Casting so off you laugh at the first sight of the actor. One of my favorites is this 1958 Roger Corman movie with ROBERT VAUGHN in the title role as a Teenage Caveman. It's not enough that he was in his 30s playing a teenager, but his perfectly groomed hair and laser precise diction made him the most civilized caveman ever. What are your favorite examples?
Hilarious Miscasting - What's your favorite?
by Anonymous | reply 308 | January 24, 2023 3:01 AM |
Julia Roberts “Pretty Woman”
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 20, 2022 5:35 PM |
Mickey Rourke - Francesco, as in St. Francis of Assisi
I've never seen it. Just the idea makes me smile, though.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 20, 2022 5:40 PM |
Woody Allen playing the love interest of any mildly attractive young woman.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 20, 2022 5:49 PM |
Beanie in FG
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 20, 2022 5:58 PM |
Lucy in MAME
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 20, 2022 6:00 PM |
Glenn Close in the film version of Sunset Boulevard
by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 20, 2022 6:03 PM |
The very adult actors who played teenagers in Grease.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 20, 2022 6:52 PM |
Babs as high class hooker in NUTS. Who would pay money to fuck her? Even for a handjob.
To add insult to injury, there is an unintentionally funny scene where the trick she kills is played by Leslie Neilsen (The Naked Gun dude) he comes out in these pink panty briefs and asks "Do you have any bath salts?"
🤮
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 20, 2022 7:31 PM |
Philece Sampler as Donna Love on Another World. She was no Anna Stuart.
Dana Sparks as Victoria Gioberti on Falcon Crest. She was no Jamie Rose.
Chris Atkins as Peter Richards on Dallas. He was hot but wrong for the role of Sue Ellen's young lover. Linda looks especially haggard and mom-like that season.
Stephanie Cameron as Jennifer on DOOL.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 20, 2022 7:42 PM |
Babs as a high class hooker in NUTS.
Who would want to PAY to fuck her? Even a hand job would be slumming it.
An unintentionally funny moment is when that the trick she kills is show in flashback. He's played by Leslie Neilsen, yes the Naked Gun guy.
He comes out on his pink panty briefs and asks "Do you have any bath salts? " 🤮
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 20, 2022 8:24 PM |
R10 I love when they’re at dinner together and Streisand says to him “I’m slidin’ off my chair…”
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 20, 2022 8:25 PM |
John Wayne as Genghis Khan
James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh
Cary Grant as Cole Porter
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 21, 2022 12:55 AM |
Really have to agree with R10.
I was too young to see it in theaters, but I remember seeing it on cable.
Even as a young gayling, my first thought was "Barbra Streisand as a hooker? REALLY?". Many years later I saw "The Owl and the Pussycat" and it only affirmed my gut reaction.
I'm not going to shit on her. She isn't ugly by any means, but she just is not a run of the mill hooker. Yes, prostitutes can be on the fugly side if they do things others won't, but this wasn't the case with this character (who apparently commands $$$).
Even as a gay man, between Julia Roberts or Streisand I know who 99% of people would pick.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 21, 2022 1:03 AM |
Julia roberts as Harriet Tubman
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 21, 2022 1:05 AM |
My entire filmography.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 21, 2022 1:28 AM |
Tom Cruise in the 1994 Interview with the Vampire. He gave it his best shot but he could not carry off a role clearly designed for a Bowie or Julian Sands.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 21, 2022 1:33 AM |
Maybe not hilarious but Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in Torn Curtain, Hitchcock's behind-the-Iron-Cutain thriller. Newman played a physicist and rocket scientist.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 21, 2022 1:45 AM |
[quote]The very adult actors who played teenagers in Grease.
OT, but I had no idea Dennis Cleveland Stewart, who played Leo "Crater-Face" Balmudo, died in 1993 of AIDS.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 21, 2022 1:47 AM |
^1994
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 21, 2022 1:49 AM |
Pandora Spocks as Serena in 'Bewitched'. Totally miscast.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 21, 2022 2:07 AM |
[quote].R3 Woody Allen playing the love interest of any mildly attractive young woman.
Many women truly ARE attracted to men who make them laugh. When they’re his contemporaries (like Diane Keaton) it’s believable.
When it’s girls half his age it’s not.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 21, 2022 2:19 AM |
James Franco, in a movie called Queen of the Desert. He plays an Edwardian era British gent and he's every bit as miscast as you would think based on that description
Jared Leto in Basil (a movie no one saw). He plays a Victorian Englishman and stinks up the place.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 21, 2022 2:23 AM |
Keanu as Jonathan Harker in "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 21, 2022 2:25 AM |
The Wolfman:
Petite, erudite, English, sophisticated Claude Rains plays the father of large, lumbering, American Lon Chaney, Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | December 21, 2022 2:27 AM |
Dustin Hoffman as Matthew Broderick's father AND Sean Connery's son in "Family Business."
Preposterous.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 21, 2022 2:28 AM |
Lorraine Bracco as a scientist in Medicine Man.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 21, 2022 2:30 AM |
[quote]R17 TORN CURTAIN: Newman played a physicist and rocket scientist.
And opposite him, Julie Andrews tried to play a woman.
Hitchcock hated her in it.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 21, 2022 2:41 AM |
Ava Gardner as Lorne Greene's daughter in Earthquake
A cross-eyed Karen Black as an airplane-flying stewardess in Airport 1975
Stockard Channing as teenager in Grease
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 21, 2022 2:46 AM |
Helen Lawson. In anything.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 21, 2022 2:51 AM |
Sean Connery posing as Japanese in You Only Live Twice. His height and build would have made it hilarious without the Scottish accent.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 21, 2022 2:51 AM |
Sean Connery was fairly unconvincing in anything he did. A Movie Star, not a great actor.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 21, 2022 2:55 AM |
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Call girl? Former hick? No way.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 21, 2022 3:02 AM |
Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing
Jack Lemmon in Hamlet
Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 21, 2022 3:04 AM |
So true, R32!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 21, 2022 3:09 AM |
R34 owns the thread so far.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 21, 2022 3:19 AM |
Melinda Dillon's perm in A Christmas Story
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 21, 2022 3:22 AM |
Not necessarily hilarious because I thought he was excellent but Alex Wolff as the son of Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne in Hereditary was a head-scratcher.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 21, 2022 3:41 AM |
Harvey Keitel in The Last Temptation of Christ.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 21, 2022 3:43 AM |
Meryl Streep in many of the movies she's been in. I think some famous critic said (after her decent turn in Postcards from the Edge, a role which needed someone who projected a wildness Streep never naturally did) she's essentially made a career out of being miscast.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 21, 2022 3:47 AM |
The amount of Jewish women the unbelievably WASPy La Streep has played is hilarious. Mike Nichols thought she was the universal actress, apparently.
