#The Life and Time of Judge Roy Bean

[voguefashion]

Ava Gardner and Paul Newman photographed by Terry O’Neill on the set of The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean in Tucson, Arizona, 1972.

[lobbycards]

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, US lobby card #8. 1972

[byneddiedingo]

Paul Newman in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston, 1972)

Cast: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins, Stacy Keach, Anthony Zerbe, Ava Gardner, Victoria Principal, Ned Beatty. Screenplay: John Milius. Cinematography: Richard Moore. Art direction: Tambi Larsen. Film editing: Hugh S. Fowler. Music: Maurice Jarre. 

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean belongs to a sub-genre that prevailed in the early 1970s; I think of them as "stoner Westerns." The huge success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) spawned a lot of movies that took an irreverent look at the legend of the American Old West and were aimed at the younger countercultural audience. They include such diverse films as Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (Philip Kaufman, 1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973), and Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974). Most of them were seen as commentaries on American violence and the quagmire of the Vietnam War. Paul Newman, who had played Billy the Kid earlier in his career in The Left Handed Gun (Arthur Penn, 1958) as well as Butch Cassidy, found himself the go-to actor to portray Western legends: In addition to Judge Roy Bean, he was also cast as Buffalo Bill Cody in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman, 1976). The Life of Times of Judge Roy Bean began with an original screenplay by John Milius, who wanted to direct it and to star Warren Oates in the title role, but when Newman read the script, he arranged for the rights to be bought up and for John Huston to be brought on as director. There is a whiff of hommage to (or perhaps parody of) Butch Cassidy in the film: As in the earlier film, which has a musical interlude with Butch and Etta Place (Katherine Ross) larking around to the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," Judge Roy Bean has a scene in which the Judge, Maria Elena (Victoria Principal), and a bear lark around to the song "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey," which was written for the film by Maurice Jarre, Marilyn Bergman, and Alan Bergman. The song earned an Oscar nomination, but Huston was unable to find a consistent tone for the movie, which lurches from broad comedy (much of it provided by antics with the bear) to satire (the triumph of an avaricious lawyer played by Roddy McDowall) to pathos (the death of Maria Elena). It is laced with cameos, some of which provide the film's highlights, particularly the over-the-top performances of Anthony Perkins as an itinerant preacher and Stacy Keach as an albino outlaw named Bad Bob. But Ava Gardner simply walks through her scene as Lillie Langtry -- a decided anticlimax, given that she's been the off-screen obsession of Bean through most of the film.

[glamourscat]

the way most of the tiktok and tumblr acts like tim is just coffee addict soft boy who just plays video games and crys🤮IMGONNA KMS

I WANT MY CRAZY TIM BACK PLS

I mean, I agree, lol. There is just this huge misunderstanding in the fandom. Jason, sure, is sarcastic, but he has a dry kind of sarcasm. He’s not the playboy, confident in himself and energetic kind. That’s Roy and Dick.

Tim, sure, is nerdy and in canon has different instances where he’s shown playing table/video games. But that’s not all there is to his personality. Some people seem to forget his unhinged side. The same guy that’s hard to break down because he learned to be self sufficient out of necessity, since everyone he loves dies or abandons him. The same guy who is manipulative, judgmental, and headstrong.

Sure, it’s fanfiction, and everyone can represent him as they wish. There’s a difference, though, between representing your headcanons and perpetually carrying on a flawed fanon interpretation. The latter, in my opinion, has killed Tim’s character. He is not your sunshine kawaii bean; he is an absolute mess of a person who doesn’t handle loss well, overthinks for his life and will probably judge you the first time you two meet.

With that aside, I still love him. In my writing, I try to explore multiple sides of the characters, making them 3D rather than flat 2D individuals. They are neither good nor bad. They are flawed individuals because that’s what humans are. I hope that comes across in my writing, and if you have any suggestions, I’m open to them :)

[silver-screen-divas]

Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's film noir The Killers. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in John Ford's Mogambo (1953), and for best actress for both a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her performance in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana (1964). She was a part of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

During the 1950s, Gardner established herself as a leading lady and one of the era's top stars with films like Show Boat, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (both 1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956) and On the Beach (1959). She continued her film career for three more decades, appearing in the films 55 Days at Peking (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Mayerling (1968), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974) and The Cassandra Crossing (1976). And in 1985, she had the major recurring role of Ruth Galveston on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. She continued to act regularly until 1986, four years before her death in 1990, at the age of 67.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gardner No. 25 on its greatest female screen legends list.

