Even Stars can “Steal”
HESPITE an all-star cast in “You U Can’f Take It With You,” Lionel Barrymore has most of the honours. Another veteran who can show the youngsters something about picturestealing is Alice Brady. Her big scene in “In Old Chicago," which came at the beginning of the film, was rjot forgotten by the time the audience left the theatre.
Even small roles as taxi-drivers have been played with such skill that they are remembered. For example, we have Frank Jenks in “100 Men and a Girl,” and John Carradine in “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” who drove the unhappy Alice Faye round the park.
The king of picture-stealers, w ho is probably the smallest of them all, is the inimitable Charlie McCarthy—he even steals the honours from his attractive inventor, Edgar Bergen, so the rest of his task is easy. One quizzing look from Charlie’s knowing eyes, one “Mow me down," and everybody else fades right out of the picture.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 11
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