape by Night
April 10th-Harry Morgan-The Well
April 11th-Shirley Grey-The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
April 12th-Hardy Kruger-Paper Tiger
April 13th-Mari Blanchard-The Brigand
April 14th-Julie Christie-Snapshots
April 14th-Rod Steiger-Across the Bridge
April 15th-Elizabeth Montgomery-With Murder in Mind
April 16th-Barry Nelson-Seven in Darkness
April 17th-Arthur Lake-The Silver Streak
April 18th-Hayley Mills-Take a Girl Like You
April 19th-May Robson-Little Orphan Annie
April 20th-Nina Foch-Prison Ship
April 21st-Anthony Quinn-Mask of the Avenger
April 22nd-Chris Makepeace-The Last Chase
April 23rd-Simone Simon-Temptation Harbour
April 24th-Shirley MacLaine-Desperate Characters
April 25th-Denny Miller-Cabo Blanco
April 26th-Carol Burnett-The Marriage Fool
April 27th-Jack Klugman-Hail! Mafia
April 27th-Sandy Dennis-A Touch of Love
April 28th-Adele Mara-Blackmail
April 29th-Richard Carlson-The Maze
April 30th-Cloris Leachman-The Steagle

May 1st-Glenn Ford-My Son is Guilty
May 2nd-Nigel Patrick-Forbidden Cargo
May 3rd-Mary Astor-The Devil's Hairpin
May 4th-James Ellison-Bar 20 Rides Again
May 5th-June Lang-Lighthouse
May 6th-Stewart Granger-Caravan
May 7th-Gary Cooper-Seven Days' Leave
May 8th-Salome Jens-The Fool Killer
May 9th-Glenda Jackson-The House of Bernarda Alba
May 10th-Thurston Hall-Affair in Reno
May 11th-Margaret Rutherford-Aunt Clara
May 12th-Susan Hampshire-The Trygon Factor
May 13th-Robert Middleton-Fair Play
May 14th-June Duprez/Miles Mander-The Brighton Strangler
May 15th-James Mason-The Night Has Eyes
May 16th-Yvonne Craig-The Young Land
May 17th-Dennis Hopper-Night Tide
May 18th-George E. Stone-Secret of the Chateau
May 19th-Anthony Bushell-High Treason
May 20th-Edith Fellows-Keeper of the Bees
May 21st-Kay Kendall-The Square Ring
May 22nd-Laurence Olivier-Perfect Understanding
May 23rd-Joan Collins-Turn the Key Softly
May 24th-Lilli Palmer-Thunder Rock
May 25th-Jeanne Crain-Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
May 26th-John Wayne-Desert Command
May 27th-Vincent Price-Confessions of an Opium Eater
May 28th-Martha Vickers-Alimony
May 29th-Iris Adrian-Shake Hands with Murder
May 30th-Douglas Fowley-Jungle Flight
May 31st-Denholm Elliott-The Hound of the Baskervilles

June 1st-Frank Morgan-The Perfect Gentleman
June 2nd-Johnny Weissmuller-Fury of the Congo
June 3rd-Tony Curtis-You Can't Win 'Em All
June 4th-Clara Blandick-Tom Sawyer, Detective
June 5th-Robert Lansing-4D Man
June 6th-Maria Montez-Wicked City
June 7th-Virginia McKenna-The Oracle
June 8th-Dana Wynter-If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
June 9th-Mona Freeman-Thunderbirds
June 10th-Hattie McDaniel-High Tension
June 11th-Richard Todd-The Boys
June 12th-William Lundigan-The Missing Guest
June 13th-Basil Rathbone-Make a Wish
June 14th-Sam Wanamaker-The Billion Dollar Bubble
June 15th-James Robertson Justice-Doctor in Clover
June 16th-Faith Domergue-Cult of the Cobra
June 17th-Ralph Bellamy-Wild Brian Kent
June 18th-E.G. Marshall-The Winter of Our Discontent
June 19th-Charles Coburn-Town on Trial
June 20th-Gail Patrick-Plainsman and the Lady
June 21st-Maureen Stapleton-A View from the Bridge
June 22nd-Wanda McKay-The Black Raven
June 23rd-Donald MacBride-Campus Sleuth
June 24th-Juanita Quigley-Whispering Footsteps
June 25th-Roger Livesey-The Girl in the News
June 26th-Peter Lorre-I'll Give a Million
June 27th-Muriel Pavlow-Tiger in the Smoke
June 28th-Kathy Bates-Ambulance Girl
June 29th-Jean Kent-The Woman in Question
June 30th-Nestor Paiva-The Ballad of a Gunfighter

