Message | Jack Carson was the perfect character actor. I only wish he had been given more dramatic roles. Everyone remembers him for Mildred Pierce and his similar role in A Star Is Born, and it's easy to see why. He was brilliant.
But more people should check out his work in Roughly Speaking, opposite Rosalind Russell, a film in which he had to fulfill the romantic leading man role as well flesh out an idiosyncratic personality. No one else in Hollywood could have done it better, with the possible exception of Cary Grant. Yes, he was THAT good. |