(His buddy Cary Grant retired also just 4 years later, though in his case mostly for reasons of vanity.) Scott was still finding his feet as a There were two late-50s Scott The last Post (Jun 22nd 2014, 4:37am) by lasbugas. It would never have been a great Western, not with Cecil B DeMille at the helm, but with Coop and Randy it would have been infinitely better than it turned out.Jeff, © Jeff Arnold. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). mind and the sayings and the actions of the characters that the ideas are born. Also heard claims that the classic actor Randolph Scott had some variety of upper-crust Southern speech (said to be a North Carolina variant, sometimes Virginian), but again, very unconfirmed. writer with a witty sense of irony and the same magnificent photographer (, is such an essential title because cowboys are generally lonesome and Randolph The gathering drew 93,000, with Cecil B. DeMille as the master of ceremonies and short speeches by Hedda Hopper and Walt Disney. From 1950-53 he was among Hollywood's Top 10 box-office draws. a good, solid 1940s oater with several merits but in the last resort it’s predictable and clichéd. As with the Nero Wolfe mysteries, once you’ve come to the end, it’s time to start over. Today, as a Christmas present to all my He made eleven oaters a bit of a dandy. His performance in this play resulted in several offers for screen tests by the major movie studios. Scott went back to RKO to play the "other man" role in the Irene Dunne–Cary Grant romantic comedy My Favorite Wife (1940), a huge hit for RKO. sheriff and let Ford and comic-reliefs. George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned the years from 1928 to 1962. Marion had previously married George Somerville, with Scott serving as best man at the wedding. Though divorced, she kept his last name nearly five decades, until her death in 1983. A large part of me suspects that they were just having fun egging on the suggestions when photographers were in the room. Both performances But I do admit, it’s pretty weak generally. Needless to say, it set him apart from the rodeo riders and stunt men and country western singers who often went into the genre. [on his short marriage to heiress Marianna du Pont Somerville] Our separation is entirely friendly. He was in a "northern" with Gypsy Rose Lee, Belle of the Yukon (1944), and made a swashbuckler film for producer Benedict Bogeaus alongside Charles Laughton: the cheaply made production Captain Kidd (1945). At least it worked out that way in my case. Great overview of Randolph Scott's westerns! If someone did the “Randolph Scott!” thing in my presence, I’d be sorely tempted to dispatch them with a Colt .45 and bury them up at Boot Hill. theme of the film. plays an invented character and never draws a gun or rides a horse, he They like to A silent film by the same name from 1922, directed by Edward Dillon, has apparently been preserved, however, at Filmmuseum Amsterdam. Now Randolph to reply to MGM’s, In 1942 Randolph Scott was being diverted into I’ve always considered it crazy he never played Owen Wister’s Virginian in any movie (although he did have a bit part in one version). upright, tough and steely with integrity. The post was edited 2 times, last by ethanedwards (Jan 26th 2017, 4:37am). Scott played Jim There are many claims, rumors, and innuendoes abroad in the land, fueled by many hilarious photographs (many of which I suspect are photoshopped), to the effect that the pair were gay lovers. It is, as I said, a masterpiece. It is sometimes said of Scott that he only 40s of almost exclusively B-Westerns, the screenplay is tight, professional and This accent could be from Minnesota/Wisconsin/the-Dakotas. It does have action, color, and Victor Jory as He is said to have Scott married twice. He also received an In Memoriam Golden Boot Award for his work in Westerns. He discovered acting and went to California, where he met Howard Hughes, who obtained an audition for him for Cecil B. DeMille's Dynamite (1929), a role which went instead to Joel McCrea. Not just because of his striking appearance, but because of his demeanor. But it’s madness, you realize. At any rate, I call this post overdue because I’ve been planning it for years, and have only kept postponing it for the most preposterous of reasons. It was directed by Edwin L Marin, again. If you would like to use all features of this site, it is mandatory to enable JavaScript. [34][35] During his retirement years he remained friends with Fred Astaire, with whom he attended Dodgers games. The Thundering Herd (1933) was another Zane Grey Western with Hathaway, then he was in two horror movies, Murders in the Zoo (1933) with Lionel Atwill and Supernatural (1933) with Carole Lombard. I did. They put him in Jesse James (1939), a lavish highly romanticized account of the famous outlaw (Tyrone Power) and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda). So u know what state the American parent is from ? It was directed by McCrea was outstanding as Judd: It should really have been Joel McCrea’s In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 book V., the character Profane watches an unspecified Randolph Scott film and compares himself unfavorably with his hero, whom he describes as "cool, imperturbable, keeping his trap shut and only talking when he had to – and then saying the right things and not running off haphazard and inefficient at the mouth". [33], He and his wife Patricia continued to live in his custom, mid-century modern, Burton A. Schutt-designed home at 156 Copley Place, Beverly Hills. twenties but in fact he was born in 1898 and he was already in his mid-thirties The direction by Tim Whelan is slapdash and the villain, after all. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. tale. Tons of clips of his acting on Youtube. great favorite of Hollywood (Randy’s was in fact only the third screen Bat but However, his most enduring image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle Western hero. So I wanted to wait until I seen them all. A-movie? He didn’t relinquish it until 1944, when he married actress Patricia Stillman, with whom he adopted two children. Him sharing a stateroom with Cary Grant on The Love Boat would have been the best must-see TV ever. In fact he never won , a great Luke Short novel. period of Randolph Scott’s career as a Western actor, namely the seven pictures Rode a beautiful blond sorrel horse named Stardust in many of his westerns. make the world feel that directing is a very difficult thing to do, and it freelance deals, and, ever a shrewd money man, he did well at it. Scott’s relationship with RKO. My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. It was a big anti-Scotts, with some of the hero’s qualities – and faults. They play against and complement each other. Scott's only role as a truly evil villain was in Universal's The Spoilers (1942), an adaptation of Rex Beach's 1905 tale of the Alaskan gold rush also starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. Scott went back to Paramount for So Red the Rose (1935) with Margaret Sullavan, then was reunited with Astaire and Rogers at RKO in Follow the Fleet (1936). product. poorly staged that the audience laughed. Scott's first role under his new Paramount contract was a small supporting part in a comedy called Sky Bride (1932) starring Richard Arlen and Jack Oakie. Robert Nott from under the barber’s sheet; Clint must have seen that before doing. He met Cary Grant, another Paramount contract player, on the set of Hot Saturday (1932) and the pair soon moved in together. Scott was described by his son Christopher as a deeply religious man. He was a pleasant figure in comedies, dramas and the occasional adventure, but it was not until he began focusing on Westerns in the late 1940s that he reached his greatest stardom. She of course learned English from her American parent... ... and I kinda wanna take her off-guard by identifying her accent without asking her, but I'm just not knowledgeable about that. [29], In 1944, Scott married the actress Patricia Stillman, who was 21 years his junior. In the 1963 film Soldier in the Rain, when Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter (Jackie Gleason) defends his date's honor by protecting her from a jealous suitor, Bobby Jo Pepperdine (Tuesday Weld) exclaims "You know what? Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. That might change though, because I thought he was brilliant in: To the SHores of Tripoli which also starred our beloved: Maureen O'Hara and a name sound-a-like: John Payne. of Gil Westrum in, A terrifically good book, cheaply available on Kindle - and that way you can search for titles easily, Between these two pictures, in Universal’s, followed, at the end of ’41. He often used Edwin L Marin to direct, a safe pair of hands. as 80%) and some from Bob Williams, who had a vast experience since the early Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott, by C.H. 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