Michael Rennie

He was a tall, handsome, bright British sophisticate with a beautifully smooth speaking voice who graced the screen, stage and television for 30 years.  True stardom, however, seem to elude Michael Rennie for all those years although his greatest claim to fame would come from his American films in the 1950's.

Good 50's Films: Angel Face

1953 Film Noir
From RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Otto Preminger

Starring
Robert Mitchum
Jean Simmons
Mona Freeman
Herbert Marshall
Barbara O'Neil
Kenneth Tobey
Leon Ames
Jim Backus
Raymond Greenleaf

Pier Angeli

At the dawning of the 1950's American movie studios caught on that Continental screen types were becoming very desirable.  MGM quickly hired two young actresses, Italy's Pier Angeli and France's Leslie Caron.  That introduction has always stayed in my mind for the simple reason that they are the first two European actresses that I can ever recall.  Leo roared about these two as the MGM publicity machine went into overdrive on both of them.