Booze, Bacall & Japanese Bombs - What Happened To Jason Robards? | Hollywood Mysteries #128

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  @silverstuff182 · 3 months ago (edited)

  When I was about 20 I saw him on Broadway in Moon for the Misbegotten. It was awesome.<br>Almost 20 years later he and I and a bus full of cast and crew were on our way to a set. Nobody would sit next to him so I did. He regaled me with stories of playing in the dirt on the road going to Malibu as a kid. He mentioned his actor father, no running water etc and so on. I knew about Betty Bacall but didn’t mention her. After a while he started to talk about great things he’d seen in Paris. He asked me if I knew about them. I said I’d never been to Paris. He just about exploded. He just about threatened to get me a ticket. I said, “Well, it’s not like I don’t want to go “. All of a sudden I was struck down a notch. Then during lag time during the shooting I often heard him telling other actors about, “Betty”.

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• FA

  @falldownandgoboom · 3 months ago

  Never saw him in a play but his performance in the movie version of &quot;Long Day&apos;s...&quot; was enough stagger me with his talent! &nbsp;He was such a fine actor - and this is stellar YouTube writing.

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  @Deepbluecat · 3 months ago

  He was great in The Day After, a TV movie that blew minds, and prompted news anchors to declare after the airing &quot;We are still here.&quot; (or something to that effect) I&apos;m 66 now, and that moment in history still haunts me.

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• CA

  @carolcourtney4309 · 3 months ago

  First time I remember, seeing him was as a child when he did a television, Hallmark Hall of Fame version of the house without a Christmas tree. He was a cold and distant father to a sweet and imaginative child who had been left motherless. He was brilliant. Just brilliant. Even as a child, I could see that.

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• ST

  @Stessie8 · 3 months ago

  I loved him most in ...The House Without A Christmas Tree

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• TI

  @titichartay7216 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Can I just say your writing on all the narrations of your series is superb. Eloquent, precise, honest, lovingly lyrical and well edited.

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• WI

  @williamharris61 · 3 months ago

  A fascinating actor. It&apos;s difficult to pick a role when he has always been consistently great.

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• LA

  @landsailor · 3 months ago

  I was fortunate to catch him in a matinee performance of &quot;Moon for the Misbegotten&quot;. It was the production that included Colleen Dewhurst and was televised two years later.(Every evening performance was sold out.)<br><br>I&apos;d seen him in movies (I was going to list them until I realized how long the list was!). So I shouldn&apos;t have been surprised about how wonderful he was. <br><br>Makes you wonder if it&apos;s easier to do complex plays written by complicated writers like O&apos;Neil &amp; Tennessee Williams if you&apos;re as messed up as the character you&apos;re playing.

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• MA

  @maryannmoore2284 · 3 months ago

  Cheyenne, Once Upon a Time in the West ❤

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• HO

  @hopecampton2024 · 3 months ago

  If you have not seen Long Day&apos;s Journey Into Night, do so. It was filmed in real time in a continuous take just as if you were watching it in a theater on Broadway, better actually because your living room becomes their living room. It is breathtaking.

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  @marquese1960 · 3 months ago

  Liked him in &apos;All The President&apos;s Men&apos;!

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• BE

  @bethbluebird · 3 months ago

  The Ballad of Cable Hogue is one of my favorites.😊

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