Roberto Benigni has not disappeared. He is still one of the most influential artist in the Italian entertainment. He had two critical acclaimed theater projects which also aired on Italian TV (gaining million of views). Just because is not popular among Americans, it does not mean his career is over
Thank you! Came to make the same comment. Roberto Benigni wasn't even on Hollywood's radar before Life Is Beautiful despite the fact he'd been acting, producing and writing scripts in Italy and in Europe for two decades. After the triumph of La Vita E Bella, though he continued acting and producing, he was once again largely ignored by US audiences, ergo, for them, he disappeared. Nonsense.
Mira Sorvino - after her academy award, it seemed as if she had retired. Harvey Weinstein had secretly blacklisted her. I wonder how many other prominent actresses were passed over due to his influence at that time.
Weinstein ruined a number of actresses’ careers. I can think of at least three actresses that were clearly becoming A listers and then just inexplicably sputtered out. He’s hardly the only powerful person to do that to actors either. So many talented people have had their careers ruined by predators.
With Kim Basinger, I wonder if her severe agoraphobia is behind her sporadic film appearances. She's spoken openly about how her anxiety was so crippling that she wouldn't leave her home for years.
PERHAPS but I think it had more to do with starring in bomb after bomb which, naturally, will make producers less interested in you. Also....I don't know...I just never thought she was that great. Good, but nowhere near the echelon of Meryl Streep or Glenn Close or any "real" actress. She's a model more than anything. I honestly feel like she won her Oscar because she was the most famous and glamorous out of the bunch, not because she gave the best performance. It's like when Grace Kelly just completely stole Judy Garland's Oscar in '55. I think '98 should've gone to Moore or Stuart.
@stanedwards309 I try to take it with a grain of salt when an actress has a reputation for being difficult, since we've seen a few actresses over the years reveal that the reputation was given to them as a result of them merely advocating for themselves and not being divas. Though I also don't know enough about Kim to know if this was the case there as well.
@@mitsukai7192 Kim Basinger was allegedly a huge diva and nightmare to deal with on the set of The Marrying Man with Alec Baldwin. She also allegedly had the script for Ralph Bakshi's Cool World watered down (it was originally intended to be an R-rated horror movie) because she wanted the film to be something that she could show to sick children in hospitals. And then there's the whole mess over her being sued for breaking her contract from the film Boxing Helena.
Wow! I never knew that about Piper Laurie. I absolutely loved her in Twin Peaks. But how badass is it that she got her first nomination then left the industry for years and years, then gets contacted by Brian, accepts the part in Carrie and get another nom and her career has a second wind. Not many actors have had this happen to them.Shows just how talented she is.
Maybe the death of Marilyn Monroe around that time made an impression and she thought it might be better for her personal happiness to concentrate her attention on her family rather than doggedly pursuing a career that might work out or not and potentially end up like Monroe. A sex symbol has a short shelf life, but a character actress can work forever. Sounds like she made a command decision.
Kim Basinger had some really amazing projects after L.A. Confidential (1997) but critics and audience didn't appreciate her as usual. Ageism worked there too. I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was criminally underrated - her acting was brilliant there! Then she had 8 Mile (2002), The Door In the Floor (2004), The Sentinel (2006), Even Money (2006), The Burning Plain (2008), Black November (2012), One Square Line (2014) and The Nice Guys (2016)
Even if they weren't amazing (won't get into that), the fact that she was making films with Eminem, Jeff Bridges, Russell CRowe, Charlize Theron, Ryan Gosling hints that she did not..."disappear". Criteria for this list is atrocious.
Mary Batam tours with the stage production of Mockingbird with Richard Thomas. It's a small role, but she's great, and is one of the nicest people you could meet.
As a theater person who’s done both theater and film, when you say “she went back to the theater,” I’m like, well yeah. Theater rocks. Film sucks your soul out through your fingernails. This is something to celebrate. 🎉
And yet you have to do the same scene every night. I once saw Elizabeth Franz on Broadway as Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman and wondered where she found the strength to suffer and cry so much day after day. Respect!
Eva Le Gallienne did not disappear!! She returned to the theater where she belonged and was celebrated as one of the best stage actresses of the 20th century!
I knew Rainer was going to be #1 in this list. And in a way rightfully so, she was really the one of the fastest star to fall in old Hollywood and, sincerely, I respect her so much for having the courage to leave Mayer and Hollywood to retain her dignity and respect for herself.
L.B. Mayer, MGM head, is allegedly quoted as telling the rather difficult Rainer: "We made yah, and we can break yah!" Apparently he did? At least Joan Crawford got tossed, over the hill, to Warner's.
A lot of foreign, as in non-american, actors have a solid film and theater career in their home countries. Just because they haven't been making any american films doesn't mean they have "disappeared".
Totally this. I took French in high school in the late 90s/early 00s and found out about "Amelie" way before it was cool. I then became a huge Audrey Tautou fan from there. In college we had a dollar theater in the area that would get indie/art/foreign films and my best friend and I would hit it up every time a new Audrey Tautou movie dropped. I remember being so confused when we saw "A Very Long Engagement" because I was like "What's Jodie Foster doing in this?" because I didn't know she was fluent in French. I was actually so excited when Tautou was cast in "The DaVinci Code" because I thought it was going to be her big American crossover. She was on the cover of US Allure (I still have it somewhere) and it said "France's next big little thing." Of course it wasn't her big crossover but she's still doing movies in France. The last one I paid attention to was "Delicacy." Just looked and I have some catching up to do on her.
Leslie Browne - The Turning Point Jocelyne LaGarde - Hawaii Catherine Burns - Last Summer Penelope Milford - Coming Home Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife
There was a great article in The Hollywood Reporter in 2020 about Catherine Burns. She didn't like her film performances (she was only in a few movies after Last Summer), worked off-Broadway and in repertory theater in the 70's and 80's, then became a writer of plays and children's books. In 1989, she and her husband (who was also a writer) left New York and ... disappeared. For years when people who were fans of Last Summer tried to track her down, they found nothing. Finally, in 2019 she was traced to a tiny community in the state of Washington. She and her husband had lived there for many years until her death in early 2019.
Yalitza Aparicio, who was nominated for Best Actress for Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA, could also go on here. She hasn’t really been in a whole lot since she was nominated. Then again, ROMA was also her first ever film role, so who knows what she’s decided to do since that movie.
Elizabeth Hartman - Patch Of Blue - did a few more movies - most famous probably Clint Eastwood's (The Beguiled), a little TV and had a tragic ending. Chief Dan George - Little Big Man - did some movies and TV afterwards, but nothing notable. Topal - Fiddler On The Roof Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid - Only did a few things afterwards and was absent from the screen 1976 - 2000.
Topol was in For Your Eyes Only and Flash Gordon in the '80's, but that was about it. Jeannie Berlin popped up in the Kenneth Lonergan film Margaret and she was wonderful!
Topol was a stage actor wasn't he? So it makes sense to me that he would instead be recognized for his work in theatre rather than becoming a movie star.
Hartman made very few movies, but most are today classics. So i think she doesn't deserve to be here. Mary MacNamara story thats similar is even worse than Hartman. After 3 coins in a fountain she had a lead in a forgotten film and the an stupid cameo in Otto Preminger The Cardinal. At least Hartman had better movies, and was also common that actors take their big time off between films from the late 60s to the early 80s.
Another example could be Ann Blyth - she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1945's 'Mildred Pierce', but was not a major star thereafter and stopped acting in films after the 1950s, although she did appear on television some (I remembered her for the Twilight Zone episode 'The Queen of the Nile'). Interestingly, she is still living, as one of the last surviving nominees from the Golden Age of Hollywood!
Her late husband was Hollywood ob/gyn Dr. McNulty. (The brother of Jack Benny Show, Irish tenor, Denis Day.) He delivered many celebrity kids including Elizabeth Taylor's children.
