display: block; Gregory Peck,Diane Baker,Walter Matthau, Herbert Ross Matthau was a respected stage actor for years in such fare as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Walter Matthau stars as Governor John M. Slaton. 2. ', "He made her enter this talent contest and her career then took off. This movie makes me proud to be an American. Belafonte was so impressed that he joined as a volunteer, then as an actor. I have to say that I totally disagree with the last comment I read on this movie. Belafonte was very much a human being. Starring: Matthau and Lemmon reunited for the comedy Grumpy Old Men (1993), co-starring Ann-Margret, and its sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995), also co-starring Sophia Loren. Clark and Belafonte resisted, successfully, and for the first time a man and woman of different colors touched on national television. The tone of the picture goes for laughs and then tries to educate those watching by showing how people in the highest of places can affect ordinary folks. [12], His death certificate lists the causes of death as "cardiac arrest" and "atherosclerotic heart disease" with "end stage renal disease" and "atrial fibrillation" as significant contributing factors. In addition to his wife, Belafonte is survived by his children Adrienne Belafonte Biesemeyer, Shari Belafonte, Gina Belafonte and David Belafonte; two stepchildren, Sarah Frank and Lindsey Frank; and eight grandchildren. User Ratings He found special pleasure in winning a New York Film Critics Award in 1996 for his work as a gangster in Robert Altmans Kansas City.. Starring: Elvis Presley,Carolyn Jones,Dean Jagger, Edward Dmytryk Hijinks and hilarity ensue, but the ordeal also helps them both come to the realization of how little they actually accomplished during each of their four years in the Oval Office. So many professional actors, so much sophomoric humor. [16] Matthau participated in the script revisions, and the film's director, Ronald Neame, observed that Matthau's contributions entitled him to screen credit, but that was never pursued. [8], During World War II, Matthau saw active service as a radioman-gunner in the U.S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in the United Kingdom, crewing a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber. Believe it or not, Im not trying to sell you on a movie (although I do highly recommend it when you need a good laugh); Id rather sell you on the concept of a joint party ticket Lemmon and Garner attempted at the end of the movie in our current political climate. It did at least once, when Republican Abraham Lincoln chose Democrat Andrew Johnson as his running mate when seeking re-election in 1864 in the midst of the Civil War. Series co-creator Chris Kelly describes Yorke as f****** bold. find this movie on . "One of the touching things is when Louis takes them out for ice cream and turns to Barbra and says, 'You're too ugly to have ice cream.' ", "He hated Barbra Streisand," he said. It shows hope and Gods, There is at Patheos a blog called Vox Nova which i, Christmas List Century Arms RAS47 - 7.65x39 - reli, He worked for the IMF. Comedies were rare in Matthau's work at that time. In the 1990s there were a slew of films in which Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau appeared together. Starring: It starts out slowly but within 30 minutes gains momentum & really begins to flow. OUT TO SEA was another Lemmon and Matthau romp, and finally came THE ODD COUPLE II, which was a weak (but amusing) sequel. Matthau also received two British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Later that year, a simple, spontaneous gesture led to another milestone. Jack Lemmon,Walter Matthau,Ann-Margret, Ronald Neame Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Belafonte schooled Kennedy on the importance of King, and arranged for them to speak. Slaton was nearing the end of the term, and could have dumped this into the lap of his successor. "My Fellow Americans" boasts a well-crafted and quite funny script about two former presidents and longtime political rivals who must team up to expose a criminal scheme in which the sitting chief executive is implicated. He also starred in 10 films alongside Jack Lemmon, including The Odd Couple (1968), The Front Page (1974) and Grumpy Old Men (1993). With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman. Belafonte was the rare young artist to think about the business side of show business. As for her other romantic relationships, Andersen said Streisand nearly tied the knot with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada. When both are targeted for assassination by a sinister force within the present President Haney's government they join forces to evade capture. The screenplay is by Budd Schulberg and is based on his short story "Your Arkansas Traveler", from the collection Some Faces in the Crowd (1953).. By submitting your email to receive this newsletter, you agree to our, Cellular store employee shot during robbery in Canton, Baltimore Police say, Boston Bruins, after setting NHL records for wins and points, get eliminated in the 1st round with a Game 7 OT loss, Oldfields School alumni and supporters say they must raise $20 million by May 10 to save Baltimore County school, Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. "She was thinking of marrying him and thinking of becoming the first lady.". Dan Aykroyd plays Pres. If you need to laugh you'll certainly enjoy this movie! I was very impressed with MY FELLOW AMERICANS the first time I watched it. I think it's a very funny, well acted comedy. None of the members of the lynch mob were ever prosecuted, Governor Slaton lived until 1955. Matthau won a Best Supporting Oscar Award for his first nominated role in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie. One reviewer said, "The others just looked like actors in make-up, Walter Matthau really looks like a skid row bum!" Streisand is fiercely protective of her privacy and Andersen said it was difficult to find people who would speak about her on the record. [24], Matthau had atherosclerotic heart disease during the last years of his life. I actually avoided seeing it so as to avoid seeing two cool actors make asses out of themselves (in a bad way). Belafonte not only participated in protest marches and benefit concerts, but helped organize and raise support for them. The Patriot (Movie - 2000) OBITUARY Actor Walter Matthau, who rose to stardom playing slobbish sports