Acting Gods | 5 breathtaking scenes from the 1950's
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2024
- the 1950's started a new era in the style of acting that would become common place. James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor were central to this transition. Here are five jaw-dropping (spell checked) scenes that are as emotional and breathtaking now as they ever were.
0:01: East of Eden - James Dean
2:19: A Place in the Sun
3:19 A Street Car Named Desire
6:17 A Roman holiday
8:25 Cat on the Hot Tin Roof
#elizabethtaylor #audreyhepburn #marlonbrando #jamesdean #acting #actorsstudio
Liz Taylor was breathtaking.
The actor named in each scene owes part of their performance to the person they are acting with.
Agree and in the next episode we will be naming both actors. Thank you for pointing this out.
Great one!
Very True ann
Precisely
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Everyone talks about Brando in that scene but Vivien Leigh made me nervous and jumpy… she was awesome
They both enhanced the other's performance.
Marlon brando
shes great and she is very much showing us the classic and soon to be dated style of acting as she works opposite Brando, who's here changing the entire concept of what great acting is forever.
Vivien was amazing.
Both were amazing
Vivien Leigh is complete acting perfection as Blanche Dubois.
it is said that Blanche Dubois is for actrices what Hamlet is for actors...
Absolutely!!
@@normadesmond6017 Claire Bloom was trying to get a handle on the character of Blanche for a London production of Streetcar. She asked Tennessee what he thought happened to Blanche after being taken away. Without a moment's hesitation he said "She slept with some of the young doctors at the asylum and went on to run a chic little shop in the French Quarter.
@@poetcomic1so......Tennesse Williams! Brilliant!
It's commonly said Vivian Leigh's Blanche Dubois is for female acting what Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet is for male acting.....
Ah…Gregory Peck .. wonderful actor and such a handsome man
Gregory Peck, was handsome and also an absolute gentleman.💖
Agreed - I think he is part of the reason I watch Ari Melber.......
Newman tells a great story about rehearsing Cat with Taylor, and feeling that she simply “wasn’t there, not doing anything, not giving him anything, etc”, such that he went to the director(Elia Kazan) to voice his concerns, and Kazan simply smiled and said “don’t worry, she will be”. Then when they began filming, Newman said she came alive like a thousand watt bulb, and he realized he’d better find his “A game” very quickly. A true film star, Taylor was….and a great actress….🙏🎭❤️
I remember see in an interview with Richard Burton and he said the same. He said when they were filming her it looked like she was doing nothing, but viewing the actual footage she was doing everything.
Brando is unbelievable..
There's a reason he's called the king!
And crazy handsome
Blindingly gorgeous and immensely talented. Singular.
The greatest actor ever
Worth watching: The Young Lions 1958, where Brando brilliantly performs in a German accent and is quite convincing as a German ski instructor, not very political but following the crowd in thinking maybe Hitler will reinvigorate Germany or some such thing. Gets drafted into the army, and we follow his evolution in war. Also Montgomery Clift as a Jewish draftee who experiences antisemitism in the US army, and Dean Martin, his unmotivated friend trying to dodge the draft.
Brando as Stanley was sex on steroids
Talent🎉
Marlon Brando is outstanding.
Impossible to take your eyes off him!!!
Unreal. I've never bothered to watch him before. I need to correct that.
Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando made each other great!
@@Fragrantbeard Try “On the Waterfront”. Simply brilliant.
Streetcar wins the prize for best acting of all time. Stunning performances by both.
Elizabeth Taylor has to be one of the most beautiful women ever❤
It's a law !
With Grace Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, and Olivia Hussey.
Jimmy Stewart at the bar , praying to god in “Its a wonderful life”
He’s magical.
Absolutely stunning. Best. Acting. Ever.
Brando was smoldering
Incredible acting. I have no idea what he’s doing but he makes every word come alive and seductive
The scene with him screaming STELLA has been on my liked list for years.
I didn't know James Dean is such a great actor. That was heart wrenching
A lot going on in that scene
Wr removed the toilet guy - a bit too rude
Cringe overacting.
See him in Giant.
Nope, that’s the beauty of his performances, he could easily cross the line, and made them cringy, over the top, etc., but instead there is something originally, and specifically authentic in them. Absolutely unique actor.
No need for special effects, car explosions, digital enhancements. It's call acting and great writing.
