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Ernest Borgnine in his Oscar-winning performance as Marty Piletti in Marty, which also won an Oscar for Best Picture, c. 1955

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Marty

1955

[oldhollywoodholla]

Ernest Borgnine & Betsy Blair in Marty (1955)

[gentle-antagonist]

[evolutionofoscars-blog]

Marty (1955)

5/5 stars - ★★★★★

Probably the single most suspenseful thing I’ve ever seen, which is incredible considering the genre!! It’s a romcom (more rom than com) set over 24 hours, how can it be suspenseful? and yet it was! The depth of acting, the characters -- so human and real in all their failings, and thus equally human in their tiny triumph -- was so compelling that I already started writing an angry diatribe in my head about conformity and cowardice before the movie even ended, and when it didn’t end in tears, all the greater my relief.

Overwhelmed by something as silly as the 1950s equivalent of a text back. People really don’t change, huh.

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[catalogues]

[anonymousmethod]

Elia Kazan: Directing Marlon Brando

‎"Seduce and protect her. That’s all I told Marlon for that scene, and he took it from there. Eva Marie as Edie is clearly conflicted about this man: She is attracted to him but also afraid of him; she doesn’t know what happened between him and her brother, but she’s sure that something is unknown, unclear. They walk in a literal and metaphorical fog, and Marlon, realizing that he is playing a guy who normally very easily and very quickly gets inside a woman he wants or needs, plays that wonderful game with the glove–totally his idea, improvised–and gets inside her through that glove, plays with the fingers of that glove as he plays with her emotions; cleans the dirt off it when it falls to the ground. It is a powerful but very simple, rustic seduction scene.“ Elia Kazan/1993.

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Eva Marie Saint and Karl Malden filming On the Waterfront, 1954.

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You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could’ve been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

Marlon Brando (as Terry Malloy)

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On The Waterfront (1954)

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On The Waterfront (1954).

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On The Waterfront.

Brando.

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[whilecinemavisionsdancedinmyhead]

On The Waterfront (1954)

[marlonsbrandos]

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.