Screen Guild Theater: The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse / No Time for Love / The Informer

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The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan No Time for Love Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Hedda Hopper The Informer Charles Bickford, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, Isabel Jewell Charles Bickford (January 1, 1891 -- November 9, 1967) was an American actor best known for his supporting roles.[1] He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954) and The Big Country (1958). Bickford had intended to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to earn an engineering degree, but while wandering the country, he became friends with the manager of a burlesque show, who convinced Bickford to take a role in the show. He debuted in Oakland, California in 1911.[4] Bickford enjoyed himself so much that he abandoned his plans to attend MIT[5] He made his legitimate stage debut with the John Craig Stock Company at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston in 1912.[6] Bickford eventually joined a road company and traveled throughout the United States for more than a decade, appearing in various productions. In 1925, while working in a Broadway play called Outside Looking In, he and co-star James Cagney (in his first Broadway role) received rave reviews.[7] He was offered a role in Herbert Brenon's 1926 film of Beau Geste, but anxious not to give up his new-found <b>...</b>

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