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Post by hi224 on Oct 7, 2023 14:26:55 GMT
I often read of Cary Grant feeling as if he was miscast for Arsenic and Old Lace, what are some other cases where actors were miscast for parts from films.
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Post by Pippen on Oct 7, 2023 14:57:03 GMT
Other than obvious ones like Chuck Connors as Geronimo and Rock Hudson as Taza, Son of Cochise ?   |
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Post by Pippen on Oct 7, 2023 14:57:19 GMT
and of course  |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 7, 2023 15:10:34 GMT
and of course I mean those are more blatant ones, I am talking something like Glenn Ford in four horsemen of apocalypse. |
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 7, 2023 15:30:57 GMT
Laurence Harvey in “The Alamo” (1960). How did Tennessean William Barret Travis get to be an Englishman? After a few early stabs at a Southern accent (“Yes, suh”), Harvey gives it up completely. He plays the rest of the movie as if he were in an English “Angry Young Man” film. (Having said that, he does OK for being completely miscast).  |
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 7, 2023 15:33:57 GMT
I often read of Cary Grant feeling as if he was miscast for Arsenic and Old Lace, what are some other cases where actors were miscast for parts from films. I believe the miscast actor was Raymond Massey. They should have waited for Boris Karloff to get out from under his contract to the play's producers who blocked his participation in the film. |
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Post by Pippen on Oct 7, 2023 15:46:57 GMT
Not "miscast" exactly, but something that always has bugged the heck out of me....
Michelle Pfeiffer playing the role written specifically for Kathy Bates in Frankie and Johnny when the Broadway Play was put on screen.
IMDb:
"Kathy Bates, who had originated the role of Frankie on stage, was passed over in favor of Michelle Pfeiffer, a fate that often seemed to befall her stage characters when transferred to the screen".
"Playwright Terrence McNally originally wrote the role of Frankie for Kathy Bates."
Casting a "classically beautiful" actress in the role of a "non-classically beautiful" woman ... so Hollywood typical ! >:(
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Post by politicidal1 on Oct 7, 2023 21:07:09 GMT
I know Paul Newman is very embarrassed about his performance in The Silver Chalice (1954). Having seen it, yeah he’s an odd fit for a splashy and over-the-top bible epic like that.
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Post by theravenking on Oct 8, 2023 11:00:58 GMT
I found that Cliff Robertson was miscast in De Palma's Obsession. He came over as arrogant und unlikeable.
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Post by Isapop on Oct 8, 2023 13:47:24 GMT
Not "miscast" exactly, but something that always has bugged the heck out of me.... Michelle Pfeiffer playing the role written specifically for Kathy Bates in Frankie and Johnny when the Broadway Play was put on screen.
That is just how I felt about the movie. It's not like Michelle Pfeiffer is just routinely pretty. Although I liked her performance just fine, I couldn't believe that a woman as stunningly beautiful as Michelle Pfeiffer in NYC would sentence herself to diner waitress when she could walk into any modeling agency in town and be hired on the spot, improving her circumstances instantly. |
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Post by Isapop on Oct 8, 2023 14:03:01 GMT
As I mentioned on the "Rope" thread, James Stewart was miscast. Those two supercilious students would never be in awe of someone with the natural down to earth quality of Stewart. The role called for an actor with a more patrician bearing. Someone like Joseph Cotten would have been a much better fit.
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Post by hi224 on Oct 8, 2023 15:52:55 GMT
I found that Cliff Robertson was miscast in De Palma's Obsession. He came over as arrogant und unlikeable. Even De Palma stated he wish he could've recast Robertson and had an amusing anecdote regarding his use of orange makeup, while making it as well. |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 8, 2023 15:59:17 GMT
As I mentioned on the "Rope" thread, James Stewart was miscast. Those two supercilious students would never be in awe of someone with the natural down to earth quality of Stewart. The role called for an actor with a more patrician bearing. Someone like Joseph Cotten would have been a much better fit. I mean take your pick, Cotten, Welles, Grant or Mason, etc etc. |
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Post by hi224 on Oct 8, 2023 15:59:53 GMT
I know Paul Newman is very embarrassed about his performance in The Silver Chalice (1954). Having seen it, yeah he’s an odd fit for a splashy and over-the-top bible epic like that. I mean the whole movie kind of sucked as well. |
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 8, 2023 17:40:10 GMT
I've never felt that James Mason was quite right for his role in Bigger Than Life (1956). Mason has always seemed a little arrogant and sketchy to me. The role called for more of a good-natured "everyman" type (Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda, even James Stewart), which would make the drug-induced psychotic break depicted in the film more shocking.
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