Favorite Actors

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

Jack Benny

Is there really anyone funnier?  What I love about him is that his comedy is timeless.  With few references to the present, his radio programs are enjoyable to this very day.

Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen

Another radio star (or pair in this case) who make me laugh with their timeless comedy.  I dare you to listen to Charlie McCarthy's antics without laughing.

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

Ray Milland

Fantastic leading man material.  I also love him on radio.  Poorly treated by Hollywood late in life, I find him a completely underrated actor.

Dick Powell

Great song and dance man, yet also a wonderful detective.  Every film I've seen him in is wonderful, and I adore him on the radio.  And who can beat that voice?

William Powell

Suave, sophisticated, funny, handsome and a great athlete.  Wonderful teamed up with Myrna Loy in their many films together, and great on his own.  My favorite Powell performances are in the Thin Man films and Libeled Lady.