She should've gotten an Oscar. Lange excelled at playing the bimbo. I seem to recall that was her very first acting gig or film. She was roasted by the critics for her performance. Many thought that would be her last film. I give her credit for surviving that train wreck and becoming a successful leading actress.
I thought she was equally lame as “death” in All That Jazz, but her weakness (for me) was eclipsed by Cliff Gorman’s exceptionally lame send-up of Lenny Bruce in the same sequences. Those bits were painful to watch (for unintended reasons) and ruined an otherwise fine biographical film.
To be fair, I’ve liked her in many of her other roles (Tootsie comes to mind).
Both On the Beach and Inherit the Wind had ... Donna Anderson (!)(?). Was she the then-girlfriend of Stanley Kramer to have been cast along with Gregory Peck and Anthony Perkins or Spencer Tracy and Fredric March?
This is a good one. Those two films were Anderson's first screen acting roles. Her brief IMDB bio says only that she was "discovered" by Stanley Kramer. I wonder where. Her next big screen role was an uncredited one in "Sinderella and the Golden Bra."
I would not say it was a "great ensemble" cast, but in J.J.s Star Trek, I thought Simon Pegg made a terrible Scotty and was the worst of the bunch. Like the actor, but he's no Scotty.
Katherine Houghton in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner. Hepburn, Tracy, Poitier and even the brief supporting characters were rock solid, but then you have Houghton who seems to be in another Universe with some of the worst overacting I’ve ever seen. Really hard to take.
Katherine Houghton in Guess Whos Coming to Dinner. Hepburn, Tracy, Poitier and even the brief supporting characters were rock solid, but then you have Houghton who seems to be in another Universe with some of the worst overacting I’ve ever seen. Really hard to take.
I remember that. Never knew actress's name but i remember it seemed a bit jarring. Poitier was as ever so good.
