What actor/actress comes to mind?

[Swithin]

Shelley Duvall

Next: Played a magician

[Dargo]

Next: Played a magician

Mel Blanc

Next up......

HUH? What's that you ask? When did Mel Blanc ever play a magician? Well, Mel did the voice for (and so in essence "played") the character of Ala Bahma the world renowned magician with the (I've always thought) Hungarian accent in the 1942 cartoon short "Case of the Missing Hare", and also of course as well doing the voice for the world renowned rabbit with the combination Bronx/Brooklyn accent and who Mr. Ala Bahma encounters during this cartoon short. THAT'S when...



Okay, and now that THAT'S settled here, Doc ...

Next: often played a person who couldn't handle pressure

[KayFrancis]

Next : often played a person who couldn't handle pressure

Butterfly McQueen

Next : often played the leads sidekick

[Feinberg]

Ronald Reagan.
Isn't that how the joke goes? "No, Jimmy Stewart for President. Ronald Reagan as Best Friend."

a real sour puss

[Dargo]

Ronald Reagan.
Isn't that how the joke goes? "No, Jimmy Stewart for President. Ronald Reagan as Best Friend."

a real sour puss

Ned Sparks

(...btw Feinberg, I'd forgotten that old joke...love it)

Next: usually played the flighty type

[EP Millstone]

Next: usually played the flighty type

Mamie Van Doren

Next: Eerie

[Dargo]

Next: usually played the flighty type

Mamie Van Doren

Next: Eerie

Betty Grable (because of course she starred in the 1950 flick titled "The Farmer Takes a Wife" and which takes place along the, ahem, Eerie Canal...sorry, couldn't resist...actual answer to follow...)

Karloff

Next: always calm, cool and collected

[EP Millstone]

Next: always calm, cool and collected

Rondo Hatton (even when he was snapping spines and strangling throats, he never yelled or got excited)

Next: Worth dying for

[Dargo]

Next: always calm, cool and collected

Rondo Hatton (even when he was snapping spines and strangling throats, he never yelled or got excited)

Next: Worth dying for

Ava Gardner (and as she does at her most luminous, in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman)

Next: playing a gangster in a comedy

[KayFrancis]

Next: playing a gangster in a comedy

George Raft as Spats Columbo in Some Like It Hot

Next : actress who was athletic

[Dargo]

Next : actress who was athletic

Kate Hepburn (shown of course at full advantage in the film "Pat and Mike")

Next: ungainly

[EP Millstone]

Next: ungainly

Peggy Cass as "Agnes Gooch" in Auntie Mame.

Next: Amazonian

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Allison Hayes


Next- did their own stunts

[EP Millstone]

Next- did their own stunts

Burt Lancaster

Next: Benefactor

[Swithin]

Henry Hull, Finlay Currie (Great Expectations, 1934 and 1946)





Next: Got the chair