Friday
May062011
Norma Shearer is Hungry
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 2:30PM may flowers bloom each afternoon
I don't understand this photo at all. Is The First Lady of MGM about to eat a big plate full of Magnolia?
.... bon appetit?
Be careful of that froggy aftertaste.
My film brain works funny. Do you ever watch old movie stars and wonder which kind of pictures they would have thrived in today? Or whether they would have thrived at all if they were working in the now? Which old timey Hollywood giants would work inside a P.T. Anderson picture for example: Barbara Stanwyck and Fredric March maybe?
tagged May Flowers, Norma Shearer, yummy
May Flowers, Norma Shearer, yummy
Reader Comments (10)
Babs Stanwyck in a PT Anderson movie just broke my brain, Nat. BROKE MY BRAIN.
I think Peter Lorre would make a fine addition to Tim Burton's coterie.
I want to see Gary Cooper in a Terrence Malick movie. He's best when he's still and pretty.
JA -- good point. Maybe that's why Brad Pitt is going to work out well for him? Although Brad in motion is often the best so... never mind.
Lorre for Burton. ohmyyes.
I am pretty sure that Shearer would be doing earnest prestige dramas like Kate Winslet.
This is pretty off topic (although I do love Norma Shearer), but I have a question for you. I was going back through some old posts on your other site, and I wanted to listen to your interview with Kristin Scott Thomas (because I've currently watched as much of her filmography as is available to me, I'm trying not to go through withdraws). But it doesn't work on your website or on itunes. And neither do any of your other interviews on itunes : ( Is there anywhere else to listen to them?
Magnolia in 1957
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Ernest Borgnine
Tom Cruise - Tyrone Power
Julianne Moore - Deborah Kerr
John C. Reilly - Arthur Kennedy
William H. Macy - David Niven
Melora Walters - Eva Marie Saint
Jason Robards - Erich von Stroheim
Philip Baker Hall - Burl Ives
Jeremy Blackman - Brandon de Wilde
Almost. Except Macy would probably be...hmm...Tim Holt? I mean, I don't remember Niven playing anything BUT British. And Robards would be Walter Huston, not Stroheim.
Oops...didn't check death date. But someone American around that age. Maybe Lionel Barrymore.
speaking of brain's breaking. mine just did when i read Tyrone Power as Frank TJ Mackey. ;)
That's brilliant, Cal Roth, but I think Susan Hayward would have cut anybody else who tried to get near the Julianne Moore part.
Nick: TRUTH.
I thought about Hayward, but that The End of the Affair connection (both Moore and Kerr played Sarah - Kerr >>>>>>> Moore in the role, sorry ) was too big to ignore.