Lee Marvin Talks Acting on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 06/22/1976

Lee Marvin Talks Acting on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - 06/22/1976 #johnnycarson #leemarvin #thetonightshow

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I'm a big admirer of Lee Marvin I think most people are he's most talented actor he's currently starring along with Oliver Reed and great scout and cathouse Thursday that's the name of the picture of folks would you welcome Lee Marvin you ever spent any time in the Midwest traipsing through barnyards you would know how to accomplish that you walk on you're here you go nimbly afoot it's good see I know what has I know you don't do television too often I know that these kind of shows it's nice to get you out of hibernation occasionally right yeah you and I know you dig animals yeah house the other day down Arizona really yeah that's true that's right about two weeks younger and there were some Sade and the old lady got shot down so that they were brought into this friend of ours Sarah Garvey who raises all those wild lost things they're sensational lost cats do people shoot the mouth lines because of that thing about taking the Sheep or they just do it yeah it's so called sport or well it's an open season for you know sportsmen but mostly they're shot because of their problems with the sheep and cattle yeah but the guy that shot the old lady was good enough to call the game warden and then Sarah went out and got these and there was another covered who was killed by the dogs but the guy was good enough to call somebody than how to handle them so they were saved that's good because most people who take them in and you should never really take well you shouldn't touch them at all just leave them notify the authorities for a while in England you know Harrods department store there's great one the great department stores you actually had a I'm sure you know a place where they sold like exotic animals you know when people thought it was very chic to go in and buy a boa constrictor or a to clown or you could buy a leopard cubs or something and most people just can't keep in captivity they don't know it's amazing in Africa for instance is against the law to own a wild animal which i think is a tremendous law it is and I didn't have them in parks but you can't have a house pad out of a would you consider a wild animal which I think says it makes sense because it really never worked out you you originally grew up in New York or from New York right yeah and of course I suppose the only thing you saw as kid is going after Central Park Zoo as far as animals the most a cage and all the old with overcoats crowding the nannies in the watch the money they wouldn't let him go doing these funny things in the cage and all the old guys they say New York is in trouble where else in New York you're you're in New York I think when people who are native New Yorkers they kind of they stand by the city even though through with all of its it problems it seems to be having well just what a couple of days it going I must say it looked pretty rich to me I mean every window the Diamonds rolling on the gutters guys sweeping them up yeah there's a lot of dough back there yeah it's not like we I think of town being broke you even every other cars a limousine right mm-hmm but you moved down now in the in the southwest is that just to get away you don't dig living out here particularly I know you work when you want to work you do a picture when you want to but you enjoy the the privacy that punch a lot of people have you know of up and move back to a different lifestyle and say hey this is what I really want to do sort of them out in the desert in Arizona there's a lot of plain old miners and cowboys and mostly pickup trucks and kind of just realistic as opposed to you know this kinda living it does get a little strange out here yeah everybody's got one on you know something you know the cameras are going off at the wrong time you know you see read the newspaper so what do you do you just you Oliver Reed's working whether you're right in a picture yeah who's not the right name of it did I get to name the last day yes a complicated was it the Scout down there red scout and cathouse Thursday yeah that's the name it won't fit on a marquee but is there any way even to explain what that picture is about no even at this time of night answer and I read the script obviously a body Wild West not so boring it's kind of a romp you know 19:8 Colorado the you know the change of you know cars as opposed to horses and Indian fighters are defunct and Oliver Reed who was a one of my sidekicks on it he was a india and chosen by Roosevelt to go to Harvard and he went back down from the Ivy League college and looked around and decided to revert to a drunken Indian good casting it's yes Oliver's been on the show he yet he puts a jar away once in awhile doesn't he yes you've been known to have a something to calm your nerves how'd you two guys hit it off alright it's just fine yeah we got a small film clip I don't know what part of the picture it is but what can watch the monitors here in the studio I don't know but you even know what the Vinnie's and he said if it probably speaks for itself hopefully yeah let's roll it then then we'll take a look at it small preview [Music] time waits for no man the Old West huh it's a pg-rated film yes you have to go with a registered pervert that looks like fun it was challenging let me ask you so watch me seem like a stupid question but somebody once said I knew who was on the show maybe Bob Mitchum or something said that he thought acting was he was kind of putting it down for man he says it's kind of a stupid thing for a grown man to do and I'm attributing it to Mitchum and I don't think it was him but what he was saying he didn't feel that was a the kind of a job for man I didn't exactly know what he meant well I think it's in a sense this kind of acting I guess you're just having fun you're putting on the rags and you know I guess you're bringing entertainment to other people but you know you look at yourself you think no wearing a doctor's belt full of blanks and I always miss my punches and you know you know you're not gonna get the girl because she's married to the guy standing over by the camera and and he's pretending 52 Here I am saying me I think that's probably what he had in mind is kind of a silly occupation but u-joint you enjoy what you do yeah enjoy the cast I think and they know the crew and because they don't like to get away with anything because they can't get out in front of the camera and the other actors you're quite competitive a lot of times a lot of fun just saying your own life you ever worked in a picture with somebody I want to ask you mention any names somebody who really did not like say a leading lady or somebody that that has come up with people you know a picture they got to do a love scene they got to carry it off no I think that's probably better when you really have a little air hostility going yeah because it comes across as love all right you know something well that's at the very close line it's a clothesline otherwise you have to kind of invent it if you like the person you then you you start considering it too much whereas if you don't really care about them you just do it and variance up better yeah it's kind of like a Virginia Woolf situation something there well would you like to do or if you finish make a motion picture you finally get tired of it stay in Arizona and just go you figure fishermen yeah I'd like to do that but I'm an angler I'm not a fisherman either I'm a sports fisherman right yeah I'd like to do that but I'm sure that eventually the fish would get me so I asked you something about your gear that the beautiful white hair now you're not very old and you didn't they ever say to your sake will you want to do the hair you know well that's what happens in Hollywood you know that a lot of people touch you up there there's nothing wrong with it yeah you're gonna play a role I don't think it works with me I think you know well it doesn't change the nose you know there he is with dark hair you know I mean he's trying to get back to childhood or something cuz I think it'll be Jack that you're fooling I saw some actor doing a commercial the other night I'll mention though name speak and he's been around for some time and he was doing a commercial and the hair was so black that it looked all out of it didn't not look real the face didn't go with what was up on top well you're never in the early days when you were checking around to you see these guys coming in the morning they had a a thing of shinola shoe polish and they would literally do this to their hair and the only thing that see is this shiny scalp coming through and they bleed and you know and through the show they start to perspire and these black stuff it's not running down it what was it what was the picture that Vic maturer made where he he played and it was a put-on he was playing the aging movie star I don't know the name of it and he was really a camp and he went in the girl would knock at the door and he's quick running and he'd put this stuff in and they would start to neck and he would get heated in the stuff started running down onto her face it was hysterically funny Vanity's you know still a lot of that around and it will take a short break we're coming right back stay where you are [Applause] you