Posted on 05/14/2017 3:31:37 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Speaking od Steiger, just watched his academy award winning performance in “In the Heat of the Night”
Class acting all around.
TCM host this afternoon told interesting story about Ernie getting the role - he was working on the set of Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracy and told Tracy he wanted to take some time off to try out for a part in a little low-budget upcoming movie - at first Tracy wondered if it was worth the time, but after Borgnine told him a bit about the movie, Tracy encouraged him to go for it - the next year, Ernie won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Marty over, among others, Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Bad Rock.....
Steiger should’ve gotten an Oscar for “The Pawnbroker.”
Good luck sitting through Cimarron.
And actor Don Gordon as the guy at the dance hall who tries to pay 5 bucks to take his blind date off his hands and Nancy Marchand (best known as Livia Soprano, Tony Sopranos evil mother in The Sopranos) as Clara, the girl Marty meets thanks to the guy trying to dump her.
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