Wish we had more of both today.
19 year old Elizabeth Taylor. Oh dear God!
I believe she was 22 when doing Cat. She was gorgeous at any age. While there were other really beautiful actresses, she glowed. Something very special.
I was referring to the scene, with Montgomery Clift, from A Place in the Sun. she was 19 then.@@auapplemac2441
WHAT!? You said nothing.
@@auapplemac2441 Maybe she was 19 when she did "A place in the sun?"
She was 26 when she played Maggie the Cat.
Brando is exactly what an actor should be. Dont get me wrong, i appreciate over the top performances but he is believable while also being able to utliize nuance and over the top if needed
Elizabeth Taylor and Monty were sooooooooo.....gorgeous and had such great chemistry between them.My favorites.
Agree
truly. i only knew her as an overweight and kind of ridiculous middle aged person w/too much makeup. but here..!
He was the great love of Liz Taylor's life but was gay, which she knew, and in those days protected him and his image...and helped him forever after he was disfigured in that terrible accident
His car crash was after leaving Taylor's house. She was 1st person to reach him, as he was choking on his teeth she got into his mouth and pulled them all out.
I don't know if the story is true but it's lasted. She's not just a beautiful actress she's a truly brave and caring woman. She started fighting for Aids/HIV charity as another good friend Rock Hudson was dying.
She's a spectacular woman. I could only dream of being as brave as her. Monty Cliff's face was supposedly messed badly.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe." She's brilliant. All dowdy and nasty.
Lots underestimated her as an actress because of her beauty. More fools them.
But running into that mangled car to help her friend is why I think she's an amazing human.
The way that James Dean stammers his speech and how he trembles. REAL.
Ok primate
The over acting was chronic and embarrassing to watch.
I’ve never taken notice of Jimmy Dean. Im 62. All I recall was his epic car crash and that he was a heart throb. But this scene tore into my stomach. Never feeling good enough and the draining desire fir it into adulthood. Brilliant . Thanks
East of Eden is remarkable.
@@amyslingsby6947Thanks heaps Amy. I might go hire it on Google Play
Raymond Massey as his father was almost AFRAID of Dean and his raw power. The actor's uptightness and classic theater training itself works to make him unreachable by his son..
@@poetcomic1 Oh that’s fascinating. Now i DO have to watch it. Maybe that’s part of it yes.: Real life personalities interacting on the screen is why we get to feel the scene more. What a lucky coincidence. Thanks for telling me that
He’s so good that I don’t think the other actor had to act. He seemed genuinely repulsed at how far Dean was cranking up the cringe.
No-Neck Monsters! 😂 that white plunging dress of Elizabeth Taylor is divine and iconic!
That dress became a staple for many women. I had one like it when I was 19.
It's neither divine nor iconic. Leave language be.
check out suddenly last summer, she's in a white one piece bathing suit and comes out of the water, another movie about gay men , but she's too friggin beautiful!
My favourite Brando scene is his Mark Anthony speech to the forum in 'Julius Caesar'. He brings humanity and passion to the role, quite mesmerising. As good as Brando is in A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivien Leigh easily matches him and I can't take my eyes off her Blanche Dubois.
Gotta be on the waterfront I could of been a contender
See: GUYS AND DOLLS
Is Vivien Leigh Scarlet O'Hara or Blanche Dubois ?
@@oliviafontaine8470 Gr8 question and observation!
It's Both.YET there's a Thin -Red- Grey Line separting them both.
And that's the Piece de Resistance of
Vivien's Fine Art !
Her inner suffering and demons
dancing
on her deeply sad and saddening face
is unbearable in this scene.
I love them all but Brando is above and beyond and they all knew it.
Years ago, Jack Nicholson said “When Marlon dies, all the rest of us move up a notch.”
Agree!
He became the person he was playing, while the others were acting
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) was filled with remarkable performances, incredible writing, just memorable all around.
Yes! When I replied to the lady above, the other movie that I had in mind was that one. So magnificent that it told of the horror of things without ever having to SHOW those awful events - (ie: the truth of the events (the pedophilia, the murdering, poor Elizabeth’s perilous existence in family, and Katherine Hepburns experience where she was forced to get out of her fantasy world and see the tougher side of life)- because you got it in your guts how bad those things are by the actresses melodramatically showing how those things affected them emotionally. That was how they managed to give you everything without showing evil acts directly. Which, when you think about it, is a better deal than just showing vicious acts. Apart from the majesty of actors and actresses who are given such a task
@@susanmcdonald-timms3202 That's Audry
and that white bathing suit, she's so gawjiz it hurts !
