However, his Joker was a fairly pitch perfect adaptation of the Golden/Silver Age of comicdom’s purple suited huckster. He was renowned for his dance routines with Carmen Miranda in 1940s diversions like Week-End in Havana (1941), at least until he volunteered for the Coast Guard in 1942-he’d go on to serve in the Second World War at both the Battle of Tinian and Saipan during 1944.Īs the Joker, Romero maintained his Latin lover moustache even in the white makeup, apparently insisting that no amount of cackling would impede his trademark appearance.
Or, more kind-heartedly, he played Shirley Temple’s wise London neighbor who hailed from India in The Little Princess (1939). Getting his start in the early ‘30s, Romero often played exotic supporting roles, such as his villainous turn in 1934’s original The Thin Man. Yep, Batman: The Movie may have been originally conceived by William Dozier as a way to pique interest in a coming TV series, but due to financial reluctance at 20th Century Fox to pay for the whole production, Bat-fans weren’t able to get their Bat-fix at Bat-theaters until after the first Bat-season was complete in 1966. While the Caped Crusader made the jump to the big screen (in a fashion) with serials during the 1940s, the Joker didn’t follow from the printed asylum until he had already appeared on TV. But we’ve gathered the details below to help iron it out… Cesar Romero So folks love the Joker, but with seven big screen versions of the character it’s easy to lose track of them all, or what each performer brought to the role. No other actor has ever won an award for doing a superhero movie.
Consider that the Joker is one of only three roles that has produced multiple Oscar winners-putting Ledger and Phoenix into elite company with Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro as Vito Corleone, and Rita Moreno and Ariana DeBose as Anita in West Side Story. Whether it’s Nicholson hamming it up for ‘80s audiences, Heath Ledger vamping like a rock star from hell, or Joaquin Phoenix turning Travis Bickle into a clown, it seems our hearts are always won over by the guy with green hair (so long as he doesn’t have “damaged” tattooed beneath it, anyway). The irony of this scene is that, sure, the Batmobile is cool (especially that model), but for generation after generation, the man in the purple suit is always the one audiences savor playtime with. Finally he even laments, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” The title character has just run off in the Batmobile while Mistah J stands by stunned and dejected. Midway through the first big budget Batman film in 1989, Jack Nicholson’s Joker takes a moment to pout.
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