Celebrity Biopics You'd Like To See

[quote]Jimmy Savile - it would be like a horror movie that you can't look away from

I was just thinking yesterday that this will have to happen sooner or later, and wondering who might play it.

The man who played Jimmy in The Wire, he'd play Savile. He played Fred West, he's not picky.

I doubt anyone has enough guts to touch Savile's story. Can you imagine a scene of him fucking dead corpses?

It would be 'suggested', with clever framing and shadows, R3.

Susan Cabot

David Bowie and Iggy Pop's time in Germany.

R4 You mean like in old movies, where romantic scenes abruptly ended with a close-up of the fireplace before things got too frisky (only it would probably be a close-up of a body bag in this case).

Wallace Reid

The upcoming Elvis one especially since it will be filmed at Graceland.

Olive Thomas

Mata Hari. Ages ago I read a bio (I think it was titled Femme Fatale) that was quite good. It could make a very atmospheric movie filled with Belle Epoque gorgeousness.

Another Elvis movie? What's going to be the difference between this and all the others? Are they really going to in-depth with his decline and fall this time?

Toni Basil

Rock Hudson. Yeah, I know there was a tv movie....but I'd like to see an HONEST biopic.

MICK JAGGER, BIANCA AND JERRY HALL starring HArry Styles, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid.

Dusty Springfield. They've tried and failed multiple times, and both Kristin Chenoweth and Nicole Kidman were attached to it at different points. Nicole was too tall and vocally not even close, and Kristi Dawn sounds more like Snow White than Dusty. Vadge showed interest in it, but mercifully that never happened.

Richard Simmons. Oscar bait for Best Costume. Todd Haynes to direct.

Robert Blake

Robert Blake is a good one

Gloria Swanson

Marilyn Miller (something more truer-to-life than what June Allyson appeared in)

Lauren Bacall

[quote] Richard Simmons. Oscar bait for Best Costume. Todd Haynes to direct.

It's been done.

FREDDIE MERCURY.

NOT the squeaky-clean one that Queen has decided to mess up. Queen even fired Sasha Baron Cohen who would've been the perfect, naughty Freddie Mercury!

Clara Bow. From a wretched slum child, to the "It Girl" partying her way through 1920s Hollywood, to a cowboy's wife living on a ranch, to a schizophrenic living out her days in a mental hospital.

It could be the American non-musical "La Vie En Rose", if they could find the right actress to play Clara.

Vivian Vance, of course!

Britney Spears.

The relationship between Jagger and Bowie, starring Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson.

Merv Griffin

Harry Styles, starring himself.

An HONEST Merv bio would be good....like Behind the Candelabra on steroids

Stevie Nicks

Vincent Price

Klaus Nomi

Katy Winters. It would be great to explore the origins of her OCD. What happened in her childhood that she was never able to leave her home without antiperspirant in her handbag?

Aaron Spelling

John Forsythe

Pat Morita

Patrick Swayze

Vic Tayback

Beth Howland

Kitty Carlisle

Gene Rayburn

Richard Dawson

Paul Lynde

Ted Knight

Frank Gorshen

Yvonne Craig

Cesar Romero

Eartha Kitt

Gary Owens

Donald Pleasence

Belinda Carlisle

Michael Hutchinson

Pete Burns

Francis Reid

Helen Wagner

Eileen Fulton

Benjamin Hendrickson

Majel Barrett

Jeffrey Hunter

James Doohan

Leonard Nemoy

James Doohan

Louis Jordan

Dick Durock

Leslie Neilson

William Frawley

Sherman Helmsley

Isabel Sanford

Roxie Roker

Franklin Cover

Paul Benedict

Zara Cully

Ned Wertimer

John Ritter

Don Knotts

Audra Lindley

Norman Fell

Bob Denver

Alan Hale Jr.

Russell Johnson

Natalie Schaffer

Sandy Allen

Seriously?

Jean Seberg's offscreen life was more interesting, dramatic, and far more tragic than anything she ever did onscreen.

Joey Luft from his point of view.

Barbara Payton

Frank Sinatra: whatever happened to Scorsese's announced biopic from a few years ago?

