Matinée Moustache

Star of the Month Ronald Colman in A TALE OF TWO CITIES (‘35)

Same

Magnificent Moustachioed Merry Men for matineemoustache <3<3<3

So much beauty 😍😍😍 I am honoured, and also annoyed with myself for only seeing this now!

Happy Birthday Roger Livesey (25th June 1906 - 4th February 1976)

He was one of the rare actors that really listens to you - Wendy Hiller

I had seen Roger Livesey at the Old Vic and had been very impressed by this broad-shouldered, golden haired Viking…I vowed to myself that one day I would make Roger’s husky voice beloved all over the world - Michael Powell

His acting ability of course was well known to the profession and public alike; what, perhaps, was not so generally known was his generosity and kindness to the smaller fry - Kenneth More

I’m quite ready to continue my screen work. I enjoy acting for films. It is a different technique from the stage of course; but it fascinates me - Roger Livesey, in 1938

Robert Donat in The Devil’s Disciple, photographed by Angus McBean.

Thanks to the lovely @margotfonteyns

Happy Birthday Robert Donat 18th March 1905 - 9th June 1958

Mr Donat is the best film actor - at any rate in star parts - we possess: he is convincing, his voice has a pleasant roughness, and his range is far greater than that of his chief rival for film honours, Mr Laurence Olivier. Mr Donat is sensible, authentic, slow; emotion when it comes has the effect of surprise, like plebian poetry. 

- Graham Greene in 1937, reviewing Knight Without Armour. 

Roman Holiday (dir. by William Wyler, 1953).

Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman in The Talk of the Town (1942)

I sort of think Arthur had better chemistry with Colman than Grant

^^^THIS