The only roles I think she was right in were her star making early ones: Deer Hunter, Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan, Sophie's Choice.
A number of other, lesser widely acclaimed but just as skilled actresses would have made more sense in many of the roles she's played. For example, Postcards needed a younger actress who might not have that much technical talent, but a raw screen presence and ability to play a realistic darkly comedic fuck-up. I once saw Jamie Lee Curtis suggested on a thread here and loved that idea.
Mamma Mia (that glurgefest) needed a younger woman in the lead as well. She might be the only actress in history to be regularly cast for roles she's too fucking old for past the age of 40!
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 21, 2022 3:53 AM |
[quote]r29 Helen Lawson. In anything
C’mon. She was good in “Sunny Lady” and “Hit the Sky.”
“Westward Ho” was no great shakes, but who COULD have made that sexploitation trash work?
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 21, 2022 3:58 AM |
Meryl Streep is Jewish, I think
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 21, 2022 4:10 AM |
Keanu Reeves in Dangerous Liaisons
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 21, 2022 4:11 AM |
Diana Ross in "The Wiz."
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 21, 2022 4:16 AM |
Suzanne Somers in 'She's the Sheriff'
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 21, 2022 4:18 AM |
Cameron Diaz in "Gangs of New York"
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight"
AnnE Hathaway in "Les Miserables"
Tom Bosley in "Murder She Wrote"
Ali MacGraw in "Dynasty"
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 21, 2022 4:24 AM |
Joan Crawford in "The Secret Storm"
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 21, 2022 4:25 AM |
Mickey Rooney — Breakfast at Tiffany’s
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 21, 2022 4:26 AM |
Gwyneth Paltrow in "Shakespeare in Love"
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 21, 2022 4:27 AM |
Agree with Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 21, 2022 4:30 AM |
R39 - that was Pauline Kael who wrote that. Cue the Pauline Kael was a cunt troll. My theory about Mike Nichols and Streep is that she was his doppelganger.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 21, 2022 4:31 AM |
Toni Collette should have had the lead in Mamma Mia. She can sing, and she looks like she could be Amanda Seyfried's mom.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 21, 2022 4:33 AM |
Word is Diaz got the part in Gangs of New York via the casting couch (thanks, Harvey!). Scorsese didn't want her in the role.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 21, 2022 4:37 AM |
Gabrielle Carteris as teenage journalist Andrea Zuckerman.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 21, 2022 4:37 AM |
As a Victorian streetwalker in From Hell, Heather Graham is neck-and-neck with Diaz for worst miscasting of a modern hottie as a 19th Century woman.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 21, 2022 4:38 AM |
^^^ in Beverly Hills 90010. Sorry
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 21, 2022 4:38 AM |
56 year old Arlene Francis as a pregnant woman in The Thrill of it All.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 21, 2022 4:42 AM |
Tom Hanks in Elvis. He deserves a Razzie for playing Colonel Parker.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 21, 2022 4:43 AM |
Natalie Wood in West Side Story.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 21, 2022 4:43 AM |
Leo is miscast in Gangs of NY as well. Should have been Marky Mark - who at least looked right for the part.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 21, 2022 4:45 AM |
Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. His scenes really take you out of it.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 21, 2022 4:45 AM |
R60 Except for the “acting” part of the role.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 21, 2022 4:46 AM |
Marky Mark? Really?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 21, 2022 4:46 AM |
Some modern actresses just can't convincingly play pre-20th Century roles. Julia Roberts stunk up the joint in Mary Reilly.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 21, 2022 4:47 AM |
r55, she was awful in that. Her cockney accent was sooooo bad. And her hair always looked freshly shampooed and curled, even though she was supposed to be living on the streets
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 21, 2022 4:49 AM |
Marky Mark as an astronaut in Planet of the Apes.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 21, 2022 4:50 AM |
R64 - I thought Julia passed as a colleen in Michael Collins.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 21, 2022 4:52 AM |
Elizabeth Taylor opposite Warren Beatty in The Only Game in Town. She looked short, fat, old, dumpy, and garish.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 21, 2022 4:53 AM |
Charity Rahmer as Belle on Days of Our Lives. She lasted what, three weeks?
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 21, 2022 4:53 AM |
Isn't Michael Collins set in the 1910s?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 21, 2022 4:56 AM |
Michael Collins is a 1996 biographical period drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as the Irish freedom fighter and politician Michael Collins, who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence against Britain.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 21, 2022 4:58 AM |
So, not a pre-20th Century role for Julia, then.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 21, 2022 5:03 AM |
Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist in The World is Not Enough. And in real life her caveman of a hubby studies cold fusion when he’s not harnessing the healing powers of cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 21, 2022 6:48 AM |
From some angles, Jeremy Renner looks like he has Down Syndrome, yet we're supposed to believe he's a a math genius in Arrival.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 21, 2022 7:18 AM |
Madonna in Evita.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 21, 2022 7:31 AM |
Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball. Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly. Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 21, 2022 7:52 AM |
Nicole Kidman as Human Woman.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 21, 2022 8:06 AM |
Patti LuPone in Evita
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 21, 2022 8:08 AM |
Bette Davis in Mrs. Skeffington. An ageless beauty who all the men wanted was not a believable look on her. Merle Oberon, the original choice for the role, would have made more sense.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 21, 2022 8:14 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 21, 2022 8:14 AM |
Bette Midler as Jacqueline Susann in "Isn't She Great." Didn't look like her; she pretty much was being herself, instead of embodying the spirit of the Valley Of The Doll author. The TV movie version with Michele Lee was much better.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 21, 2022 8:48 AM |
50-something year old Sandra Bullock as a pregnant lady in “Bird Box.”
by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 21, 2022 11:31 AM |
R28 I felt bad for Ava having to try to pass as the daughter of someone only 7 years older than her - but was she miscast, or was Lorne? Her father should have been played by an older man. She was only in her early 50s.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 21, 2022 2:27 PM |
Wasn't Lucille Ball also played a new mother in Yours, Mine, And Ours, at around age 56.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 21, 2022 2:33 PM |
*playing
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 21, 2022 2:33 PM |
Mimi Rogers as Streisand's younger sister in "Mirror Has Two Faces".
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 21, 2022 2:40 PM |
I'm a fan of hers, and she did get an Oscar nom for it. But I could not take Diahann Carroll seriously in 'Claudine'. She's meant to be this Harlem welfare mother of 6 kids living in poverty, but Carroll just screams wealthy and patrician. She's very mannered, her movements are svelte and trained, and out comes that beautifully eloquent diction of hers trying to pull off this "po' folks" street dialogue. I remember thinking 'this bitch has never been near a crack house in her life, and it shows.'