This play is brilliant - absolutely unique. Vivian Leigh inhabits Blanch. She’s like delicate lace, so fragile. A beautiful portrayal. Brando is Brando - you can’t separate himself from the part he’s playing, but he is the character he’s become - even in Apocalypse Now. (Of course, Coppola and his cinematographer did an incredible, artful scene in how they lighted and shot the scene, but Brando makes the scene.)
James Dean - no words. . . One of my most treasured films. It stands by itself - can’t compare it. 💁🏻♀️💁🏽♂️
Everyone was superb in this - Julie Harris, one of the most talented actresses ever (like Lili Taylor, who is brilliant). 🌼🌷🌱
Paul Newman was a really good actor. He was the character in this with no flourishes, but he’s definitely a presence. And Elizabeth Taylor was herself - an actress so brilliant. It’s hard to judge her as an actress because she also is such a presence, so herself, but also the part. I wonder if she ever played a quiet, shy, dowdy character?
Thank you so, so much. When movies were cinema - just the characters, the actors - no incredible scenery, no car chases - just the play. And the films shot in black & white work so well. (Metropolis would be ruined by color, as would the German Dracula and Dr. Caligari’s Cabinet.) Great scenes - thanks again. 🎬🎭🌷🌱
Thanks for posting ❤️
Someone knows good acting. 💐
i suppose "Who.s afraid of virgina wolfe" but even then she was gawjiz ! course i'm biased , my late wife looked just like her.
I love Monty Clift, Paul Newman, James Dean and Marlon Brando
And also I love ...Elizabeth Taylor.
So glad the list was to your liking! :)
Me too.
Paul Newman deserves a mention too here
We’re releasing 1970’s scenes on Thursday, the hustler will be included! Thanks for pointing this out/ pls tune in and comment on video when it’s up.
And Anthony Perkins
his best performance❤
Check out his last performance in “Road to Perdition,” his last film.
Nothing beats Montgomery Clifts introspection, intensity, and subtle emotional depth
East of Eden..one of my favorites!
1957 film, A Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith’s first dramatic movie role. Man, he was fantastic in that film!!
Absolutely.
I was mesmerized more by Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn than their counterparts.
And Elizabeth Taylor!
E!IZABETH TAYLOR IS STILL ONE OF MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN!!!💋💋💋💋💋
She died 13 years ago.
Ah, but she still lives... on celluloid!@@lizardas
Women not woman (when comparing to others)
Vivian Leigh was a great actress. Audrey Hepburn had charism with every actor she costarredwith.
Marlon Brando was fabulous
Brando...wow what magnetism!
Cat is my favorite. Great acting (and the absent Burl Ives). No one since Shakespeare could write theater like Tennessee.
You know he would be in the audience and would be the only one laughing. He had an odd sense of humor. He called himself Blanche. I'm not sure he thought that much of women overall.
James Mason "Odd men out"
Marlon Brando "On the waterfront"
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster "The rose tattoo"
jimmy dean in east of eden makes me grab my chest and scream. he's so good.
I was 10 years old when JAMES DEAN died. I saw all of his films and was awestruck. He would have even surpassed BRANDO as a God, I think. He never had the time. CLIFT was a God. He was also a new breed of actor. One that could actually change from character to character. Unlike say a John Wayne who was always the same in everything he did. All he ever did was change costumes. BRANDO was also the new breed of actor. He could adapt to any character. These talents were rarified. This level of acting was unheard of until they appeared on the screen. PECK and NEWMAN were great. To me, BURTON, O'TOOLE and HOPKINS are again another breed. No one can outdo them.
Hopkins is the most appalling old ham.
@@annamack5823Still, a great actor.
@@fob1xxl When he was young. Not now. Fallen for his own publicity. Painful to watch now with the grotesque over-acting.
Anthony Hopkins?
@@mE-zx7pt Gammon of the worst sort.
I mean...the way Marlon Brando looks Vivien Leigh up and down...he wasn't acting...that was his real self...
