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13 December 2009 3:09 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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There Had to be a couple of redeeming values to Valley of the Dolls aside from the unintended laughs. Here Barbara Parkins proves that's the case in this provocative (for 1967) publicity photo for the film.

He was born Burton Stephen Lancaster but we just knew him as Burt. Seen here in The Crimson Pirate, we get a stark illustration of how dreary the leading man shortage has become in Hollywood. Can you image Anyone looking like this in a contemporary film? (Well, okay, maybe Adam Sandler...)

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7 May 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

They say in every successful relationship, there's a flower and a gardener -- a star and an extra -- and that people gravitate toward those who'll let them inhabit their instinctive roles. A similarly symbiotic dynamic is often set up, in film and comedy, between a main character and his or her silent sidekick. The silent sidekick is a somewhat exotic species, but there are enough of them and enough similarities in the function they have played in some famous films and infamous comic pairings, that we decided to take a closer look on the eve of "The Brothers Bloom," which opens on the 15th, and which features Rinko Kikuchi as a bomb-making expert named Bang Bang who speaks, literally, three words of English (or any other language). Below are some of our favorites.

Ben Doyle in "Lightning Jack"

Ben Doyle (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is mute, but he's not deaf, …

- Matt Singer

2 articles from 2009