A Little Goes a Long Way

Occasionally, I will be on the fence on my interest in a movie and then I see a certain actor is in it, and I will give that movie the benefit of the doubt and watch it (for at least 30 mins).  And here a list of the actors:

• Ethel Barrymore (I have said before about a film "And it stars a Barrymore, the best one: Ethel)
• George Saunders (I am a late arrival in the George Saunders fan club having first seen him in Rebecca)
• Gregory Peck
• Joseph Cotten
• Bette Davis (I saw Phone Call From A Stranger and while I didn't love that movie, Bette Davis's scene was worth the 80 minute wait.  I've said it before, but Bette Davis had a way of making her voice break with emotion that gets me every time. That and she was really good at holding tears in her eyes)
• Meryl Streep (She and Bette Davis have a lot in common, both can have emotions play on their faces in such subtle and natural ways)
• Rosalind Russell (I watch part of Errol Flynn movie for her, though I stopped once it looked like their characters were going to end up together)
• Joel McCrea 
• Robert Montegumery 
• Claude Rains
• Herbert Marshall (and with him, I have listed 3 actors that were in Foriegn Correspondent)
• Mary Wickes 
• Charles Coburn
• Ray Milliand
• Paul Hendried
• Jean Arthur (and now the 3 leads from The More the Merrier)
• Myrna Loy
• William Powell
• Thelma Ritter
• Elsa Lanchester
• Jane Wyman
• Mildred Natwick (she was Griselda in the Court Jester, and like Thelma Ritter played a lot of supporting characters that got all the best lines)
• Connie Gilchrist (she played Nora in Auntie Mame, there was a time a few months ago when she popped up in about 4 movies that I watched in the space of a week). 

And one actress that does the complete opposite for me : Katherine Hepburn.  I think Dorthy Parker said it best with she played all the emotions from A to B.