Must Be A Contender For....

[janzman]

...worst casting....Just watched one of my favourite films ( for the music only) but having Laurence Olivier playing a Cantor as Neil Diamond's father in 'The Jazz Singer' must be truly a travesty of casting, right there with John Wayne as Ghenkis Khan.

Any more bad castings can you think of.

[tonyav]

right there with John Wayne as Ghenkis Khan.

He was a pretty good Roman centurian though !

[tonyav]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj8wDtqbiYs

[retrocop]

//Any more bad castings can you think of. //

Yup. Sylvester Stallone. Should of been cast into the wilderness let alone allowed near Hollywood.
He can't speak intelligible dialogue let alone act. :-)

[tonyav]

James Caan has Sonny Corleone in the Godfather.

[Peter Pedant]

Ava Gardner as George Sand in the biopic of Frederic Chopin

Ava Gardner as the contessa in 55 days in Peking
she falls in lurrrve with a Mandarin - erm hold on dont Mandarins lack a certain part of their anatomy ?

[Peter Pedant]

those 2 singers as the Kray Twins

Mick Jagger in Performance
asked how he got the job he commented
" ur, slept with the director, didnt I "

[stuey]

Yes, Petah: Their skin if you peel them.

[-Talbot-]

Idris Elba -- James Bond

[Peter Pedant]

no or yes stoo
these mandarin have lost their skin ,,,, you know ,,,,,, down THERE
and contents

their wiener is weenier

[Jackdaw33]

I think you may be confusing mandarins with eunuchs.

[tonyav]

Are you suggesting that they are minus pips, PP.

[stuey]

I think that Petah is thinking of the unicorns that are in charge of harems.

[Peter Pedant]

Jack - to be a mandarin in the service of Tzu Hsi or anyone to be honest in the then Celestial civil service
you had to under go castration

no confusion - c'etait vrai baby

[stuey]

Really, I didn't know that. Anyway "55 Days...." was an excellent movie. Loved it when they all played their National Anthems at the same time.

[Peter Pedant]

and Ava looked gorgeous throughout
in real life the contessa was a lady doctor who was not allowed to treat the men even tho by that time there had been lady doctors ( erm treating men ) for fifty years
( and she didnt lurrve a mandarin )

stoo we call senior civil servants in London Mandarins
but I thought the title alone 55 d in Peking
would kinda imply that the action was not a whitehall farce but somewhere like the legation qtr in Bei