{"id":19735,"date":"2012-02-17T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19735"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:31:05","slug":"the-bit-actors-of-double-indemnity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19735","title":{"rendered":"The Bit Actors of Double Indemnity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DoubleIndemnityPoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19738\" title=\"DoubleIndemnityPoster\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DoubleIndemnityPoster-195x300.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DoubleIndemnityPoster-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DoubleIndemnityPoster.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Guest blogger Allen Hefner recently contacted MovieFanFare with\u00a0this article he wrote about the various actors of Double Indemnity:<\/p>\n<p>No one can argue that <a title=\"Double Indemnity\u00a0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D11520&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Double Indemnity\u00a0<\/a>(1944) is not a wonderful film noir classic. It is the very definition of the genre. The only thing I didn&#8217;t like about the film is\u00a0<a title=\"Barbara Stanwyck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Barbara+Stanwyck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barbara Stanwyck<\/a>\u00a0as a blonde, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone. According to legend, director <a title=\"Billy Wilder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director_smart.asp?search=Billy+Wilder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Billy Wilder<\/a> realized his mistake in assigning her the wig, but it was too late in production to go back and reshoot. A story was later brought forward to say that he wanted that look to underline the sleaziness of the character. I doubt that story. Stanwyck\u2019s portrayal was much more intelligent than that.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want to\u00a0discuss the stars here.\u00a0Leads Stanwyck,\u00a0<a title=\"Fred MacMurray\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Fred+MacMurray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred MacMurray<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Edward G. Robinson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Edward+G.+Robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Edward G. Robinson<\/a>\u00a0don&#8217;t need any of my words. Who else was part of making this film so good? Let\u2019s look at the Bit Parts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tom-Powers9.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20043\" title=\"Tom-Powers\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tom-Powers9.bmp\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Tom Powers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Tom+Powers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Powers<\/a> (1890 &#8211; 1955) was in over 130 other titles.\u00a0His career spanned work at the Vitagraph Company, starting in 1911, all the way into the television era.\u00a0Powers made\u00a0over 40\u00a0silent films, including an uncredited part in Winsor McCay&#8217;s Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), an early live-action\/animated short. He worked in silent films until 1917, and then went to the theater, becoming a playwright and actor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1944 he was asked to be Mr. Dietrichson, Stanwyck&#8217;s husband and eventual murder victim, in Double Indemnity. That started another film career for him.\u00a0He made 26 films in the 1940s alone. Look for Powers in The Blue Dahlia (1946) and <a title=\"Angel and the Badman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D16791&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Angel and the Badman<\/a> and The Farmer&#8217;s Daughter, both from 1947.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Powers worked with <a title=\"James Cagney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=James+Cagney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Cagney<\/a> and <a title=\"William Bendix\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=William+Bendix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William Bendix<\/a> in <a title=\"The Time of Your Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D19548&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Time of Your Life<\/a> (1948), an unusual film for Cagney.\u00a0Other great stars were in many of his films (or was it the other way &#8217;round?) but for some reason, almost all of his films just missed the mark and never became big box office hits, including Destination Moon in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>He had a small part in We&#8217;re Not Married (1952)\u00a0starring <a title=\"Ginger Rogers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Ginger+Rogers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ginger Rogers<\/a> and <a title=\"Marilyn Monroe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Marilyn+Monroe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marilyn Monroe<\/a>, and worked with <a title=\"Dean Martin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Dean+Martin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dean Martin<\/a> and <a title=\"Jerry Lewis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Jerry+Lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Lewis<\/a> in Scared Stiff (1953).\u00a0His television work was never regular, but he had gigs on The Lone Ranger and The Adventures of Superman, among several others. Tom Powers&#8217; last movie role of note was in Double Jeopardy (1955) opposite <a title=\"Rod Cameron  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Rod+Cameron++\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rod Cameron<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Porter-Hall2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20045\" title=\"Porter-Hall\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Porter-Hall2.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Porter Hall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Porter+Hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Porter Hall<\/a>\u00a0(1888 &#8211; 1953) played the witness, Mr. Jackson, who saw\u00a0Fred MacMurray&#8217;s Walter Neff on the train. It is interesting that Hall was in\u00a0<a title=\"Going My Way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D69491&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Going My Way<\/a>\u00a0the same year as\u00a0Double Indemnity. Going My Way won seven Oscars while Double Indemnity didn&#8217;t take home any, and both pictures were made by Paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Hall was an actor on the stage and gave movies a try late in his career.\u00a0He usually played a villain, or at least\u00a0just a grump.\u00a0His first two movies starred <a title=\"Claudette Colbert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Claudette+Colbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Claudette Colbert<\/a>\u00a0and then <a title=\"Tallulah Bankhead  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Tallulah+Bankhead++\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tallulah Bankhead<\/a>.\u00a0His third was MGM&#8217;s The Thin Man (1934), an early pairing of <a title=\"William Powell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=William+Powell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William Powell<\/a> and <a title=\"Myrna Loy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Myrna+Loy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Myrna Loy<\/a>. Off to a good start, I would say.<\/p>\n<p>Many westerns and many prison films followed. He\u00a0played a senator in Frank Capra&#8217;s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939 and appeared in the classic screwball\u00a0comedy His Girl Friday and a western with John Wayne, Dark Command, both in 1940. In Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Hall is another bad guy,\u00a0the twitchy Macy&#8217;s store psychologist\u00a0trying to put Edmund Gwenn&#8217;s Kris Kringle in a mental hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It comes to mind that it would be a good thing to search out the lesser known films of some of these great Bit Actors.