He was a player....I imagine he was hard to resist.
lol....I was thinking the same thing
Bu did you notice Vivian Leigh going from somewhat calm/collected to frazzled as she eyed him and recalled her bad memory. Superb!. @@sylviacarlson3561
missed it with A Place in the Sun… it’s the scene where they’re on the terrace& M Clift says “i wish i could tell you all” & E Taylor say “tell mama, tell mama all”. it’s a mind blower
My favorite line from cat on a hot tin roof. Maggie’s says at the end of a scene “ I feel like a cat on a hot tin roof!” Bick looks at her and says “then jump Maggie! You know cats do jump! So why don’t you jump! Jump Maggie jump!”. Tennessee Williams was an amazing play writer.
😍 Marlon Brando 😍
The good times when things like "the actor" and "the star" used to coincide: Paul Newman, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, etc. Great actors, bigger than life personalities.
Brando was just on another level. His mere presence on stage or screen must have seemed earth-shattering back in the 50s. Between him and Elvis, the world was changed forever.
The Heiress movie ending Olivia de Haviland just wow 😮😮😮😮
Clift desperately banging on the door as she ascends the stairs...
My favorite acting performance is in Seven Samurai. Toshiro Mifune is wild as Kikuchiyo.
Brando and Leigh were a couple of acting powerhouses in Streetcar. He really should have won an Oscar because perhaps James Mason might have scored one in 1954/55.
James Dean was such a Great actor , One of the best in his time .
He only made three films in his short life. Can't imagine what he could have achieved had he lived a normal lifespan. I think we missed so much great acting that Dean never had a chance to perform.
Excellent scenes. True masters of their craft.
Audrey Hepburn….terrific.
Elizabeth Taylor is astonishingly beautiful.
Two of my loves James Dean and Montgomery Clift.
One of the most intense movies from the 1950s is “the bad seed”. When the mother discovers the little girl has been murdering people and murdered a little boy and she said “you hit him with your shoes didn’t you, hit him with your shoes” too intense for words.
And then later, on, when the little girl is telling the gardener, “give me back my shoes”. You know, right then his days were numbered.
That is such an incredibly intense movie.
When someone from Hollywood went to Broadway and saw the play, they knew that no one else would be as good so they just hired the whole cast and filmed the play as a movie with just some slight changes.
Even today, many people regard Rhoda as the most evil of all evil screen children.
"The Bad Seed" is a cult classic. Patty McCormack was terrific as Rhoda. Eileen Heckart as Hortense Daigel was amazing. She had to quit the play on Broadway after awhile because it became too emotional for her.
My dad was lucky enough to see the play with the original actors. 👍🏻
Scared the heck out of me. @@sylviacarlson3561
James Dene was heartbreaking in that scene
Yes - and its James Dean
@lucillejerome5511 It's it's, not its. Now how do you feel?
@@johngalvin3124We're even. Have a great day.
All fantastic performances. Had to watch it twice to catch them all as you miss the female leads when dazzeled by the initial focus on the male leaads. Blance's desire and confusion when confronted by Brando, Taylor's wonderful reactions while Clift's on the phone and Hepburn charmingly learning about pyjamas! Last summer I was lucky enough to see Roman Holiday in glowing black and white in Bologna's Piazza Maggiore. Just magic.
Of the male leads Clift is still sublime.
I need to revisit some old movies. The Big Sleep first!
His acting in Street Car is over the top , but Last Tango in Paris is Sacred and Profane . It blew my mind when he started talking to his wife with the open casket scene .
Except that in that film he raped a young actress who wasn't told what was going to happen for the sake of realism, I imagine .... a crime !
ikr, the insults, jeez i thought he was gonna profess his love . but i love the line he had later at the club, "excuse me miss but i am so struck by your beauty that i'd like to buy you a glass of champange" i' used it when i was a young man.
Powerful, from all sides. Man, superior acting from all.
Marlon Brando is so 🔥 sexy! 🥵
James Dean was doing Monty Clift but I didn't realize it because I saw JD first. When I finally saw Monty -- his films were harder to come by -- I realized how much Dean owed him. Brando always claimed Dean was imitating him, but I think the link between Dean and Clift is stronger. I think Monty might have been the most naturally gifted actor of the three; and the most tortured. Arguably the most breathtakingly handsome as well, although young Brando would be a close second. I loved Jimmy first, but Montgomery Clift had the greater range, I think. Maybe not fair to compare since Dean died so young and only completed 3 films. Gregory Peck is always great but had I thought a more traditional acting style. Hepburn too. Elizabeth Taylor's beauty often overshadowed her talent. But I always loved how she loved -- and was loved in return by -- both Clift and Dean. Neither of whom were particularly easy people to be around if you believe what you read in bios.
