Friday, February 12, 2016

Blind Item #9 -Old Hollywood

This A+ list mostly movie actress who definitely had some family issues also created one of the biggest stars ever. She was married and she fell in love with an actor who was also married. She was so in love with this actor that she shut down the film she was making and had them shoot the entire movie again with her new lover. He became A++ list. The actor who was replaced had been A list, but he disappeared forever.

23 comments:

MontanaMarriott said...

Judy again?!

Derek Harvey said...

Judy Garland Fred Astaire---Easter parade

Derek Harvey said...

replaced Gene Kelly

Derek Harvey said...

Fred Astaire as Don Hewes. Gene Kelly was originally cast as Don, but Kelly was injured (he broke his ankle playing volleyball) just prior to production and Astaire, who had announced his retirement from film, was coaxed back by Kelly to replace him.[2] (Astaire would "retire" several more times over the next decade, but he would also go on to make a number of additional classic musicals in between retirements.)

Kno Won Uno said...

Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton - Cleopatra
Burton replaced Stephen Boyd

sandybrook said...

Gene Kelly didnt disappear forever though. He had a very long career in movies and tv.

Salaam said...

It says she is A+, and he is A++ - I don't see Burton ever coming near eclipsing Taylor on grading.

Paint chips said...

Interesting - I guess that's part of the reason costs went sky high on Cleopatra.

Salaam said...

The way the blind reads, I keep thinking it could be Sinatra as the male - looking at his co-stars in the 50s, Doris Day, Rita Hayworth (def with family issues), Debbie Reynolds...

Anne B. said...

This sounded like Clark Gable to me. His second wife gave him his moustache, and he took off to A++ after that.

H2O said...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028872/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

"Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier credit this movie as being the inspiration for their falling in love. Although both were married to other people, they became known as "the lovers" on the set."

This way my first thought. Fire Over England. She lost her children because of the affair.

They both wanted the other in their new movies.

The people already mentioned did not disappear, Gene Kelly, what? Stephen Boyd did not disappear
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000963/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
but my god he died age 45.

H2O said...

This was my first thought, not way my first thought.

mariaj said...

I don't know how Gene Kelly could be considered anything but A List all the way, as dancer, director, coreographer, maybe less as actor, at the least in some movies, but let's not joke, he is one of the biggest star EVER,

TopperMadison said...

I was thinking Vivian Leigh and Lawrence Olivier, or even further back with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, but they don't seem to fit.

H2O said...

That's what I guessed a few posts up but it's awaiting moderation.

Fire Over England fits but I don't know who was replaced.

H2O said...

more info

“Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier credit this movie as being the inspiration for their falling in love. Although both were married to other people, they became known as “the lovers” on the set.”

This way my first thought. Fire Over England. She lost her children because of the affair.

They both wanted the other in their new movies.

Saskia said...

This is Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
The movie is Laughing Sinners (1931)
The film was originally shot with Johnny Mack Brown and was reshot with Gable. Crawford had an on-off affair for years

epiphany said...

Gene Kelly had a stellar career - after Easter Parade was released - and Stephen Boyd worked steadily for years after he was replaced in Cleopatra.

anna from savannah said...

I had the huge movie theater size color poster of Stephen Boys as Messala (Ben Hur) in my bedroom and adored looking at it until my pediatrician convinced my mom it wasn't healthy and asked her to remove it. Argggggg! Hated doctors ever since.

Snarknado said...

+1

sydguy said...

Yes, that fits perfectly.

claudia said...

This shouts Clarke gable and joan Crawford. Movie is laughing sinner.i Read this story in a book about directors, and the director of the very movie told it

Gypsy Trill said...

Hepburn and Tracy

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