Fresh faced 19 year old Jennifer Lawrence in 'American Hustle' as a long-suffering wife and mother of two didn't really wash for me either. She was also a bit young for that mop movie.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 21, 2022 2:44 PM |
R87 Your point is well taken but whey would she have been near a crack house in the 70s?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 21, 2022 2:50 PM |
Not to take anything away from Diahann Carroll, but man I wish Diana Sands had lived to play that role as initially cast. Sands was a damn good actress and there is precious little of her on film. Not only should she have been nominated for The Landlord but she should have won over Helen Hayes. Claudine could have elevated her to a new level. Her death was a huge loss.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 21, 2022 2:54 PM |
Haha, r87, r89. I felt the same way, too. So did the people who eventually cast her. Diana Sands was dying, and insisted that Diahann replace her. Diahann eventually convinced them that she could play Claudine, stating that she grew up in Harlem, and was well-acquainted with women like Claudine, basically saying "I know Claudine. She lived in my building. There were Claudines in my family."
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 21, 2022 3:08 PM |
Sean Combs (Puff Daddy or P. Diddy) in Raisin In The Sun. I know he tried hard, and I enjoyed everyone else's performances, but I couldn't get used to him playing Walter Lee Younger, not after seeing Sidney Poitier and Danny Glover portray him in the earlier filmed versions.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 21, 2022 3:31 PM |
All three leads in COLD MOUNTAIN - too old for their parts, and Zellwegger's character in the book is mix-race. There's nothing quite like the Weinstein casting office. Miramax films are a library of bad casting choices.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 21, 2022 3:47 PM |
85-year old Judi Dench playing Shakespeare's 55 y/o wife in "All is True".
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 21, 2022 3:52 PM |
"Jack Lemmon in HAMLET"
Well, he's only in it for a few minutes as Marcellus, but he certainly sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm sure he was cast as a "name" to help sell the film, but is anyone going to see a 4-hour HAMLET to see Lemmon?
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 21, 2022 4:00 PM |
R92, I thought Zellweger was terrible. Don't know why she got the Oscar for that (and I say this as someone who liked her in other things)
by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 21, 2022 4:28 PM |
Ralph Bellamy at almost 80 playing FDR in his 50s, in The Winds Of War.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 21, 2022 4:32 PM |
I'm with r77. Nicole just looks too weird these days. In Being the Ricardos I couldn't get over how waxy her face looked
by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 21, 2022 4:32 PM |
[Quote]Ralph Bellamy at almost 80 playing FDR in his 50s, in The Winds Of War.
R96 You're right, but FDR looked pretty old in his 50s. He was 51 when this was filmed.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 21, 2022 4:44 PM |
Katharine Hepburn as a Chinese peasant. (Actually it's a powerful, moving WWII-era film, but still, strange today.)
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 21, 2022 4:45 PM |
R79, but Bette was the better actress.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 21, 2022 4:46 PM |
R98 True. I just remember when I saw it, I was in high school, we had been studying FDR and WWII, and Bellamy looked very old in certain scenes.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | December 21, 2022 4:47 PM |
Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Margaret Thatcher.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | December 21, 2022 4:50 PM |
I always nominated this one in these kind of threads. Kim Stanley in Frances. She was too fat to play the mother of Frances Farmer who was an advocate for healthy eating. Celeste Holm looked much closer to the real Lillian Farmer.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 21, 2022 4:52 PM |
My favorite miscasting is Bette Davis in All About Eve. As many of us know, Claudette Colbert was supposed to play that role, but a back injury forced her to drop out. Bette Davis took on the role, and made history with it. Perhaps we would be saying today that Claudette Colbert was miscast had she actually played Eve.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 21, 2022 4:57 PM |
Oops, MARGO.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 21, 2022 4:58 PM |
OP, believe it or not I looked this up a couple weeks ago. Vaugn was born in 1932. He would have been 25 when this was filmed in May 1958. He did look too old for the part though, I agree.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 21, 2022 5:01 PM |
Angelina Jolie as Marianne Pearl - total blackface
Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone - blackface + prosthetic nose
Gross
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 21, 2022 5:03 PM |
Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow. Sure she could act the part but her singing is god-awful.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 21, 2022 5:03 PM |
Courteney Cox as Monica in Friends. Ridiculous!
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 21, 2022 5:14 PM |
Jess Walton as Jill Foster Abbott.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 21, 2022 5:17 PM |
James Stewart in Ziegfeld Girl. Cast as Lana Turner's working-class Brooklyn boyfriend who becomes a gangster (maybe? I forget). It was a part for John Garfield. Jimmy even tried an accent or at least biting off his consonants.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 21, 2022 5:27 PM |
Streisand was a much prettier hooker in Nuts. By then she had control of the lighting and the camera angles. She dressed tastefully. (Not so pretty in a white schmatta in the jailhouse scenes.) I almost believed her acting.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 21, 2022 6:17 PM |
Halle Berry as a crack addict in Jungle Fever.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 21, 2022 6:23 PM |
Melanie Griffith as a Hasidic Jew in some abomination.
Winona Ryder in The Age of Innocence.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 21, 2022 6:27 PM |
Rita Hayworth as a downtrodden blowzy housewife in The Story on Page One. Rita is much too elegant.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 21, 2022 6:56 PM |
Jennifer Jones in the remake of A FAREWELL TO ARMS, with Rock Hudson. She was too old and mannered in the role of the nurse.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 21, 2022 7:01 PM |
Will Farrell in “Bewitched”.
Lens Dunham in anything.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 21, 2022 7:04 PM |
Madonna in any comedy.
Humourless tart.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 21, 2022 7:09 PM |
Lana Turner as Diane de Poitiers in Diane. She looked and acted way too contemporary
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 21, 2022 7:11 PM |
Doris Day in Midnight Lace. She tried but she was playing opposite Rex Harrison — all her meaning hand wringing and black lace just didn’t cut it
Seen it several times to TRY to like her but I keep hearing how much is that doggie in the window like a distant foghorn
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 21, 2022 7:23 PM |
Mel Gibson in ANYTHING. Way before his public rants … but then he’s the Passion of the christ ?
by Anonymous | reply 122 | December 21, 2022 7:25 PM |
Pint-sized Tom Cruise casting himself as the 6'5" behemoth Jack Reacher. Quelle horreur!!
by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 21, 2022 7:28 PM |
Michael J Fox in that vietnam Movie where the general (I don’t think it’s Michael but it Doesn’t matter ) goes on an insane killing spree.
