#Stage and Film Actor

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1896 – Birth of stage and film actor, Arthur Shields (younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald), in Portobello, Co Dublin.

While Sean Connolly claimed the unfortunate title of being the first rebel fatality, others were luckier and escaped from Easter Week, 1916 with their lives. For Arthur Shields, his role in the Rising was to become merely an interesting titbit in what was a fascinating career as an actor at home and in the US. Arthur was born into a poor family in Portobello, Dublin in 1896. As one of eight…

[mysharona1987]

[silentdivasblog]

Reel Men Wednesday 🎬 Leslie Howard ❤️

[ghost-bison]

I just woke up from a super weird dream. Dropping it here before going back to sleep:

In the dream, my best friend called me and told me "dude there's this super strange short horror film on YouTube that just came out, you gotta see this. So I go on YouTube and look it up, and it had the perfect casting (like it was just missing Catherine Tate and Alex Kingston honestly) (I'll reveal the cast as the story unfolds): the short film starts with Christopher Eccleston as a middle-aged tired man in a hotel room. He's watching TV or something when suddenly, there's a sound from the bathroom, like a distant music played by an orchestra (like a band of Mariachi I think). So he gets up to go to check it out and the scene stops there. Then, in the next scene, we can see Olivia Colman who plays Christopher Eccleston's wife. She's in the same hotel room as her husband and seems kind of worried because she hasn't heard from him in a while. She starts hearing the Mariachi Band in the bathroom but she doesn't check it out (very sensible of her if I may). Instead she calls her good friend, played by David Tennant, with whom she has a sexual relationship (like I think she was in an open relationship with her husband or something) and David Tennant's character arrives and they have sex (brain kept it pg). Then, they hear the Mariachi Band again. Next scene, a character played by Michael Sheen arrives in the room with them. I don't remember exactly who he played, either their friend or David Tennant's husband, but he's there with them and they tell him about the music. And it starts again, the music in the bathroom. So David's character gets up to see, with, right behind him, Michael Sheen's and behind him Olivia Colman's. David almost reaches the bathroom when Michael's eyes turn fully white and his head falls to the side, like he's possessed. But it is shot at an angle where you see all the characters faces, but David has his back to Michael, and Michael has his back to Olivia, so no one except for the people watching the film knows what's going on with Michael. David keeps approaching the bathroom, the music continues, and boom, I put on pause. Cause I'm scared. I'm still on the phone with my best friend and I ask if she's still there. The call hasn't ended... But she's gone.

Aaaand then I woke up dehydrated and needing to pee and it took me ten minutes to gather the courage to get up :) part of me wishes I could have seen the end of the dream, seen what happens next, but then I'm also thinking how hard it would have been to get up to pee if I had lmao cause wtf was up with that bathroom

[designstack]

David Tennant - Dr Who. 🍃️🌺️🍃️

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FILM JIRAYU igs 11.06.24

[mariocki]

Jacqueline Pearce guest stars as fashion model Leonie Peters, but it could be she's mixed up in bank robbery and murder in New Scotland Yard: The Banker (1.10, LWT, 1972)

[princesssarisa]

In the movie of The Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man has always been my favorite of Dorothy's three Oz friends, although the Scarecrow is a close second. (I like the Cowardly Lion too, but his hamminess borders on the edge of annoying.)

But each time I've seen a stage production of The Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow has been my favorite instead. In the production I just recently saw, the Tin Man's actor was too loud, and in the production before that, he was too snarky.

In the movie, Jack Haley is perfectly cast with his sweet, gentle voice and demeanor. He comes across as a truly poetic soul, whose longing for a heart so he can be "tender, gentle, and awful sentimental" makes perfect sense. Yet he has his fair share of humor too, albeit a subtler humor then Ray Bolger's slapstick or Bert Lahr's scenery chewing, and his few lightly snarky lines (e.g. "Well, that's you all over," "I hope your tail holds out!") don't detract a bit from his "heart."

Maybe part of the problem is the difference between film acting and stage acting: a stage actor needs to be bigger and louder. But I wonder if it's become harder than it was in the '30s to accept a sincerely tender, sensitive male character in family media, played with gentle humor but without a trace of caricature or irony. Besides the Tin Man, I'm also thinking of Bashful in Disney's Snow White, and how his sweet, endearing portrayal in the movie contrasts with his overly loud, hammy portrayal in the 1980 filmed stage production from Radio City Music Hall. (I'll be interested to see what the upcoming live action remake does with him.)

Maybe the style of humor we expect from family media has changed so much since the '30s that characters like Bashful or the Tin Man don't fit in anymore. Maybe there's too much of an urge to make the humor broader and less gentle, and to downplay sentimentality, even when it's the character's defining trait, either by undercutting it with snark or by hamming it up for laughs.

If this is the case, then it's unfortunate. I'll always prefer these two sweet characters as they were portrayed in the classic '30s films.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1896 – Birth of stage and film actor, Arthur Shields (younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald), in Portobello, Co Dublin.

While Sean Connolly claimed the unfortunate title of being the first rebel fatality, others were luckier and escaped from Easter Week, 1916 with their lives. For Arthur Shields, his role in the Rising was to become merely an interesting titbit in what was a fascinating career as an actor at home and in the US. Arthur was born into a poor family in Portobello, Dublin in 1896. As one of eight…

[they-have-the-same-va]

Nyx Ulric in Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV shares a voice actor with Todd Chavez from BoJack Horseman.

Voiced by Aaron Paul

[illiana-mystery]

Willem Dafoe in the Year 2024

[ovaruling]

i post abt this regularly but children should not be actors im so serious we do not need nor deserve stories that hire children to perform any amount of labor that also exposes them to the vile industry that is the media and all of its horrifying pedophilic roots and wider audience access. idc how moving or artistic it is, you do not need a movie that has a 9 year old reading emotionally demanding lines that effectively end their innocence to learn. like full stop they just shouldn’t be hiring children to do ANYTHING but i cannot fathom why ANYONE thinks we absolutely must have children on tv and in movies. “for realism” “for art” “for other children to enjoy as an audience” idc!!!!! it’s child labor. it’s emotionally demanding and it’s abusive. it’s never not been abusive. so how about we just dont fucking do that and you ask yourself why you think we as a society “need” children to perform for us in ANY capacity

[commsroom]

really can't be overstated just how much the physicality that wolf 359 is written and performed with adds to the feel of it. there is so much written into those scripts that absolutely cannot be represented in an audio-only format, but it's in there and it's performed with those details and that stage direction in mind and so much of it manages to come through. a combination of that and the sound design and the way it uses audio cues like a visual medium might creates something intangibly tangible in the way the characters occupy and interact with and share the space they're in. most visual show ever to be a podcast.

[silentdivasblog]

Reel Men Wednesday 🎬 James Earl Jones ❤️

[tina-aumont]

The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946.

Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes. Only one year after the end of World War II, most of the films were about the war. There arose several technical issues, such as the tarpauline cover blowing away in a storm on the day before the winners were to be announced, the reels of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious shown in reverse order, and Miguel M. Delgado’s The Three Musketeers projected upside-down.

During the first festival, the jury was made up of one representative per country, with French historian Georges Huisman as the Jury President. With more emphasis on creativity than in competitiveness, eighteen nations presented their films. Eleven of them tied for the first Grand Prix of the International Festival.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sharing this beautiful photo and the videos.