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Friday, October 28, 2011

Favorite Actors - Part 1

Favorite Actors - Part 1

Don Ameche
Fun in films like That Night in Rio
Fabulous on the Radio - Wonderful Voice
Dana Andrews
Great in films
Fantastic on Radio - Another Wonderful Voice


Bob Bailey
Radio God - Yours Truly Johnny Dollar


John Barrymore
Stage and Silent Movie God
I melted when I saw Don Juan


Lionel Barrymore
Stage and Screen Legend
Fabulous Radio Voice
Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, and many, many more
My favorite Bogart film - Dark Passage
Jack Carson
Great character actor
Favorite films - Mildred Pierce and Romance on the High Seas
Ronald Colman
Screen Legend and Radio God
Favorite Films include Random Harvest, A Tale of Two Cities,   The White Sister
Radio appearances on The Jack Benny Show and The Halls of Ivy with wife Benita Hume , as well as appearances on Suspense such as in August Heat
OK, basically everything


Richard Conte
Great gritty actor
Favorite films - The Blue Gardenia, Somewhere in the Night, and especially Call Northside 777 (his character and characterization really spoke to me)
Errol Flynn
Swashbuckler extraordinaire
He's fabulous in adventures, westerns, war films, etc.
I wish he was known more for his wonderful acting rather than his bedroom antics.
Clark Gable
Fell in love with him since I saw him as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
I also adore him in It Happened One Night
Cary Grant
Fantastic in everything - Who doesn't love Archie?
Favorite films - North by Northwest, The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer,  and Arsenic and Old Lace

2 comments:

  1. Hey, you named Don Ameche and Dana Andrews! *sighs happily*

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  2. No man in Hollywood today can compare to these guys.

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