1) The tragically poetic Pete Krumbein in Edmund Goulding’sNightmare Alley 1947 played by Ian Keith.2) The flamboyant Franzi Kartos in Caught 1949 portrayed by Curt Bois ‘darling’3) Stauffer, alias Fred Foss in The Dark Corner 1946-played by the wonderful William Bendix in the white linen suit…4) Good-hearted kite hanger, Brenda Martin in Women’s Prison 1955 – the eternal pixie Jan Sterling.5) Jeff Corey, as the cringing, cowardly informer ‘Freshman’ Stack in Brute Force 1947.6) Beulah Bondi as spiittin’ Granny Tucker in Jean Renoir’sThe Southerner 1945 ‘Ah shuckity’7) Ma Stone in William Dieterle’sThe Devil and Daniel Webster 1941– the grand Jane Darwell.8) Cecil Kellaway as Harry Wills and Mary Astor as Jewel Mayhew in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte 1964.9) Cliff the jazz sexed drummer in Phantom Lady 1944– the ubiquitous Elisha Cook Jr.10) Quirky sisters Louisa and Emily Creed in Ladies in Retirement 1941–Edith Barrett & Elsa Lanchester.11) The wonderful stoolie Mo whose saves for her headstone and plot out on Long Island played with that razor-sharp wit of Thelma Ritter in Pickup on South Street (1953).12) Jack Oakie as Slob in Jules Dassin’s realism masterpiece Thieves’ Highway (1949).
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Very happy to see Beulah Bondi on this list as that crusty grandmother.
Very happy to see Beulah Bondi on this list as that crusty grandmother.