Walter Brennan

Alden 2022-05-13 16:45:24

WB is the only old guy who has won Best Supporting Actor 3 times, even though he wasn't as old as he looked when he did.

He's doing a really good job of playing a dizzy guy who is obedient and nagging, and there's no one better than him in the world.

You see him playing an alcoholic, a real alcoholic addiction, with his shoulders slanted, shrugged, his lips trembling, and his eyes are a little off. If you let the current idiot play, he will only tremble and scratch.

He's as drunk as Ray Milland on lost weekends.

Hollywood can be Hollywood because there are actors like WB, who fill in the things under the aura of big stars, which is to make the story more believable and more engaging.

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To Have and Have Not quotes

  • Eddie: Was you ever bit by a dead bee?

    Slim: Were you?

    Eddie: You know, you got to be careful of dead bees if you're goin' around barefooted, 'cause if you step on them they can sting you just as bad as if they was alive, especially if they was kind of mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way.

    Slim: You have? Why don't you bite them back?

    Eddie: That's what Harry always says. But I ain't got no stinger.

  • Steve: [to a grateful Marcel Dalio] No kissin', Frenchy!