I'll stick with Clint in his 30s and 40s. Don't care much about his 80s and 90s
I mean does anyone really want to see these oldies keep starring in movies?! Robert Redford is another one. Jeez, go out with grace guys!
shareCary Grant decided to retire at age 62 while he was still handsome -- but graying and a little heavier than in his prime. Still he went out on top, with a leading role in "Walk Don't Run" (1966.)
He retired and lived for another 20 years. He never did a TV series. He never came back to the movies, even as studios and young stars offered him zillions to "please come back." Warren Beatty offered Grant top billing in the supporting role played by James Mason in "Heaven Can Wait" (1978) for instance.
For all of the feeling of "wouldn't it be great if Cary Grant came back for one more movie," Grant himself believed that audiences would not enjoy seeing him as an old man.
I'm not sure if Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford(who has said he IS done) are proving Grant right or wrong.
Eastwood started as a young, studly action guy in the Leone Westerns, the Dirty Harrys and the orangutan movies, but it feels like somewhere around "Heartbreak Ridge" (1986) his soft voice became a grizzled permanent growl, his hair grayed, and he played "old men of various ages" ever since. This has probably allowed him to keep going for decades when Cary Grant could not or would not.
Robert Redford is more Cary Grant like -- suave, handsome, a ladies man type. But he let his face stay out in the sun too long and even back as far as the late 80's, he was perhaps more Spencer Tracy than Cary Grant.
So Eastwood and Redford get a pass, but....Grant was probably right. If you're a handsome and virile romantic leading man....get off the stage when its time.
I mean I loved Clint in his Sergio Leone films, and his Dirty Harry films. And Play Misty for Me. Maybe they can remake The Good the Bad and the Ugly and Clint can play Arch Stanton (;-p)
As for Cary Grant he was 59 when he starred with 33 year old Audrey Hepburn in Charade. The reason he took a shower with his clothes on was to hide his age.
Ha!
shareHow about an Arch Stanton origin film? Or maybe a feminist drama about Maria, aka "The Hottest Young Whore in the Territory"?
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