Karen Allen played Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the character is the only romantic lead in that series who is a genuine match for Indiana Jones instead of a passenger. The drinking contest establishes it in ninety seconds.
Animal House and Starman filled the same period, the latter opposite Jeff Bridges in a performance of considerable warmth.
She largely left Hollywood in the 1990s, running a textile business in Massachusetts and teaching, and returned for two later Indiana Jones films.
She has directed and works regularly in theatre, and has been candid that the decision to step away was deliberate.
Cate BlanchettIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and eighty-five million dollars, seven hundred and ninety million back, and it is still the film that damaged the…
Bill MurrayScrooged is Richard Donner's 1988 American comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray as a cynical television executive producing a live Christmas Carol broadcast on Christmas Eve who is himself visited by three spirits over the course of…
Alfred MolinaSteven Spielberg's 1981 archeology adventure launcher. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.
Denholm ElliottRaiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Temple of Doom in 1984, and The Last Crusade in 1989 form a complete trilogy that arrived before Hollywood started planning trilogies as franchise products. Raiders is the first and the best.
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