If they made a movie about your life, who would ...

Do you remember anything much about that dinner, Wiz? The dancing on the tables, for example? Using that waiter's tray for a ping-pong paddle? No? Me neither. (BTW, I think Seaglass has the only pix we took that night. I know I saw them but don't seem to have them now. She'll use 'em to blackmail us both, I'll wager.)

I know you'll think I'm trippin' but only Sean Connery, circa 1980-90, could play my husband. Hubby really does look like him. Bald, bearded, he hears it all the time.

Thank you all you kind folks for your posts. Fascinating. Love Shewolf's and Eoe's full casts.

I have been stuck on the idea behind this thread all day.
I still cant think of who could play my first husband.
Most of the people I choose for my 'story cast' are picked not because of thier looks, though I would give an arm and a leg to have Vivica's looks... .but I choose them for thier acting abilities . I have seen each character/actor play a part that reminded me of these specific people.
Though , I left out one person in my cast.. my father. He wouldplay a small part, drunk neighborhood a-hole .
But , pictures of my father show that he was a beautiful man... aside from the alcohol that is.
And if i were to choose someone for looks only , ( since his part would require that .. due to the fact that I do not know the man ) I would pick :

Djimon Hounsou.



Eoe.. Mrs Horne is the most beautiful woman imaginable. To compare her to your mother says alot about your mothers person. :-)

Me - James Mason
First wife - Sally Fields
Second wife - Jean Harlowe
Son - Chris Rock

eoe -- hey, wait a minute. Are you and I married and I didn't even know it? People are always telling me that I look like Sean Connery. (I do have more hair, though.)

hahahaha

I'm kinda stuck on my father. Like shewolf, daddy was something else. Growing up, I adored George Burns, watched his show with Gracie Allen in the late 50s'. He always reminded me of my father but only in the physical. My father, otherwise, was Spencer Tracy. Well respected and honored on on the outside but inside, drunk and mean-spirited, spreading misery in every room of the house. Damn, I miss him so. Go figure. Playing my father...

My father could well be played by Chaim Topol.


My mother should most certainly be played by Merryl Streep.


I, like I said, would love to be played by Greer Garson, but she died in 1996. Too bad.


E the monster will be depicted byColin Firth
Or by Jim Carrey, whom I don't like much. It depends on my mood when I start directing the movie.

My parents had friends in the thirties and forties that we have some nice photos of, taken by my dad - Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane, in Tarzan) and John Farrow. I always liked that photo of O'Sullivan, who was quite a beauty, yes, indeed, she could play me. But, sadly, it wouldn't be quite right. I think the perfect person would be Paula Prentiss, who most here probably don't remember, but had a certain clumsy appeal and great sense of humor.
Paula Prentiss in Honeymoon Machine

Maureen O'Sullivan around 1932
A little boopsie-ish, relative to the more beautiful photos my dad took, probably in 1938 or 1939, which I suppose I'll scan someday.

WHERE THE BOOOOYS ARE, SOMEONE WAITS FOR MEEEEEE.
loved Paula Prentiss.

Me too, me too....

well obviously playing meself would be marty feldman;

and just naturally playing my love interest would be louise lasser when she was mary hartman;

My love interest. Gee, which one...
will think on it.

You're not kidding, osso. Siblings, old boyfriends, best friends, lots of casting still to go.

And I miss Marty Feldman...

right, eoe. And I guess I pick Lena for your mom... but you would know better.

My dad was Spencer Tracyish in many ways.
My mother, that'll take some thinking.

Boyfriends, ai yi yi. One is easy, he was better looking, had more depth than George Clooney, but looked something like him. Others are hard to think of a match for. My ex husband, hmm, again, hard to think of a match for. Not that all those people were homely, but they weren't all, y'know, plasticky.

Cameron Diaz reminds me of a long time good friend, just talked with her yesterday. My friend might be funnier than CDiaz, and still looks about as good, even though a lot of time has passed.

But who looks like Mary Lou? Thinking... (there haven't been that many vibrant latina actresses in Hollywood movies..) Ah, let's just say, Sophia Loren, close enough.

Clive Owen (me)


Jennifer Garner (mrs)

Paula Prentiss was something else. There was a, yes, sexiness about her that was quite unique to her. Nobody else could play Paula Prentiss.

I've been trying to find an actress to play the part of Gertrude, but none of them really look like her. I did stumble upon a woman who bears a striking resemblance, but I'm not sure if she can act...

I think I would like to be played by Catherine Zeta Jones
and my love interest is a young Sam Elliott.

On second thought, with Sam Elliot in it, I'd rather play myself