A Good Vintage

[poliphilo]

In 2007 we celebrate the centenaries of  Katherine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Barbara Stanwyck and John Wayne.

Now there's a cast list to die for. 

(Pretty weird movie, though)

You know what?- The performers who are going to dominate the middle years of the 21st century (I wonder what the movies will be like in 30 years time?) are coming into incarnation right now.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But then again the cinema was so much more central to people's lives in the days before TV and rock 'n' roll.

[momof2girls.livejournal.com]

Movies were so much better back then. Most of them pretty much suck these days. There are a few actors/actresses who don't, but the big-ticket movies seem to feature all the skanky people.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I agree. Those were the golden years of the movies.

[senordildo.livejournal.com]

That *would* be a pretty weird movie, especially since you'd essentially have two sets of cast members. Hepburn and Olivier appeared together in Love Among the Ruins, and Wayne and Stanwyck appeared together in Baby Face. And of course Hepburn and Wayne appeared together in Rooster Cogburn. But it'd be hard to imagine Olivier and Wayne appearing together on the same screen, and Hepburn and Stanwyck probably would get in a catfight. Hepburn would probably be the sole liberal in that group, since Wayne and Stanwyck were solid Republicans, and Olivier seems to have been a Tory.

One thing is for sure--the age of great-personality movie stars is over, and we'll never see the likes of those four again unless the public's taste changes.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've a feeling Olivier used to vote Labour. He was, after all, the creator and first director of that quasi-socialistic enterprise, The National Theatre.

I'd pay good money to see him and John Wayne on screen together. It would provide fodder for my quixotic and never to be written thesis that Wayne- not Olivier- was the greatest actor of the 20th century.