Describe a movie biography you'd liked to have seen made and the star to play the role...

[KansDem]

I would have liked to seen made a movie on the life of Gustav Mahler with Gregory Peck playing the lead role:

[Graybeard]

1. Danny Kaye played by Adrien Brody.

"Nobody's Fool, The Lives of Danny Kaye", by Martin Gottfried is a great examination of Kaye as a complex and sometimes very difficult person. Adrien Brody would be perfect in the part.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Good one!

Just dye his hair red, and you've got a reasonable resemblance to Danny Kaye.

[KansDem]

3. Is "Nobody's Fool" taken from Danny Kayes' role in "Court Jester?"

If I recall, Kaye sings a song about being a court jester in which the phrase "nobody's fool" is used. Something like "An unemployed jester is nobody's fool!"



Uncanny resemblance!

[Graybeard]

7. Yes it is. Great lyrics by Kaye's wife Sylvia Fine.

Sylvia Fine wrote those tongue twister songs for Kaye that were all so witty. I'm a big Danny Kaye fan and The Court Jester is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Seeking Serenity]

4. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, played by Russell Crowe

[charlie and algernon]

5. Ben Franklin, played by Tom Wilkinson

He was brilliant in the biography mini-series of John Adams. We need a good biography of Franklin and Wilkinson would be great.

[mcctatas]

6. me..

played by Meg Ryan (before she mangled her face with plastic surgery)...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I've always wanted to see a biography done on Roberto Clemente

I don't know who would be good to play him, though. Any ideas?

[Graybeard]

10. I'd like to see that film made too.

He was a role model worthy of remembering.

[Forkboy]

9. Joey Ramone, played by his corpse.

It would have to stop-motion photography, obviously. :D

[BulletproofLandshark]

11. Satchel Paige, portrayed by Don Cheadle