What actor/actress comes to mind?

[Swithin]

W.C. Fields (as The Great McGonigle in The Old Fashioned Way)

Next: Used a hatpin

[KayFrancis]

Flora Robson ( used a hatpin to kill a character in Murder at the Gallop )

Next: actor in musicals and noirs

[j.lunatic]

Next: actor in musicals and noirs

Dick Powell

Next: An actor/actress who also directed films

[KayFrancis]

Sydney Pollack

Next : besides Dick Powell, another actor in musicals and noirs

[Swithin]

Frank Orth

Next: Favorite James Stewart co-star (female)

[KayFrancis]

There were so many he appeared with, one of my favorites is Kim Novak because I love their chemistry in Vertigo and Bell Book and Candle

Next : favorite female Gene Kelly dance partner

[ziggy6708a]

maybe Leslie Caron
(had to work the hardest)

next: a lousy doctor

[LostHorizons]

maybe Leslie Caron
(had to work the hardest)

next: a lousy doctor

Thomas Mitchell as Doc Boone (best work you done even if you was drunk. -professional compliments always help)

Next: didn’t survive the advent of the talkie

[laffite]

John Gilbert

next: his/her talkies were better than his/her silents

[Dargo]

William Powell

Next: big studio era star who'd later host an anthology television series

[j.lunatic]

Next: big studio era star who'd later host an anthology television series

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Next: a horror icon

[Swithin]

George Zucco

Next: Played a high priest

[Dargo]

George Zucco

Next: Played a high priest

Hey! How about good ol' George again here, and in that 1948 "classic", 'Tarzan and the Mermaids'.


Next: B-movie western star

[CinemaInternational]

Roy Rogers

Next: An A-list star later downgraded to B-movie Leads

[laffite]

Jayne Mansfield
not sure if she was A-list, but ...

next : bubbly