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ANY MILLARD MITCHELL FANS?

posted 11 years ago by poetcomic1
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I think he deserved a supporting Academy Award for his role as General Pritchard. He totally inhabits the role and makes it SO real. You BELIEVE he is a General. Mitchell always seemed at his best 'in charge of things' - you may remember his comic role as the studio boss in Singin' In The Rain.

[–] jayrussell1993 11 years ago

Yes, a fine actor. And now, like Betty Hutton, Ricardo Cortez, Mary Wickes, Walter Abel, etc., largely forgotten.

[–] pjwoodall1 10 years ago

Singin'in The Rain, The Naked Spur and Winchester 73 as well. Douglas Fowley is a riot as the director. Versatile if you watch him on Wyatt Earp. Myron Healey couldn't match Mitchell as Doc Holliday.

[–] mikekrit62 9 years ago

I couldn't get over how much he sounded like Darren McGavin.

[–] McQueen1980 9 years ago

he was also brilliant with peck in the gunfighter a year later

sadly he smoked too many cigarettes

[–] sleepybone 9 years ago

He was great. I especially liked him in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair with Dietrich and Jean Arthur.