Fascinating top 10 video, Brian! I would have LOVED Jaye Davidson to have won the Supporting Actor Oscar that year, an iconic and groundbreaking performance in queer cinema that truly fits the term "cultural reset" perfectly, he was such a revelation that year (understandably Gene Hackman swept the season that year and even if he wasn't there, Jack Nicholson was right there to win another Oscar for A Few Good Men). Loved that Justin Henry performance, would have been lovely to see him win in a Tatum O'Neal & Anna Paquin way. Luise Rainer does in fact make perfect sense for a #1. Also kind of surprised Jean Dujardin wasn't here either. Another great video, Brian 😍
I understand why Dujardin was less mentioned after 2014, he was supposed to be the next George Clooney, but he doesn't want The American life because he has to be part of Hollywood. And pressure matters since he got divorced just weeks after his Oscar win. Jean Dujardin should have been cast while the leading man.
What probably hurt her career big time was the fact that she got pregnant while only 16 years old. I mean, you couldn't really put her in mainstream family friendly projects after that without expecting any sort of blowback from conservative moral guardians.
Man, Justin Henry really touched me in Kramer vs Kramer. It's sad that he left the industry, but at least he left a legendary performance in the history books
Two names from the 1960s.. Jocelyn Legarde from the movie Hawaii only appeared in one film and was nominated for an Oscar. Also there was a film called Last Summer with an actress named Catherine Burns who was nominated but she also disappeared.
Here's another actor, Katina Paxinou. She won an Oscar in 1943 "For Whom the Bells Toll". She was a Greek actor primarily in the theater. She made a few more films then returned to Greece in 1951. Returned to the US and became a citizen.
On the flip side, it would be interesting to see careers that took off after winning the Oscar. I think of winners in the 2000's like Eddie Redmayne, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larsen, Mahershala Ali.
The existence of the "Oscar Curse" has been debated for decades. The fact remains that the careers of many actors declined or completely vanished after their nomination and/or win. Coincidence?
What about Kevin Costner, Marisa Tomei, Sally Field, Shirley MacLean, Sir Ian McCillen, Jack Nicholson, Jared Leto and Robin Williams in the several years before his death? They all had good careers since.
Luise Rainer led a very full and exceptionally long life. After her time in Hollywood she lived a full life in Europe and in later years made sporadic periods of time in Los Angeles including talk shows and television shows such as "The Love Boat". She also later made appearances at the TCM Awards beginning in 2010 and interviewed both times by the late Robert Osborne. She traveled the World giving a one-woman performance of Alfred Lord Tennyson epic long poem "Enoch Arden". I was fortunate enough to see her in the performance she gave of this epic poem at UCLA in the mid 1980's. She was also present for a showing of "The Good Earth" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California and it was truly delightful in being able to see her in audience as I was watching the movie. Her last film role was in "The Gambler". Luise Rainer graciously signed several magazine covers and original photographs I had with me after the showing of the movie. Her one daughter lives today in the Palm Springs, California (La Quinta) area.
Tom Hulce is probably a better example. His nomination did him no favors. I read a while back that Abraham was very happy with his career. The Oscar gave him the opportunity to work consistently but he was still able to ride the subway without being recognized.
Another example is Ronee Blakely in Nashville. She is magnificent in the role of fictional troubled singer Barbara Jean. She had a couple of small roles after that and was later in A Nightmare on Elm Street as the lead girls mother but not much after that.
Really interesting, thank you Brian! I'd love a video on stars that have fallen from grace and/ or resurrected their careers. I like that many of the stars on the list left because they wanted to, not because they were pushed out. Fame certainly isn't for everyone. I can understand fully how some people walk away.
A performance is a performance. Some only have one in them. It doesn't matter if that performance is Linda Manz as Abby in Days of Heaven. It'll live forever.
Louise Fletcher is most fascinating to me. Here is an actress, out of nowhere, delivered one of the greatest villains ever in the history of film. She ranked #5 of best villains ever according to AFI in 2003. And just like that, she faded. She is like that musician who produced one of the greatest albums ever and never charted afterwards.
Not only that, the movies she did ultimately appear in were either famously flops or had some controversy behind them: On the flop side The Exorcist II: The Heretic; Full Moon Junction; Invaders from Mars. On the controversy side, Flowers in the Attic and Brainstorm, with the Natalie Wood death in real life overshadowing everything about that film. I think Flowers in the Attic was the only one of those to make a profit.
Fletcher was an almost virtual unknown, at least to the public, before OFOTCN and her subsequent Oscar win. Though her name has the asterisk of distinction as an Oscar winner, her early career up until Cukoo's Nest was largely episodic guest stints on television while her post-Cukoo career was primarily supporting roles in B movies, (and she made lots of them). Fletcher had achieved name recognition but was never a star and didn't become one merely because she won an Oscar. And that's the case with a lot of obscure Oscar winners. F. Murray Abraham was basically a theater actor and occasional movie actor in bit and supporting parts, largely unknown to the general public until he took the Oscar for Amadeus. He has certainly worked steadily in film and television - mostly supporting roles - since that win, but again, Abraham was never a big star and getting an Oscar obviously did not confer instant stardom. What the Oscar did give both Fletcher and Abraham was name recognition, an open door at the big casting agencies and steady, continuous work as character actors. And yet they could still walk down public streets in major cities and not get harassed by tabloid photographers or fans. That's ... not a bad deal. Not at all. And it's worth reminding readers here that though the majority of Oscars have gone to true, bonafide movie stars, it's really about actors - and probably more so now than ever before.
She is great in Big Eden from 2000 and great in it. The movie had very little exposure and her role is a supporting one, but she plays very maternal figure, the opposite of her Oscar character.
What about Jean Dujardin from "The Artist"? There are actors who never got nominated again after their first time despite continuing to work, and those who plum disappeared. You could fill a couple videos worth of the first one. Winning an Oscar can be like the kiss of death for a career. Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Linda Hunt, Mo'Nique.....and on and on
Dujardin still acts regularly in French roles. He was never that interested in English language roles and just happened to find a major role that didn’t require him to speak English.
My first thought seeing the title was Mo'Nique as well. This video has some great examples put together. Unfortunately there are enough others to do at least another 10.
Monique isn't getting gigs cause her husband who is her manager is toxic and encouraging her to beef abd pick fights with powerful people in the industry. I know the industry is hard for black women but everytime Monique is in the news, she's fighting someone. Oprah, Lee Daniels and Tyler Perry did her dirty but she needs to let it go and move on
Great video, but how could you leave out Harold Russell??? The literal every man who made it! I would love to see you do a video on this amazing story!
I always thought Benigni was mostly just an Italian actor who happened to have a foreign film that was nominated. That movie is one of my all time favorites by managing to turn something so grim to be hilarious.. until the end.
One of the most poignant examples of this is Susan Peters. Nominated for Supporting Actress for 1942's Random Harvest, she was soon after paralyzed in a gun accident. Though she played a few roles that allowed her to use her wheelchair (including a revamped stage version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie) despair overtook her and she died in 1953.
The worst part of it was that she was only on the hunting trip because of husband, actor Richard Quine. He stayed with her for a few years and then walked out. And not long after that she committed suicide. He later became a fairly successful director. Why this wasn't a career-destroying scandal is beyond me.
@@topogigio2879 Yes, but karma eventually played a hand. Quine, who often made movies with Jack Lemmon, eventually found himself out of favor and unable to get much work in Hollywood directing his specialty (light comedy) and eventually...committed suicide.
After her nomination, she dropped out of view for nearly a decade to raise a child with Neil Young as her son was stricken with cerebral palsy. When she returned to work by 1978, it was mainly in character parts across film and television, and continued working until her death in 2004.
He made a somewhat similar movie called "The Tiger and the Snow" but it must have bombed and wasn't real received despite being good (but not as great).
I was surprised to see Piper Laurie here as well - till you pointed out the 15 year gap that followed her nomination. Thank goodness for Twin Peaks though - what a great comeback of sorts and I enjoyed every minute she was in that. I think Jaye Davidson was a smart cookie. He accepted the role of Dill in The Crying Game so he could buy an expensive pair of boots he wanted and thanks to that success got to get the fee for Stargate - a tidy sum which no doubt when to other endeavours he was interested in. Acting not one of them. Great list as usual Brian - An interesting inclusion would have been Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields - his role in that, subsequent win and the years that followed that.
