"Older than you" in my case has to be pre-1948;I have a number of favourites so I'll select four from that list - 'Rebecca","Double Indemnity","The Woman in the Window",plus a musical "Cover Girl".The last three were all released in 1944.
Another commenter and I were talking about Hitchcock and Selznick earlier - the source of their animosity came about during the filming of Rebecca (a movie which Hitchcock disowned as "not a Hitchcock film"). It was brilliant as you suggest :)
All mine are Ealing comedies: The Lavender Hill Mob Kind Hearts and Coronets The Ladykillers The Man In The White Suit plus Passport to Pimlico, already mentioned.
The reason I'm asking is this - I saw this film and wondered who he was (later finding out he died shortly after the film was released). His acting style was out of time and out of place. Like he was Alan Alda before Alan Alda.
@rinkydinkydoink Younger people should binge watch some of his movies. He was an incredible dramatic actor yet won an academy award for Yankee Doodle Dandy, a musical.
Besides you gotta love a guy who smashes a grapefruit half in his wife's face at breakfast. (a different movie)
Oh man... ! I was thinking this very thought only yesterday. TCM aired a Joan Blondell/Cagney movie (they were great pals) and I was wondering why he is not remembered as much as Bogart is.
I also learned he was trained as a singer, too... not only dance. The man could do it all.
Plus - - White Heat is one of my favorite movies. Bogart - I like the guy, don't get me wrong - would've made Cody Jarrett an even more over-the-top Duke Mantee.
@bijouxbroussard My aunt once told me she saw this movie in a movie theater as a teenager when it first aired. At that time the studio commercials were playing up actor Jeffrey Lynn (the other man) as the next popular heartthrob. But the reaction of women to Garfield (and she witnessed it—women were packing the theaters to see him) practically blew Lynn’s career out of the water overnight.
