“It ain’t over, ’til it’s over.”

My heart gave a twinge when I heard of the passing of Olympia Dukakis. She was one of those actors who gave a stellar performance in every part she played. To me, however, she shone the brightest in “Moonstruck.” I adapted one of her lines to my life’s purpose, “It ain’t over, ’til it’s over.”

I grew up in movie houses all over Detroit, from the neighborhood Odean theatre to the Fox, the United Artists, and the Michigan downtown. Saturday meant a movie. When I started dating, it was with a young man who worked at a movie house and we got in free. A very attractive trait.

I can think of dozens of actors who have one outstanding character in one special movie that makes the film a “butt-in-chair” event.

Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews in “Laura.”

I love, love, love John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in “The Quiet Man.”

There’s Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, and Hattie McDaniel (especially Hattie. To me, she represented my two grandmas.) in “Gone With The Wind.”

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have it in “”When Harry Met Sally,” Maggie Smith in “Downton Abbey,” Humphrey Bogart does double duty in “Casablanca,” and “The Maltese Falcon,” Rosalind Russell in “His Girl Friday,” and –believe it or not, Charles Bronson in “Death Wish.”

Cloris Leachman dazzled me in “The Last Picture Show.”

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Sally Field in “Lincoln.” 

Cher in “Moonstruck.”

A favorite–Robert Duval in “The Godfather.” If you had acting students watch the scene where Tom Hagen has to tell Don Corleone his son has been murdered, that’s the only lesson they’d ever need.

I love every minute of the first two “Godfathers,” but sometimes, it’s only one scene like the Duval/Brando one that reaches me. Gregory Hines and Michael Baryshnikov’s duet dance in “White Knights” is like that. Marilyn and Jane Russell singing “When Love Goes Wrong” in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” Mickey Rooney perched on a bale of hay and teaching the kid how to ride a racehorse in “The Black Stallion.” Dustin Hoffman talking about the purity of the art of acting in “Tootsie.”

Of course, there are plenty of actors who make me take a seat for practically anything they did. James Stewart comes to mind, Tom Hanks, Harrison Ford, Fred and Ginger, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Denzel, and Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close.

I could go on and on.

So long, Mrs. Rose Castorini, we’ll miss you.