Forgotten Bruce Dern Movies

And don't forget Tattoo with model Maud Adams.

All of them.

I've forgotten every Bruce Willis movie.

Black Sunday

Smile is a great film. Well worth another viewing!

Bruce Dern was excellent playing an evil psychotic in THE COWBOYS. Dern says he still gets hate mail for shooting John Wayne!

Well it sure doesn't get nuttier than The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, which also features the forgotten Pat Priest (Marilyn from The Munsters TV series) and Casey Kasem

I loved "Smile." It definitely inspired "Drop Dead Gorgeous," and Barbara Feldon was great in it.

Barbara Feldon was always one of my favorites. She always came across as intelligent and sexy.

Another thumbs up for Smile (1975)

The Seattle Times John Hartl

Smarter and funnier than the recent theatrical release, "Drop Dead Gorgeous," Michael Ritchie's superficially similar beauty-contest satire was mostly ignored when it came out in 1975. It has since become a classic, and a high point in the careers of Bruce Dern, Annette O'Toole, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd and Melanie Griffith. [05 Aug 1999]

Before they appeared together in the overrated Coming Home, Dern and Jane Fonda were in, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) directed by Sydney Pollack

Silent Running was his best film ever.

Annette O’Toole. Melanie Griffith. Joan Prather. The girl who played Violet in Willy Wonka. And the unknown chick who wins the pageant. That movie was perfectly cast.

Barbara Feldon said hers was a disturbingly easy role to play. I wish she wrote more about it in her autobiography. We do learn that she was freaked out by the massive amount of cocaine used on the set of A Vacation in Hell. It’s a good book, easy to read and entertaining.

Dern was also great in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He knew the subject matter well, I guess.

I had a huge crush on Bruce Dern when I was a kid in the ‘70s. I think it was his unpredictable, sort of dangerous demeanor, his penetrating stare, and his rare, candid smile that revealed some vulnerability. He worked a lot, not so much as a leading man, and his performances seemed to be a lot more complex than his contemporaries. I still feel that way about him, 50 years later.

The Burbs

Hitchcock's MARNIE - He played the sailor who got killed with a poker by young Marnie.

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte. I heard that was his first movie role...

[quote]Laura Dern has said that this was the first film featuring her father Bruce Dern that she ever saw. She also said that she "freaked out" when her father's decapitated head rolled down the stairs.

Besides Marnie (1964) Dern worked with Hitchcock again in 1976s Family Plot which was Hitch's last film.

R20 Thanks for reminding me. Family Plot was fun. Barbara Harris managed to make Bruce Dern adorable!

For those of you who don’t know, “Smile” was a Broadway musical, music by Marvin Hamlisch, book and lyrics by Howard Ashman. Not a success, however.

Which is why we don’t care.

Bruce Dern lives near me. He looks about 100yo. He has serious mobility problems. He's always been nice.

R24 Does he raise and salute the flag every morning?

R22 Interesting. Michael Kidd is in the movie; do you know if he was part of the Broadway production?

Family Plot is excellent.

[quote] it was his unpredictable, sort of dangerous demeanor, his penetrating stare, and his rare, candid smile that revealed some vulnerability.

Hitchcock did say that about Dern: that he was unpredictable (in a good way) as an actor.

R26. Yes—so he could recreate the horrible dance numbers from the pageant. 😵‍💫

[quote] Silent Running was his best film ever.

With a soundtrack designed to put you to sleep.

How very DARE you, R29!!!

Bruce looked like he was truly crazy dangerous especially in his early films, much like Dennis Hopper.

He did an interview with Playboy or Penthouse and confessed his porn addiction. He was promoting Tattoo and claimed that he and Maud Adams were really having sex in the film. Adams was not at all amused and appeared on Tom Snyder's show to say it was not true.