If you could cast YOURSELF in one goldenera movie...

[skillbilly]

I'd have to say Cary grant in "Philadelphia Story" or Fred MacMurray in "Double Indemnity"

 

[miss1934]

I fancy myself in Myrna Loy's role as Nora Charles or Norma Shearer's role in The Women, though I know that I would probably be cast in Maureen O'Sullivan's or Joan Fontaine's roles, respectively. I would love to play Irene Dunne's role in The Awful Truth though. I love the comedies of the thirties when women still had the guiding hand and the banter was witty and the clothing was glamorous. Off to watch another plotless, b-movie...

 

[aliciatapp]

Any Madeleine Carroll movie - especially -- "The 39 Steps" - Loved her humor and chemistry with Donat

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[Dixon Cannon]

Gen. Frank Savage

Greg Peck's role in 'Twelve O'Clock High'

-dixon cannon

 

[CharlieH.]

The scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. And I decide who plays Dorothy... so I can date her!

 

[Naama]

Well, I think I would take Clara Bows part in "It", but I would really LOVE to play Gloria Swansons part in Sunset Boulevard.


Naama

 

[Barbigirl]

The Look

Lauren Bacall's roles, either Slim in "To Have and Have Not" or Irene Jansen in "Dark Passage".

 

[maintcoder]

There are so many...

but I would have to go with Godfrey Park in My Man Godfrey first, then Nick Charles in the Thin Man movies, Roger Thornhill in North By Northwest, Det. Mark McPherson in Laura, Peter Warne in It Happened One Night, and finally Capt. 'Rip' Murdock in Dead Reckoning.

 

[Archie Goodwin]

I would want to take Gregory Peck's role as Atticus in "To kill a Mocking Bird", but they would probably end up giving me the role of Bob Ewell. My wife says I look the part of the villian, not the leading man. Maybe they would let me split the difference and play Boo Radley instead.

 

[BJonas]

I'd wanna play this guy:

 

[Wild Root]

I'd have loved to have stared in any number of James Stewart's films... or maybe a "Thin Man" flick... ah, to act with Myrna Loy and William Powell!

I'm sure I wouldn't mind staring in a Fred and Ginger picture either!

=WR=

 

[Etienne]

I would love the role of...

Linda Darnell in Unfaithfully Yours. She wore such beautiful clothes, furs, and jewels and played opposite a handsome Rex Harrison who gave a wonderful performance as her older, English husband.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'd be one of the wisecracking chorus girls in "42nd Street." Put me right in there between Ginger Rogers and Una Merkel, and I'll be fine. Just don't ask me to, you know, actually dance...

 

[Havana Joe]

Zorro, opposite the lovely Linda Darnell, whom I would marry,
"and raise fat children while tending my vinyards."

Ah, that would be my pick too!

I also would pick Rocklin (John Wayne) [though I don't look anything like him] in Tall in the Saddle, and get my hands on Arly (Ella Raines) WOW!!!!:essen:

But there's also The Quiet Man, and Maureen O'Hara, Oh my!!!

 

[ShannaSpade]

I would be Vivien Leigh in Gone With the Wind AND A Streetcar Named Desire. I wish!

 

[Gray Ghost]

I would love to do Bogart's role in To Have or Have Not and his role in the Big Sleep. Mainly because of Lauren Bacall.

 

[Curt Chiarelli]

Hands down, no contest: Carl Denham as played by Robert Armstrong in King Kong. Memorable lines, stylish garb, a scantily-clad Fay Wray and being chased all over Skull Island by more Willis O'Brien stop-motion creatures than an over-sized ape can shake a log at!

 

[Jay]

I would love to take Bogarts roll in The Big Sleep, although that's a lot to live up to. I don't think anyone could've done it as well as him. His natural world-weary manner made it so believable.

 

[Miss Sis]

Oh! Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind - I *LOVE* her in that. She was utterly gorgeous.
Or Ginger Rodgers in Top Hat. I look a tiny but like her, I can act and dance, although admittedly, not quite as well as her!

 

[Girl Friday]

It is a small role, but the Acme Bookstore proprietress in The Big Sleep. I love it when she takes off her glasses and lets her hair down to have a drink with Marlowe.