[V K Lee]

agree. He plays a villain well. The Ghost & Mrs Muir permanently set that image.

[Publius]

Check out the 1945 MGM film "The Picture of Dorian Gray." It was intended as a Hurd Hatfield vehicle, Hatfield being MGM's latest pretty boy. But George Sanders walks off with the film.

In every scene with Hatfield, Sanders executes a bit of business, usually with his hands, that distracts the viewer from Hatfield. Sanders steals these scenes, and poor Hatfield had no idea that Sanders was out-acting him.

Sanders tried these bits in a film with Olivier, but Larry was wise to him and counteracted with his own little bits of stage biusiness.