July 1st-Jean Marsh-Face of a Stranger
July 2nd-Catherine McLeod-Sword of Venus
July 3rd-Wynne Gibson-Flirting with Fate
July 4th-Gloria Stuart-Here Comes Elmer
July 5th-Milburn Stone-Killer Dill
July 6th-Sebastian Cabot-The Spider and the Fly
July 7th-Tom Powers-Angel in Exile
July 8th-Eugene Pallette-Gun Smoke
July 9th-Susan Cabot-Carnival Rock
July 10th-Jeff Donnell-Thief of Damascus
July 11th-Sally Blane-Crime on the Hill
July 12th-Keith Andes-Model for Murder
July 13th-Eric Portman-Dear Murderer
July 14th-Dale Robertson-Fighting Man of the Plains
July 15th-Philip Carey-The Seven Minutes
July 16th-Peter van Eyck-The Snorkel
July 17th-Helen Walker-People Are Funny
July 18th-Richard Dix-Blind Alibi
July 19th-Isabel Jewell-Danger! Women at Work
July 20th-Sally Ann Howes-Thursday's Child
July 21st-Edward Herrman-Foreign Student
July 22nd-Terence Stamp-Murder Mystery
July 23rd-Coral Browne/Michael Wilding-The Courtneys of Curzon Street
July 24th-Alan Curtis-Renegade Girl
July 25th-Walter Brennan-Grief Street
July 26th-Helen Mirren-Red King, White Knight
July 27th-Donald Crisp-A port to Hell
July 28th-Brenda de Banzie-Flame in the Streets
July 29th-Clara Bow-Black Oxen
July 30th-Houseley Stevenson-All That I Have
July 31st-Don Murray-The Plainsman

August 1st-Arthur Hill-Murder in Space
August 2nd-Joanna Cassidy-The Second Civil War
August 3rd-Martin Sheen-Beyond the Stars
August 4th-Anita Page-Jungle Bride
August 5th-John Saxon-One Dollar Too Many
August 6th-Robert Mitchum-One Shoe Makes It Murder
August 7th-Ann Harding-I've Lived Before
August 8th-Rory Calhoun-Finger on the Trigger
August 9th-Charles Farrell-The Man Who Came Back
August 10th-Martha Hyer-Cry Vengeance
August 11th-Lloyd Nolan-Sergeant Ryker
August 12th-Marjorie Reynolds-Midnight Limited
August 13th-Gene Raymond-Million Dollar Weekend
August 14th-Carl Benton Reid-The Command
August 15th-Lori Nelson/Mike Connors-Day the World Ended
August 16th-Lois Nettleton-The Bamboo Saucer
August 17th-Glenn Corbett-Law of the Land
August 18th-Shelley Winters-The Three Sisters
August 19th-Debra Paget-Rome 1585
August 20th-Yootha Joyce-Man About the House
August 21st-David Farrar-For Those in Peril
August 22nd-Elisabeth Bergner-Escape Me Never
August 23rd-Vera Miles-Castaway Cowboy
August 24th-Preston Foster-Geronimo
August 25th-Michael Rennie-The Root of All Evil
August 26th-Jan Clayton-The Showdown
August 27th-George Montgomery-Bomb at 10:10
August 28th-Ben Gazzara-The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
August 29th-Richard Attenborough-Brothers in Law
August 30th-Raymond Massey-Sugarfoot
August 31st-Fredric March-Death of a Salesman