@chrisjfox8715 absolutely. She knew what the deal was I've no doubt. When she snaps at Pete to " get your boots off of my bed and go to your room! " lol...
Didn't know Maggie got nominated for The Moon Is Blue. Or that Kim won for LA Confidential! A deserving win for one of the last true blonde bombshells.
Winning or being nominated for an Oscar is a tough act to follow. The bar has been set so high and if that’s not reached, it goes downhill. Few more examples, Mercedes Rhuel, Mira Sorvino, among others. People expect that their next role will be as good, if not better, than the role that got them the recognition.
Eva La Gallienne was a renown theatre actress. To quote the NY times-‘for many decades one of the grand figures of the American theatre. An actress, director, teacher, writer, etc. For a very long time Serious theatre actors looked down on Hollywood and would only do very select movie projects. No surprise she went back to theatre.
Kim basinger had a huge box office hit in 2002 with her supporting role in 8 mile and modest box office success in 2004’s cellular and 2010’s Charlie st cloud
Quite a few others didn't do much after winning or being nominated for Oscars like Bernice Bejo, Tom Hulce, Louise Fletcher, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Burns and others.
Berenice Bejo was a french starlet before the Artist. And after it, she become an European and Latinoamerican star. She worked wirh important directors and actors despite not all her films were succesful at box office. But she was nominated for Cesar and European Awards after the Artist (I guess she won a couple of this Awards) so her career is more than OK. The same goes to Fernanda Montenegro who made only one movie in the states. But still in her mid 90s is one of the highest paid actresses in Brazil. Norma Aleandro Same (she worked a little more in US, 2 times with Anthony Hopkins) None wants to play the cleaning Lady for cents, when she could portray the abolongue rich matriarch for lot of money in their own country TV and Cinema
Quick look through the comments already and there are a LOT of actors and actresses you could have had in your list. Mine are Harold Russell for The Best Years of Our Lives and Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields (a stunning performance).
@@somecontrol268 Yes, he was killed in 1996 in a shooting outside his home in what first appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. Later, evidence emerged that have led authorities to believe something more calculated - perhaps Khmer Rouge-related - was the cause.
In lieu of all the accusations coming out of Hollywood’ of abuse - it would stand that some of these actors didn’t want to have to deal with the toxic atmosphere that Hollywood breeds.
Roberto Begnini was one of the three principal actors in Down By Law by Jim Jarmusch. He starred with Tom Waits and John Lurie. Amazing film, one of my favourites. The opening is legendary.
Totally expected Harold Russell to be in 1st place. Won an Oscar for his 1st movie role in 1947. The 2nd movie he was in came out in 1980, the 3rd and last in 1997. He also sold his Oscar in 1992 for about 60 grands 😂
Jocelyne LaGarde should've also been considered for this list. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1966 film "Hawaii" and she never appeared in another film. In fact, "Hawaii" was her only credited film role.
Do your research. Luise (not Louise) Rainer left MGM because Louis Mayer her star in several unreleasable MGM B-movies (a.k.a. Stinkburgers). She wanted top scripts, Mayer wanted to use her star power for the stinkburgers, and there you have it. No love for Marlee Matlin?
Catalina sandino for Maria full of grace, she hasn't disappeared per se, she's still acting, but she has faded more into obscurity, she seems to me like a "one hit wonder" actress type of situation.
I would add Haing S. Ngor to the list. Very tragic life. It's a testament to the the US that he could survive Pol Pot but he couldn't survive the gangs of Los Angeles.
He was a wonderful man - I met him when The Killing Fields came out, as well as Dith Pran. Ngor's death is still mysterious and Pran's death just unfortunate for all that he endured.
Excellent video. Jaye was brilliant in TCG, a travesty he did not win that year. The gasps from the audience at the reveal, is what acting is all about. No one knew up until that scene.
No some people realized before the "big reveal." I was in a theater when it first came out and I remember the gasps. I didn't see it coming but my sister sitting next to me had already figured it out and was very calm. I just thought Davidson was a masculine looking woman. At the time, it was a very novel thing to have a transgender character on screen in a major role. So it came as a surprise to most, especially as the film had a lot of distracting storylines, diverting the audience's attention to the IRA thriller storyline. I thought that was going to be the main story when in fact, it was more the backdrop and a device to bring the characters of Fergus and Dill together, in a way where he is clueless about the truth, and which makes the ending make sense (why Dill would kill someone, and why Fergus ends up in prison).
@@RobertPagano226 Actually I think a lot of the gasps from some people in the audience was because they didn't expect to actually see a naked male part right in that scene (even if they'd already guessed the "surprise"). It wasn't all that common yet in films of the early 90s that got a mainstream release (and not like say, niche art films like those of say, director Peter Greenaway). I was personally surprised that they'd shown it, rather than using some other way to make it known.
I, a guy, had no clue back in the day when I saw it in the theater, although I did sense there was something about Dill I couldn't quite put my finger on. The woman friend I saw the movie with knew straight away.
@@meropale I'm female but I was young, and rather clueless so I didn't guess before the reveal. I think what made my sister realize early on was everything about Davidson as Dil - voice, face, body shape, and I think she spotted the Adam's apple at some point. I've always found Jamie Lee Curtis to be rather masculine looking in the face, and she's also tall. So I just thought Davidson was like her. Also, I'd previously seen Neil Jordan's earlier film success, "Mona Lisa", which has elements similar to "Crying Game" (tall, slim black lead actress as the object of a white man's interest, thwarted love, crime etc.). No transgender surprise in that, but there is a kind of similar LGBTQ surprise: the woman, who is a high class escort, turns out to be a lesbian, in love with another hooker (the audience and the guy are led to believe that the escort is looking for a close friend). The same year as CG, there was this 3 part British TV series called "Mr. Wakefield's Crusade" (based on a novel) which I also saw back then. There is a similar "twist" involving a cross dressing male, but it was obvious almost right away even to me, because the same actor was first introduced to the audience as this male character. And so when he appears dressed as a "she", you could clearly see it was him. His face has more masculine features and dark hair making his jawline shadow hard to disguise. Might have worked better with someone very blond. Coincidentally, Miranda Richardson appeared in "Mr. Wakefield's Crusade" as well as "Crying Game." The following year, the film adaptation of the play M.Butterfly came out, with a similar premise. However even in makeup, actor John Lone would be recognized as a man in drag by most people.
Oh my God, Louise Rainier was so wonderful in my favorite book in "The Good Earth." She was super amazing which I love and still get emotional by her performance in that film. I do wish she had made more movies because she was "EXCELLENT."
I'm susprised you didn't include Monique. After her Oscar win she didn't appear in a movie until 5 years later and basically most of her films flopped. It's like she dissapeared from the spotlight. The reality is she got semi blacklisted from Hollywood. Would have been a great story to tell in your video.
Tatum O'Neal actually won the academy award at just 10 years of age, but apart from Bad News Bears and Little Darlings, she basically disappeared. Her only real notoriety after that was her turbulent marriage to John McEnroe and arrests for substance abuse issues...
I was thinking of O'Neal as well, and though her film career left the spotlight relatively early on, her shambolic "career" as a tabloid media fixture only grew as she got older. With her reality TV shows, tell all biographies, talk show appearances, etc, she never really left the spotlight. Indeed, the O'Neal family's reputation as a trainwreck-with-a-spotlight-on-it is now well-entrenched in the annals of Hollywood Babylon, and they seem to leave no avenue untouched to cash in on it. They have become Hollywood's most notorious white trash celebrity family.
My #1 is Catherine Burns, who was amazing in 1969's LAST SUMMER (a lost film classic that needs rediscovered), got an Oscar nom, then made sporadic appearances here and there before retiring in the early 80s. Sadly, she died in 2019.
The last film I saw or even heard Basinger in was Celluliar,Chris Evan's debut. Did Thorn Birds come before or after Carrie and Twin Peaks?Piper was in all three. And finally another actor I thought was great but never saw him again was the priest in The Exorcist?He kept seeing his dead mother?Can anyone tell me whatever happened to him?
