Stars That Should Never Have Been Stars
by southfljb | created - 20 Jun 2017 | updated - 20 Jun 2017 | Public
1. June Allyson
Actress | Executive Suite
American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined ...
How did this woman who can't sing, can't dance and is as plain a Jane as they come become such a big Hollywood star? Every movie has her playing the part of a former big band singing star, it's a pretty big stretch. She has little sex appeal and certainly does not have the chops of Doris Day or other big band singers of the time.
2. Leslie Caron
Actress | Gigi
French ballet dancer Leslie Caron was discovered by the legendary MGM star Gene Kelly during his search for a co-star in one of the finest musicals ever filmed, the Oscar-winning An American in Paris (1951), which was inspired by and based on the music of George Gershwin. Leslie's gamine looks and ...
This woman is just irritating from the word go. How she managed to get into some of the biggest films in Hollywood at the time baffles me. She has zero charisma and no chemistry between any of her male leads, I really can't see Louie Jordan actually being interested in her when he could get Kim Novak without lifting a finger.
3. Clark Gable
Actor | It Happened One Night
William Clark Gable was born on February 1, 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle ...
No matter what role he plays he is always Clark Gable. Same speech pattern, same delivery of every line, his range was about 1 to 2. He was somewhat more interesting in his very early films of the 1930's but by the time Gone with Wind came along he was just phoning in his performances. He always seems bored and ready to move on to the next movie. The only woman he had any real chemistry with on film was Joan Crawford
4. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
Clark Gable in westerns
5. Karl Malden
Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire
Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...
Again, always the same guy in every movie, the irritating cop, the irritating third male lead, always the same speech delivery and emotions.
6. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
His best movie was The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, he didn't talk very much and for Clint that is a good thing. He just got more grumpy and irritating as he got older and now he is just off his rocker. He is another actor who just seems to show up, walk around, shoot a few guys, utter 4 word sentences and he goes home for the day. Never took any big chances, way overrated.
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