I agree with Orson Welles!
Agnes Moorehead would have been a WONDERFUL Nazi hunter!
Edgar G. Robinson does well, but the Moorehead casting would have been more subtle. It would have been fun seeing the Hidden Nazi get tackled by the wit and shrewdness Moorehead could project!
With her great catlike wit, She would have been dissed by the presumably woman-despising Nazi! But Moorehead ...could have better awakened Loretta Young's trusting young wife character...to awaken from her too blind innocence to see who her husband really is!
Not many women of that era can carry off strength and intelligence (mostly I suspect because those roles were not so common). But suspecting that Welles knew a strong and great female actor when he saw one!
Agnes Moorehead would have been a WONDERFUL Nazi hunter!
Edgar G. Robinson does well, but the Moorehead casting would have been more subtle. It would have been fun seeing the Hidden Nazi get tackled by the wit and shrewdness Moorehead could project!
With her great catlike wit, She would have been dissed by the presumably woman-despising Nazi! But Moorehead ...could have better awakened Loretta Young's trusting young wife character...to awaken from her too blind innocence to see who her husband really is!
Not many women of that era can carry off strength and intelligence (mostly I suspect because those roles were not so common). But suspecting that Welles knew a strong and great female actor when he saw one!
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