\u00a0 In 1949 Porter was in Chicken Every Sunday with <a title=\"Celeste Holm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Celeste+Holm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Celeste Holm<\/a>, <a title=\"Dan Dailey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Dan+Dailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dan Dailey<\/a> and <a title=\"Alan Young  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Alan+Young++\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alan Young <\/a>(from Mister Ed).\u00a0\u00a0His next film the same year was The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend starring (listen to THIS cast) <a title=\"Betty Grable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Betty+Grable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Betty Grable<\/a>, <a title=\"Cesar Romero\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Cesar+Romero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cesar Romero<\/a>, Rudy Vallee, <a title=\"Hugh Herbert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Hugh+Herbert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hugh Herbert<\/a> and <a title=\"Sterling Holloway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Sterling+Holloway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sterling Holloway<\/a>.\u00a0 That has to be a good movie, but neither of those titles is available on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Some TV time started for Hall in 1950, and another Edward G. Robinson film, Vice Squad, came in 1953.\u00a0 Porter Hall had 79 roles on the screen and in TV.\u00a0 The people he worked with were truly incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Double Indemnity and <a title=\"Jean Heather\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Jean+Heather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jean Heather<\/a>\u00a0(1921 &#8211; 1995) who played Phyllis Dietrichson&#8217;s step-daughter Lola, much more loved by her father than by Stanwyck&#8217;s Phyllis. Jean\u00a0only made eight films, and her next role was in, you guessed it,\u00a0Going My Way.\u00a0 The following year she\u00a0re-teamed with\u00a0MacMurray and\u00a0Hall, plus <a title=\"Marjorie Main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Marjorie+Main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marjorie Main<\/a>, in the\u00a0comedy <a title=\"Murder, He Says\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D38050&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Murder, He Says<\/a>. The rest of her pictures weren&#8217;t much to write about, but she did get to act with some great stars. including\u00a0<a title=\"Dorothy Gish\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Dorothy+Gish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dorothy Gish<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Beulah Bondi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Beulah+Bondi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Beulah Bondi<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Charles Ruggles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Charles+Ruggles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charles Ruggles<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Olivia De Havilland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Olivia+De+Havilland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Olivia de Havilland<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Gene Autry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Gene+Autry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gene Autry<\/a>\u00a0and others, all in a five-year acting career.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Byron Barr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Byron+Barr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Byron Barr<\/a>\u00a0(1917 &#8211; 1966) played Nino, Lola&#8217;s boyfriend. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t play much else, with only 19 titles listed to his credit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Richard Gaines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Richard+Gaines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Richard Gaines<\/a>\u00a0(1904 &#8211; 1975)\u00a0played Edward Norton, Jr.\u00a0Gaines is\u00a0the real father of\u00a0Virginia Holden, who was later adopted by\u00a0William Holden. With almost 70 titles on TV and in movies, Richard always seemed to appear in less-than-top-notch films. Again, in the era of large production studios controlling their stars, he was able to\u00a0work\u00a0with some great actors and actresses. In the 1960s he frequently appeared as a judge on TV&#8217;s Perry Mason.<\/p>\n<p>Another Going My Way and Double Indemnity alumnus is\u00a0<a title=\"Fortunio Bonanova\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor_smart.asp?search=Fortunio+Bonanova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fortunio Bonanova<\/a>\u00a0(1895 &#8211; 1969). He has over 90 titles on his resum\u00e9,\u00a0and may be best known as the vocal coach to\u00a0would-be opera singer Dorothy Comingore\u00a0in\u00a0Orson Welles&#8217; Citizen Kane\u00a0(1941). In 1957 he appears in\u00a0An Affair to Remember, but his is a name you probably won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to look for\u00a0Raymond Chandler\u00a0(1888 &#8211; 1959) sitting in the hallway at the insurance office as Neff walks past. It was the only cameo filmed for Chandler, who is renowned as a novelist (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye)\u00a0and wrote the screenplay for\u00a0Double Indemnity. He&#8217;s the one reading a paperback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Double-Indemnity-1.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20047\" title=\"Double Indemnity 1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Double-Indemnity-1.bmp\" \/><\/a>And finally, there is the Dictaphone. It plays a key role in this movie, and as our younger generation starts watching film noir, we can only hope they learn something about history and how things worked in the early half of the 20th Century. Neff uses multiple cylinders to record his story, and these can be seen in the final few shots when Keyes (played by E. G. Robinson) confronts him in his office. If some youngster asks what that thing is, please fill them in. A\u00a0Dictaphone\u00a0is way cooler than an iPhone, just not quite as versatile.<\/p>\n<p>I have spoken before about how Bit Actors help to make great movies. In the case of\u00a0Double Indemnity, it appears that the Bit Actors played second fiddle to the incredible story. I just watched the film a few weeks ago, and while writing this I was struggling to remember who played which part.<\/p>\n<p>This movie belongs in the 100 Best Movies list, and I am glad it was selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Registry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Allen Hefner has been interested in movies since an early age, attending the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA for every Saturday Matinee during\u00a0his youth, when 50 cents bought you a two-reeler (usually The Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy), a few cartoons, and a feature film. As a member of The Sons of the Desert,he was privileged to enjoy the company of many film buffs, and to meet many stars of the past. Write to him\u00a0anytime at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:bitactors@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #306feb;\">bitactors@gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> and visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bitactors.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #306feb;\">Bit Part Actors<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogger Allen Hefner recently contacted MovieFanFare with\u00a0this article he wrote about the various actors of Double Indemnity: No one can argue that Double Indemnity\u00a0(1944) is not a wonderful film noir classic. 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