Jim Hutton
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 02, 2011 09:27 PM)
Well, I would like to know what his eye color was. In some of the Ellery Queen episodes, his eyes looked blue. In some, his eyes looked grey. At any rate, he sure was a georgeous man.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 03, 2011 05:49 PM)
"All press releases and marketing info, including some interviews that I read during my research said blue eyes."
Thanks! I don't know why his eyes look so grey in the Ellery Queen episodes! Even when he addresses the audience and we get a close-up of him, his eyes look grey most of the time! I probably need to adjust the color on my TV set.
At any rate, he sure was one
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man, especially in the seventies! He was a cutie in the sixties, and a hottie in the seventies.
I read the older posts here, and it sounds like Jim did have some personal problems. Most Hollywood people have personal problems. I have heard about some of the pranks he pulled in college. I admit that I did find those kinda funny.
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ccurts2319 — 14 years ago(November 04, 2011 06:11 PM)
He pulled some funny pranks in the Army, too, and at least one that while he was an actor. But he also had at least one that was not funny at all and was in bad taste. Let's face ithe was human like the rest of us, and we all have done things we would rather forget and leave with the other skeletons in the closet. He was one darn fine looking man. In an interview he said, though, that as he got to 40, having a baby face did not help him get any jobs, and the phone rang less and less with job offers. He admitted that he thought the 'high life' would keep on going, but then it stopped. I truly believe he taught his son all the lessons of good and hard knocks of hollywood, which made his son stronger for making himself a success, and I say "Cheers! to Jim and Tim together!"
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 04, 2011 06:49 PM)
I admit that I would like to hear about a few of those "not funny" pranks.
Feel free to PM me with some info, without actually mentioning any names. I would appreciate hearing some of those stories, if they don't take too long to type out. Please do send them to me!
Yup, he was a very, very good looking man. He was a cutie in the sixties and a hottie in the seventies. I think that he lost the baby face sometime in the seventies, because he sure didn't look "babyish" in "Don't be Afraid of the Dark" and "Ellery Queen". If he had lived longer, he probably could have gotten more roles in the eighties and nineties. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. It's too bad, because he was extremely talented.
Personally, I think that he is (was) the best looking man ever to be in Hollywood. I can't think of anyone else who is even remotely as good looking as he was! My generation has been taught to admire the looks of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. I don't care for those men's looks. I've also never looked twice at George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan. Even Timothy Hutton doesn't look1c84 exactly like his father. I've seen him in some youtube clips, and I just don't see the resemblance as much as some other IMDb users. Jim Hutton had something that no one else has.
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ccurts2319 — 14 years ago(November 05, 2011 03:15 PM)
Jim Hutton had a natural charisma and an off-the-cuff sense of humor that made him unique. To get into Where the Boys are, he practiced a part with a friend and his wife's ironing board. He and his friend went to the movie commissary where the director or whoever was auditioning was eating, they faked a confrontation, had a resolutiona, and the auditioning person went to him, gave him a card and said the call him. THAT's how he got the part of TV in Where the Boys are. The man had Hutspa! Unique combo with humor. And yes, good looking. Huttons also had a german shepard dog that almost bit Jim Weston and friend and fellow actor (well-known "character" actor) for being too emphatic while telling a story while visiting the Huttons. I hope you enjoy these tidbits. I don't want to get into the nasty pranks.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 05, 2011 07:11 PM)
Awwthat's nice.
Thanks for those tidbits of information! I admit that I'm curious about the nasty pranks. Did he pull those nasties in the early sixties, when he was very young, or did he pull those when he was older? If he did so before the age of 30, then it's no big deal. I think that most of us have done stupid things in our youth. After about the age of 30 or so, it's not really funny anymore. Still, my bizarre sense of humor might result in my laughing if I hear about any of his nasty pranks.
I think that he was a cutie in the sixties, but he became really, really
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in the seventies. His baby face was cute, but I admit that I do prefer the mature look.
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ccurts2319 — 14 years ago(November 05, 2011 07:49 PM)
Some pranks were over 30 and in poor taste. Some people would call a couple of them mean spirited. So we'll leave it at that. Not knowing details of relationships and all situations going on at the time, it is hard to differentiate the intentions.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 05, 2011 08:54 PM)
Who knows if those incidents really happened, anyway? Perhaps some people were lying just to get their name in print, so to speak. (These stories are probably posted online somewhere by now.)
I did hear that he mooned some people when he was in collegeGIGGLE. I wonder if that story is true?
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 08:24 AM)
Oh! So it was a bet! Tee hee.
I wish that I could have been there to see it!!!
As for the nasty stories, I'm beginning to wonder just how many of them are true? It's easy to spread nasty rumors about someone after that someone is dead and he can't stand up for himself. Perhaps they're true. Perhaps there were two sides to the story. A lot of stories go around about deceased celebrities (ex. Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland).
