Victor Mature : Victor's Sense of Humor
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Hahaha awww. Where did you get that quote? 
"WHY DIDN'T YOU STARVE FIRST?!" - Humphrey Bogart, 'Dead End' (1937)
"WHY DIDN'T YOU STARVE FIRST?!" - Humphrey Bogart, 'Dead End' (1937)
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I'm reading the book Richard Burton Prince of Players and in the chapter "Lust and Life at 20th Century Fox", there is this paragraph where the author recalls Burton telling him that one of the pleasures of making The Robe was working with Victor Mature.
Burton said:
"I've never known an actor so happily aware of his limitations. He rejoiced in them. He liked to joke that he was no actor and he said he had 60 films to prove it. But against him I looked like an amateur. We had a scene where the robe falls on to me and I scream like a girl before becoming overcome with religious fervour. And all the time Victor just stands there gazing into heaven with great conviction. I asked him, "How do you do it? What are you thinking?" He said, "I'm thinking of the money they're paying me". What a wonderful man."
Great sense of humor indeed!
Burton said:
"I've never known an actor so happily aware of his limitations. He rejoiced in them. He liked to joke that he was no actor and he said he had 60 films to prove it. But against him I looked like an amateur. We had a scene where the robe falls on to me and I scream like a girl before becoming overcome with religious fervour. And all the time Victor just stands there gazing into heaven with great conviction. I asked him, "How do you do it? What are you thinking?" He said, "I'm thinking of the money they're paying me". What a wonderful man."
Great sense of humor indeed!
Re: Victor's Sense of Humor
I'm reading the book Richard Burton Prince of Players and in the chapter "Lust and Life at 20th Century Fox", there is this paragraph where the author recalls Burton telling him that one of the pleasures of making The Robe was working with Victor Mature.
Burton said:
"I've never known an actor so happily aware of his limitations. He rejoiced in them. He liked to joke that he was no actor and he said he had 60 films to prove it. But against him I looked like an amateur. We had a scene where the robe falls on to me and I scream like a girl before becoming overcome with religious fervour. And all the time Victor just stands there gazing into heaven with great conviction. I asked him, "How do you do it? What are you thinking?" He said, "I'm thinking of the money they're paying me". What a wonderful man."
Great sense of humor indeed!
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That's my favorite Victor Mature story.
Burton said:
"I've never known an actor so happily aware of his limitations. He rejoiced in them. He liked to joke that he was no actor and he said he had 60 films to prove it. But against him I looked like an amateur. We had a scene where the robe falls on to me and I scream like a girl before becoming overcome with religious fervour. And all the time Victor just stands there gazing into heaven with great conviction. I asked him, "How do you do it? What are you thinking?" He said, "I'm thinking of the money they're paying me". What a wonderful man."
Great sense of humor indeed!—-
That's my favorite Victor Mature story.
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Jim Backus told this story about working with Mature on the 1952 period film "Androcles & the Lion,"which was set in ancient Rome. Both actors were playing Roman soldiers from that era,Mature as a captain,Backus as a centurion.On a lunch break they walked into a restaurant,fully dressed in their Roman military costumes.The owner of the restaurant simply stared at them in mute disbelief when Mature asked for a table.Finally,Mature said to him "What's the matter,don't you serve men in uniform?"
Victor's Sense of Humor