Unfortunately Maggie MacNamara & Elizabeth Hartman committed suicide. Roberto Bennini is still very famous in Italy. Piper Laurie was a terrific actor. Louise Rainer was blacklisted. There are many other actors who won Academy Awards & their careers fazed out. Very fickle business.
My mom was an agent in Hollywood for a few years and tried pushing me into films but I was just not talented. One thing I see now is that child actors have daddy issues. I came from a stable family so I had zero interest in a spotlight.
The number of successful child actors who go on to full fledged, high profile acting careers as adults is a small number. I think of actors like Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland and Jodie Foster more as the exceptions - and of those, Foster is really the only one who went on to lead a sane, drug free and accomplished life as both an adult and actor, likely due to the fact that she is highly intelligent, educated and has a strong sense of the boundaries of her private life, something Taylor, Rooney and Garland, with their multiple marriages/divorces and frequent stints in rehab, never had.
I think its wrong for you to imply that going to college would have kept Taylor, Rooney, and Garland from ruining their careers and/or private lives. You can correct me if it turns out I am putting words in your mouth. Some people cope with becoming famous by using drugs or are unable to cope so it impacts their romantic relationships (as it did with Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor). Judy Garland was forced to take drugs by her Mother and the studio execs so that she could work long hours and became dependent on them into adulthood to function on set because no one told her no ( thats the abridged version of a very complex story that I don't want to get into here). My point is....Jodie Foster isn't better than all of these other child stars you mentioned as examples. Its important for us to take into account the circumstances surrounding them and try to have empathy for them so as to not pass judgement. No one is perfect, not even you @orpheus9037.
@@ashlybuck5706 You already supply a part of my response as you're likely aware, given you mention the abuses Garland underwent, that Rooney, Taylor and Garland were all groomed and trained as the progeny of the old studio system, which I took for granted most people reading posts on a movie channel like this would be familiar with. I'm certainly not making the claim that because Rooney, Taylor and Garland didn't go to college they somehow ruined their lives - I mean, come on; rather, they never really had a choice: they were too busy filling studio coffers while working exceptionally demanding schedules and likely supporting their parents. Much the same with the control the studios took over their private lives, which were basically the property of the studios as well. Foster, of course, was born of a later generation and though she worked steadily in commercials, TV and movies throughout her youth, she clearly had more autonomy regarding determining both her direction and goals in life. In short, the distinction I make between Foster and Taylor, Rooney and Garland is largely a generational one. Simply, Foster was raised with more - and better - choices in controlling her life than Taylor, Rooney and Garland ever had. I mean, sorry, but nobody sets out in life with the hope of getting married and divorced eight times (a figure both Taylor and Rooney share; Garland, meanwhile, had five) or only being able to function in a pill-and-alcohol induced stupor (all three of them). I think we can agree there's a pattern here.
LOL they just hate it when actors and projects from 'other' countries (than US or UK) win Oscars. Loved Jamie Lee Curtis announcing "...and the Oscar goes to ..." pause, deep breath ... spit it out ... "Parasite". I do agree that 1912 got ripped off that year but it didn't win and Parasite did. Hanks and McKellan looked sooo pleased when Benigni won. I loved Roberto in Pinocchio. Italian movie based on an Italian story written by an Italian played by Italians. So much better than Disney poop. He didn't vanish.
Ok. My favorite Kim Basinger movie is ... My StepMother is an Alien. I laughed so hard - and at that time in my life, I really needed it. I will always be grateful.
She was a foreign unknown actress (even in her country). And after that she had an interesante indie career for the next 7 years. Then she made TV and had a cameo in the twiglight franchise. She was foreign and innexperience to become a leading Lady after her debut.
Was always shocked how fast louise fletcher not only hit Hollywood, but seem to have left it. Cannot imagine anyone else in the world playing nurse. Ratchet. Was actually ecstatic when she showed up in shameless as Frank's mother...
Roberto Benigni has not disappeared. He is still one of the most influential artist in the Italian entertainment. He had two critical acclaimed theater projects which also aired on Italian TV (gaining million of views). Just because is not popular among Americans, it does not mean his career is over
Yeah Benigni doesn't belong in that list
He was brilliant in Life is Beautiful
Thank you! Came to make the same comment. Roberto Benigni wasn't even on Hollywood's radar before Life Is Beautiful despite the fact he'd been acting, producing and writing scripts in Italy and in Europe for two decades. After the triumph of La Vita E Bella, though he continued acting and producing, he was once again largely ignored by US audiences, ergo, for them, he disappeared. Nonsense.
@@jennifermcgee8621he was no where as good as Jim Carrey in Truman Show.
It means his Hollywood career is over 😅 not his overall tho
Mira Sorvino - after her academy award, it seemed as if she had retired. Harvey Weinstein had secretly blacklisted her. I wonder how many other prominent actresses were passed over due to his influence at that time.
Weinstein ruined a number of actresses’ careers. I can think of at least three actresses that were clearly becoming A listers and then just inexplicably sputtered out. He’s hardly the only powerful person to do that to actors either. So many talented people have had their careers ruined by predators.
Great call‼️👌
Ashley Judd was another talented and attractive actress that Harvey did wrong
Because of him. Gwyneth won for that lousy film shakespear in love instead of Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth.
@@bambi274 Elizabeth is one of the most overrated films ever and Blanchett did nothing very interesting in it.
With Kim Basinger, I wonder if her severe agoraphobia is behind her sporadic film appearances. She's spoken openly about how her anxiety was so crippling that she wouldn't leave her home for years.
PERHAPS but I think it had more to do with starring in bomb after bomb which, naturally, will make producers less interested in you. Also....I don't know...I just never thought she was that great. Good, but nowhere near the echelon of Meryl Streep or Glenn Close or any "real" actress. She's a model more than anything. I honestly feel like she won her Oscar because she was the most famous and glamorous out of the bunch, not because she gave the best performance. It's like when Grace Kelly just completely stole Judy Garland's Oscar in '55. I think '98 should've gone to Moore or Stuart.
Perhaps, but the fact remains that hers was an undeserved Oscar. She was fine in L.A. Confidential, but nothing special.
She has a reputation for being a big pain to deal with.
@stanedwards309 I try to take it with a grain of salt when an actress has a reputation for being difficult, since we've seen a few actresses over the years reveal that the reputation was given to them as a result of them merely advocating for themselves and not being divas. Though I also don't know enough about Kim to know if this was the case there as well.
@@mitsukai7192 Kim Basinger was allegedly a huge diva and nightmare to deal with on the set of The Marrying Man with Alec Baldwin. She also allegedly had the script for Ralph Bakshi's Cool World watered down (it was originally intended to be an R-rated horror movie) because she wanted the film to be something that she could show to sick children in hospitals. And then there's the whole mess over her being sued for breaking her contract from the film Boxing Helena.
Wow! I never knew that about Piper Laurie. I absolutely loved her in Twin Peaks. But how badass is it that she got her first nomination then left the industry for years and years, then gets contacted by Brian, accepts the part in Carrie and get another nom and her career has a second wind. Not many actors have had this happen to them.Shows just how talented she is.
Maybe the death of Marilyn Monroe around that time made an impression and she thought it might be better for her personal happiness to concentrate her attention on her family rather than doggedly pursuing a career that might work out or not and potentially end up like Monroe. A sex symbol has a short shelf life, but a character actress can work forever. Sounds like she made a command decision.
Piper Laurie got a third Oscar nomination for "Children of a Lesser God"
Piper also worked with Mel Gibson back in the day.
@@richardevans9003Piper's performance in Children of a Lesser God is criminally underrated.
@@craigslaunwhite579 In Tim, yes. I was a fan of that movie.
To be fair, Benigni was a star in Italy long before he made Life Is Beautiful and continued to be that.
Roberto benini only disappeared in the US. He's still an icon in Italy.
exactly
Kim Basinger had some really amazing projects after L.A. Confidential (1997) but critics and audience didn't appreciate her as usual. Ageism worked there too. I Dreamed of Africa (2000) was criminally underrated - her acting was brilliant there! Then she had 8 Mile (2002), The Door In the Floor (2004), The Sentinel (2006), Even Money (2006), The Burning Plain (2008), Black November (2012), One Square Line (2014) and The Nice Guys (2016)
She was incredible in The Door on the Floor.
