What actor/actress comes to mind?

[Swithin]

Rock Hudson

Next: From Maryland

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Charley Chase

Next- sullen

[KayFrancis]

Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and not exactly cheerful as Max de Winter

Next : plays the best friend to the lead

[Dargo]

Robert Mitchum (explanation: this usual lead actor probably first coming to mind here only because I just watched 'Rachel and the Stranger' for the third or fourth time just the other night...cute movie...always loved its blend of so many different genres...and he also played this type of role in another of his earlier pictures, 'Till the End of Time')

Next: advertising executive

[nakanosunplaza]

Cary Grant in Mr Blanding builds his dream house -1947
Actor playing hockey

[laffite]

Micheal Ontkean

next : big cheeks

[Dargo]

Ann Miller

Next: played a ghost

[KayFrancis]

Chatles Laughton as the Canterbury Ghost

Next : played a Priest

[nakanosunplaza]

Pat O'Brien in Angels with Dirty Faces
Next; A mail order bride

[j.lunatic]

Next; A mail order bride

Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price

Next: [Name}: the poor man's [Name].

[nakanosunplaza]

Donald Barry the poor's man James Cagney i.e. The Last Crooked Mile 1946

Next ;Blonde discovered by Howard Hughes

[Dargo]

Jean Harlow

Next: avuncular

[laffite]

S.Z. Sakall

n: played (or could have played well) a goon

[Swithin]

Bern Hoffman

Next: Collected for charity in a movie

[Dargo]

Laraine Day ('Mr. Lucky')

Next: 1930s or 1940s B-movie serials star