September 1st-Richard Farnsworth-The Grey Fox
September 2nd-Linda Purl-Spies, Lies and Naked Thighs
September 3rd-Anne Jackson-Blinded by the Light
September 4th-Dick York-The Last Blitzkrieg
September 5th-Raquel Welch-A Swingin' Summer
September 6th-Otto Kruger-Gallant Lady
September 7th-Anthony Quayle-Woman in a Dressing Gown
September 8th-Hazel Brooks-The Basketball Fix
September 9th-Cliff Robertson-The Big Show
September 10th-Edmond O'Brien-China Venture
September 11th-Herbert Lom-Golden Salamander
September 12th-Ian Holm-The Bofors Gun
September 13th-Scott Brady-Port of New York
September 14th-Jack Hawkins-Bonnie Prince Charlie
September 15th-Penny Singleton-Sea Racketeers
September 16th-Lauren Bacall-A Little Piece of Sunshine
September 17th-Roddy McDowell-Arnold
September 18th-Phyllis Kirk-That Woman Opposite
September 19th-Ray Danton-Tarawa Beachhead
September 20th-Rachel Roberts-The Crowded Day
September 21st-Dawn Addams-Where the Bullets Fly
September 22nd-Martha Scott-When I Grow Up
September 23rd-Louise Latham-The Ghost of Cypress Swamp
September 24th-Larry Gates-Pueblo
September 25th-Aldo Ray-Three Stripes in the Sun
September 26th-Edmund Gwenn-Cash
September 27th-Sada Thompson-Home Fires Burning
September 28th-Peter Finch-Kidnapped
September 29th-Trevor Howard-Catch Me a Spy
September 30th-Angie Dickinson-I'll Give My Life

October 1st-Richard Harris-The Snow Goose
October 2nd-Charles Drake-The Pretender
October 3rd-Henry Hull-Great Expectations
October 4th-John Larch-The Careless Years
October 5th-John Hoyt-Panic in the City
October 6th-Jerome Cowan-Thru Different Eyes
October 7th-Andy Devine-The Impatient Maiden
October 8th-Gabriel Dell-On Dress Parade
October 9th-Alastair Sim-Left Right and Centre
October 10th-Janis Carter-The Ghost That Walks Alone
October 11th-Matt Bomer-Walking Out
October 12th-Josephine Hutchinson-Travis Logan, D.A.
October 13th-Louise Closser Hale-Captain Applejack
October 14th-Lillian Gish-His Double Life
October 15th-Jane Darwell-Washington Merry-Go-Round
October 16th-Sarah Padden-Romance of the Limberlost
October 17th-Rita Hayworth-Paid to Dance
October 18th-Miriam Hopkins-Savage Intruder
October 19th-George Nader-Man Afraid
October 20th-Bela Lugosi-Black Friday
October 21st-Janet Beecher-I'd Give My Life
October 22nd-Constance Bennett-Sally, Irene and Mary
October 23rd-Diana Dors-Steaming
October 24th-Dame Sybil Thorndyke-Tudor Rose
October 25th-Marion Ross-Colossus: The Forbin Project
October 26th-H.B. Warner-In Old Santa Fe
October 27th-Leif Erickson-The Blonde from Singapore
October 28th-Elsa Lanchester-Thumbs Up
October 29th-Richard Dreyfuss-Two for the Money
October 30th-Juliet Stevenson-Cider with Rosie
October 31st-Lee Grant-Going Shopping

November 1st-Toni Collette-Foster
November 2nd-Alice Brady-Lady Tubbs
November 3rd-Jeremy Brett-One Deadly Owner
November 4th-Frank Jenks-Shake, Rattle and Rock!
November 5th-Sam Rockwell-Piccadilly Jim
November 6th-Brad Davis-Vengeance
November 7th-Judy Parfitt-Dark Obsession
November 8th-Marie Prevost-The Good Bad Girl
November 9th-Mae Marsh-Judith of Bethulia
November 10th-Richard Burton-Absolution
November 11th-Stanley Tucci-What Just Happened
November 12th-Kim Hunter-In Search of America
November 13th-Henry Kolker-The Mystery Man
November 14th-Louise Brooks-Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
November 15th-Joanna Barnes-I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
November 16th-Royal Dano-Huckleberry Finn
November 17th-Sara Haden-Wagons West
November 18th-Susan Sullivan-The City
November 19th-Kathleen Quinlan-In the Lake of the Woods
November 20th-Estelle Parsons-Come Along with Me
November 21st-Goldie Hawn-Everyone Says I Love You
November 22nd-Elizabeth Patterson-Doctor Bull
November 23rd-John Dehner-Stiletto
November 24th-Geraldine Fitzgerald-Turn of the Tide
November 25th-Jeffrey Hunter-Dimension 5
November 26th-Adele Jergens-Girls in Prison
November 27th-Mona Washbourne-Double Confession
November 28th-Ed Harris-Code Name:
November 29th-Genevieve Tobin-The Duke Comes Back
November 30th-Rex Reason-Under Fire

