William Daniels


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Foxfire (1955) -- (Movie Clip) What's The Diff? After credits with an eponymous title song (with the lyric written by leading man Jeff Chandler!) promising mining industry melodrama, top-billed Jane Russell encounters car trouble and some sassy Native fellow motorists, in Foxfire, 1955, from the popular novel by Anya Seton.
Winchester '73 -- (Movie Clip) The Gun That Won The West Opening the first in the series of seminal Westerns directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart who, with sidekick Millard Mitchell, rides into Dodge City on the day of the nation's centennial, meeting a chilled out Will Geer and fuming Shelley Winters, in Winchester '73, 1950.
Winchester '73 -- (Movie Clip) Shiloh And Bull Run Lin and High Spade (James Stewart, Millard Mitchell) continuing their trek at night, encounter Indians, then Cavalry commanded by Wilkes (Jay C. Flippen), also acquaintance Lola (Shelley Winters) and her beau Steve (Charles Drake), trouble brewing, in Anthony Mann's Winchester '73, 1950.
Winchester '73 -- (Movie Clip) Meant To Kill A White Woman Mean scenes for supporting players, Dutch Henry (Stephen McNally) with sidekicks (Steve Brodie, James Millican) and stolen rifle meets storekeeper Riker (John Alexander) and savvy Indian trader Lamont (John McIntire), in Anthony Mann's Winchester '73, starring James Stewart.
Naked City, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Story Of The City Producer Mark Hellinger's narration boasts the virtues of the picture "you're about to see," leading to the murder by Ted de Corsia and Walter Burke in the famous opening of The Naked City, 1948.
Winchester '73 (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You Know About Custer? Director Anthony Mann's Western veers toward the Horror genre, as Indian trader Lamont (John McIntire), who has just snatched the titular rifle for himself, meets with his customer Young Bull (Rock Hudson), in Winchester '73, 1950, starring James Stewart.
Brute Force (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Finish That Dream Joe (Burt Lancaster), the last of the jail-break plotters to be granted a flashback by writer Richard Brooks and director Jules Dassin, here with disabled girlfriend Ruth (Ann Blyth), pretty much her entire performance, in Brute Force, 1947.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Alive! A desperate Maggie "the cat" (Elizabeth Taylor) tries to talk to her ex-football-star husband Brick (Paul Newman) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, from the Tennessee Williams play.
Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) No Sense of Humor! In a Paris cafe, Playboy Leon (Melvyn Douglas) tries to get a laugh out of Russian Comrade Yakushova (Greta Garbo), his adversary in an international jewel dispute, the scene that delivered on MGM's "Garbo Laughs" P-R campaign, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka,1939.
Grand Hotel (1932) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Rather Nice Figure Textile magnate Preysing (Wallace Beery) is pleased that he's at last got sexy stenographer Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford) to himself but alarmed that his deal seems to be crashing, John Barrymore on the balcony advancing another plot, in MGM's all-star Grand Hotel, 1932.
Ninotchka (1939) -- (Movie Clip) We'll Form Our Own Party! Inebriated Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas) and Soviet comrade Yakushova (Greta Garbo), who has finally succumbed to his romantic overtures, return to her Paris suite, considering the jewels she's expected to sell, in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka, 1939.
Dinner At Eight (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I Want The Moon Kane (Lee Tracy), the agent for the collapsing matinee idol Renault (John Barrymore), is by stages breaking the news that his Broadway play has a new producer, and it's not his play anymore, in MGM's all-star hit Dinner At Eight, 1933.

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