Even if they weren't amazing (won't get into that), the fact that she was making films with Eminem, Jeff Bridges, Russell CRowe, Charlize Theron, Ryan Gosling hints that she did not..."disappear". Criteria for this list is atrocious.
I know it's kind of a dumb film, but I loved cellular!!
@@SomethingSomethingg Me too!
@@mr29 Exactly!
Mary Batam tours with the stage production of Mockingbird with Richard Thomas. It's a small role, but she's great, and is one of the nicest people you could meet.
I saw the play when it performed in Orlando earlier this year!
As a theater person who’s done both theater and film, when you say “she went back to the theater,” I’m like, well yeah. Theater rocks. Film sucks your soul out through your fingernails. This is something to celebrate. 🎉
And yet you have to do the same scene every night. I once saw Elizabeth Franz on Broadway as Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman and wondered where she found the strength to suffer and cry so much day after day. Respect!
Eva Le Gallienne did not disappear!! She returned to the theater where she belonged and was celebrated as one of the best stage actresses of the 20th century!
I think she also taught acting at an extremely high level.
This vid concentrates on disappearing from movie roles
Le Gallienne was great in Resurrection.
I knew Rainer was going to be #1 in this list. And in a way rightfully so, she was really the one of the fastest star to fall in old Hollywood and, sincerely, I respect her so much for having the courage to leave Mayer and Hollywood to retain her dignity and respect for herself.
My grandmother told us kids that Rainer beat it to shack up with Greta Garbo....
L.B. Mayer, MGM head, is allegedly quoted as telling the rather difficult Rainer: "We made yah, and we can break yah!" Apparently he did? At least Joan Crawford got tossed, over the hill, to Warner's.
A lot of foreign, as in non-american, actors have a solid film and theater career in their home countries. Just because they haven't been making any american films doesn't mean they have "disappeared".
Totally this. I took French in high school in the late 90s/early 00s and found out about "Amelie" way before it was cool. I then became a huge Audrey Tautou fan from there. In college we had a dollar theater in the area that would get indie/art/foreign films and my best friend and I would hit it up every time a new Audrey Tautou movie dropped. I remember being so confused when we saw "A Very Long Engagement" because I was like "What's Jodie Foster doing in this?" because I didn't know she was fluent in French. I was actually so excited when Tautou was cast in "The DaVinci Code" because I thought it was going to be her big American crossover. She was on the cover of US Allure (I still have it somewhere) and it said "France's next big little thing." Of course it wasn't her big crossover but she's still doing movies in France. The last one I paid attention to was "Delicacy." Just looked and I have some catching up to do on her.
Leslie Browne - The Turning Point
Jocelyne LaGarde - Hawaii
Catherine Burns - Last Summer
Penelope Milford - Coming Home
Dexter Gordon - Round Midnight
Carrie Snodgress - Diary of a Mad Housewife
Good choices
There was a great article in The Hollywood Reporter in 2020 about Catherine Burns. She didn't like her film performances (she was only in a few movies after Last Summer), worked off-Broadway and in repertory theater in the 70's and 80's, then became a writer of plays and children's books. In 1989, she and her husband (who was also a writer) left New York and ... disappeared. For years when people who were fans of Last Summer tried to track her down, they found nothing. Finally, in 2019 she was traced to a tiny community in the state of Washington. She and her husband had lived there for many years until her death in early 2019.
Yalitza Aparicio, who was nominated for Best Actress for Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA, could also go on here. She hasn’t really been in a whole lot since she was nominated. Then again, ROMA was also her first ever film role, so who knows what she’s decided to do since that movie.
I think it's too soon to say that, she has been in Presencias (which she is really good) and Great Seduction... 5 years gap only 🤔
It’s not a huge part but was fantastic in Los Espookys. Totally niche but so cool!
Piper Laurie was in a movie called "Tim," one of Mel Gibson's early movies. It's a sweet film; she was 46 and he was 23.
His character was mentally challenged. It was a good movie!
@@whaaat3632 Yes it was.
Elizabeth Hartman - Patch Of Blue - did a few more movies - most famous probably Clint Eastwood's (The Beguiled), a little TV and had a tragic ending.
Chief Dan George - Little Big Man - did some movies and TV afterwards, but nothing notable.
Topal - Fiddler On The Roof
Jeannie Berlin - The Heartbreak Kid - Only did a few things afterwards and was absent from the screen 1976 - 2000.
Topol was in For Your Eyes Only and Flash Gordon in the '80's, but that was about it. Jeannie Berlin popped up in the Kenneth Lonergan film Margaret and she was wonderful!
Topol was a stage actor wasn't he? So it makes sense to me that he would instead be recognized for his work in theatre rather than becoming a movie star.
@@ashlybuck5706 Topol eventually made his life's career playing Tevye in productions of FOTR around the world.
Hartman made very few movies, but most are today classics. So i think she doesn't deserve to be here. Mary MacNamara story thats similar is even worse than Hartman. After 3 coins in a fountain she had a lead in a forgotten film and the an stupid cameo in Otto Preminger The Cardinal. At least Hartman had better movies, and was also common that actors take their big time off between films from the late 60s to the early 80s.
Another example could be Ann Blyth - she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1945's 'Mildred Pierce', but was not a major star thereafter and stopped acting in films after the 1950s, although she did appear on television some (I remembered her for the Twilight Zone episode 'The Queen of the Nile'). Interestingly, she is still living, as one of the last surviving nominees from the Golden Age of Hollywood!
She quit after she got married and had five kids and returned after they've grown
Her interviews on making 'Mildred Pierce' are also on UA-cam and they are wonderful!
Her late husband was Hollywood ob/gyn Dr. McNulty. (The brother of Jack Benny Show, Irish tenor, Denis Day.) He delivered many celebrity kids including Elizabeth Taylor's children.
Fascinating top 10 video, Brian! I would have LOVED Jaye Davidson to have won the Supporting Actor Oscar that year, an iconic and groundbreaking performance in queer cinema that truly fits the term "cultural reset" perfectly, he was such a revelation that year (understandably Gene Hackman swept the season that year and even if he wasn't there, Jack Nicholson was right there to win another Oscar for A Few Good Men). Loved that Justin Henry performance, would have been lovely to see him win in a Tatum O'Neal & Anna Paquin way. Luise Rainer does in fact make perfect sense for a #1. Also kind of surprised Jean Dujardin wasn't here either. Another great video, Brian 😍
I understand why Dujardin was less mentioned after 2014, he was supposed to be the next George Clooney, but he doesn't want The American life because he has to be part of Hollywood. And pressure matters since he got divorced just weeks after his Oscar win.
Jean Dujardin should have been cast while the leading man.
Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider may be a good one
But she is currently on FBI: MOST WANTED
She was in game of thrones as 1 of the sand snakes.
What probably hurt her career big time was the fact that she got pregnant while only 16 years old. I mean, you couldn't really put her in mainstream family friendly projects after that without expecting any sort of blowback from conservative moral guardians.
Your videos are always so well researched, well narrated and presented Brian. Thanks for such thoughtful and entertaining content.
Totally agree, Brian is such a professional ❤
Man, Justin Henry really touched me in Kramer vs Kramer. It's sad that he left the industry, but at least he left a legendary performance in the history books
Two names from the 1960s.. Jocelyn Legarde from the movie Hawaii only appeared in one film and was nominated for an Oscar. Also there was a film called Last Summer with an actress named Catherine Burns who was nominated but she also disappeared.
Here's another actor, Katina Paxinou. She won an Oscar in 1943 "For Whom the Bells Toll". She was a Greek actor primarily in the theater. She made a few more films then returned to Greece in 1951. Returned to the US and became a citizen.
She was also in Hostages with Luise Rainer.
She was the matriarch in Rocco and his brothers. At least she had another even more famous movie
She was in one of my favorite movies "The Miracle". Everyone makes fun of it, but I love it.
On the flip side, it would be interesting to see careers that took off after winning the Oscar. I think of winners in the 2000's like Eddie Redmayne, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larsen, Mahershala Ali.
