What old actor/actress would you put in a modern film role?

[Reno]

Noooo, you can't have Cary as Tom Hanks


He's far too suave and sophisticated to fall for a blonde mermaid

He did plenty of roles where he wasn't suave at all and has even done slapstick in things like Bringing Up Baby and Monkey Business. In the latter one he played a man who reverts to being a teenager, so he could also do Big.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

He did plenty of roles where he wasn't suave at all and has even done slapstick in things like Bringing Up Baby and I Married a Male War Bride.

Two excellent films but he has that suave and sophisticated air about him no matter what he does

He's one of my favourites so I won't have a word said about him

What can we stick Katherine Hepburn in?

 

[Reno]

Two excellent films but he has that suave and sophisticated air about him no matter what he does

He's one of my favourites so I won't have a word said about him

I didn't say a thing against him, he's one of my all time favourite movie stars.

Mind you, I don't subscribe to the "I hate Tom Hanks" club. I think he's a good actor when cast in the right part, especially good in comedy. Big and Splash especially have a lot in common with 40's comedies and were good films, so I think Grant would be fine in either.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I didn't say a thing against him, he's one of my all time favourite movie stars.

Mind you, I don't subscribe to the "I hate Tom Hanks" club. I think he's a good actor when cast in the right part, especially good in comedy. Big and Splash especially have a lot in common with 40's comedies and were good films, so I think Grant would be fine in either.

I can't see problem with Tom Hanks. I like his comedies. I think people just get sick of seeing the same face everywhere occasionally

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Buster Keaton as James Bond. His stunts would be perfect.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Buster Keaton as James Bond. His stunts would be perfect.

 

[Leica]

Montgomery Clift was such a great actor and a legend, his story is so moving - it makes me cry.

I think had he lived, he could have become a good director - he was definitely the thinking type, unlike really impulsive and Really Young Jimmy Dean (I like him really).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Montgomery Clift was such a great actor and a legend, his story is so moving - it makes me cry.

Wasn't in a huge amount of films though was he. I'm sure his last film was The Misfits, which I think was also Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's last film but I'm probably wrong

 

[Reno]

Wasn't in a huge amount of films though was he. I'm sure his last film was The Misfits, which I think was also Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe's last film but I'm probably wrong

It was the last film for Monroe and Gable but Clift made a few more despite the fact that he had been partially paralized in a car accident a few years before. He was in quite a few classics, among them The Heiress, Red River, From Here to Eternity and the wonderfully lurid Suddenly Last Summer.