Michael is too family tied for this part
For those of us who lived through Vietnam and the aftermath where we found out the truth sortof (post freedom of information act) the ENTIRE WAR WAS SN INSANE BLOOD BATH
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 21, 2022 7:29 PM |
Donna Reed as Sacagawea
Thread over!!!
by Anonymous | reply 125 | December 21, 2022 7:43 PM |
[quote]Keanu as Jonathan Harker in "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
I agree that Keanu was miscast, but he was so fucking beautiful it didn't matter.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 21, 2022 8:43 PM |
Love him but....Rock Hudson as a Brit in Something of Value. And Dame Wendy Hiller was supposed to be his sister - lol
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 21, 2022 9:19 PM |
Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble. She's ok, but I wish they had gotten someone cuter.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | December 21, 2022 9:30 PM |
Susan Hayward as Tartar princess Bortai in The Conqueror.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 21, 2022 9:34 PM |
Anne Baxter as Egyptian princess Nefretiri in The Ten Commandments, but thank God she was cast in this part!
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 21, 2022 9:35 PM |
R129, everyone in The Conqueror would qualify!
by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 21, 2022 9:44 PM |
Glenda Jackson in The Patricia Neal Story. Glenda uses her usual Brit accent which is wrong for Patricia.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 21, 2022 9:46 PM |
Jackson used her normal accent no matter who she played. Back in the 80s I saw her on stage in London in a play whose two main characters were Eva Braun and Clara Petacci (Mussolini's mistress). Jackson played Braun with her British accent.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 21, 2022 10:00 PM |
R121 How Much Is That Doggie In The Window was sung by Patti Page, not Doris Day.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 21, 2022 11:23 PM |
Biblical epics are a treasure trove for this sort of thing. The King Of Kings has Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus (prompting the joke “I was a teenaged Jesus), Rip Torn as Judas, and Robert Ryan as John The Baptist. The Greatest Story Ever Told has Max con Sydow as Jesus, Jose Ferrer as Herod, and John Wayne as a Roman Centaurian. And don’t get me started on The Ten Commandments…
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 21, 2022 11:58 PM |
[quote]Doris Day in Midnight Lace.
Her breakdown scene at the top of the stairs is always good for a chuckle.
Aunt BEA! HELP ME! AAAAACK! AAAA-AAAAACK!
by Anonymous | reply 136 | December 22, 2022 12:01 AM |
R13, Jill Clayburgh played a hooker in the TV movie Hustling that starred Lee Remick. She was a credible hooker and that’s acting!! My mother thought Clayburgh was miscast in An Unmarried Woman because she wasn’t attractive. She thought that they had her dance in her underwear as a way to put her over to the audience
by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 22, 2022 12:03 AM |
Most hookers aren't pretty. Not the ones on the streets. The prettier ones are escorts and such. But look at hooker mug shots and tell me that some of them aren't dogs. Straight guys don't care - as long as they can get their dicks sucked they don't care what a woman looks like.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 22, 2022 12:06 AM |
I don't know about Jeffrey Hunter. He didn't disgrace himself. Maybe he was a little dull, but it's not an easy role. If you think about how miscast Robert Wagner or Tony Perkins or Richard Beymer or Pat Boone or Roddy McDowall would have been, Jeffrey Hunter seems positively brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 22, 2022 12:12 AM |
^ His # needs to be retired.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 22, 2022 1:01 AM |
“But I will rise there with so full a glory That I will dazzle all the eyes of France, Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.”....
by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 22, 2022 1:09 AM |
The daughter in European Vacation. Most bizarre casting ever
by Anonymous | reply 143 | December 22, 2022 1:32 AM |
Brad Pitt, Seven Years in Tibet
by Anonymous | reply 144 | December 22, 2022 2:07 AM |
Not really miscasting because he pulled it off, but Frank Sinatra in those old MGM musicals where he was cast as a shy young guy, no experience with girls or sex.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | December 22, 2022 2:29 AM |
Ellen DeGeneres in Mr. Wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | December 22, 2022 2:33 AM |
R124 That was Brian De Palma’s Casualties of War. In the De Palma doc on HBO, he said that Sean Penn was method toward Fox the entire movie, aka hated him. During the courtroom scene he whispered “television actor” into Fox’s ear before Fox’s monologue.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | December 22, 2022 4:49 AM |
The Barbra as hooker discussion continued. She has played 3 if you include For Pete's Sake. I found her credible as one in The Owl and the Pussycat because she was tough and sexy as a street walker but by the time of Nuts her age seemed a problem. Anne Twomey in the play had a patrician elegance which matched the idea that Claudia is a Park Avenue quality sex worker though she works alone and not for a house or madam. Barbra is too earthy a type to play patrician elegance - you can't take the Brooklyn out of the girl. Debra Winger was initially attached to do the film and while younger than Barba, and let's face it, a better actress, she too would have been wrong as also too earthy. The bigger problem in Nuts is that you never believe that Barbra is in fact nuts.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | December 22, 2022 5:30 AM |
Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor in a tv movie 'Liz and Dick'
by Anonymous | reply 149 | December 22, 2022 5:41 AM |
Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly
by Anonymous | reply 150 | December 22, 2022 5:44 AM |
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Audrey Hepburn.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | December 22, 2022 5:45 AM |
Okay, r151 just won.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | December 22, 2022 5:46 AM |
That black woman who played Anne Boleyn
by Anonymous | reply 153 | December 22, 2022 5:49 AM |
Tara Reid as an anthropologist in Alone in the Dark
by Anonymous | reply 154 | December 22, 2022 5:58 AM |
Historical figures casting disasters:
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Olivia de Havilland in "Feud" (although I have to admit, she gave her all for the great line, "Help! I'm trapped in a small, private elevator!")
Edie Falco as Hillary Clinton in "American Crime Story: Impeachment."
John Cusack as Richard Nixon in "Lee Daniels's The Butler"
Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip in "The Crown"
by Anonymous | reply 155 | December 22, 2022 6:01 AM |
Viola Davis as Michelle Obama.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | December 22, 2022 1:30 PM |
Cicely Tyson as Coretta Scott King. Sorry, Cicely.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | December 22, 2022 1:34 PM |
[Quote]Viola Davis as Michelle Obama.
Excellent example, r156.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | December 22, 2022 1:40 PM |
It burns me up that Viola took umbrage with the critics on point assessment of her performance as Michelle. Everything was fine when they praised her for her performances in other roles. But as soon as they dragged her for her awful turn as Michelle Obama, she dismissed them as worthless. Her ego, really!
by Anonymous | reply 159 | December 22, 2022 1:52 PM |
Michelle Obama has a lightness to her (at least in public) that Viola is not capable of portraying. She's just too serious.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | December 22, 2022 1:57 PM |
Barbra Streisand in "A STAR IS BORN". Sorry, I never believed she was this up-and-coming rock-n-roll chick.