The existence of the "Oscar Curse" has been debated for decades. The fact remains that the careers of many actors declined or completely vanished after their nomination and/or win. Coincidence?
Interesting. I'm sure there could be a part 2 to this installment.
@@jonathanvelazquezph.d.2719 I actually completed a video on this but postponed it until Oscar season next year..🙂
@@oscarman42 😀 can't wait to see it
Variety of reasons
What about Kevin Costner, Marisa Tomei, Sally Field, Shirley MacLean, Sir Ian McCillen, Jack Nicholson, Jared Leto and Robin Williams in the several years before his death? They all had good careers since.
Luise Rainer led a very full and exceptionally long life. After her time in Hollywood she lived a full life in Europe and in later years made sporadic periods of time in Los Angeles including talk shows and television shows such as "The Love Boat". She also later made appearances at the TCM Awards beginning in 2010 and interviewed both times by the late Robert Osborne.
She traveled the World giving a one-woman performance of Alfred Lord Tennyson epic long poem "Enoch Arden".
I was fortunate enough to see her in the performance she gave of this epic poem at UCLA in the mid 1980's. She was also present for a showing of "The Good Earth" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California and it was truly delightful in being able to see her in audience as I was watching the movie. Her last film role was in "The Gambler".
Luise Rainer graciously signed several magazine covers and original photographs I had with me after the showing of the movie.
Her one daughter lives today in the Palm Springs, California (La Quinta) area.
Kim Basinger had been a major star in the late 1980s. L. A. Confidential was actually her comeback.
one of my favorite movies!
George Chakiris-West Side Story
F Murray Abraham-Amadeus
Tom Hulce is probably a better example. His nomination did him no favors.
I read a while back that Abraham was very happy with his career. The Oscar gave him the opportunity to work consistently but he was still able to ride the subway without being recognized.
And then Abraham played himself, "That guy kill Mozart!"
Another example is Ronee Blakely in Nashville. She is magnificent in the role of fictional troubled singer Barbara Jean. She had a couple of small roles after that and was later in A Nightmare on Elm Street as the lead girls mother but not much after that.
You forgot Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields.
RIP
He try to make a Glenda Jackson without luck😢
Really interesting, thank you Brian! I'd love a video on stars that have fallen from grace and/ or resurrected their careers. I like that many of the stars on the list left because they wanted to, not because they were pushed out. Fame certainly isn't for everyone. I can understand fully how some people walk away.
A performance is a performance. Some only have one in them. It doesn't matter if that performance is Linda Manz as Abby in Days of Heaven. It'll live forever.
Louise Fletcher is most fascinating to me. Here is an actress, out of nowhere, delivered one of the greatest villains ever in the history of film. She ranked #5 of best villains ever according to AFI in 2003. And just like that, she faded. She is like that musician who produced one of the greatest albums ever and never charted afterwards.
Not only that, the movies she did ultimately appear in were either famously flops or had some controversy behind them: On the flop side The Exorcist II: The Heretic; Full Moon Junction; Invaders from Mars. On the controversy side, Flowers in the Attic and Brainstorm, with the Natalie Wood death in real life overshadowing everything about that film. I think Flowers in the Attic was the only one of those to make a profit.
Fletcher was an almost virtual unknown, at least to the public, before OFOTCN and her subsequent Oscar win. Though her name has the asterisk of distinction as an Oscar winner, her early career up until Cukoo's Nest was largely episodic guest stints on television while her post-Cukoo career was primarily supporting roles in B movies, (and she made lots of them). Fletcher had achieved name recognition but was never a star and didn't become one merely because she won an Oscar. And that's the case with a lot of obscure Oscar winners. F. Murray Abraham was basically a theater actor and occasional movie actor in bit and supporting parts, largely unknown to the general public until he took the Oscar for Amadeus. He has certainly worked steadily in film and television - mostly supporting roles - since that win, but again, Abraham was never a big star and getting an Oscar obviously did not confer instant stardom. What the Oscar did give both Fletcher and Abraham was name recognition, an open door at the big casting agencies and steady, continuous work as character actors. And yet they could still walk down public streets in major cities and not get harassed by tabloid photographers or fans. That's ... not a bad deal. Not at all. And it's worth reminding readers here that though the majority of Oscars have gone to true, bonafide movie stars, it's really about actors - and probably more so now than ever before.
She is great in Big Eden from 2000 and great in it. The movie had very little exposure and her role is a supporting one, but she plays very maternal figure, the opposite of her Oscar character.
I believe Piper Laurie went to Australia for awhile. She made 'Tim' with a very young Mel Gibson in 1979.
This is very similar to the Grammy phenomenon of Best New Artist.
What about Jean Dujardin from "The Artist"? There are actors who never got nominated again after their first time despite continuing to work, and those who plum disappeared. You could fill a couple videos worth of the first one. Winning an Oscar can be like the kiss of death for a career. Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Linda Hunt, Mo'Nique.....and on and on
Dujardin still acts regularly in French roles. He was never that interested in English language roles and just happened to find a major role that didn’t require him to speak English.
My first thought seeing the title was Mo'Nique as well. This video has some great examples put together. Unfortunately there are enough others to do at least another 10.
Helen hunt got another nomination for the sessions
Timothy Hutton was on american crime, received an emmy nomination
Monique isn't getting gigs cause her husband who is her manager is toxic and encouraging her to beef abd pick fights with powerful people in the industry. I know the industry is hard for black women but everytime Monique is in the news, she's fighting someone. Oprah, Lee Daniels and Tyler Perry did her dirty but she needs to let it go and move on
Jocelyn lagarde in Hawaii is the only time someone was nominated for an Oscar for the only movie they were ever in
Yes, I remember her great performance.
Mercedes Ruehl is savagely underrated!
Love your videos, Brian!! I was curious if you had seen The Iron Claw? Would love to hear your thoughts on it!!
Great video, but how could you leave out
Harold Russell??? The literal every man who made it! I would love to see you do a video on this amazing story!
I absolutely love your channel, i’ve seen so many of your videos!! love it - great work ❤
I always thought Benigni was mostly just an Italian actor who happened to have a foreign film that was nominated. That movie is one of my all time favorites by managing to turn something so grim to be hilarious.. until the end.
Mary Badham is the sister of Saturday Night Fever director John Badham.
One of the most poignant examples of this is Susan Peters. Nominated for Supporting Actress for 1942's Random Harvest, she was soon after paralyzed in a gun accident. Though she played a few roles that allowed her to use her wheelchair (including a revamped stage version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie) despair overtook her and she died in 1953.
A better example than several on this list.
The worst part of it was that she was only on the hunting trip because of husband, actor Richard Quine. He stayed with her for a few years and then walked out. And not long after that she committed suicide. He later became a fairly successful director. Why this wasn't a career-destroying scandal is beyond me.
@@topogigio2879 Yes, but karma eventually played a hand. Quine, who often made movies with Jack Lemmon, eventually found himself out of favor and unable to get much work in Hollywood directing his specialty (light comedy) and eventually...committed suicide.
Brenda Fricker from My Left Foot. She won, moved to USA, and apart from home alone 2 (small role), never heard of again.
Flicker is like the Greta Garbo of the factory women. At least she made 2 great movies after it.
Fricker also had a small role in the 1994 Disney film "Angels in the Outfield."
Roberto Benigni didn't disappear. Cinema exists outside USA...
Nice list. Another actress that dropped off the radar after an oscar nomination was carrie Snodgress (Diary of a mad Houswife)
After her nomination, she dropped out of view for nearly a decade to raise a child with Neil Young as her son was stricken with cerebral palsy. When she returned to work by 1978, it was mainly in character parts across film and television, and continued working until her death in 2004.
I think she continúe working in tv and films. Wasn't she on the fury?
Life Is Beautiful was brilliant! There was nowhere but down after that. You can do a whole list of best actor awards that disappeared after their win.
He made a somewhat similar movie called "The Tiger and the Snow" but it must have bombed and wasn't real received despite being good (but not as great).
Life Is Beautiful was offensive junk. Not a single Jewish person thinks otherwise.
