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.
Judy again?!
ReplyDeleteJudy Garland Fred Astaire---Easter parade
ReplyDeletereplaced Gene Kelly
ReplyDeleteFred 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.)
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton - Cleopatra
ReplyDeleteBurton replaced Stephen Boyd
Gene Kelly didnt disappear forever though. He had a very long career in movies and tv.
ReplyDeleteIt says she is A+, and he is A++ - I don't see Burton ever coming near eclipsing Taylor on grading.
ReplyDeleteInteresting - I guess that's part of the reason costs went sky high on Cleopatra.
ReplyDeleteThe 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...
ReplyDeleteThis sounded like Clark Gable to me. His second wife gave him his moustache, and he took off to A++ after that.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028872/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
ReplyDelete"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.
This was my first thought, not way my first thought.
ReplyDeleteI 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,
ReplyDeleteI was thinking Vivian Leigh and Lawrence Olivier, or even further back with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, but they don't seem to fit.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I guessed a few posts up but it's awaiting moderation.
ReplyDeleteFire Over England fits but I don't know who was replaced.
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ReplyDelete“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.
This is Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.
ReplyDeleteThe 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
Gene Kelly had a stellar career - after Easter Parade was released - and Stephen Boyd worked steadily for years after he was replaced in Cleopatra.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
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ReplyDeleteYes, that fits perfectly.
ReplyDeleteThis 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
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