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How high are the Stars?

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Posted by Bambi B on February 22, 2005 at 11:50:22

In Reply to: Tom Cruise's height posted by Rob Doorack on February 22, 2005 at 07:29:14:

Rob Doorack,

Thanks for the information and your comment on proportions obscuring the shorter actor makes sense and is true. It's inevitable that a long period in Los Angles puts you in contact with actors. Over the years, I've met as clients or socially:

George C. Scott
Bo Derek
Micheal Douglas
Charles Bronson
Barbra Streisand
Diana Ross
Suzanne Summers
Nancy Walker
Sylvester Stallone
Vanna White
Dick van Dyke

and seen many others in restaurants, the street, in cars:

Tom Cruise
James Wood
Paul Simon
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Martin Landau
Vincent Schiavelli
Walter Mathau
Mel Brooks
Carl Reiner
Micheal Moore- (eating of course)
Dolly Parton
Karl Malden
Raquel Welch
..and more I can't think of now

The common thing I notice in almost all the above is their height, as there is almost all those in the list that are above average and most are bordering on the short category- Vanna White, Nancy Walker, Diana Ross and Bo Derek you could put in one briefcase. Dick van Dyke is possibly the tallest of all those people. James Wood is at least average or more. Raquel Welch, who I saw walking across the plaza of the Music Center looked fantastic for her age (born 1940!) but very petite- (5'4'-5'5?). It's difficult to forget her little smile from that encounter too! Dolly Parton is quite petite too -in height. Martin Landau and Walter Mathau were/are both tall.

I was shocked when I met Stallone as he was sitting on a horse for most of the conversation while I was sitting in an open car, but when I got out of the car and he off his horse, he was several inches shorter than I and did not have any of the Rambo presence or sense of power. I was in director James Cammeron's office once and there is the "Termminator" android metal skeleton which is life size to Schwarzenegger and to me it looked quite small- scaled down. We're told Arnie is over 6' but I don't believe it. I would've met Schawzenegger too, but Maria is very private and visitors were discouraged. I only wanted to see the landscaping around his house to eveluate the designer.

I remember "Boy on a Dolphin" from the mid 50's This has Sophia Loren- often attractively wet from being a sponge diver!, Clifton Webb, and Alan Ladd. Ladd was famous for being extra short- 5'2 or 3 and Loren and Webb were both taller than average. There is a scene in which Ladd has been standing behind a desk, Webb enters and quite obviously steps up onto and over some kind of platform where Ladd had been and I though it was some kind of joke Webb was playing -he had revelaed the box Ladd uded to appear normal height. I don't know anyone else who ever noticed this, but even if not the case, it still points up the odd coincidence (9?) of how short most of the stars are.

In "The Hudsucker Proxy", notice the disparity between Paul Newmann and Tim Robbins- Robbins is 6'5, and this makes Newmann look like a dwarf.

Cheers,

Bambi B

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