Luise Rainer also lived nearly 80 years after those two Oscar wins, dying a month before her 105th birthday in 2015
I was surprised to see Piper Laurie here as well - till you pointed out the 15 year gap that followed her nomination. Thank goodness for Twin Peaks though - what a great comeback of sorts and I enjoyed every minute she was in that. I think Jaye Davidson was a smart cookie. He accepted the role of Dill in The Crying Game so he could buy an expensive pair of boots he wanted and thanks to that success got to get the fee for Stargate - a tidy sum which no doubt when to other endeavours he was interested in. Acting not one of them. Great list as usual Brian - An interesting inclusion would have been Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields - his role in that, subsequent win and the years that followed that.
Her performance in Twin Peaks was so soap opera'ey that it was hilarious in a good way lol
@chrisjfox8715 absolutely. She knew what the deal was I've no doubt. When she snaps at Pete to " get your boots off of my bed and go to your room! " lol...
@@alisdairmckenzie that and the triple slap were the best parts 😂 even that shenanigans line was drenched in soap opera delivery
Didn't know Maggie got nominated for The Moon Is Blue. Or that Kim won for LA Confidential! A deserving win for one of the last true blonde bombshells.
Winning or being nominated for an Oscar is a tough act to follow. The bar has been set so high and if that’s not reached, it goes downhill. Few more examples, Mercedes Rhuel, Mira Sorvino, among others. People expect that their next role will be as good, if not better, than the role that got them the recognition.
Mira Sorvino was blacklisted because of Harvey Weinstein. It unfortunate because she has a very captivating voice for film.
@@Cjrocket89 she was hilarious as a guest star in an episode of Will&Grace
I never understood the hype around Mira Sorvino. I totally don't get her Oscar win, and she's not remotely funny on W&G.
Eva La Gallienne was a renown theatre actress. To quote the NY times-‘for many decades one of the grand figures of the American theatre. An actress, director, teacher, writer, etc. For a very long time Serious theatre actors looked down on Hollywood and would only do very select movie projects. No surprise she went back to theatre.
Just imagining how much we would have to chat about over coffee. ❤️love this channel so much.
Piper Laurie received another nomination for Children of a Lesser God in 1986
Interesting Video. Never Knew That About Louise Rainier. What About Teresa Wright? Thank You.
Kim basinger had a huge box office hit in 2002 with her supporting role in 8 mile and modest box office success in 2004’s cellular and 2010’s Charlie st cloud
Mary Badham just appeared at the Pantages Theater not long ago in the play To Kill a Mockingbird. Clearly she has not disappeared.
Quite a few others didn't do much after winning or being nominated for Oscars like Bernice Bejo, Tom Hulce, Louise Fletcher, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Burns and others.
Berenice Bejo was a french starlet before the Artist. And after it, she become an European and Latinoamerican star. She worked wirh important directors and actors despite not all her films were succesful at box office. But she was nominated for Cesar and European Awards after the Artist (I guess she won a couple of this Awards) so her career is more than OK. The same goes to Fernanda Montenegro who made only one movie in the states. But still in her mid 90s is one of the highest paid actresses in Brazil. Norma Aleandro Same (she worked a little more in US, 2 times with Anthony Hopkins)
None wants to play the cleaning Lady for cents, when she could portray the abolongue rich matriarch for lot of money in their own country TV and Cinema
What about Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Haley Joel Osman (The Sixth Sense)?
Jean dujardin continues making films in france and Haley joel osment continues acting with her voice in Animations
Quick look through the comments already and there are a LOT of actors and actresses you could have had in your list. Mine are Harold Russell for The Best Years of Our Lives and Haing S. Ngor for The Killing Fields (a stunning performance).
I’d forgotten about Haing S Ngor being a nominee, but his performance was remarkable. Does anyone know what happened to him subsequently?
@@somecontrol268 Yes, he was killed in 1996 in a shooting outside his home in what first appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. Later, evidence emerged that have led authorities to believe something more calculated - perhaps Khmer Rouge-related - was the cause.
@@martinsorenson1055 thank you for reply. So sad to hear that
Watching L.A. Confidential again recently I still have Kim Basinger as one of my favorite best supporting actress wins .
In lieu of all the accusations coming out of Hollywood’ of abuse - it would stand that some of these actors didn’t want to have to deal with the toxic atmosphere that Hollywood breeds.
Some early actress videos that might be fun to do is Ingrid Bergmans return and win for gaslight, Joan Fontaine/Ginger Rogers/Loretta Youngs.
Roberto Begnini was one of the three principal actors in Down By Law by Jim Jarmusch.
He starred with Tom Waits and John Lurie.
Amazing film, one of my favourites.
The opening is legendary.
Totally expected Harold Russell to be in 1st place. Won an Oscar for his 1st movie role in 1947. The 2nd movie he was in came out in 1980, the 3rd and last in 1997. He also sold his Oscar in 1992 for about 60 grands 😂
Jocelyne LaGarde should've also been considered for this list. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1966 film "Hawaii" and she never appeared in another film. In fact, "Hawaii" was her only credited film role.
Do your research.
Luise (not Louise) Rainer left MGM because Louis Mayer her star in several unreleasable MGM B-movies (a.k.a. Stinkburgers). She wanted top scripts, Mayer wanted to use her star power for the stinkburgers, and there you have it.
No love for Marlee Matlin?
Here are some of other actors I would like to add to the list.
Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King (1992)
Mira Sorvino - The Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Mira has been acting or reviving her career somewhat. She was derailed by Weinstein.
Loved LA confidential. Great cast! Kim was beautiful.
Guy Pearce is one of the best working actors who has never been nominated.
Catalina sandino for Maria full of grace, she hasn't disappeared per se, she's still acting, but she has faded more into obscurity, she seems to me like a "one hit wonder" actress type of situation.
Hilary Swank i know still works but basically has never had the career u would think with her 2 wins
I would add Haing S. Ngor to the list. Very tragic life. It's a testament to the the US that he could survive Pol Pot but he couldn't survive the gangs of Los Angeles.
He was a wonderful man - I met him when The Killing Fields came out, as well as Dith Pran. Ngor's death is still mysterious and Pran's death just unfortunate for all that he endured.
Remarkable stories! Thanks for your research and presentation.
Excellent video. Jaye was brilliant in TCG, a travesty he did not win that year. The gasps from the audience at the reveal, is what acting is all about. No one knew up until that scene.
No some people realized before the "big reveal." I was in a theater when it first came out and I remember the gasps. I didn't see it coming but my sister sitting next to me had already figured it out and was very calm. I just thought Davidson was a masculine looking woman. At the time, it was a very novel thing to have a transgender character on screen in a major role. So it came as a surprise to most, especially as the film had a lot of distracting storylines, diverting the audience's attention to the IRA thriller storyline. I thought that was going to be the main story when in fact, it was more the backdrop and a device to bring the characters of Fergus and Dill together, in a way where he is clueless about the truth, and which makes the ending make sense (why Dill would kill someone, and why Fergus ends up in prison).
@@SY-ok2dq Great observation and analogy!
@@RobertPagano226 Actually I think a lot of the gasps from some people in the audience was because they didn't expect to actually see a naked male part right in that scene (even if they'd already guessed the "surprise"). It wasn't all that common yet in films of the early 90s that got a mainstream release (and not like say, niche art films like those of say, director Peter Greenaway). I was personally surprised that they'd shown it, rather than using some other way to make it known.
I, a guy, had no clue back in the day when I saw it in the theater, although I did sense there was something about Dill I couldn't quite put my finger on. The woman friend I saw the movie with knew straight away.
@@meropale I'm female but I was young, and rather clueless so I didn't guess before the reveal.
I think what made my sister realize early on was everything about Davidson as Dil - voice, face, body shape, and I think she spotted the Adam's apple at some point.
I've always found Jamie Lee Curtis to be rather masculine looking in the face, and she's also tall. So I just thought Davidson was like her. Also, I'd previously seen Neil Jordan's earlier film success, "Mona Lisa", which has elements similar to "Crying Game" (tall, slim black lead actress as the object of a white man's interest, thwarted love, crime etc.). No transgender surprise in that, but there is a kind of similar LGBTQ surprise: the woman, who is a high class escort, turns out to be a lesbian, in love with another hooker (the audience and the guy are led to believe that the escort is looking for a close friend).
