Favourite Super Stars from Hollywood's Golden Age

[A Marvel Fanboy]

discuss and recommend their best films.

Edited September 30, 2013 by firedeep

[The Stingray]

King Cool Paul Newman!

[The Futurist]

Channing Tatum

[DAR]

No William Holden?

[Fancyarcher]

Channing Tatum

 

[Jake Gittes]

No William Holden?

Or Vivien Leigh

[Fancyarcher]

My favorite actors from the Golden Age aren’t necessarily superstars per say, rather I’m into a lot of old horror actors (Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi), but I’m also a big fan of Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, John Wayne etc.

 

In general I prefer old movies to new movies.

 

Also interesting to see actors like Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, and Vincent Price get their start in the golden age before they developed into “superstars” themselves (Vincent Price to a lesser extent). 

Edited September 29, 2013 by Boxofficefanatic

[riczhang]

Or Vivien Leigh

 

or Ava Gardner. 

[peludo]

I like so many... If I have to choose an actor and an actress I would say Audrey Hepburn (My fair lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade, Sabrina, Roman Holiday, How to steal a million, Robin and Marian) and Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, my favorite movie ever, The big sleep, To have and have not, Key Largo, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon).

 

But it would be unfair not to mention Grace Kelly (absolutely great in Rear window), Marlon Brando (his Godfather is probably the best performance I have ever seen), Cary Grant, Charles Chaplin or James Stewart. And one that is not so well known but was an incredible actor: Edward G. Robinson. I saw him by the first time in Key Largo and I was shocked.

[Jake Gittes]

Edward G. Robinson owned it in Double Indemnity. I don't think I've seen any other movies with him, though. 

[Fancyarcher]

Or Vivien Leigh

 

I think Vivian Hartley is supposed to be Vivien Leigh (that's her birth name after all). 

 

 

Also it's Mae West, not Mary West. 

Edited September 29, 2013 by Boxofficefanatic

[Jake Gittes]

Vivien Leigh... Born Vivian Mary Hartley

 

firedeep, you sly dog.

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Only 30 options are allowed ... so ...

 

(Yup, Vivian Hartley is supposed to be Vivien Leigh)

[A Marvel Fanboy]

Reedited the poll but some votes were gone ...

[Lordmandeep]

Wow that list has such great actors on it.

 

Each one of them is a legend.

 

 

In the old days I think Jimmy Stewart... He seems to play that honest man role so well.

[Walt Disney]

We're doing a vote for the top movie from every year from 1930-2012. I would say that the winning movies from the golden age years should be the ones that you should see.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Walt Disney