ALFREDO'S PAELLA: THE GEORGE NADER STORY

Sunday, June 28, 2009

THE GEORGE NADER STORY

Here is a genial, handsome, uncomplicated guy who is actually so complicated that no one, including George Nader can figure him out. As a result, girls like Dani Crayne, Barbara Rush and Martha Hyer find that attention from Nader builds up to an awful let-down. Dani, especially, was tagged as the future Mrs. George Nader. But as the marriage rumors began, the romance ended. Nader is one of the most likeable guys in town. But, we think, he still likes his cats better than he likes most people.

-- Carl York's Gossip of Hollywood, Photoplay 1957

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Babette's Feast, Sullivan's Travels, Dodsworth, All About my Mother, All About Eve, Ma Vie en Rose, A Star is Born (1954), 84 Charring Cross Road, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brief Encounter, The Hours, Auntie Mame, Infamous, Hollywoodland, Fur, Vertigo, Rear Window, Portrait of Jennie, The Model and the Marriage Broker, Random, Harvest, The Mating Season, Radio Days, Another Woman, The Bycicle Thief, Umberto D, Blade Runner, The Devil Wears Prada, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Mon Oncle, The Triplets of Belleville, Stevie, My Foolish Heart, The Tender Trap, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Awful Truth, Amarcord, I, Vitelloni, Variety Lights, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), Dinner at Eight, Beyond the Forest, Mr. Skeffington, The Pirate, Turtle Diary

THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE STARS

MARY ASTOR - Like so many women of that era (and the era really covered a lot of ground, from the 30s through the 60s) could and did play any part with forthright assurance, style and damned good acting. From the shrewish Brigid O'Shaugnassy in THE MALTESE FALCON to the wordly and serene Edith Cortrigh in DODSWORTH to the Auntie Mame-like society manhunter in THE PALM BEACH STORY to the stark and truly terrifying Roberta Carter in RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE (Oscar nomination,) Astor, like Irene Dunne (soon to appear in these pages) could do it all and, as with Dunn, no matter what the part, a shinning intelligence came through.
VIVIEN LEIGH – A superb technician and a great beauty. The heartbreak in her eyes and her voice were there from the start and they only became more poignant as she aged. There may not be a more idiosyncratic match of star and role in anyone's career than Vivien Leigh's, who, deliberatly or not, became the spokeswoman for the fragile, shopworn angel, though still smoldering with longing and lust.

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

THE GEORGE NADER STORY

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THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE STARS