East of Eden
Corrected, many thanks
Oh my , 3.09 Marlon appears looking like Tom hardy with a slight touch of Elvis . Great actor , handsome and thoughtful with principles . Thanks for this vid
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. All you need to know about the best acting in 1950's American films, baby.
Vivian is special. My GF used to live near Kim Hunter, and every weekend, there would be the "Stella" crowd. Elizabeth Taylor was pretty good too.
Audreys smile in the last scene from Roman Hollyday is so awesome and better than the hole Star Wars and Mad Max sagas combined.
Elizabeth Taylor - the best of the best
I can't believe James Dean . What a force. Its difficult watching him ! Unbelievable like Brando !
Overacting!
Loved all the actors in one of my favs "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Reminds me a lot of of own childhood. Thanks for sharing these timeless, amazing clips. 👍
Great performances. All American though. Missing Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir Alec Guinness, Toshiro Mifune, Max Von Sydow. To name a few.
We will get on to that, great idea! Let’s not forget Michael Caine
Vivian Leigh and Liz Taylor were British. Audrey Hepburn came from Belgium
Orsen wells.
@@user-gx2yy1df6f Orson Welles was American
Dean was only in his Twenties being this GIFTED!
Seriously?
Marlon Brando , un actor pentru eternitate ! In NASUL , a fost genial .Glorie eterna !!🎉🇷🇴🎉
Love to watch Montgomery Cliff act. Though a short life he picked his movies carefully and he and Brando were actually good friends! 😊😊
You love anything really easy we noticed
STELLAAAAAAAAAAAA!😂
great choices
thank you!
As a kid my experience watching Brando was limited to Godfather, Apocalypse and Superman. For some reason i didn’t watch Streetcar until i was in my mid twenties…..he blew me away in that. Waterffront too but man that guy was on a different levrl.
All sensational and iconic always. Reminded though, that despite these two stages of her gorgeousness, Elizabeth Taylor never got beyond that screeching and/or chirpy voice.
I also love James Mason, Gene Kelly and Marilyn Monroe! All actors from golden age of cinema
Great choices! The golden age indeed - Our favourite scenes from the 60’s will go live on Thursday
I love James Mason ❤. His voice is my favourite ever.
Brando blows them all out of the water, the greatest
Ok cartoon
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh!!
Brando!!! OMG
All great actors and all heartthrobs. 😁 It’s good to be reminded of these fantastic movies as well. I will be watching them all today too. Thank you for sharing this with us. 😊🎬 💙
A great example of early acting was Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms.
Excellent example.
Love the silent era. I prefer the silent versions of films. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Ben-Hur, Phantom of the Opera...
What an absolute treat for the eyes! Thank you so very much ❤
Thank you, thank you...these scenes are heart stopping...
Terrific selection. Great to see these after so long.
Still blows me arrest away seeing J.D.
IMHO, the roman holiday and streetcar scenes are excellent; the others (especially Dean’s) border on the embarrassing.
Elizabeth Taylor was grief stricken..after losing her husband Mike Todd..so her Performance was outstanding as Maggie❤
Muy buena eleccion de escenas!! Mi favorito es James Dean for ever!!
I knew the East of Eden scene with the father was going to be one of them lol
wow, i forgot how beautiful audrey hepburn was, and i have never seen her acting drunk! RIP AH.
😂😂😂Maggie the Cat, great perfomance by Elizabeth❤😢
A fine excerpt from
'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf '
would be another fit candidate
in this evocative demo roll!
Audrey Hepburn gave the performance of her career in The Nun’s Story…😊
Audrey Hepburn was adorable in that scene. Of course, she was adorable in _every_ scene she ever played.
Bravo 👏
fab compilation
James Dean was brilliant in East of Eden
Brando is the greatest ever.
It's always puzzling that slickly relationship in families in...say certain contexts...
there's no actors like that anymore
One of these scenes is a real standout.