Neanderthal: Joan Collins turned down Richard Burton while making Sea Wife
Posted on 03/22/2010 8:39:16 PM PDT by Stoat
What strikes me again and again about these movies is how hunky and masculine the majority of the male stars were.
Neanderthal: Joan Collins turned down Richard Burton while making Sea Wife
Boom Town was on recently, with the extremely macho co-stars Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable. Although Gable was by far the better looking and taller (he kept referring to Tracy as 'Shorty' in the film) Spencer Tracy was his equal in the he-man department.
The same goes for most of the male movie stars from the golden era of Hollywood: Anthony Quinn dancing the tango with Rita Hayworth in Blood And Sand oozed masculine sex appeal, as did his co- star Tyrone Power.
John Garfield, in The Postman Always Rings Twice with gorgeous Lana Turner, sizzled a great deal more than the pale remake with Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson. John Garfield was a true man's man. Obviously something of a ladies man, too, as he died in bed with his mistress.
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Many of these actors had an aura of 'don't mess with me, kiddo'. I met Humphrey Bogart at a party soon after my arrival in Hollywood and he scared me to death. However, when I got to know him better he was a charming family man. There's a big difference between the male stars of bygone years and today's slightly metrosexual-looking actors. Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio and Sean Penn are all wonderful actors, but they are chameleon-like when it comes to their place on the masculinity meter.
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We need tall men!
Remember the days:
6’ 1½” Cary Grant
6’ 4” John Wayne
6’ 2” Charlton Heston
6’ 3” Gregory Peck
6’ 1” Henry Fonda
6’ 1” Clark Gable
6’ 3” James Stewart
Gregory Peck is beyond handsome....I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED him in Roman Holiday. As far as Hollywood actors today, I think, Huge Jackman resembles him a little.
I meant to say was.
I’ve always liked Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, and I think Will Smith is pretty manly. There’s also Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg, and although he’s kinda old...he’s still got it...Anthony Hopkins.
Gary Cooper was 6’3” too, if you like ‘em tall.
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5’ 7” Ben Stiller
so what is he, chopped liver?
:-)
I also like Clint Eastwood, et al. Problem is, most are from an earlier generation. Offhand I can’t think of any young one with an alpha male persona.
Well, the Average American height for men is 5’ 9.6”. So that makes Ben Stiller a short little MERMAN, LOL.
Merman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXsKHjX3Y6g&feature=related
Here’s one:
6’ 6” James Arness (Marshal Matt Dillon)
LOL, that was funny. Not that there is anything wrong with being a Merman, of course.
My favorite man's man growing up was the dashing and totally-handsome Errol Flynn. What great adventure movies he swashbuckled through!
Somehow I just can't picture him in the trite scenes we see today where he is in some dink apartment kitchen with his girlfriend, she stirring the simmering spaghetti sauce, and he at the counter top chopping the veggies for the salad.
Thank heaven for Turner Movie Classics!
Leni
I watch a lot more TCM these days and appreciate that people used to have actual talent and looked their roles. I also love B&W. Back in the late 90s I took a photography class with darkroom. It was so much fun.
FUNNY!
I like shorter men myself...I’m an army brat, and all the best sergeants/NCOs seem to be about 5’ 4”-5’ 6”, whipcord lean, and with GREAT senses of humor. A little loud and rowdy, but just fine gentlemen nonetheless. Childhood conditioning affects so much! I like short/average height men with “track runner” builds (slim, wiry, excellent physical condition ). You can keep 6’+ “weightlifter build” men AFAIC.
Since the day I married her, 28 years ago, I’ve told my wife that my masculinity would not be threated by her having a fling with Sean Connery.
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