Posted on 12/11/2010 6:32:50 PM PST by Krankor
I say Lee Marvin hands down. He was just cool and never thought he had to prove it.
X wives? You musta meant Michelle Triola who gave up her potentially ‘lucrative’ singing career to be his ‘pal’. She sued for palimony. Let me tell ya sumpin: At the Playboy Club where she sang? The members wanted ‘keys’ to get out!
Time to dig out The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Blob, two of my all time guilty pleasures . . .I vote for Steve McQueen -- and The Blob. Great movie!
Lee Marvin was tougher.
Steve McQueen made the Arctic look tropical.
Norton man here and I have to go with Lee Marvin. - Paul made popcorn. :)
“From a woman’s perspective, no man was cooler than Steve McQueen.” : ElayneJ
“Lady, I don’t have the time.” Lee Marvin’s character in “The Killer”
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I say Lee Marvin hands down. He was just cool and never thought he had to prove it.
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Just my fallible opinion, but I see two guys being great in two categories...
I’d say Lee Marvin gets a “The Real Deal” award for the time he
spent on Iwo Jima in WWII.
And Steve McQueen gets “The Cool Dude” award for Bullit, The Great Escape
as well as surviving a stretch in a reform school/institution
in California.
(IIRC, he made frequent visits and donations to the place)
Speaking of Lee Marvin, “The Dirty Dozen” had to be the most macho, testosterone laden film ever made:
Lee Marvin, Chas. Bronson, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, Telly Savalas...These guys were real men, off and on the screen, not like the pampered Nancy boys of today who shave their chest hair.
Clint Eastwood
Yep.
BY ROGER EBERT / October 10, 1970
Marvin finished his Heineken, turned it upside down, watched a single drop fall out. "My agent," he said. "He keeps wanting to know if I've read any more scripts. Fuck scripts. You spend the first forty years of your life trying to get in this fucking business, and the next forty years trying to get out. And then when you're making the bread, who needs it?
But that scene in the great escape was so cool. - they dont have actors much like that anymore
He spent enough time in it, in The Great Escape.
Well, to give Bronson some credit . . . the question is who is “cooler,” not “tougher.”
Not to mention John Wayne, Audie Murphy, Gary Cooper and Charleton Heston.
IMO, Lee was the better actor. In 1960, he starred in a TV production about the life of fellow Marine Ira Hayes. Very powerful. His TV series, “M Squad”, was darn good, too.
Try again.
“Steve McQueen was an ex-Marine, a political conservative, pro Vietnam, carried a pistol (he learned he was on Charlie Manson’s list), became (at this airfield) a born again Christian, and he mysteriously used to demand big lots of things like electric razors and bluejeans from movie studios when he was filming. It was revealed that he sent the lots of stuff to a boys home that he had lived in, he made visits to the home all of his life and answered every letter that the boys ever sent him.”
http://backdoorview.blogspot.com/search?q=steve+McQueen
As a died-in-the-wool gearhead I'm a huge McQueen fan, but......Marvin by a bare-knuckle sandwich, and a sharkskin suit with pegged pants.
Saw an episode on utube the other day,he looked about 18
That sawed down 44-70 was one bad rifle
Both Marvin and McQueen were great stars for sure,they
left a lot of good movies for us all to enjoy
I always thought Bogart was the coolest tho
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