By far his best film. I suggest anyone who can goes to rent it. From Here to Eternity he did a good job, but he did a phenomenal job in TMWTGA (for the guys Kim Novak is pretty good in that film too) And HeyP... my love for you grows in leaps and bounds now that I know you are a Sinatra fan Also, I agree with CarlosNice (I think for the first time) in his nomination of Harry Connick Jr. He did a great job as a psycho in Copycat and he was good in Memphis Belle (one of my favorite flicks).
Nero, for actresses: I'll take Julie Andrews, Barbara Streisand, and Liza Minneli over Cher. All Oscar winners, betty singers and better actresses. I'll take Doris Day and Better Milder, too.
AGAIN!!!! You rule. I wasn't doing actresses, but I would say Andrews, Minneli and Doris Day were actresses/singers cause they started in both. Babs would be the best of the female singers turned actress.
Well, there are some truly talented people working in this current generation, no question about it. Wahlberg and Mos Def would have to be at the top of the list. But wow, if we go so far back as to include a time when there was a blur between 'singer' and 'actor', primarily because there were so many muisicals being done then, then sure. Julie Andrews for sure, Mary Poppins is still one of the best movies ever made. Streisand, well, I suppose, but was she a singer before she turned to acting? Maybe even the same deal with Andrews - were we talking about merely multi-talented performers, or were we talking about people who had solid, established careers in music before ever being in a movie. I think Sinatra is probably the best example of that, and as far as I know (and I ain't no expert), Cher is the only person in the more modern era who would be analogous to him. Streisand was more of a movie star first, then later on became the singing diva of the Harvey Fierstein set. And really, when's the last time anyone popped in a cd of Julie Andrews' Greatest Hits? In any case, even though Will Wmith's 'music' career will not endure like Sinatra's, he is a fine actor, no question about it. As long as he doesn't let scientology kill his career the way Travolta and Cruise did, he will most likely win an Oscar soon enough.
You really don't know anything about Streisand, do you? I'm not saying that to be insulting at all, but I wouldn't have dreamed in a million years that she would have become a movie actress, described the way you just described her, when I saw her sing on The Tonight Show for Johnny Carson the first time.
Babs had several albums out and I think won a few Grammy's before she did Funny Girl. She was on Carson and such before she had any movie deals. Now she may have done some shows on Broadway as well, but I am pretty sure she was singer first, actress second. Julie Andrews is more of a actress/singer (and I do own a best of Julie Andrews album, but it has a lot of songs from musicals on it) I agree there is a blur between some of those during the musicals age. (but then at that point not even all actresses were singing there roles... Marni Nixon doing some of the most well known... Kerr's role in The King and I, Hepburn's in My Fair Lady) Sinatra is by far the biggest jumper. Of course his life was high drama so I guess he had a lot of experience to draw from. Will Smith had what? One album out before he did Fresh Prince? Or two? I know Parents Just Don't Understand was a hit before the show, but did he have any others? I guess I would still call him a musician first. I guess after reading this thread I need to go watch 16 Blocks. So I can say if Mos Def meets the expectation now.
Darn I took too long writing my response... you beat me to it! Now I didn't see her on Carson originally, but I knew she was on it in the early 60's!