Barbra Streisand in 'YENTL'. No matter how she tried, Streisand at 40 never pulled off looking like a young male scholar in his early 20s.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | December 22, 2022 2:09 PM |
JImmie Dean in anything. Gawd he was such a terrible effeminate lil super faggot.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | December 22, 2022 2:19 PM |
Thank you R134. Duly noted
by Anonymous | reply 163 | December 22, 2022 2:29 PM |
r96 I'm guessing he was cast for nostalgia sake, since he had played FDR 20 years prior in "Sunrise at Campobello."
by Anonymous | reply 164 | December 22, 2022 2:46 PM |
R164 Probably, as well as him being a good actor who everyone knew could play the role. Actually if you remember, the whole cast was too old.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | December 22, 2022 2:50 PM |
Jerssica Lange as Joan Crawford. No resemblance at all and didn't capture any aspect of Crawford to me.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | December 22, 2022 2:52 PM |
Jessica has small eyes. Joan had massive hippopotamus eyes that were one of her trademarks. She didn’t resemble Joan at all. And she and Susan were both about a decade too old to play Bette and Joan at that stage in their lives.
I feel that way about Diana Ross as Billie Holiday. She bore little physical resemblance to Billie and her voice, while serviceable singing those songs, wasn’t anything like Billie either. But at the same time, you can’t take your eyes off her.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | December 22, 2022 2:56 PM |
Lee Remick as Margaret Sullavan in Haywire. Sullavan had a distinctive husky voice but Lee doesn't do it.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | December 22, 2022 3:36 PM |
Clearly, I am in the minority, but Mel Gibson in Braveheart. The scene where he returns and comes riding up with long flowing locks and a weathered, old, lined face in a kilt. Uh, no.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | December 22, 2022 3:39 PM |
R167 I don't get Hollywood's insistence on casting older actors as younger characaters, real or fictional. The actors really don't look "younger" as some people insist they do. Each decade, people move differently. It's not even faces - you can tell most people ages, from the back, by how they walk.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | December 22, 2022 3:45 PM |
R170 sometimes a movie won't get financed unless there's a big name attached in a lead role. And since in the case of Braveheart, Gibson, directed and produced, he got to be the star. His Scottish accent was al so ...deplorable.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | December 22, 2022 3:50 PM |
R17, truly bottom drawer Hitchcock.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | December 22, 2022 4:04 PM |
R172Commercial movies are mostly a young-ish director's game. In his mid-60s Hitchcock seemed desperate to stay relevant, doing others' bidding and ditching Bernard Herrmann's score (he asked Herrmann to make it more pop, Herrmann didn't comply), as well as casting younger, box-office stars.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | December 22, 2022 4:33 PM |
Donna Reed as Miss Ellie.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | December 22, 2022 4:58 PM |
R169, I agree with you
by Anonymous | reply 175 | December 22, 2022 7:20 PM |
I adore her but Elizabeth Taylor was not right for Maggie the Cat. No. She really wasn't.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | December 22, 2022 9:25 PM |
R176 She was better than most people who have played it.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | December 22, 2022 9:47 PM |
r176, that's one of the movies I think she's actually good in.
If you had said "BUtterfield-8" I would have agreed with you.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | December 22, 2022 9:50 PM |
Liz was definitely better than Natalie Wood, who did a television remake.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | December 23, 2022 1:13 AM |
Natalie was better than Liz. Robert Wagner was the weak link in the TV remake
by Anonymous | reply 180 | December 23, 2022 1:27 AM |
R168 Shelley Winters looked a lot more like Margaret Sullavan
by Anonymous | reply 181 | December 23, 2022 1:27 AM |
Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin. Jeez.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | December 23, 2022 1:31 AM |
R181 What??
by Anonymous | reply 183 | December 23, 2022 2:33 AM |
Janet Gaynor in the original "A Star Is Born". In all the other versions (for all their other faults) , you at least knew why the female lead was on their way to stardom. Not so much with Janet.
But the all-time example of miscasting has to be Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner as brothers (!) in "The Mountain". Spencer looked more like Wagner's grandfather. Who the hell thought making them BROTHERS would be a good idea?
And let's not forget Liberace as the romantic lead in "Sincerely Yours".
by Anonymous | reply 184 | December 23, 2022 2:37 AM |
31 year old june allison as 15 year old josephine march. little women
by Anonymous | reply 185 | December 23, 2022 3:14 AM |
[quote]Janet Gaynor in the original "A Star Is Born". In all the other versions (for all their other faults) , you at least knew why the female lead was on their way to stardom. Not so much with Janet.
And yet in real life, she *was* a star, who had already won an Academy Award, and would be nominated for another Oscar for A Star Is Borb...
by Anonymous | reply 186 | December 23, 2022 3:16 AM |
Or A Star Is Born
by Anonymous | reply 187 | December 23, 2022 3:16 AM |
r185, good choice. Janet Leigh was 10 years younger than Allyson but was playing her OLDER sister
by Anonymous | reply 188 | December 23, 2022 3:18 AM |
You'd love June in Too Young to Kiss then.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | December 23, 2022 3:21 AM |
Cynthia Potter is a skilled pianist trying to catch the eye of concert promoter Eric Wainwright. Wainwright, however, is currently only looking for young talent. To meet his criteria, Potter (in her 20s), masquerades as her own fictional younger sister, a 14-year-old "Molly" Potter.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | December 23, 2022 3:22 AM |
june was also pregnant
by Anonymous | reply 191 | December 23, 2022 3:47 AM |
June wasn't 31 in the film. She was more like 29 or 30, because the film was held back for release from 1948 until '49 (possibly to make it one of MGM's Silver Anniversary pictures). Katharine Hepburn was 26, Saoirse Ronan was 25. Winona Ryder was younger: 23. The audience in those days had very little way of knowing the ages of actors, unless they had an almanac or some other reference book that happened to list their ages. (They wouldn't have found June Allyson's real age, anyway, because the studio passed her off as younger.)
by Anonymous | reply 192 | December 23, 2022 4:03 AM |
r192, people weren't blind, I'm sure they knew she wasn't 15. She looked ridiculous. (And I actually feel the same way about Hepburn)
by Anonymous | reply 193 | December 23, 2022 4:06 AM |
Diana Ross in The Wiz.
