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Group Five
Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers
George Raft Joan Blondell
Bing Crosby Ann Sothern
Pat O'Brien Alice Faye
James Cagney Claire Trevor
Dick Powell Joan Davis
Henry Fonda. Martha Raye
The following group or Group Six comprises secondary composites, secondary because in the main they are plain types, neutral and protean enough to handle remote as well as present day lead roles in any locale, without the aid of crepe hair, putty and spirit gum.
Group Six
Fred MacMurray Luise Rainer
Miriam Hopkins (without the accent)
Group Seven
James Stewart Jean Arthur
Leslie Howard Helen Hayes
(without the accent) Bette Davis
Group seven comprises the extremely flexible composites, types neither plain nor particularly esthetic, stamped writh neither the city nor the country, nor dated, yet flexible enough to hold their own in those extremes and in any period, activity or locale in between, contemporary, moderately remote or extremely remote.
Exceptions will be taken to the preceding classifications; particularly to that of Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Carole Lombard ; Norma Shearer's because of her work in Romeo and Juliet and The Barrets of Wimpole Street, two plays supposed to demonstrate her extreme flexibility; but her roles, that of the invalid, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Juliet, clashed so radically with the true Shearer personality her talent as an actress served only to accentuate the bad casting.
The transcendent character of Juliet and the "fwail and fwagile" quality attributed to Miss Shearer by the lisping cousin in The Barretts of Wimpole Street was
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