No, that's not fair. Edmond O'Brien was actually very good in The Barefoot Contessa, and a lot of other things, too — D.O.A., Seven Days in May and The Wild Bunch, for example.
But the Monkey is all about having your cake and eating it too — I've combined Cobb, Malden and Steiger into a single nominee for your voting convenience. No excuses if they lose this time.
Me? I'm voting for Toshiro Mifune.
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I voted for Cobb and Steiger. Can’t consider Mifune a supporting actor in anything
ReplyDeleteFair enough! He could have a cameo and still be the star of the show.
ReplyDeleteMy thinking was that Mifune is to Takashi Shimura in Seven Samurai as Horst Buchholz is to Yul Brynner in The Magnificent Seven ... thus supporting. But I could be wrong!