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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
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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)
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
Do you also like the work of Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas?
ReplyDeleteYour comment made me realize I never finished the list. I never went past G on the alphabet.
ReplyDeleteI do like the work of Robinson, Mitchum, and Douglas. I probably wouldn't have them on my all-time favorites list, but I do appreciate them
and Burt Lancaster
ReplyDeleteSome very interesting choices...
ReplyDeleteI love Jack Carson too. Dick Powell is the romantic fantasy boyfriend
ReplyDeleteYes , yes, yes to Jack Carson! What about Robert Mitchum and William Holden? And Jimmy Cagney?! Also, John Garfield...a much better "method man" than either Marlon Brando or James Dean, in my opinion, and doing it on-screen first.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Bogart film - Dark Passage
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Mine too.
Three actors who I find myself watching every chance I get are William Powell, Robert Montgomery and George Brent. What I really love about the 30's and 40's are the great character actors of the era. Frank McHugh, Eugene Pallette, Frank Morgan, James Gleason, Charles Coburn, Edward Arnold etc etc etc.
ReplyDeleteHollywood in my mind has been dead and buried for the last 25 years.
JRD you are absolutely right. Those are some great actors.
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