December 1st-Allyn Ann McLerie-The Oldest Living Graduate
December 2nd-Robert F. Simon-The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca
December 3rd-Anna Sten-Runaway Daughters
December 4th-Gemma Jones-The Lie
December 5th-Jeroen Krabbe-The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
December 6th-Elissa Landi-Underground
December 7th-Eli Wallach-The Brain
December 8th-Maximilian Schell-Counterpoint
December 9th-Judi Dench-A Study in Terror
December 10th-Fionnula Flanagan-Money for Nothing
December 11th-Gilbert Roland-Isle of Destiny
December 12th-Edward G. Robinson-A Lady to Love
December 13th-Christopher Plummer-The Disappearance
December 14th-Lee Remick-Damn Yankees
December 15th-Kasey Rogers-Lost Flight
December 16th-Ben Cross-Strong Medicine
December 17th-Joan Woodbury-The Rogues' Tavern
December 18th-Gladys Cooper-The Iron Duke
December 19th-Robert Urich-Bunco
December 20th-Albert Dekker-Come Spy with Me
December 21st-Ed Nelson-The Cry Baby Killer
December 22nd-Peggie Castle-Jesse James' Women
December 23rd-Eric Blore-A Desperate Adventure
December 24th-Diedrich Bader-Eurotrip
December 25th-Barton MacLane-Cry of the Werewolf
December 26th-Donald Moffat-Kaleidoscope
December 27th-Tovah Feldshuh-Daniel
December 28th-Maggie Smith-Lily in Love
December 29th-Emory Parnell-Here Comes Trouble
December 30th-John Litel-The Bill of Rights
December 31st-Sarah Miles-Venom

• The Man from Dakota
• The Woman for Joe
• Within These Walls
• Trocadero
• Law and Order
• The Atomic Submarine
• One Little Indian
• Nancy Steele Is Missing!
• Escape by Night
• The Well

...plus 268 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

One of the all-time greats able to be believably vicious or the kindest, most gentle of men. So of course he was showered with accolades and veneration....nope. Never a single Oscar nomination and graylisted during the McCarthy years for his liberal views. Appalling.

Excepting a few missteps, what the hell was he doing in The Ten Commandments?, he was always compelling on screen.

1. Scarlet Street

   A tough call with so many classic performances to choose from but this is probably EGR's deepest most complex piece of work.

2. Night Has a Thousand Eyes
3. The Sea Wolf
4. The Woman in the Window
5. Key Largo
6. Double Indemnity
7. Flesh and Fantasy

   All three of the short stories comprising this are very good but the middle one with EGR and Thomas Mitchell is probably the best with both men outstanding.

8. Larceny, Inc.
9. Black Tuesday
10. Kid Galahad

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The coolest of the cool. When he was disengaged his performances verged towards the somnolent but that was rare. Usually his work was so smooth and laid back it seemed like he wasn't trying but his ease made him eminently watchable and often the best thing in his films. On those occasions when he really connected with the character he was magnificent.

He worked a great deal in his later years and in low budget Westerns in his salad days and there about a dozen of those films I still need to locate but I've seen all his major work.

1. The Lusty Men

   As the circuit rodeo buck who's running out of chances and makes a grab for redemption Mitchum is the best he ever was matched every step of the way by Susan Hayward.