[hotvintagepoll]

just watched the life and times of judge roy bean—a movie starring paul newman, tab hunter, anthony perkins, AND roddy mcdowell??????

i guess queer men really CAN'T resist cowboy movies 8/

that’s a losers bracket movie if ever I heard of one!

[vintage-tigre]

Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood, 1972

Photographed by Terry O’Neill

The American screen stars met by chance outside a motel in Tucson, Arizona, 1972.

Paul Newman was in Tucson, Arizona at the time making the movie The life and times of Judge Roy Bean for director John Huston. During the same year, Clint was also in Tucson filming Joe Kidd for Universal pictures and directed by John Sturges.

[citizenscreen]

Ava Gardner and Paul Newman in Tucson, Arizona during the making of ‘The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean’, 1972. Photos by Terry O'Neill

[jeffament]

honorable jeffamentions august!!!!!! new favs + heavy rotations of the month!!!!!!!!!!!

albums

head music / suede

folklore / 16 horsepower

please please me / the beatles

dark horse / george harrison

late night final / richard hawley

reclusallucination / blue blue blue

songs

anna (go to him) / the beatles

she’s in fashion / suede

dark horse / george harrison

asbestos / suede

a daisy chain 4 satan / mlwttkk

do you want to know a secret? / the beatles

trouble / lindsey buckingham

precious sight / richard hawley

world on fire (soundtrack mix) / the call

oh! darling / the beatles

movies

the life and times of judge roy bean (1972)

the boys in the band (1970)

bull durham (1988)

shallow grave (1994)

hardcore (1979)

cherry 2000 (1987)

to live and die in la (1985)

angel face (1952)

i wanna hold your hand (1978)

xmen (2000) :3

[pepperbag76]

“ Ava Gardner and Paul Newman on the set of The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) “

Source: tooldhollywoodandbeyond

[oldhagstrom]

Edit

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

[70s80sandbeyond]

Ava Gardner and Paul Newman on the set of The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean, 1972

[lobbycards]

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, US lobby card #3. 1972

[hollywoodpastandpresent]

Ava Gardner and Paul Newman on the set of The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

[jedivoodoochile]

Happy Birthday, in memoriam, to Paul Leonard Newman.

(January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

Newman's major film roles include The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The Sting (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977), Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981), and as the voice of Doc Hudson in Cars (2006) as his final acting non-documentary role, with his archival voice recordings being used again in Cars 3 (2017), nine years after his death. A ten-time Oscar nominee, Newman was awarded an Academy Award for Best Actor for The Color of Money (1986).

[silver-screen-divas]

She next appeared again with Burt Lancaster, her co-star from The Killers, this time with Kirk Douglas and Fredric March, in Seven Days in May (1964), a thriller about an attempted military takeover of the US government. Gardner played a former love interest of Lancaster's who could have been instrumental in Douglas preventing a coup against the President of the United States.

John Huston chose Gardner for the part of Sarah, the wife of Abraham (played by George C. Scott), in the Dino De Laurentiis film The Bible: In the Beginning..., which was released in 1966. In a 1964 interview, she talked about why she accepted the role:

He [Huston] had more faith in me than I did myself. Now I'm glad I listened, for it is a challenging role and a very demanding one. I start out as a young wife, and age through various periods, forcing me to adjust psychologically to each age. It is a complete departure for me, and most intriguing. In this role, I must create a character, not just play one.

Two years later, in 1966, Gardner briefly sought the role of Mrs. Robinson in Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967). She reportedly called Nichols and said "I want to see you! I want to talk about this Graduate thing!" Nichols never seriously considered her for the part, preferring to cast a younger woman (Anne Bancroft was 35, while Gardner was 44), but he did visit her hotel, where he later said "she sat at a little French desk with a telephone, she went through every movie star cliché. She said, 'All right, let's talk about your movie. First of all, I strip for nobody.'"

Gardner moved to London in 1968, undergoing an elective hysterectomy to allay her worries of contracting the uterine cancer that had claimed the life of her mother. That year, she appeared in Mayerling, in which she played the supporting role of Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with James Mason as Emperor Franz Joseph I.

She appeared in disaster films throughout the 1970s, notably Earthquake (1974) with Heston, The Cassandra Crossing (1976) with Lancaster, and the Canadian movie City on Fire (1979). She appeared briefly as Lillie Langtry at the end of The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), and in The Blue Bird (1976). Her last movie was Regina Roma (1982). In the 1980s, she acted primarily on television, including the miniseries remake of The Long, Hot Summer and in a story arc on Knots Landing (both 1985).