The same year as CG, there was this 3 part British TV series called "Mr. Wakefield's Crusade" (based on a novel) which I also saw back then. There is a similar "twist" involving a cross dressing male, but it was obvious almost right away even to me, because the same actor was first introduced to the audience as this male character. And so when he appears dressed as a "she", you could clearly see it was him. His face has more masculine features and dark hair making his jawline shadow hard to disguise. Might have worked better with someone very blond. Coincidentally, Miranda Richardson appeared in "Mr. Wakefield's Crusade" as well as "Crying Game."
The following year, the film adaptation of the play M.Butterfly came out, with a similar premise. However even in makeup, actor John Lone would be recognized as a man in drag by most people.
Oh my God, Louise Rainier was so wonderful in my favorite book in "The Good Earth." She was super amazing which I love and still get emotional by her performance in that film. I do wish she had made more movies because she was "EXCELLENT."
I'm susprised you didn't include Monique. After her Oscar win she didn't appear in a movie until 5 years later and basically most of her films flopped. It's like she dissapeared from the spotlight. The reality is she got semi blacklisted from Hollywood. Would have been a great story to tell in your video.
It didn't help herself. Getting into fights with everyone,
@@quentingray643but she wasn’t wrong, as Taraji P. Henson recently proved.
I recently say Mary Badum on the touring production Of mockingbird with Richard Thomas
I love Piper in Rich in Love, with Albert Finney.
I enjoyed this video. Different and interesting. Thank you!
Tatum O'Neal actually won the academy award at just 10 years of age, but apart from Bad News Bears and Little Darlings, she basically disappeared. Her only real notoriety after that was her turbulent marriage to John McEnroe and arrests for substance abuse issues...
I was thinking of O'Neal as well, and though her film career left the spotlight relatively early on, her shambolic "career" as a tabloid media fixture only grew as she got older. With her reality TV shows, tell all biographies, talk show appearances, etc, she never really left the spotlight. Indeed, the O'Neal family's reputation as a trainwreck-with-a-spotlight-on-it is now well-entrenched in the annals of Hollywood Babylon, and they seem to leave no avenue untouched to cash in on it. They have become Hollywood's most notorious white trash celebrity family.
My #1 is Catherine Burns, who was amazing in 1969's LAST SUMMER (a lost film classic that needs rediscovered), got an Oscar nom, then made sporadic appearances here and there before retiring in the early 80s. Sadly, she died in 2019.
The last film I saw or even heard Basinger in was Celluliar,Chris Evan's debut.
Did Thorn Birds come before or after Carrie and Twin Peaks?Piper was in all three.
And finally another actor I thought was great but never saw him again was the priest in The Exorcist?He kept seeing his dead mother?Can anyone tell me whatever happened to him?
Unfortunately Maggie MacNamara & Elizabeth Hartman committed suicide. Roberto Bennini is still very famous in Italy. Piper Laurie was a terrific actor. Louise Rainer was blacklisted. There are many other actors who won Academy Awards & their careers fazed out. Very fickle business.
My pick would be Catalina Sandino Moreno. After Maria Full of Grace, she just disappeared
My mom was an agent in Hollywood for a few years and tried pushing me into films but I was just not talented. One thing I see now is that child actors have daddy issues. I came from a stable family so I had zero interest in a spotlight.
The number of successful child actors who go on to full fledged, high profile acting careers as adults is a small number. I think of actors like Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland and Jodie Foster more as the exceptions - and of those, Foster is really the only one who went on to lead a sane, drug free and accomplished life as both an adult and actor, likely due to the fact that she is highly intelligent, educated and has a strong sense of the boundaries of her private life, something Taylor, Rooney and Garland, with their multiple marriages/divorces and frequent stints in rehab, never had.
Ron Howard too has avoided the worst but he went full into directing which he became interested in very early in his acting career.
More recently, Ryan Gosling. He was an actor in this teens in the U.S. and his native Canada and is still a big star!
That's an intelligent assessment. I recently saw a PBS show on Foster's life, and I greatly admire her.
I think its wrong for you to imply that going to college would have kept Taylor, Rooney, and Garland from ruining their careers and/or private lives. You can correct me if it turns out I am putting words in your mouth. Some people cope with becoming famous by using drugs or are unable to cope so it impacts their romantic relationships (as it did with Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor). Judy Garland was forced to take drugs by her Mother and the studio execs so that she could work long hours and became dependent on them into adulthood to function on set because no one told her no ( thats the abridged version of a very complex story that I don't want to get into here).
My point is....Jodie Foster isn't better than all of these other child stars you mentioned as examples. Its important for us to take into account the circumstances surrounding them and try to have empathy for them so as to not pass judgement. No one is perfect, not even you @orpheus9037.
@@ashlybuck5706 You already supply a part of my response as you're likely aware, given you mention the abuses Garland underwent, that Rooney, Taylor and Garland were all groomed and trained as the progeny of the old studio system, which I took for granted most people reading posts on a movie channel like this would be familiar with. I'm certainly not making the claim that because Rooney, Taylor and Garland didn't go to college they somehow ruined their lives - I mean, come on; rather, they never really had a choice: they were too busy filling studio coffers while working exceptionally demanding schedules and likely supporting their parents. Much the same with the control the studios took over their private lives, which were basically the property of the studios as well. Foster, of course, was born of a later generation and though she worked steadily in commercials, TV and movies throughout her youth, she clearly had more autonomy regarding determining both her direction and goals in life. In short, the distinction I make between Foster and Taylor, Rooney and Garland is largely a generational one. Simply, Foster was raised with more - and better - choices in controlling her life than Taylor, Rooney and Garland ever had. I mean, sorry, but nobody sets out in life with the hope of getting married and divorced eight times (a figure both Taylor and Rooney share; Garland, meanwhile, had five) or only being able to function in a pill-and-alcohol induced stupor (all three of them). I think we can agree there's a pattern here.
LOL they just hate it when actors and projects from 'other' countries (than US or UK) win Oscars. Loved Jamie Lee Curtis announcing "...and the Oscar goes to ..." pause, deep breath ... spit it out ... "Parasite". I do agree that 1912 got ripped off that year but it didn't win and Parasite did. Hanks and McKellan looked sooo pleased when Benigni won. I loved Roberto in Pinocchio. Italian movie based on an Italian story written by an Italian played by Italians. So much better than Disney poop. He didn't vanish.
That was Jane Fonda who announced Parasite's Best Picture win, not Jamie Lee Curtis...
Even though I aam aware of this phenomenon the selection you did is highly interesting to me.
Thanks for this. I like your voice and manner.
The Academy Award is a blessing and a curse!
Luise Rainer (pronounced RAY-Near) was a German actress who lived to 104 years old, dying in 2014.
Glenda Jackson would be another one. She won two Oscars but disappeared for 20 years to become a member of parliament.
Glenda Jackson was an important actress of the late 1960s-early 1970s. She certainly can't be compared to 'one hit wonders' like Maggie McNamara.
Ok. My favorite Kim Basinger movie is ... My StepMother is an Alien. I laughed so hard - and at that time in my life, I really needed it. I will always be grateful.
Catalina Sandino Moreno didn't do as many high profile films after Maria Full of Grace, though she's now in Silent Night with Joel Kinnaman
She was a foreign unknown actress (even in her country). And after that she had an interesante indie career for the next 7 years. Then she made TV and had a cameo in the twiglight franchise.
She was foreign and innexperience to become a leading Lady after her debut.
Was always shocked how fast louise fletcher not only hit Hollywood, but seem to have left it. Cannot imagine anyone else in the world playing nurse. Ratchet. Was actually ecstatic when she showed up in shameless as Frank's mother...
I was such a Jaye Davidson fan! At least he swapped one art form to another.
Piper Laurie wrote a good, very interesting autobiography - well worth reading.
Kim was a lot of fun in "My Stepmother is an Alien".
What about Judy Holiday?
Roberto Benini was brilliant and hysterical in "Night on Earth!