Word: merediths
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...Mice and Men (Lon Chancy Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Mice and Men (Lon Chaney Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Mice and Men (Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Field; TIME...
This time Lon Chancy Jr. (in his first big role) is hulking, dim-witted Lennie, who looks like a moronic Mr. Deeds, has a well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain. Betty Field (who meets Director Lewis Milestone's requirements of "just a simple young small-town girl with a body") is Mae, the somewhat floozied ranch wife whose neck Lennie inadvertently breaks...
...Vola Blakely is a convincing and wistfully tragic Miriamme, and she is notable for never falling out of part as do most of the others at one time or another. William Shea's Mio is versatile and effective--would be more so if he would stop trying to out-Meredith the inimitable Burgess...