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Sadly, I missed the beginning of this movie on TCM, but I did watch to the end. I don't see a listing for the actress who actually plays his real wife in the hospital at the end of the movie? She was indeed brunette, and I don't think she was one of the actresses listed as Graces 1, 2, and 3. Also, are we do assume she dies just as Garner gets there? Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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No credit - Grace in the hospital bed was probably just a stand-in or extra. I don't think she dies - which is a big change from the ending of the Evan Hunter novel, in which Buddwing finally remembers who he is and that Grace succeeded in committing suicide - which sends him right back into amnesia by book's end.
Jean Simmons in anything! What would her career have been if Howard Hughes had not deliberately set out to destroy her? She should have been one of THE megastars, like Audrey Hepburn!
"If ah irritate you, jes think how ah irritate mahself."
I'd never heard of HH trying to destroy Jean. What was his beef with her?
shareI know I could probably get beaten to death for saying this, but give me Jean Simmons over Audrey Hepburn any day. A much better actress and IMHO, better looking. Audrey was a bit too "affected" for my taste. Ahh...WTH...it's ALL opinion.
shareThe crap game scene was cut from the same cloth as the film, implausible but still intriguing. Sure, two white dudes will take a cab with a black guy they met at an arcade to an unknown address in Harlem. I lived in NY when that film was made, and let me say, this was fantasy.
Which brings us back to a real fantasy, "Guys and Dolls," where Nathan Detroit would take people down to the sewers to shoot dice, leading to the dramatic scene captured in the song, "Luck be a Lady."
I half expected the crowd to start in the chorus, "what's the matter throw the dice, throw the dice...." and then he did, and in both movies the scene ended abruptly, the outcome unknown.
And the Jean Simmons connection, as polar opposite characters, still enhanced the film subliminally, since I hadn't recalled that she was Sister Sahra in the film Guys and Dolls.
Not a great movie, and the dialog was trite, but still something about it, perhaps bringing back my life in Manhattan at that time, which as the decades pass take on it's own dream like memories..............
"I know I could probably get beaten to death for saying this, but give me Jean Simmons over Audrey Hepburn any day. A much better actress and IMHO, better looking. Audrey was a bit too "affected" for my taste. Ahh...WTH...it's ALL opinion. "
I QUITE AGREE WITH YOU THERE. I LIKE AUDREY HEPBURN - REALLY ... BUT JEAN SIMMONS IS THE BETTER ACTRESS - LETS GET BEAT TOGETHER ;)
"If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it." ~ Bette Davis
I think you mean Jean Peters, who was married to Hughes and apparently very freaked by him. Though they weren't together, they weren't divorced until the Seventies. Simmons was only under contract with Hughes at RKO for a short time, and it was BEFORE Guys & Dolls, Elmer Gantry, etc.
shareNo, the previous poster was right - Hughes did set out to destroy Simmons because he wanted her and she didn't want anything to do with him. She was married to Stewart Granger at the time, but he didn't care. He purchased her contract from J. Arthur Rank in England without her knowledge and tried to make her beholden to him. William Wyler wanted her for Roman Holiday, which would have been a marvelous springboard to a great Hollywood career, but out of spite because she wouldn't sign a long-term contract with him, Hughes refused to loan her out to Paramount to make the film. Hepburn is good, but I think Simmons would have done just as well if not better in RH. Instead, she got Androcles and the (RUDDY) Lion over at RKO. Not fair.
Had Simmons had the opportunity to go to Hollywood on her own terms, instead of having to go through that episode with Hughes, her career would have been much greater than it was. She was a big star in the 50s and 60s, but not quite on the level of Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn - and she could act rings around both of them.
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Fifi says > Hughes did set out to destroy Simmons because he wanted her and she didn't want anything to do with him.Yes, I heard about he treated her horribly. In fact, I first heard about it in regards to Angel Face (1953). If I remember correctly, it was the last movie she had to do under her contract with him. I think he made her shave her head for no reason then she ended up wearing an itchy wig.
I think of Jean Simmons as a big star, same as those mentioned. She and Audrey Hepburn both have a most beautiful manner of speaking.
There's no one today who can compare to them on any level.
I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.
I think there are actresses working today who measure up to Jean and Audrey. Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams to name just two.
These ladies like Jean Simmons and Audrey Hepburn before them could hold the screen and chew scenery with any male costars.
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."
-Dennis
I like Amy Adams, but can't agree. And Jennifer Lawrence hasn't done enough to remotely be compared to almost any experienced actor.
I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace.