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Classic actors you never cared for

Humphrey Bogart

John Wayne

by Anonymousreply 28May 13, 2025 5:14 AM

Gary Cooper. Very wooden.

by Anonymousreply 1May 12, 2025 3:47 AM

Grace Kelly. So beautiful but just so bland

by Anonymousreply 2May 12, 2025 3:48 AM

Yes, Grace wasn't effective but no one minded looking at her.

by Anonymousreply 3May 12, 2025 3:54 AM

I can’t believe Judy Garland’s performance in A Star is Born lost the Oscar to Grace Kelly.

by Anonymousreply 4May 12, 2025 3:59 AM

Katherine Hepburn EXCEPT when she uttered that gay male’s favorite line-

The Calla Lillies are in bloom again

by Anonymousreply 5May 12, 2025 4:02 AM

Does Clint Eastwood count?

Him.

by Anonymousreply 6May 12, 2025 4:04 AM

Eastwood has always given me the creeps.

by Anonymousreply 7May 12, 2025 4:09 AM

Glen Ford.

by Anonymousreply 8May 12, 2025 4:09 AM

Glen Ford, yes. So boring and just blah.

by Anonymousreply 9May 12, 2025 4:10 AM

John Wayne - wife beater, chicken, liar ,faux patriot, and as an actor, so boring

Spencer Tracy - I worked with an older guy when i worked in tv in NYC. He worked on several Spencer Tracy plays ; Broadway plays, which ,back in the day, was a very big deal.

My friend said Tracy was a mean drunk . There was a disgusting “ thing” he used to do when Hollywood friends or fans would greet him backstage. They’d stick out their hand as if to shake his & Tracy would turn their hand around and vomit into their palm.

Not as nauseating, but equally strange were the legends and secrecy about his relationship with KH. I’ve heard so many variations ,ranging from they were beards for each other to they were madly in love but Spencey couldn’t divorce his wife because they were Catholic and their daughter was disabled to they were responsible for 9/11 or fluoride in our water….why is it still a mystery?

And what did people see in him? He always played himself. Lovable but gruff. Even as a little kid, I thought he was fake.

But you know who was GORGEOUS and my first love when I was 5? Tony Franciosa. Wasn’t he beautiful?

by Anonymousreply 10May 12, 2025 4:34 AM

John Wayne - wife beater, chicken, liar ,faux patriot, and as an actor, so boring

Spencer Tracy - I worked with an older guy when i worked in tv in NYC. He worked on several Spencer Tracy plays ; Broadway plays, which ,back in the day, was a very big deal.

My friend said Tracy was a mean drunk . There was a disgusting “ thing” he used to do when Hollywood friends or fans would greet him backstage. They’d stick out their hand as if to shake his & Tracy would turn their hand around and vomit into their palm.

Not as nauseating, but equally strange were the legends and secrecy about his relationship with KH. I’ve heard so many variations ,ranging from they were beards for each other to they were madly in love but Spencey couldn’t divorce his wife because they were Catholic and their daughter was disabled to they were responsible for 9/11 or fluoride in our water….why is it still a mystery?

And what did people see in him? He always played himself. Lovable but gruff. Even as a little kid, I thought he was fake.

But you know who was GORGEOUS and my first love when I was 5? Tony Franciosa. Wasn’t he beautiful?

by Anonymousreply 11May 12, 2025 4:34 AM

Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable

by Anonymousreply 12May 12, 2025 4:51 AM

Jackie Gleason. I mentioned it before, he scared me.

by Anonymousreply 13May 12, 2025 5:14 AM

What kind of chicken was John Wayne?

by Anonymousreply 14May 12, 2025 5:59 AM

John Wayne's screen person was so off putting I've never seen several "classic" westerns.

by Anonymousreply 15May 12, 2025 7:57 PM

Bing Crosby

by Anonymousreply 16May 12, 2025 8:05 PM

Everyone already mentioned here except for Garland/Hepburn (like both).

Ronald Reagan

Laurence Olivier

Danny Kaye

Bob Hope

And a shit ton more I can't think of at the moment.

by Anonymousreply 17May 12, 2025 10:27 PM

Warren Beatty... good looking in his youth, no acting ability.

by Anonymousreply 18May 13, 2025 2:01 AM

Neither Frank Sinatra nor Elvis Presley, or as a singers either. Just never got their supposed charisma or sex appeal shtick. .

by Anonymousreply 19May 13, 2025 3:06 AM

Anybody with a pencil moustache.

by Anonymousreply 20May 13, 2025 3:19 AM

Fred Astaire

James Cagney

Clark Gable

Tony Randall

Spencer Tracy

Jerry Lewis

by Anonymousreply 21May 13, 2025 3:27 AM

Van Johnson, Van Heflin. Can’t watch any movie they’re in.

by Anonymousreply 22May 13, 2025 3:35 AM

Laurence Olivier .Except in Marathon Man I find his acting histrionic.

by Anonymousreply 23May 13, 2025 3:35 AM

John Wilkes Booth

Died at 26 years 11 months of age. Does he qualify for membership in The 27 Club?

by Anonymousreply 24May 13, 2025 3:46 AM

Orson Welles gives me the creeps

Jerry Lewis

Charlie fucking Chaplin

by Anonymousreply 25May 13, 2025 4:20 AM

Joan Crawford

Robert Taylor

Robert Mitchum

by Anonymousreply 26May 13, 2025 4:53 AM

Grace Kelly - definitely just a pretty face

Loretta Young

by Anonymousreply 27May 13, 2025 5:00 AM

George Raft. It was as if he wasn't even trying. Just stood on his mark and said his lines.

by Anonymousreply 28May 13, 2025 5:14 AM
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