2. Out of the Past
3. Home from the Hill
4. The Night of the Hunter
5. River of No Return
6. Angel Face
7. His Kind of Woman
8. Second Chance
9. Macao
10. The Racket

...plus 100 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed all her theatrical films with a few of her TV films to still see.

1. The Spiral Staircase
2. Make Haste to Live
3. Invitation
4. This Earth Is Mine

   Dorothy invades Barbara Stanwyck bitch territory (Stanwyck had actually turned her part down) and does well by it.

5. The Enchanted Cottage
6. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
7. Till the End of Time
8. Claudia
9. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
10. Old Yeller

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What is there left to say about someone who may be the Ultimate Movie Star?

At times, especially in the early sound years, the careful diction could get in the way of her performances but she was never less than professional, even at the end when she was appearing in cheap junk-but always above the title!, and frequently much more than that.

As with all great stars she appeared in some dogs, perhaps more than her share, but good film or bad she held the screen and was always watchable.

I've seen all her sound films and though several of her silents were lost in the great MGM vault fire of 1964 there are a quartet that are still presumably extant that I'm on the hunt for.

1. Humoresque

   Crawford considered her work in Possessed, the film she made after this, to be her best but I think her raw, insecure and lost Helen in this better.

2. Mildred Pierce
3. Grand Hotel

   Crawford's best early work.

4. Goodbye, My Fancy
5. The Damned Don't Cry
6. The Women
7. Strange Cargo
8. Flamingo Road
9. Sudden Fear
10. Autumn Leaves

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

The notoriously difficult Miriam was a very gifted actress who self-destructed her career by her showboating behaviors burning nearly every professional bridge behind her. If not for her rapport with William Wyler who could rein her in her career would have been even more abbreviated since she snagged her last few decent roles in his films.

1. Trouble in Paradise
2. The Mating Season
3. Old Acquaintance
4. Design for Living
5. The Old Maid
6. The Heiress
7. Woman Chases Man
8. These Three
9. The Story of Temple Drake
10. A Gentleman After Dark

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The ravishing Rhonda who we lost just this week at 97 may not have been one of the cinematic legends of Golden Age Hollywood but she was a pleasing presence in all her films and when provided the opportunity a good actress. By her own ission rather than waiting for great scripts she accepted average ones for good money....well a girl's gotta eat! And many of those films are breezy if innocuous flicks.

I have only one of her pictures-the European shot "Run For Your Wife"- to still locate to complete her filmography.

1. The Spiral Staircase
2. Inferno
3. Slightly Scarlet
4. Spellbound
5. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
6. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
7. While the City Sleeps
8. Home Before Dark
9. Those Redheads from Seattle
10. Out of the Past

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Completed!

Never an actor of deep emotional resources he was still more talented than he is often given credit for. The fact that he was labeled "A Beautiful Hunk of Man" which he took kiddingly certainly didn't help his reputation nor did a lot of the B costumers his studio stuck him in. But he was an amiable presence on screen and rarely bad.

• I Wake Up Screaming
• Easy Living
• The Las Vegas Story
• Demetrius and the Gladiators
• Something for the Birds
• Footlight Serenade
• Wabash Avenue
• The Long Haul
• Kiss of Death
• Violent Saturday

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Along with Thelma Ritter perhaps the best ing actress the movies ever had. Tough ranking her since she was always great and very watchable able to kick start even the blandest film just by showing up. I have about six of her films left to find before her filmography is complete.

1. The Doughgirls
2. Mildred Pierce
3. My Dream Is Yours
4. Goodbye, My Fancy
5. The Voice of the Turtle
6. Anatomy of a Murder
7. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
8. Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
9. Grease
10. Cover Girl

...plus 44 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

By her own ission she wasn't the greatest actress nor singer/dancer but she radiated a cheery openness that shone from the screen always making her films a pleasure.

Outside of a few bit parts and shorts I have only one of her features 1936's "Collegiate" to see before her filmography is complete.

1. Springtime in the Rockies
2. My Blue Heaven
3. I Wake Up Screaming
4. Call Me Mister
5. How to Marry a Millionaire
6. Down Argentine Way
7. Moon Over Miami
8. Tin Pan Alley
9. Meet Me After the Show
10. Three for the Show

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.