A celebration of Mamie Van Doren on posted on her birthday. This smart, gorgeous, funny, tough lady has beaten the odds and thrived, while remaining a bombshell.
Jimmy Stewart is one of the most beloved actors of all time, and you can see that in the affectionate way he has been impersonated over the years. Stewart himself had a sense of humor about being the inspiration for so many impressions. He even acknowledged that part of the reason he was so easy to impersonate was because he knew the persona that appealed to audiences and he stuck to it.
Anthony Perkins was memorable in Psycho because he wasn't the typical movie killer. That clean-cut sweetness, mixed with high-strung anxiety and a bit of awkwardness were a part of the persona he embodied for most of his career, and it looked very different in other genres. The darker horror persona he took on for a lot of his work after he started doing Psycho sequels doesn't characterize most of his career or even his work in the years right after Psycho. These clips are all about the Perkins that audiences saw the most in his long career.
