ACTORS AND CUE CARDS
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 20:35:14
BUT MORE OFTEN THAN IS WELL-KNOWN. THE PERFORMERS ON SCREEN OR TV ARE ACTUALLY READING THEIR LINES FROM "CUE CARDS".
IT WAS FEARED THE MEDS WOULD impel OFF WYNN'S PERFORMANCE AND cause to be perceived HIS CONCENTRATION. SO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TV HISTORY. WYNN construe HIS LINES IN THE SHOW FROM CUE CARDS BEING HELD OFFSTAGE.
THIS WAS THE TV FIRST. BUT APPARENTLY. THE LEGENDARY ACTOR (AND HEAVY DRINKER) JOHN BARRYMORE. WAS THE FIRST re-create ACTOR TO USE THEM. (AS BARRYMORE'S ALCOHOLIC BINGES ARE LEGENDARY IN SHOW BUSINESS ANNALS. IT IS OBVIOUS WHY CUE CARDS WERE NEEDED SO OFTEN WHEN HE WAS ON STAGE.)
GROUCHO MARX WAS LEGENDARY AS A GREAT AD-LIBBER ON HIS CLASSIC bet SHOW
OFTEN. WHILE A LAUGH WAS GOING UP FROM THE AUDIENCE. YOU COULD CLEARLY SEE GROUCHO LOOKING UPWARDS. IT WAS REVEALED YEARS LATER THAT THE GREAT GROUCHO WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT CUE CARDS OFF-STAGE. TO SEE HIS NEXT "AD-LIBBED" LINE.
BUT NO. EVERY SINGLE lie SPOKEN ON THE LEGENDARY show WAS WRITTEN ON CUE CARDS AND READ BY THE BRILLIANT CAST.
EVEN THE GREAT ORSON WELLES USED CUE CARDS FOR HIS FINAL ACTING PERFORMANCE ON THE SHOW
DIRECTOR BILLY WILDER ACTUALLY HAD THE LINE WRITTEN DOWN INSIDE A DRESSER DRAWER SHE OPENED IN THE SCENE. MARILYN KEPT SCREWING UP AND FLUBBING THE lie IN TAKE AFTER TAKE. MUCH TO THE FRUSTRATION OF THE CAST AND man.
MARLON BRANDO IS PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS CUE separate USER IN MOVIE HISTORY.
BRANDO CLAIMED HE USED TO "WRITE MY LINES ON ACTOR'S FACES OR PINNED CUE CARDS ON THEIR COSTUMES." MARLON REFUSED TO MEMORIZE HIS LINES. CLAIMING IT WAS MORE NATURAL THAT WAY. AND THAT PEOPLE SELDOM hit the books THE LINES THEY SAY FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT.
HE ACTUALLY CLAIMED HE AD-LIBBED THE FAMOUS "I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDER" SCENE IN "ON THE WATERFRONT"(!!!!!)
NOT ONLY CUE CARDS. BUT BRANDO POPULARIZED THE USE OF THE EARPIECE TO GET LINES FED TO HIM OFFSTAGE. SO HE COULD do THEM IN MOVIE SCENES.
BOB HOPE NEVER WORKED WITHOUT CUE CARDS ON HIS TV SHOWS. AND HIS FAVORITE CUE separate HOLDER WAS A MAN NAMED BARNEY McNULTY. McNULTY BECAME A LEGEND AS A "CUE separate HOLDER". HE HELD CUE CARDS FOR EVERYONE FROM stamp SINATRA TO MILTON BERLE TO LUCILLE BALL TO HUBERT HUMPHREY.
BARNEY ACTUALLY STARTED A VERY SUCCESSFUL CUE separate MANUFACTURING COMPANY CALLED "AD-LIBS".
ONCE. HE HELD THE CUE CARDS OF POET CARL SANDBURG AT A POLITICAL GATHERING. SANDBURG ASKED TO act THE CARDS AS A MEMENTO.
BOB HOPE LOVED BARNEY AND USED HIM AS HIS PERSONAL.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.eddiedeezen.com/2007/12/actors-and-cue.html
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