Best Silver Screen Smoker

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:17pm

I vote Bette Davis.
She's smokes the hell out of her cigarettes in ALL ABOUT EVE.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:20pm

It's like she believes she's sucking in a little bit of magical youth with every puff.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:22pm

I've never seen a prop worked so well.

LOL - Rath!

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:24pm

Bette Davis, hands down!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:43pm

Ebert once said of Robert Mitchum: "When he blew smoke, people ducked"

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:55pm

ooo Also, Anne Bancroft.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 11:47pm

The part of that story you don't know is that she extinguished that very cigarette on the arm of the artist's assistant.

[RobbO]

Posted: 11/16/05 at 11:50pm

thanks, rath, that story made me feel all warm and fuzzy! i didn't think i could like betty bacall any more than i already do but you managed to make me like her more!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 12:07am

Before, Undi. It's more enjoyable if you're sober.

[justme2]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 1:45am

Jerry takes a deep and meaningful drag on his cigarette, crosses to the window and says...

"Shall we just have a cigarette on it?"

Charlotte moves toward Jerry, takes the cigarette he has lit for her, inhales deeply and says (with tears in her eyes):

"If we work hard to protect that little strip of territory between us....(etc, etc)"

Jerry, eyes filled with tears, exhales and asks:

"But will you be happy, Charlotte?"

Charlotte, fighting back tears and acrid cigarette smoke:

"Oh Jerry, Let's not ask for the moon.....we have the stars"


This movie was one of the best examples of the use of cigarettes as a third character. The character here being sex, of course.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 8:34am

That is a wonderful smoke scene justme2. Would you say it's the most famous?

Awake at 3 in the morning I noticed that Jodie Foster is a mean little smoker in THE ACUSSED.

Posted: 11/17/05 at 8:37am

HE: Do you smoke after sex?

SHE: I don't know -- I never looked.

Posted: 11/17/05 at 8:39am

HE: Do you smoke after sex?

HE: I don't know -- I never looked.

[RobbO]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 8:42am

rock hudson.













think about it.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 9:39am

I want to vote for a couple-- Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in Now, Voyager. When he lights both cigarettes in his mouth and then gives one to her, I get all tingly and need a moment to myself.

edit: justme2-- This is the first and last time that I don't read a thread before responding. Your way of telling it is so much better.

Updated On: 11/17/05 at 09:39 AM

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 11/17/05 at 9:48am

I think Barbara Stanwyck gives Bette a run for her money; and, may beat her in the smoking department. CLASH BY NIGHT is a good example of Stanwyck's smoking skills.

[Glebb]

Posted: 11/19/05 at 2:56pm

I saw a movie when I was little in which Agnes Moorehead smoked a pipe. I believe it took place in Russia and had to do with a pretender to the throne who almost took it away from Catherine The Great.