writer Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, has died at age 79, according to CNN. FBI agents visited him at home and allegations of Communism nearly cost him an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Leftists suspected, and Belafonte emphatically denied, that he had named names of suspected Communists so he could perform on Sullivans show. Matthau is also known for his performances in Stanley Donen's romance Charade (1963), Gene Kelly's musical Hello, Dolly! Somehow we had missed it when the movie had been released and it was new to us. He then co-starred with comedian/actor Robin Williams in the 1983 dark comedy film The Survivors. The book is called "Barbra The Way She Is" and author Christopher Andersen joined The Early Show Wednesday to tell more about his findings. Funny lines follow each other in rapid succession, and James Garner and Jack Lemon are just perfect as the two ex-presidents who detest each other but are forced to work together to survive, and gradually learn to like each othermore-or-less. A few years earlier, he initiated the all-star, million-selling We Are the World recording, the Grammy-winning charity song for famine relief in Africa. #inline-recirc-item--id-abdaf0c6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { Any lover of political satire or action-oriented farce will find this film's running time to be time well spent, and C-SPAN addicts -- provided that they have a sense of humor about their passion will be richly rewarded. Gene Saks Starring: Jack Lemmon , Walter Matthau , John Fiedler. Along the way, their efforts result in numerous farcically-staged attempts on their lives. He risked his life and livelihood and set high standards for younger Black celebrities, scolding Jay Z and Beyonce for failing to meet their social responsibilities, and mentoring Usher, Common, Danny Glover and many others. While in the service, he read Color and Democracy by the Black scholar W.E.B. Mom was the more political of the two. "I believe that the deceased was a Republican, sir," he replies. Starring: He has confessed that she wears the pants in the family. Could it work? Walter Matthau was an American actor. [23], In 1976, ten years after his first heart attack, he underwent heart bypass surgery. Starring: By the early 1960s, he had decided to make civil rights his priority. He also attended Surprise Lake Camp. Much of my political outlook was already in place when I encountered Dr. King, Belafonte later wrote. The evidence is not there, so they must travel back to Washington somehow and meet the problem head on. Starring: Although Mr. Matthau was an experienced stage actor, in common with great film stars of the past like Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, he created character through the magnetism of his own personality. [10] Matthau later reprised the role in the film version, with Jack Lemmon as Felix Unger. Everybody wanted to play Tevye, including Danny Thomas, Walter Matthau, Rod Steiger, Danny Kaye and Richard Burton. Both served in the military during World War II, acted in the American Negro Theatre and then broke into film. The casting is good also the supporting roles from Jon Heard, Dan Aykroyd, Wilford Brimley and Lauren Baccal. Dan Aykroyd plays the current president William Haney and John Heard is the vice president Ted Matthews.Lauren Bacall plays Kramer's wife Margaret.My Fellow Americans from 1996 is filled with good actors.The leading couple Lemmon and Garner are very charismatic as the former presidents.In the movie the presidents get into many hilarious situations.I'm sure none of the former presidents has been in a gay parade.Nobody knows where Bill Clinton has been.This is a perfect movie to watch especially now because George W. Bush and Al Gore are desperately fighting who will become the next president of The United States.The movie doesn't contain too much of politics which makes it even better. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. [25] He was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Love them or hate them, its hard to argue that our current president and his predecessor were extremely polarizing among party lines. Michael Crawford,Louis Armstrong,Danny Lockin, David Miller Awards Starring: James Coburn,Cary Grant,Audrey Hepburn, Elia Kazan "She said once that 'If God wrote my biography I wouldn't like it,' " he said. He waited for good scripts and he always did the great movies as well as the other actors. Walter Matthau was born on October 1, 1920 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents. I'm often disappointed after paying to watch a film, but this choice was well worth the rental fee & I wasn't disappointed! Hollywood legends Jack Lemmon and James Garner star as former U.S. presidents (Lemmon Republican and Garner Democratic) who unwittingly become involved with political espionage as they become targets of someone within the new administration (Dan Aykroyd, Lemmon's former vice president, is now the commander-in-chief). When King was assassinated, in 1968, Belafonte helped pick out the suit he was buried in, sat next to his widow, Coretta, at the funeral, and continued to support his family, in part through an insurance policy he had taken out on King in his lifetime. Starring: It makes me cry whenever i like to watch it, Morrie i think was a great person and he gave Mitch (A pupil he teached) a message, Telling him IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DIE, THEN YOU KNOW HOW TO LIVE. In December 1995, he had a colon tumor removed, apparently successfully, as there was no mention of cancer in his death certificate. Frank had been convicted of the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan, a worker in the factory Realizing that he was signing his own political death warrant, Slaton commuted Franks sentence to life imprisonment. In the book ''Conversations With Wilder,'' Mr. Wilder said that Mr. Matthau was ''oone of the handful of great actors.'' He was tireless in improvising fresh comic business to sharpen and enhance plays and films, and in spinning perceptive observations from commonplace events. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the countrys first He appeared eight times between 1962 and 1964 on The DuPont Show of the Week and as Franklin Gaer in an episode of Dr. Kildare ("Man Is a Rock", 1964). Neil Simon cast him in the play The Odd Couple in 1965, with Matthau playing slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison, opposite Art Carney as Felix Ungar. Despite the 5-bedroom home being []