[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.

[V K Lee]

TY for recommendation, Movie added to ‘the list’.

[yuleeyahoo]

I thought Sanders upstaged Robert Taylor in Ivanhoe as De Bois-Guilbert. I found Taylor to be stiff as the title character.