Jane Fonda
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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda has always made interesting choices
with regard the roles she has accepted and her choices prove
she is not afraid to take risks. Cat Ballou was Jane Fonda's
first big movie in which she starred with Lee Marvin. A year
later Jane Fonda starred in The Chase with Marlon Brando and,
at the time, an unknown Robert Redford. A year after that
Jane made what, in my opinion, is her best film, the Neil
Simon classic, Bare Foot In The Park, where she starred again
with Robert Redford. Fonda and Redford were brilliant with
Fonda proving her comedic timing is faultless. I thought Jane
Fonda was hillarious in that film. After "Barefoot",
Jane starred in Barbarella, proving to the world she wasn't
afraid to explore and exploit her considerable sex appeal.
Barbarella, although a tongue-in-cheek film was seriously titillating for its time, almost wandering off into areas of soft porn - remember, I was a cheeky and very horny ten year old when the film was released and my mates in school discussed the film in earnest whispers! After titillating us, Jane Fonda goes from starring in a spoof
to starring in the Sidney Pollack classic, They Shoot Horses
Don't They.
Other classics in Jane Fonda's career include
Klute, Nine To Five and a reunion with Robert Redford in The
Electric Horseman and, of course, I must not forget to mention
The China Syndrom where Jane Fonda starred with Jack Lemmon
and Michael Douglas. But, in my opinion, Jane Fonda's greatest
moment came when she purchased the film rights for On Golden
Pond because she wanted to be in a fim with her father, Henry
Fonda. It is a fantastic piece of drama and Jane recognised
the script reflected a little of her troubled relationship
with her father. Henry Fonda won his only Oscar for best actor
for his role, but he was too ill to attend the ceremony so
Jane accepted on his behalf. Henry Fonda died 5 months later.
But even though Jane and Henry's relationship was difficult,
I would like to think that the fact it was Jane who purchased
the rights to the film that won Henry his only Oscar would
have gone a long way to heal any rift that remained...
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The Hollywood Movie History
The greats of the silent movie period included
Rudolf Valentino, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton,
Laurel & Hardy and a whole host of stars whose talents live
on in the many characters they portrayed. Jean Harlow is perhaps
the most successful of the stars who began their career in the
silent era and whose star continued in ascendancy into the talkies.
The western film genre has been the birth place for many great
film stars, not least of which is the Great John Wayne. Blockbuster
movies dominated the 80's and 90's with Silvester Stallone,
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis competing for the title
greatest action hero of them all... and then Matt Damon brought
Ludlum's character Jason Bourne to life all too vividly and
a whole new action hero was born.
And, although great women's roles are still all to rare, Vivien
Leigh's Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With The Wind, Marilyn Monroe's
Sugar Kane in Some Like It Hot, Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord in
High Society, Michelle Pfeifer in the Baker Boys and Julie Roberts
in Erin Brockovich are just a few great and memorable perfomances
I have experience by women in the movies...
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