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| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:03 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: Interesting..... - portenopete 07:00 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
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| Forrest Tucker is really charming and good-looking in the film "Auntie Mame". I'd agree with your description from perhaps his most famous role in the tv "F Troop", but his Beauregarde is quite a gent and different from Sergeant O'Rourke. | |
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| re: Here's Forrest Tucker singing -- | |
| Posted by: Guillaume 12:31 am EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Interesting..... - PlayWiz 12:03 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| I tried to find a clip of him singing and only could find this clip of him -- it's not in Music Man, but you can see his lady's man confidence, his ease at being on stage, his vocal phrasing, lightness on his feet, twinkle in the eye and approachable masculinity would have made him a very strong Harold Hill indeed. He must have been wonderful! | |
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| re: Here's Forrest Tucker singing -- | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:40 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:38 pm EST 02/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Here's Forrest Tucker singing -- - Guillaume 12:31 am EST 02/16/22 | |
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| Thanks for that! Yeah, I agree that he looks like he would have been an excellent Harold Hill, - moving well, very at ease on stage, good rhythm, confident among other qualities that serve the role. I think that's Janet Leigh at the start, and he's joined at the end by his "F Troop" co-stars Larry Storch and Ken Berry. | |
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| re: Interesting..... | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:25 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Interesting..... - PlayWiz 12:03 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| You've hit the nail on the head. I know him mainly from F Troop and I have never seen Auntie Male (my bad). Funny that Preston took that role from him in the musical Mame film. | |
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| Forrest Tucker | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 07:20 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:19 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Interesting..... - PlayWiz 12:03 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| Tucker had a long career in films, beginning in 1940, that lasted at least 45 years. He generally played featured roles in tons of "B" movies, but occasionally in "A" films like The Westerner, Keeper of the Flame, The Yearling, Sands of Iwo Jima, Three Violent People, and others. He often was cast as a big, strapping, really good-looking guy, (which he was). | |
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| re: Forrest Tucker | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 11:18 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: Forrest Tucker - BroadwayTonyJ 07:19 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| Tucker also did a short-lived series, DUSTY'S TRAIL, where it was noted that he was fun and professional and drank a full bottle of brandy every day. | |
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| I wonder if that was Dusty's treasure trail | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 11:21 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:21 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Forrest Tucker - Pokernight 11:18 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| Tucker did start to get, um, noticed by going to George Cukor's rather notorious pool parties when he was starting out in Hollywood. :) | |
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| re: Forrest Tucker | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:28 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: Forrest Tucker - BroadwayTonyJ 07:19 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| I guess it's personal taste. I haven't seen the movies and shows that might have made me think of him as a looker. Not that Harold Hill needs to be handsome necessarily. But I've always thought the plot is basically the same as The Heiress: shy, plain spinster wooed by morally suspect charmer and the audience is left worrying how badly she will be hurt. | |
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| re: Forrest Tucker | |
| Posted by: larry13 12:11 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Forrest Tucker - portenopete 10:28 am EST 02/15/22 | |
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| The female lead being a "shy, plain spinster wooed by a morally suspect charmer"(and is Marian necessarily plain?)may be common to both but "the plot is basically the same as The Heiress" is NOT correct. There is a father in the Henry James story and a very different outcome to the spinster's life. | |
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| re: Forrest Tucker | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 02:44 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Forrest Tucker - larry13 12:11 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
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| It might be more akin to THE RAINMAKER/110 IN THE SHADE, although in that story, the spinster taken with the handsome drifter, certainly makes different choices than Marian does. | |
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| re: Forrest Tucker | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:35 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Forrest Tucker - larry13 12:11 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
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| Also, in at least the '49 film version of The Heiress, Catherine wears her hair and dresses in a way that makes her look plain and dowdy. However, after her father dies and she gains confidence, she reveals herself to be quite handsome, which wasn't too difficult since Olivia de Havilland was a breathtakingly beautiful woman. | |
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| re: Forrest Tucker | |
| Posted by: peter3053 05:37 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Forrest Tucker - BroadwayTonyJ 12:35 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
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| Learning that he played Harold Hill is not so surprising, when one thinks that, later, O'Rourke in F Troop was a supreme con man too - and had Agarn for his Marcellus. | |
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