by Anonymous | reply 194 | December 23, 2022 4:09 AM |
Geez break out the mothballs with R184
by Anonymous | reply 195 | December 23, 2022 4:57 AM |
Armie Hammer in Call Me By Your Name.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | December 23, 2022 2:01 PM |
Julie Harris, who portrayed a 12-year-old tomboy in The Member Of The Wedding. She was 24 when she played her on Broadway, and 26 when she did the film.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | December 23, 2022 2:30 PM |
Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers as Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers in Tears and Laughter: The Joan Rivers and Melissa Rivers Story.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | December 23, 2022 4:22 PM |
On the contrary, Julie Harris in Member of the Wedding is a prime example of superb eccentric casting.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | December 23, 2022 4:28 PM |
Spencer Tracy in [italic] It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World [/italic] . He was a pro and did creditably; but . . . for me, he just doesn't really fit. I wonder if, at some early early early stage of the project, they had fantasies of getting the aged Chaplin for that role.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | December 23, 2022 4:49 PM |
They could have used George Burns, R200. Unlike Chaplin, he'd have taken it.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | December 23, 2022 5:18 PM |
R193 It was the 9th highest grossing film of the year, so I guess "people" didn't mind. Jo is never played in movies by a teenager, never mind a 15 year old. By the end of the story she's supposed to be 25, anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | December 23, 2022 5:25 PM |
R200, see I thought Spencer Tracy was perfect in his role. Because he brought his image and a reputation built over decades to that character. I thought the whole movie was damned near perfect. I loved the casting. I don't think Chaplin or Burns would have done the character justice. It would have been a totally different movie if either of them had been cast.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | December 23, 2022 5:35 PM |
I can just hear Gracie Allen in the Selma Diamond voiceover role as Burns' wife, telling him about their daughter...
by Anonymous | reply 204 | December 23, 2022 5:38 PM |
Also, R79, like Meryl Streep did in SOPHIE'S CHOICE, she was able to convince the audience that she was beautiful. Sophie was described as a beautiful woman in the William Styron novel. Streep is not a classic beauty, but she had this haunted but ethereal quality in her performance that made people believe that she was beautiful. Bette behaved like the spoiled, pampered debutante the character was. Hair and makeup helped too. I love Merle Oberon, but I don't know if she would have been as compelling in the role.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | December 23, 2022 6:28 PM |
R202, a lot of these movies made money. So what?
by Anonymous | reply 206 | December 23, 2022 6:55 PM |
Clint Eastwood in anything he's done in the past ten years....
by Anonymous | reply 208 | December 23, 2022 10:18 PM |
Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls. The dance scene in the Havana interlude was ridiculous and he tried, God love 'em, but he cannot sing.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | December 23, 2022 10:22 PM |
That girl who played Sonja on Mama's Family.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | December 23, 2022 10:59 PM |
Cheryl Ladd was simply awful as Grace Kelly. I think that fellow Angel and equally awful thespian Jaclyn Smith helped her prep for the part.
Speaking of Jaclyn, she was an atrocious Florence Nightingale.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | December 23, 2022 11:46 PM |
That should have been Gene Kelly in Guys and Dolls, but he was off making An American in Paris.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | December 23, 2022 11:53 PM |
R211, Jaclyn was fucking terrible as Florence Nightingale.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | December 23, 2022 11:58 PM |
Weirdly, sitcom icon Elizabeth Montgomery was a smashing Lizzie Borden.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | December 24, 2022 12:00 AM |
Nicole Kidman as the neurosurgeon in Days of Thunder. When the movie was filmed she as 231
by Anonymous | reply 215 | December 24, 2022 12:24 AM |
R212 Guys and Dolls came out in 1955. An American in Paris came out in 1951.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | December 24, 2022 12:55 AM |
DL even had a thread about this: Miss Anne Baxter as a Mexican cantina owner in Walk on the Wild Side. Her Mexican accent was all over the place.
It turns out she was cast because her agent was also the producer. Double dipping there.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | December 24, 2022 1:03 AM |
^ Almost everyone in Walk on the Wild Side was miscast.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | December 24, 2022 1:04 AM |
Shelley Long as a hooker in Night Shift
by Anonymous | reply 219 | December 24, 2022 1:06 AM |
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | December 24, 2022 1:28 AM |
sorry to barge in with a 2022 reference -
right now there is tons of discussion over claire danes on her new FX series. Everyone hates her character. Shes a stereotypical bitch who is only important to the plot because she disappears and you see her acting like a cunt in a lot of flashbacks. Avoid reading about the twist but you eventually get an episode from her perspective and its clear why she took the part and why she is perfect for it. and around that time you find out why another character is narrating the series which till then doesnt make much sense either.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | December 24, 2022 1:33 AM |
Barbra Streisand in Yentl.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | December 24, 2022 2:42 AM |
Nicole Kidman was 231? My, she looked good...
by Anonymous | reply 223 | December 24, 2022 3:10 AM |
Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe. Ugh.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | December 24, 2022 3:24 AM |
R200 Come on...Charlie Chaplin as tough, grizzled Captain Culpeper, chief of detectives of the Santa Rosita Police Department?! Tracy was perfect.
And yes, Tracy was the first choice. He was the favorite of Stanley Kramer, who also cast him in Inherit The Wind, Judgment At Nuremberg, and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. He also wanted to cast Tracy in Ship Of Fools (as the doctor), but Tracy couldn't do it.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | December 24, 2022 3:34 AM |
Agree, R225!
by Anonymous | reply 226 | December 24, 2022 3:41 AM |
R225 For Ship of Fools, do you mean the Oskar Werner part?
by Anonymous | reply 227 | December 24, 2022 6:16 AM |
R155 Edie was awful, but it would have been impossible in Hollywood to do the character correctly, for the exact same reason I keep getting banned for making fun of her here.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | December 24, 2022 6:40 AM |
^ Yes she was 231 that's why she's had so much plastic surgery! No, that was a typo ha ha-- I meant to say she was 23 and I thought that casting was ridiculous.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | December 24, 2022 8:48 AM |
Alec Guiness as Professor Godbole. How could two masters like Guiness and Lean create such an abomination.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | December 24, 2022 9:42 AM |
Hilary Swank in The Black Dahlia. It feels weird she's portraying someone who is supposed to be this sexy femme fatale.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | December 24, 2022 5:41 PM |
Someone helping the protagonist is attacked by the killer and presumed dead but they recover just in time to save the protagonist when we think they are doomed. Locations like cliffs and rooftops add to the climactic drama.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | December 24, 2022 5:45 PM |
oops wrong thread.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | December 24, 2022 5:46 PM |
Hilary Swank in "The Affair of the Necklace." She's another one of those actresses who can't play pre-20th century characters.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | December 24, 2022 6:16 PM |
There's an old movie The Pride and the Passion that came out in 1957 and it was about the Napoleonic wars. Frank Sinatra in a period movie. Dear God what a fuckin disaster. Cary Grant and Sophia Loren rounded out the cast. A true shit mess.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | December 24, 2022 6:21 PM |
Sinatra was only good in of-the-moment projects, and once he fell out of cultural relevancy, he couldn't even do that. His last few films were terrible and he was terrible in them.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | December 24, 2022 6:56 PM |
Nepo baby Cody Horn, who played the love interest in the first Magic Mike. She was so terrible, she couldn't even convincingly play someone who found Channing Tatum at his hottest attractive.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | December 24, 2022 6:57 PM |
R232, it seems like 50% of thrillers end with someone dangling off a roof or a cliff
by Anonymous | reply 238 | December 24, 2022 7:05 PM |
[quote][R55], she was awful in that. Her cockney accent was sooooo bad. And her hair always looked freshly shampooed and curled, even though she was supposed to be living on the streets
Not to mention the other whores (most notably the late Katrin Cartlidge) were done up to look extra-smelly and bedraggled in comparison.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | December 24, 2022 7:09 PM |
Daryl Hannah in Sense8.