Maybe Jim Hutton wasn't perfect, but he sure was very talented. He did a lot of great movies and he was wonderful as Ellery Queen. I wish that he could have lived at least another 20 years, and done work as an older actor. He was so unbelievably georgeous, especially in the seventies. I consider him to be the sexiest man Hollywood has ever seen. I have had a couple of people tell me that I should be more interested in Timothy Hutton because he's closer to me in age and because he's still alive. This reasoning makes no sense. (I think I told those people that I think that Gary Cooper was quite attractive back in the thirtiestee hee.) Most of today's actors just don't have the looks which I admire, nor the talent. I'm interested in very few actors from this time period.
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ccurts2319 — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 11:20 AM)
I agree with you. Very few actors today interest me. I prefer those from the 40s, 50,s and early 60s, when actors were acting. Of the men actors, I particularly enjoy Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price, Bob Hope; of the women, Lucille Ball, Claudette Colbert, Kathryn Hepburn, amd Lauren Bacall.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 12:08 PM)
I agree with you about most of the actors and actresses you mentioned. The only one on that list I can't stand is Vincent Price.
I love Lemmon and Matthau in the Grumpy Old Men series. I love Gary Cooper in "Ball of Fire". Cary Grant was great in "Walk Don't Run" and "Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House". Basil Rathbone was better at playing an evil guy than a nice guy. Bob Hope was funny in "Bachelor in Paradise". (Jim Hottie and Paula Prentiss have small parts in this movie.) Lucille Ball was super in a film noir called "Lured". Claudette Colbert was great in "It Happened One Night". Hepburn was kind of hit and miss in my eyes. As long as she didn't overdo it, she was great. I love her low-key performances, like in "Undercurrent". Lauren Bacall was great in a number of movies, especially "How to Marry a Millionaire".
I also love Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Humphrey Bogart, Leslie Howard, Peter Lorre and Gene Tierney.
As for contemporary actors, I love Tom Hanks, Kate Winslet, Denzel Washington, and sometimes Scarlett Johansson.
I don't know if you've seen "Bachelor in Paradise", but I highly recommend that one. (Bob Hope and Lana Turner are the stars here.) Also "The Honeymoon Machine"very funny movie!!!!
By the way, you mentioned that you love "Walk Don't Run". It's a remake of the forties movie "The More the Merrier". Have you seen that one? I saw it twice (about five and seven years ago), and found it depressing each time. It's funny at first, but it gets very sad later.
Also, a couple of us have been chatting on and off on the "Ellery Queen" boards. Feel free to join us there if you like.
Thanks again for the tidbits of info about Jim Hottie and "The Green Berets"!
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(December 12, 2011 02:12 PM)
I have no idea what Jim did or didn't do in his private life. That's why I was asking the poster here who has done some research. I was three years old when he died, so I don't remember any gossip about him in the papers, etc. I have considered the possibility that some people (who knew him personally) might wish to slander a dead man (ie, state untrue things about him). At the same time, those things might be true. I have no way of knowing.
What nasty things have you heard about him over the years? I'm just curious.
By the way, my key interest is in his performances (and looks, of course), not in his personal life. I was just asking the other poster because I was midly curious.
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AndersonWhitbeck — 11 years ago(October 04, 2014 01:51 PM)
MGM was in the early 60's still the premier studio of its time. MGM groomed Hutton as well as George Peppard, Paula Prentiss, Richard Chamberlain and Yvette Mimieux to above the title stardom. Of the above Peppard was the star of the first rank. MGM groomed Hutton as a new James Stewart
Hutton as we know co starred with the glorious Paula Prentiss in several MGM comedies and also supported Peppard in the Subterreans, and did a film with Jane Fonda. I recall Hutton went on a suspension for over a year to rid himself of the exclusive MGM contract. His ticket to freedom was 'Looking For Love'
While at MGM Hutton co starred with Lana Turner, Bob Hope, Paula Prentiss, George Peppard, Leslie Caron, Steve McQueen, and Yvette Mimieux he freelanced and co starred with the biggest stars of his era: Cary Grant, Roz Russell, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston and John Wayne in not one but two movies. If he had personal quirks well most of Hollywood have some edginess to their personalities. There is also a matter of Insurance, a studio insures its players and the Insurance companies are tough and if someone was really over the line they would not be insurable. Imagine Jack Warner who cast Jim Hutton in 'Never Too Late' or Cary Grant who personally requested Hutton for 'Walk Don't Run', or Ms. Russell who was a devout practicing Catholic in 'The Trouble With Angeles' or John Wayne ever dealing with an Actor who was anything but ok? Also the TV Networks also have a clause in their contracts for behavior and Hutton must have been ok or he would not have been cast by Universal TV as Ellery Queen.
When Tim Hutton won the Oscar he memorably stated He wished His Dad were there and Jack Lemmon was seen wiping his eyes and Robert Redford applauding as well as the great cheer from the Audience. When Tim sat down he was greeted by Peter O Toole who also said " I Wish Daddy were here too". All this bunk about
Jim Hutton who died so young at 45 is just that bunk, -
MsELLERYqueen2 — 11 years ago(February 06, 2015 12:17 AM)
That's very nicely put.
I suspect that some of the nasty things Jim did (if he did anything nasty at all) were in the privacy of his own home. It's possible that only his family members knew/know about these things.
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