I truly enjoyed the birthday tribute to George Brent yesterday. As I mentioned on Sunday, I think to audiences today his popularity is quite hard to understand, but his film work is truly wonderful in a certain way.
That was driven home for me when watching This Our Life with him, Bette Davis, and Olivia de Havilland yeterday. He provides such a flat, empty vessel for the two women to work off of that he is quite remarkable. Even de havilland, who is much more subdued than Davis, emotes around Brent in ways that make him seem dead. When she meets him on the park bench, he so well fits the role. But he seems the same way even later when they are supposed to be happy.
I need to run now, but will write more on this later.
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