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charitable type, James Stewart, was also class A entertainment.
In the original screen version of Holiday the hero's role was cast with the late Robert Ames, a type that furthered the abstraction, "the desire to live,,, most convincingly. The recent version with Cary Grant, a type as prone to philosophizing over what it's all about, and why, as Clark Gable. Yet that miscasting did not affect Holiday's box-office, or word-of-mouth. Reports are that it is once again a contender for annual awards.
The point is, if star and role do not clash too radically a great movie has little to fear from star and role contradictions.
Of course, adaptation is supposed to take care of star and role contradictions, particularly when required types are not available, but reverence for original versions often makes adaptation highly inflexible, and when an inflexible adaptation and an unsuited inflexible star type meet, believability goes begging.
Taking star and role contradictions seriously may seem inordinate when we consider that a role to a great extent types the star, charitable roles giving non-charitable types a sympathetic quality, mysterious roles giving transparent types an inscrutable quality, but quite often the contradiction speaks so loudly no matter what the star says and does, no matter how earnest and emphatic his delivery, he cannot ring true.
Availability of types has of course always been a problem because studios have never had an extremely wide range of star types under contract, being long on certain types and short on others. But free-lancing and the star loan-out practice now in wide operation in Hollywood, plus the flexibility of most stars, plus the flexibility of most roles, and roles should be flexible if the story has any appeal to speak of, makes casting one of Hollywood's lesser problems.
Of course, when casting of star roles as well as second lead and featured roles, is taken seriously; when all casting is as sensitive and critical as it was in Holiday and Street Scene the result lifts the play just that much nearer great movie rating.
In winding up this chapter, let us make some observations regarding actors who try to bring remote
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