1. – Nils Asther, Wild Orchids, 1929. Frankly, D’Arcy was a bad joke, the worst caricature of Ze Great (Oily) French Loverrrr. Pristine hair, elegant Gable/Fairbanks/Flynn moustache – and, like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, never a hair out of place. All that was missing was even a leetle acting ability… No wonder Garbo preferred the Swede to the Egyptian-born Frenchman. D’Arcy finally shared a scene with a superstar opposite Marilyn in How To Marry A Millionaire, a mere 24 years later.
2. – Rafael Storm, Another Thin Man, 1939. Poor Storm, who replaced D’Arcy’s gigolo in WS Van Dyke’s re-takes, was uncredited in the majority of his his 76 films, 1930-45. D’Arcy ended up hunting up new French girls to tickle the rampant libido of his boss, Darryl Zanuck – and appearing in Russ Meyer crap.
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