John Loder (1898-1988) |
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- Henry Wilcoxon, Scotland Yard, 1939. Warner Baxter was to play the lead - all three of him! The crooked Dakin Barrolles, the banker Sir John Lasher… and Barrolles disguised as Lasher after plastic surgery! Apparently, make-up tests failed. George Sanders was drafted in and objected to “one part of the dual role.” Zanuck immediately suspended him and called up John Loder. No? OK, Wilcoxon.
- Nils Asther, Love, Honour and Goodbye, 1944. THE STORY OF A LOVE THAT QUARRELED WITH FATE AND WON… screamed rhe poster on behalf of Asther, Virgina Bruce and Victor McLaglen.
- Claude Rains, Mr Skeffington, 1943. Loder, Paul Henried, Paul Lukas, James Stephenson and Richard Waring were on the titular short-list. Loveless marriage or not, Bette Davis wanted her older screen husband to be her favourite male partner. And at Warner Bros, whatever Bette wanted, Bette got. For a while.
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