Favorite film actor of the 1930s?

[Faygo Kid]

Poll question: Favorite film actor of the 1930s?

Here we go again; need to get work done, but may as well push the envelope. Already did actresses (see previous post, and visit). OK, this is no easier. Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne left out because they did not hit big until the very end of the decade; Bogie too. No teams, either (i.e., the Marx Brothers. Hey, it's my poll!) Check out this list, and PLEASE add your comments:

[bamademo]

1. Wooo-Hoooo Errol Flynn

I loved his Wicked Wicked Ways. :evilgrin:

[elcondor]

2. The dancer in me says Astaire

But no teams? How can you talk about 1930's films and leave out the Marx Brothers?! :-)

[Faygo Kid]

3. No room! That's another poll, and it will come.

Favorite comedy teams. If you like, beat me to it! Hell, I can't believe I couldn't list W.C. Fields. See what I mean?

[wryter2000]

4. Oh, man

You make it hard. In keeping with my Bringing Up Baby comment under actresses, I had to go with Cary Grant. (Puh-leeeze, don't even mention Hugh Grant in the same sentence with Cary Grant.) But voting against Olivier hurt!

[wryter2000]

5. Hey...

Do one for supporting actors/actresses! Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, etc.

[Faygo Kid]

11. Good idea. Let me come up with it, after some research.

Not sure it would get much of a response, as this isn't getting that much, but we'll see. So many great charactor actors/actresses from that studio era; they should not be forgotten. I'm too old around here. Did the Doobie Brothers really break up?

[BlackVelvetElvis]

30. She stole every scene she was in

Absolute charm.

[meegbear]

6. Don't you mean "Favorite film actor of the 1930s?"

No teams.

[Faygo Kid]

9. OK, it's edited. Geez!

Teams to come. Actually, I am embarrassed, because you are right, and I criticize others here for the same thing. Again - Geez!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. CHARLIE all the way (nt)

[Faygo Kid]

12. "Modern Times" - check it out

Most people think of Chaplin from the '20s, but he was great before and after that time. Thanks for the vote. Wish more DUers would check this era out.

[LynneSin]

14. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Charlie Chaplin

I have many of his films on DVD or VHS including DVD copies of Gold Rush and City Lights. I have The Kid, Modern Times and the Great Dictator on VHS>

[smirkymonkey]

8. William Powell!! The Best!

[Faygo Kid]

10. What can I say? I noted him in "other."

Have a drink in his honor tonight.

[smirkymonkey]

44. yes, a drink....or twenty...

line them up one right next to the other, bartender.

[Emboldened Chimp]

13. Why am I the first to vote for Olivier?

He was the best actor period. :wtf:

[Kahuna]

23. I love Olivier. Olivier as Mr. Darcy in P&P was too...

delicious for words. He was also great in Wuthering Heights and Rebecca. Now if they said, best actor, I'd have gone with Olivier.

[Rowdyboy]

15. Jimmy Stewart

N/t

[Faygo Kid]

18. See above, as to why he was left out

Can't argue, though. I put him more in the 1940s, given that his breakthrough role was in 1939 (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, of course).

[Westegg]

16. Adolph Menjou

[Faygo Kid]

19. Good choice. Another? Lionel Barrymore

Best known as Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1940s), but he was great in a great movie, "You Can't Take It With You."

[Kahuna]

22. Lionel Barrymore is best known for nothing! The man was

in too many top notch films to be best known for just one.

[CShine]

17. Herbert Hoover

[BuelahWitch]

20. The Thirties were the best for movies

Especially pre-code stuff.

I had a hard time deciding between Chaplin, Cagney and Grant, but decided to give my vote to Jimmy...

[Kahuna]

21. Can't chose just one. I love Cary Grant, Fred Astaire, Olivier and..

Leslie Howard, William Powell, Dick Powell and Franchot Tone.

[Faygo Kid]

24. Karloff, Lugosi or Weissmuller, anyone?

For you specialty fans, I just thought of them, as well.

[Kahuna]

25. Johnny Weismuller would be my favorite, "hunk"...

What a body he had! Whew! Boy! they don't make 'em like that anymore. :smoke:

[VOX]

26. Jimmy Cagney was great fun to watch...

He could be jolly, tender, menacing and even psycho. And, he had great moves.

If ever there was an "actor as auteur," Cagney was it.

[beanball]

27. the 1930's

1. Bogey.

[Faygo Kid]

36. Look for Bogey if I do a poll on the '40s

Except for "Petrified Forest" and, late, "High Sierra," Bogey didn't hit his stride until the '40s.

[populistmom]

28. Cary Grant

He was a hunk until he was an old man- oh yes Cary Grant. :loveya:

[catzies]

29. Did you know Reagan was billed above Bogie in "Dark Victory?"

Yes, THAT Reagan. He played a silly drunk courting Bette Davis, and Bogie was an Irish stablehand who cared for her horses.

LOVE that movie.

[FarLeftRage]

31. Wasn't Cary Grant a repuKKKe?

Didn't he support ray-gun back in 1976?

[mobuto]

32. Edward G. Robinson

Great actor, great liberal.

[LiviaOlivia]

33. Walter Huston

Two of my favories movies from the thirties are 'Dodsworth' and 'Rain'
with Huston.
I also wish Lon Chaney had lived longer. RIP 1930

[mobuto]

34. Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Ok, its not from the 1930s, but Walter Huston was great in one of the greatest movies ever made.

[blockhead]

35. John Garfield

" the original rebel hero"

[Faygo Kid]

37. Wasn't he later?

I thought he was more the 1940s. Open to convincing, though.

[elperromagico]

38. Spencer Tracy,

one of the most natural actors in film history. It sounded as if every word was occurring to him right at that moment. Very few actors can really pull that off... Jack Lemmon comes to mind.

[Norbert]

39. Actually Chaplin's biggest body of work was in the 1920s.

He didn't make very many talkies.

[Faygo Kid]

43. Big body of work in the Teens, but great stuff in the '30s.

Like "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator." That's why he's here.

[mobuto]

40. Did you just add Laurence Olivier?

I missed him the first go-round.

[Faygo Kid]

42. Nope. He was there from the get-go.

Guess you just missed it. Good choice, though.

[Norbert]

41. I voted for Cagney.

He was such a versitile actor.