ELENOR PARKER GONE...

12-10-13 | Me

[SMARTY]

Elenor Parker was one of my favorites and now she's gone.

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Known for her role as the scheming baroness in The Sound of Music.

[fatnotlazy]

Sorry. Unfortunately, real actors and actresses are dying off. The current generation can’t act their way out of a paper bag

[gusopol3]

I'm not a big movie fan, but had just seen her in Naked Jungle (1954); I had a hard time convincing my young adult kids she was the Baroness from Sound of Music, which was only 11 years later.

[SMARTY]

Right...AND actors/actresses didn't shove their personal lives onto public notice.

We didn't have to hear about endless and smarmy scandals or find out ever time one of them got a hang nail...

Entertainers NOW, think we need to know everything about their nasty, grubby lives... AS IF they are relevant or something.

Sheesh ... they are just former manicurists and parking valets... NOT super human and all knowing.

Don't believe me... just listen when one of them speak without a script... idiocy personified!!!!

[saminfl]

The current generation can’t act their way out of a paper bag

I know I am old and have hearing loss, but I think they used to teach actors how to speak. Today I can barely understand what they are saying even when the volume is turned up.

[twister881]

The Sound of Music Live! did it.

[CaptainK]

A great beauty and a terrific actress. Three times Oscar nominated, which included a nomination for her grittiest role in Caged.

I also think she gave a wonderful performance as Mildred in the little known remake of "Of Human Bondage". Bette David gets all the acclaim for that role but I thought Elenore was truer to the book version of the character.

Thank goodness for Turner Movie Classics which keeps a record of a career that might otherwise be forgotten.

[miss marmelstein]

Very pretty woman. I remember her from “A Hole in the Head,” where she played Frank Sinatra’s love interest.

[TomGuy]

Actors/actresses make the audience believe they are the character they are playing. They can play the hero or they can play the villian, convincingly.

Personalities have roles built around their character, because they do no know how to act. They basically play the same character from program to program, movie to movie.

[TomGuy]

Today I can barely understand what they are saying even when the volume is turned up.

One of my biggest peeves. Several years ago, I bought headphones to plug into my TV. Many times, I record a program, use On Demand or use Neflix, etc., just so I can back up and replay, back up and replay, trying to make out what the character said.

If it isn't whispers and mumbling, it is background music so loud that it drowns out the speaking.

I tried to watch, for example, Reign on The CW. I got so annoyed with the loud background music that didn't even fit what was going on on-screen. I finally turned to something else after about 20 minutes of that noise.

[SMARTY]

You’re right-I quit watching Robert DeNiro doing Robert DeNiro, way back.

He’s always the same smart mouth and cocky jerk... which for Mean Streets was fine...

At some point, you have to start ‘acting’ and stop being yourself.

[Resolute Conservative]

Home from the Hill is one of my top 10 favorites.

[jocon307]

You sound really sad, I know how that can be when someone you really like, even if you don’t know them personally, passes away.

I felt very bereft when John Candy died, he always seemed to be such a sweet fellow.

RIP Eleanor & John.