#robert walker

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Strangers on a Train (1951), directed by Alfred Hitchcock Challengers (2024), directed by Luca Guadagnino

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Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951).

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Strangers at an amusement park.

Robert Walker, Alfred Hitchcock, and Farley Granger during filming of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951).

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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cinematography: Robert Burks

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Marie Dressler (Dinner at Eight, Tillie's Punctured Romance, Anna Christie)—SHE WAS SO SCRUNGLY. A vaudeville star who didn't hit it big in Hollywood until she was in her 60s. She had the most delightfully expressively scrunched facial expressions and often looked goofy and manic as an old lady while STILL stealing the show from her hot young costars.

Robert Walker (Strangers on a Train, The Clock, One Touch of Venus)—I think his performance as Bruno Anthony (Strangers on a Train) alone should qualify him as a contender. Riding carousels, strangling people at parties, his funky robe, popping some little kid's balloon, munching on popcorn, obsessing over his manicure, having his tied fixed by Farley Granger? Poetic cinema. Who else could pull off "murderous little weirdo" so well? Then in Song of Love he's like THE sweetest guy, being helpful in the kitchen, looking after a flock of children, mooning over Katharine Hepburn, playing the piano—he has the RANGE, darling—I LOVE how distressed his characters look in war movies, he's always just some little guy thrown among the horrors. He plays such lovesick puppy boys who trip over their own two feet. The "busted heel" scene in The Clock. The dream sequence in Her Highness and the Bellboy (regrettably can't find it). If F.R.I.E.N.D.S had come out in the 40s I am convinced he'd have played Chandler (arguably the scrungliest of the cast) but I haven't the faintest idea why my brain came up with this. He possessed the . . . special brand of rebel/misfit sensitivity and charm . . . His boyish good looks combined with an attractive vulnerability came across the screen with such beauty, power and naturalness. He went quite far in his short life; however, the many tortured souls he played so brilliantly closely mirrored the actor himself and the demons that haunted his own being wasted no time in taking him down a self-destructive path for which there was no return.

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Marie Dressler:

playing a formerly glamorous stage actress, marie dressler EATS

Robert Walker:

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Robert Walker. Dinosaur, Dismantled. Flushing Meadow Park, New York. 1965

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Ava Gardner, One Touch of Venus, 1948

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Brother Bear (2003)

Directed by Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker

Art direction by Robh Ruppel

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Robert Walker as Bruno Antony in ‘Strangers on a Train’ (1951) by Alfred Hitchcock

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i think this is worth posting.

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Ruth Roman and Robert Walker in a publicity shot worthy of a romcom for Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951).

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Robert Walker - Self portrait

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Judy Garland and Robert Walker in The Clock (1945) dir. Vincente Minnelli