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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkshadows38" data-source="post: 367046" data-attributes="member: 19">thank you you are right it's i think All About Eve (1950) from my understanding the films are quite similar i was too damn lazy to look it up and that's why i put the question mark on there when i said which film it was. as for Jim Davis i'm not denying he wasn't good in the role but his acting really varied i think. i love Dallas but it had a lot of really bad acting.  Linda Grey could really be bad in some  but in other parts could be good i think i also say the same thing about Dark Shadows as well on that one you had Nancy Barret that when she's not scared is a pretty damn good actress but have her be scared or Grayson Hall another good actress who won i think an oscar i want to say? for Night of the Blue Iguana (1964)  when she got kidnapped during Dark Shadows she's really painful to watch that's how bad she is. than you had Charlene who i think did her worst acting that i can think of off the top of my head in the episode she was kidnapped in wow is that episode so hard to watch. now don't get me wrong i'm not saying the entire show  was bad acting it wasn't there are times on the show that it did and could have the cast give a good or great Performance BBG is a good example where her performance varied but she could really be good on the show too.   i really wonder who would be considered the worst ? i mean since i haven't seen the entire run yet.  Yes Howard Keel was a great actor and he was a far Better actor than Jim Davis in fact i've watched some of his musicals in this past year or so he had one hell of a voice.  though the one i've seen a lot of his early 50's work anyways is David Wayne he was in a few musicals too and he was quite good it's a wonder why he wasn't used more? i love Keenan Wynn he was a really great actor but when he played  Digger especially when he was in the hospital he talked like he had cotton in his much i always have trouble understanding him my guess it was the Booze cause Wynn like Digger was a drinker in real life too. i've watched some of his early 50's stuff too and he looked so much better with  a beard.  though With Wynn i do think what's really funny and before i forget i guess Wynn's granddaughter is now an actress too apparently.  anyways,  Bette Davis did a film in the early 70's with him and as someone here said she was able to choose who her leading man was.  i dunno if that was for all the films she was in after she made it big in the 30's. but she picked Wynn and the 1st thing she told him was if you are gonna do a movie with me once he agreed to do it is to have a clean shaven face.  i forget what else she said on that and he did end up shaving it and his wife apparently said to her THANK YOU i've been trying to get him to shave that thing for i think she said 15 years!  i think she Sent her Flowers too i can so see Davis do that too</blockquote>

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