Picture Galore: Getting Close

Being in a mad mood, I tried cheering myself up by hunting for celebrity pictures of the more personal sort. I found a couple of new ones I had not seen before, some of them apparently shot by Yul Brynner. (I say "apparently", since I have trouble finding the sources of the photographs and I am damaged by university studies.)

Here are some of my finds. They actually got me into a slightly better mood.

Audrey Hepburn by Yul Brynner.

Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Hepburn.

Ava Gardner.

Buster Keaton.

Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven.

Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.

Deborah Kerr by Yul Brynner.

Elizabeth Taylor.

Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly.

Grace Kelly by Yul Brynner.

Gregory Peck.

Ingrid Bergman by Yul Brynner.

James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor.

Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando.

Marilyn Monroe.

Mia Farrow by Yul Brynner.

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Rock Hudson and Doris Day.

Sophia Loren.

Pictures Galore: Paul Newman

Okay, back to safe old Hollywood. I guess far away countries like Senegal and Australia didn't make any interesting contributions to film history, so I will add some sexy photos of Paul Newman instead. Enjoy! All pictures except the first one have high resolution, so save on.

And congratulations to myself for 300 registered blog followers. Sweet!

And, sexiest of them all:

My top 20 favorite actors

I saw Kate's list the other day [link], and I just needed to copy the idea. If anyone else hasn't done this top 20 tag, go ahead and do it now! You may use the header I made if you want to.

There is a problem with me vs. these kind of tags though, and that is that I suck at making lists. I just can't rank favorite actors and point out the best. So what I did was that I first narrowed my favorites down to pre-1960's. Then I just went with those I feel are in the top 20 at the moment, and skipped a lot of my obvious favorites like:

The Marx Brothers
Vincent Price
Clark Gable
Robert Montgomery
Buster Keaton
Orson Welles
Edward G. Robinson
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Charles Chaplin
Lon Chaney
David Niven
Ricardo Cortez
Tony Curtis
James Dean

Etc etc... I hope they will forgive me, and that I will be able to sleep tonight. Here is my current top 20 favorite actors, in alphabetical order (I'm a chicken, I know):

1. Fred Astaire

Favorite role: Tony Hunter in The Band Wagon (1953)

2. John Barrymore

Favorite role: Baron Felix von Gaigern in Grand Hotel (1932)

3. Humphrey Bogart

Favorite role: Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942)

4. Charles Boyer

Favorite role: Général André de... in Madame de... (1953)

5. Yul Brynner

Favorite role: Rameses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

6. Gary Cooper

Favorite role: Cadet White in Wings (1927)

7. Laird Cregar

Favorite role: Police Insp. Ed Cornell in I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

8. Cary Grant

Favorite role: C. K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

9. Boris Karloff

Favorite role: Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

10. Bela Lugosi

Favorite role: Dr. Richard Vollin in The Raven (1935)

11. Fredric March

Favorite role: Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind (1960)

12. James Mason

Favorit role: Prof. Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962)

13. Toshirô Mifune

Favorite role: Kikuchiyo in Seven Samurai (1954)

14. Robert Mitchum

Favorite role: Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955)

15. Paul Newman

Favorite role: Henry Gondorff in The Sting (1973)

16. William Powell

Favorite role: Nick Charles in The Thin Man (1934)

17. Claude Rains

Favorite role: Captain Renault in Casablanca (1942)

18. Basil Rathbone

Favorite role: Captain Esteban Pasquale in The Mark of Zorro (1940)

19. George Sanders

Favorite role: Addison DeWitt in All About Eve (1950)

20. James Stewart

Favorite role: Rupert Cadell in Rope (1948)

An honorary favorite actor award goes to my Swedish favorite actor and drooling object:

Jarl Kulle (1927-1997)

Favorite roles:

Count Carl Magnus Malcolm in Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Don Juan in The Devil's Eye (1960)

Gustav Adolf Ekdahl in Fanny and Alexander (1982)