All I saw was a 90 year old with too much facework wearing something appropriate for someone 1/4 of her age.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | December 25, 2022 3:28 AM |
Whoopi taking on a Jewish last name while claiming anti-Semitism doesn't exist and there's no such thing as racism against Jewish people because they're all white to her
by Anonymous | reply 241 | December 25, 2022 6:10 AM |
[quote]R205 Sophie was described as a beautiful woman in the William Styron novel.
Yes. The author imagined Ursula Andress as this character when he was writing it.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | December 25, 2022 6:21 AM |
r225 r226 Naturally if you've bonded with Spencer Tracy as Capt. Culpepper (note spelling), anyone else in the role will seem wrong. Yes, I agree: Chaplin would never be able to play Spencer Tracy as Capt. Culpepper as well as Spencer Tracy could play Spencer Tracey as Capt. Culpepper. But Chaplin playing Chaplin as Capt. Culpepper might have given a more successful performance than did Spencer Tracy playing Spencer Tracy as Capt. Culpepper, considering the film as a whole. Tracy did well; others might have done better.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | December 25, 2022 1:05 PM |
R243 Okay, you win. If somehow Chaplin, in his 70s, would have come out of exile and returned to the US to work in Hollywood, under the direction of someone else for the first time in decades, and if his character was English, or if he could do an American accent, he could have been well cast as a California police detective.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | December 25, 2022 1:31 PM |
Southern belle Kassie Depaiva as a half-Asian seductress Blair Daimler!
by Anonymous | reply 245 | December 25, 2022 8:05 PM |
Hear, hear, R230!
by Anonymous | reply 246 | December 25, 2022 8:06 PM |
Th entire cast of the 1948 musical THE PIRATE - Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Gladys Cooper(!), Walter Slezak and others all playing Spaniards.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | December 25, 2022 8:12 PM |
R243 The problem with Tracy in that film was he didn't quite fit with the ensemble of other performers. They by and large were actors of broad comedy like Silvers and Winters. Tracy through and through was a master of sophisticated light comedy. But he tried to play the role in a broad fashion that was right for the film but not right for Tracy. "A chocolate fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry on top."
by Anonymous | reply 248 | December 25, 2022 10:04 PM |
R248 he wasn't supposed to "fit in" he was the Police.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | December 25, 2022 11:13 PM |
R249 Sort of the point. He nonetheless tried to fit in. Who can forget the licking dog. Didn't work.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | December 25, 2022 11:19 PM |
I remember when the film It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was on TV a long time ago. I heard my mother laughing. I went into the room and she was laughing really hard at Spencer Tracy in a scene near the end. I never forgot that.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | December 26, 2022 2:07 AM |
^^Yay! Spencer wins!
by Anonymous | reply 252 | December 26, 2022 5:19 AM |
I saw Confidential Agent with Lauren Bacall. I understand why she tried to get out of it, she was not right for it at all. She competes with Madonna for worst British accent of all time.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | December 26, 2022 7:40 AM |
John Wayne in “The Sons of Katie Elder.” JW was 58 years old, playing the oldest of the four sons. The youngest son was played by a 22-year-old Michael Anderson Jr. The Duke looked like he was wearing a girdle.
Katie must have been quite a woman to be pushing out kids for 36 years!
by Anonymous | reply 254 | December 26, 2022 2:29 PM |
Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous. Yeah, I know he won an Oscar for it...
by Anonymous | reply 255 | December 26, 2022 6:51 PM |
R255, I totally agree on this one! His accent was atrocious. Manuel the Portugee was not believable.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | December 26, 2022 6:54 PM |
R3 wins.
Woody was hiding in plain sight
by Anonymous | reply 257 | December 26, 2022 6:55 PM |
Back in the days of the studios calling all the shots, if a star was hot, they cast him in everything whether it was a good fit or not. My most favorite miscasting was Tony Curtis in the
by Anonymous | reply 258 | December 26, 2022 6:56 PM |
Tony Curtis in the Black Shield of Falworth..."I shall go to the castle of my foddah! LOL! In fact Tony Curtis was such a contemporary actor that playing in period films did not work well for him. His turn in Spartacus, and in Vikings along with Kirk Douglas who was also woefully miscast, sealed the deal. Terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | December 26, 2022 7:02 PM |
Tony always sounded like he was from The Bronx, whether he was playing a medieval Brit, ancient Roman, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | December 26, 2022 7:04 PM |
The list of actors who are too contemporary to play any kind of period role is a long one. There are actors today who shouldn't even play anything that takes place before the 1970s.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | December 26, 2022 7:04 PM |
The argument abolut being "too contemporary" never made total sense to me. Are we really to assume people in earlier times walked around speaking in flowery accents or looking correct in historical costumes? In other words I think it's more about what we accept theatrically as being historical, rather than what is really historical. Recently I was watching interviews with people who survived the Titanic. They talked more or less the way we talk now. But in the most recent Titanic movie, at least some of the cast was walking around posing and speaking in a fake "historical" manner.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | December 26, 2022 9:57 PM |
Harvey Keitel in The Last Temptation of Christ seems like he just got off the train from Brooklyn.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | December 26, 2022 10:01 PM |
R263 I think it has a lot to do with accents. I know what you mean, but - how do we know what someone acted like in the time of Christ? Did everybody act like "biblical' movie characters, or vaguely Shakespearean? Did they talk like Charlton Heston?
by Anonymous | reply 264 | December 26, 2022 10:07 PM |
Sidney Poitier as Thurgood Marshall. Marshall was light skinned and it played a part in his narrative. This was stunt casting and it didn’t really work for me. And I love Sidney.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | December 26, 2022 10:42 PM |
R264, I get what you are saying but I REALLY doubt they sounded like they were from Brooklyn.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | December 26, 2022 10:45 PM |
Outside of the ages of most of the principle cast being in their 20s. Grease was perfectly cast.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | December 26, 2022 10:48 PM |
R266 I get that.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | December 26, 2022 10:52 PM |
Joaquin Phoenix as a philosophy professor in Irrational Man. See Marky Mark in Planet of the Apes.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | December 29, 2022 7:12 AM |
Kevin Spacey and Ashley Judd as Cole and Lynda Porter. He was too old and she was too young.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | December 29, 2022 11:54 AM |
[r270] apparently Kevin Kline was so miscast that you thought he was Kevin Soacey
by Anonymous | reply 271 | December 29, 2022 12:50 PM |
The Kevin Spacey miscast was for Bobby Darin. What excrement.