Judy Garland: same with this Harvey Weinstein produced AnnE Hathaway biopic. Still no updates. I heard rumors that Harvey sent out some of his minions to scout out location shooting in NYC, LA and Chicago (this was about 3-4 yrs ago) but then... nothing. Me and My Shadows was good, but not entirely accurate.

Lena Horne

The Barrymores

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

Humphrey Bogart

Walt Disney

R34 Where is the Lorna "I was molested" troll.

Never mind. I'll do the honors of filling in for him.

I was molested.

I suspect R32 has invested quite a bit of time on this!

[quote]Me and My Shadows was good, but not entirely accurate.

Hey, you forgot about my delicate, yet astonishing portrayal of Judy.

I would love to see a movie on Gloria Grahame's life.

Or on Lana Turner's!

Darlinks, vhat about us?

Rita Hayworth

[quote]The upcoming Elvis one especially since it will be filmed at Graceland.

That means that they got permission from the Estate, which means it will be a whitewashed bore.

R15, are you actually 15?

Randolph Scott and Cary Grant - the unexpurgated version.

Jeanne Eagels.

I'd also like a good biopic of Harlow, and not starring Gwen Stefani who was too terrible and hard faced to play her in the Aviator.

There was a movie about Jeanne Eagels that came out in the late 50's. Obviously it must have been pretty forgettable.

Connie Francis

I'd wanna see one about Phyllis Hyman.

I also wouldn't mind watching films about "behind-the-scenes" of shows like Cheers, or What's My Line. I'm not talking about the unauthorized stories on television; I want to see moments from these shows replicated in these movies. It also wouldn't hurt to cast actors who actually [i]look[/i] like the people they're portraying (and can act).

Miss Kay Lenz. It would be heartbreaking but inspiring. Great 70s clothes and music framing all her triumphs and tragedy. I think Emma Stone could do her justice.

Alma Mahler. She was married to three prominent, influential men: Walter Gropius, Gustav Mahler, and Franz Werfel. Was it her magic pussy?

R52 What did Kay Lenz do or what incredible thing happened to her that would justify a biopic?

It's probably been done before, but since I don't remember: Rita Hayworth. Molested by her dad; given the Hollywood pluck 'n bleach build-up; interesting and/or sexy lovers and husbands; Alzheimer's...

But I can't think of anyone pretty enough to portray her.

R55 Chris Colfer from Glee?

Amy Adams gave it a try, but she's no Hayworth. Rita was a gorgeous woman. Amy often styles herself to look like her. Adams is a good actress though. She could play Rita in her long sad decline.

Amy Adams couldn't play Rita Hayworth; Adams always comes across as fragile, and the role requires a warmth and earthiness she doesn't possess. Hair isn't enough.

Dressing Left, Swingin' Right: The John Schneider Story

Told from the point of view of his enormous cock.

Wasn't there a made for TV movie in the '80s with Lynda Carter as Rita Hayworth?

On a similar note, an Orson Welles biopic would be interesting

Gorgeous Rita. There is an active thread on her now, and I know that hair is not enough, moron @ R58. Adams is a real actress you know? She was signed to play Janis Joplin, so she might have the earthiness and talent to play drunk Rita with Alzheimer's. If not, there's always Lindsay Lohan.

Ancient 80 year old queens have taken over the thread.

Julie Andrews

Petula Clark

r53, there is a movie about her called Bride of the Wind. It sucked.

Colonel Gaddafi. Maybe Johnny Depp could play him in his later years.

Marvin Gaye

I know one I don't really want to see - the forthcoming Shia LeBoef as John McEnroe. I actually like both guys but it doesn't sound a great...match.

Connie Francis: The Night at Hojo's -- A Musical!

Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson in the title roles of Jagger and Bowie: Romantic

R50 and R66 they would both be terribly sad. I'd love to see them both!

Who is Connie Francis?

Dorothy Kilgallen

William Haines - Hollywood's first out gay star- when told by Louis B. Mayer to get rid of his boyfriend, Haines said he would if Mayer divorced his wife, too. His major movie career finished, he started a second fabulous career with an assist from close friends like Joan Crawford as an interior designer. If he watch his movies, he's great -- cute, funny and lots of vitality. He and his boyfriend were called the happiest couple in Hollywood.

Brendad Ickson

Ramon Novarro