Guilty Pleasures: Blowing Wild

1953 Adventure

From Warner Bros

Directed by Hugo Fregonese

Starring

Gary Cooper

Barbara Stanwyck

Ruth Roman

Anthony Quinn

Ward Bond

Ian MacDonald

Juan Garcia Garza

From the 1950s: The Barefoot Contessa

1954 Drama

From United Artists

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring

Humphrey Bogart

Ava Gardner

Edmond O'Brien

Rossano Brazzi

Marius Goring

Valentina Cortese

Elizabeth Sellars

Warren Stevens

Mari Aldon

Stuart Whitman

Hunky and handsome and possessing a honey-coated speaking voice, Stuart Whitman was tucked in with Stephen Boyd, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Bradford Dillman and a few others at 20th Century Fox in the late fifties, early 1960s.  The studio was hoping one or more of them would turn into a Tyrone Power from the 40s or at least a Robert Wagner from the 50s but it was not to be.  

From the 1950s: Monkey Business

1952 Comedy 

From 20th Century Fox

Directed by Howard Hawks

Starring

Cary Grant

Ginger Rogers

Charles Coburn

Marilyn Monroe

Hugh Marlowe

Larry Keating

Henry Letondal

From the 1950s: The Bridges at Toko-Ri

1954 War Drama 

From Paramount Pictures

Directed by Mark Robson

Starring

William Holden

Grace Kelly

Fredric March

Mickey Rooney

Charles McGraw

Earl Holliman

Robert Strauss

Keiko Awaji

Oskar Werner

If the camera caught him just right Oskar Werner could be boyishly good-looking in a quiet, guarded sort of way.  His soulful eyes and gentle manner won him roles as sensitive, troubled men,  He rather intrigued me for some time because he was aloof, if not sometimes coldly remote, often morose and oh so temperamental.