Oh. Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records. I liked the movie but she was not right for that part. Etta hated it.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | December 29, 2022 2:07 PM |
My bad r271. Kline it is…still miscast though.
And it’s not SOAucey but SPacey 😝🙄
by Anonymous | reply 273 | December 29, 2022 3:41 PM |
I thought Moulin ROuge was a disaster. Ewan McGregor Nicole Kidman, all of it.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | December 29, 2022 3:57 PM |
But was it miscast r274, that’s the subject.
by Anonymous | reply 275 | December 29, 2022 6:21 PM |
R275 Actually, HILARIOUS miscasting is the subject, and for the most part, that's not what the thread turned out to be about.
by Anonymous | reply 276 | December 31, 2022 6:28 PM |
Fortunately not cast. It would have been a disaster.
by Anonymous | reply 277 | January 1, 2023 3:41 PM |
[quote] Tony Curtis in the Black Shield of Falworth..."I shall go to the castle of my foddah! LOL! In fact Tony Curtis was such a contemporary actor that playing in period films did not work well for him. His turn in Spartacus, and in Vikings along with Kirk Douglas who was also woefully miscast, sealed the deal. Terrible.
Only in hindsight. At the time these movies were produced, apparently nobody was listening to the accents. Everyone in Falworth speaks American. In fact, every Hollywood movie set in England was delivered in American. And the line is "Yonda lies the castle of my foddah."
by Anonymous | reply 278 | January 1, 2023 6:21 PM |
Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy. I get that Portman is an expert crier--that's what she does in every movie--but she is incapable of expressing very much aside from that.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | January 1, 2023 6:41 PM |
Helen Mirren in that Catherine the Great miniseries she did a few years ago. She was 73 years old.
She was 73 playing a 30 year old. It was bizarre.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | January 1, 2023 6:53 PM |
Nicole Kidman in Bewitched. She’s no Liz Montgomery.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | January 2, 2023 3:40 AM |
R279, I agree! That was a real shitmess. Natalie as Jackie Kennedy absolutely did not work. In fact, in every movie the adult Natalie Portman is in, she is the same. She has very little range and is not a good actor.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | January 2, 2023 4:09 AM |
R282, none of her performances impressed me. In Black Swan, I think Mila Kunis is way more interesting than her.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | January 2, 2023 4:20 AM |
But Jackie Kennedy had the personality of a robot.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | January 2, 2023 5:48 AM |
Nothing beats Michael Jackson as Captain EO at Disneyland!
When he first appeared on screen, the audiences literally broke out laughing at him. And this was at the height of his fame, before any of the kiddie-diddling scandals.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | January 2, 2023 5:55 AM |
R279 Have you seen the film? She's excellent in it and most people agree to that.
by Anonymous | reply 286 | January 2, 2023 6:16 AM |
Linda Blair and Eve Plumb should have swapped roles in their ‘Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic/Runaway’ films.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | January 2, 2023 8:44 AM |
Pretty much all of the leads in the 2004 Phantom Of The Opera film adaptation were wrong for their roles, in my opinion, except for maybe Patrick Wilson. The film should have been made earlier and with a different director, but could possibly have been salvaged to a degree with better casting, especially ones with better singing voices. Gerard Butler was especially bad in the title role.
by Anonymous | reply 288 | January 2, 2023 10:04 AM |
KD Lang in the laughable Eye Of The Beholder with Ewan MacGregor and Ashley Judd. The film is a mess but I cannot imagine why anyone else wouldn't have been a better choice for Lang given her awful performance.
by Anonymous | reply 289 | January 2, 2023 10:07 AM |
R286, yes I saw the film. All I can say is they got the clothes right. I thought Natalie was horribly miscast.
by Anonymous | reply 290 | January 2, 2023 4:46 PM |
Natalie was not miscast but she's a very limited actress incapable of any expressive acting, which fit the character. The film was an interesting visual recreation of those times.
by Anonymous | reply 291 | January 2, 2023 4:55 PM |
21-year-old Jane Powell as the sister of 51-year-old Fred Astaire in 1951's Royal Wedding.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | January 2, 2023 5:07 PM |
Maybe Gregory Peck was miscast as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956), though he wasn't terrible.
by Anonymous | reply 293 | January 2, 2023 7:23 PM |
Kristen Stewart as Snow White & as Princess Diana.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | January 2, 2023 7:28 PM |
43-year-old Leslie Howard and 34-year-old Norma Shearer as Romeo & Juliet in the 1936 MGM film.
by Anonymous | reply 295 | January 2, 2023 9:35 PM |
R291, in spite of your insistence I will maintain my opinion. You liked it. I did not. For me Natalie was the worst Jackie I've seen and I have seen several. YOu are entitled to your opinion. You won't change mine, and you can't make me feel bad about it. THis is not about right and wrong, it's about taste. Your taste doesn't reflect my taste in this instance.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | January 2, 2023 11:14 PM |
A limited screen actress? I'd like to see Meryl Streep play a stripper.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | January 2, 2023 11:16 PM |
Paul Newman seemed miscast in The Prize, a pseudo-Hitchcock 60's thriller with a lot of dry humor (written by Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter of North By Northwest). Newman is good in the dramatic parts but the humor seems more suited to Cary Grant.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | January 3, 2023 1:12 AM |
Paul Newman wasn’t good at comedy.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | January 3, 2023 1:33 AM |
Another comedy Newman was miscast in was Rally Round The Flag, Boys (1957). He had very little talent as a comedian.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | January 3, 2023 3:18 AM |
He had a dry, smug sense of humor. I saw him on a few talk shows in his old age. There is something about him I just don't like.
by Anonymous | reply 302 | January 4, 2023 4:10 PM |
Ali Macgraw in Dynasty. Good lord was she terrible!
by Anonymous | reply 303 | January 24, 2023 12:42 AM |
Marjorie Main as Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
by Anonymous | reply 304 | January 24, 2023 12:44 AM |
Even worse in THE WINDS OF WAR, R303, as Natalie Jastrow. So glad they got Jane Seymour for WAR AND REMEMBRANCE!!!
by Anonymous | reply 305 | January 24, 2023 1:50 AM |
[quote] "Helen Lawson. In anything."
R29 = Neely O'Hara
by Anonymous | reply 306 | January 24, 2023 2:47 AM |
Ian Levine, still playing a barely legal Twink, getting fucked by his scoutmaster, or step dad at 30.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | January 24, 2023 2:50 AM |
Natalie Portman may be limited and when she's bad, she's bad. And I don't particularly like the chick but for each of her Oscar nominated roles she knocked it out of the fucking park.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | January 24, 2023 3:01 AM |