I have a spreadsheet that keeps track of this. Samuel L. Jackson was in the shitty sci fi movie with Ewan McGregor, who was also in a shitty sci fi movie with the chick with the big bazongas from that boring movie with Bill Murray. Morgan Freeman, on the other hand, was in a shitty sci fi movie with Keanu Reeves, and he was also in a shitty sci fi movie with Jason Lee. Laurence Fishburne was also in a shitty sci fi movie with Keanu Reeves, AND was in a shitty movie that had some sci fi in it with Tom Cruise, who had earlier been in a shitty sci fi movie with… Jason Lee. Lee was also in sci fi movie (but it wasn’t shitty) with Samuel L. Jackson, who was in a shitty sci fi movie with Bruce Willis, who was in a shitty sci fi movie with Bernie Mac, who is currently in a shitty sci fi movie with Shia LaBoeuf (translation: Shy The Cow) who was in a shitty sci fi movie with Keanu Reeves. The circle is complete. I think.
Luise Rainer, who won consecutive Best Actress awards in the 1930’s. Her career collapsed so completely that she made 3 movies in 1938 (the year she won for “The Good Earth”), 1 in 1943, and then went into a string of one-shot TV flops starting in 1949.
I don’t know what you mean by “one-shot TV flops”. These were guest appearances on dramatic anthology series. Have you seen even one of them?
No. But after winning an Oscar on March of 1938 (her second in a row), she had 4 film releases and six TV appearances in a decade and a half following. And since the TV roles were concentrated on “one shot” appearances on little-remembered anthology shows of dubious (and varying) quality, I’ll stand by my statement.
She appears to have adandoned Hollywood in 1938 and then decamped for the British stage.
On what basis are you calling them “of dubious (and varying) quality”?
True, but he admitted to that. “Yes, blessed be Star Wars”, Guinness sighs in the audio-book version of his autobiography. What he was dismayed about was to realize that, despite the numerous great performances in his long career (including the oscar-winning Colonel Nicholson in Bridge over the River Kwai), his post Star Wars fandom consisted mainly of geeky Star Wars addicts who requested signed pics of Obi Wan Kenobi, and knew nothing of his career up to that point. And that is still the case today.
- Alec Guinness? who’s Alec Guinness?
- Ealing comedies, you know? Bridge on River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia ?
- okay, the guy who played Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars
- Aaaaah, THAT guy!
Nitpick: “Harris” was Estelle Parsons’ character’s married name and, since Shelly Winters’ character was only ever referred to as “Nana Mary,” we don’t know what her last name was.
I’m a bit late with a response, but you didn’t think Voight’s role as Howard Cosell in Ali was interesting? It did earn him a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Well, save for the fact that Sir Guinness is no longer signing anyone’s pictures. 
But yes, it must be frustruating after spending a career disappearing into a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles to great critical (and at least at the time, popular) acclaim that he’s bascially remembered for playing George Lucas’ transparently adapted version of Gandolf. Kind Hearts And Coronets and The Man In The White Suit are uncelebrated comedic classics, and his more remembered work in The Bridge On The River Kwai, Dr. Zhivago, and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” is probably unseen by the vast majority of Star Wars fans. There’s nothing wrong with Star Wars (and Guinness, despite his feelings about it, was reportedly a true professional on set, prepared to read and encourging his younger co-stars to their best) but it hardly highlights his manifest talents.
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