Beautiful Joel McCrea in The Common Law (Paul L. Stein, 1931) “Joel McCrea, an amiable, m
Beautiful Joel McCrea in The Common Law (Paul L. Stein, 1931) “Joel McCrea, an amiable, modest actor who turned down parts because he felt he wasn’t good enough for them, began his career as a male beauty. He came from a generation and a western milieu that valued plainness as a virtue, and he cultivated simple viewpoints that neutralized any possibility of narcissism. In his day and age, men weren’t supposed to be sex objects. McCrea couldn’t think of himself as sexy; happily, this doubled his sexual impact on film. He always kept aware of his image, which was that of an honorable man, and this image served him well when he relaxed into a series of grizzled fifties westerns. McCrea’s sexual charge in his early and middle movies is exciting because he is completely natural about it and sometimes bashful. It is a kind of sex appeal that is founded on diffidence. It is in short supply today.” - Bright Lights Film Journal -- source link
#vintage#joel mccrea#old hollywood#vintage hollywood#classic film#classic movies#classic hollywood#movie strs#old movies