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Sheree North

posted 18 years ago by bkoganbing
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I don't know how everyone else feels, but my favorite scene and one of John
Wayne's best acted scenes is with Sheree North when she visits him and tries to
get him to marry her so she can exploit the widowhood after he's gone.

Really topnotch acting.

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[–] mpe-indeed 18 years ago

I agree. One of the saddest scenes in the movie really, since her sympathy turns out to be nothing more than an attempt to cash in on his legacy like everyone else.

By the way, when she says on her way out, "I hope you burn in hell!", Duke should have replied "That'll be the day!" :)

[–] Citizenright1 18 years ago

I thought she said "rot to death." Oh well, have to watch it again. LOL

[–] robert4770 18 years ago

I always felt that part should have been played by Angie Dickinson.

[–] Ironman54 14 years ago

I wonder how much she and the co stars knew about Waynes true illness - musta been tough for her to deliver that line if she was aware he really was dying of cancer !

[–] joegerardi (384) 7 years ago

Except he wasn't dying of cancer when this movie was made.

..Joe

[–] starrbeat 17 years ago

I would have said, "Sure, I'll marry you"- just to get in her pants. I mean, John Wayne's character probably wasn't gonna have too many more chances for sex (although he did seem to try with that girl on the streetcar)

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[–] parisel 17 years ago

Wow, did you miss the boat with the streetcar scene. Is that really what you think was happening, what you took away from that scene?

I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.

[–] mittelbergjr 17 years ago

After seeing the way she treated Books in that scene I have not liked her since. No matter what film she is in I don't like her. Personally seeing her get killed in Maniac Cop was great. As for The Duke trying to get a little during that scene I don't think he was really in the mood for sex. He was dying. Not horny.

[–] porfle 17 years ago

Serepta could've gotten Books to marry her if she'd just kept her big mouth shut about her intentions instead of blabbing her whole plan to him right off the bat.

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[–] IwasSquidly 17 years ago

Mittelbergjr, you should enjoy seeing Jo Don Baker smack Sheree around in Charley Varrick, another Siegal film.

I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed!

[–] teaandoranges 17 years ago

I think later in life she developed some kind of palsy because in every tv show you saw her in when the camera cut to her you could see then end of some kind of shaking. Even inthat ganster show she was in she had some kind of tic. I always felt sorry for her as a beauty who got old and shaky.

[–] Grendel1950 14 years ago

I always thought this performance, and her part as Burt Lancaster's former lover in "Lawman" were Ms. North's best. She was very believable in both as an older woman at odds with her past.