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Classic Character Actors
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You are not kidding! That is an amazing resemblance. I wonder if Rains knew about that. There was a film made by 20th Century Fox in the late 1950s called THE REMARKABLE MR. PENNYPACKER. It is also set in Pennsylvania, and I wonder if it is related to the story of the real Pennypackers...? Clifton Webb starred.

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Did you know Claude had a bit of a doppleganger in Pennsylvania governor Samuel Pennypacker? My sister and I were touring the Pennypacker mansion in south eastern Pennsylvania a few years ago and gasped when we saw his portrait:

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Claude Rains

In THE INVISIBLE MAN:

Power, I said! Power to walk into the gold vaults of the nations, into the secrets of kings, into the Holy of Holies; power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger. Even the moon's frightened of me, frightened to death!

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Minna Gombell

To William Frawley in STOP, LOOK AND LOVE:

Joe, you've got to cultivate taste, now that you're coming up in the world.

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Jerry Colonna

Explaining why he is wearing a full-length bathing suit in SIS HOPKINS:

The Hays Office made me do it.

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Sally Field

To Tom Hanks in FORREST GUMP:

Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

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Eddie Quillan

When asked his name in MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY:

Thomas Ellison, sir. Pressed into service. I've got a wife, a baby!

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Cora Witherspoon

To Eric Blore in PICCADILLY JIM:

The sight of you has brought back a most unpleasant memory.

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Smiley Burnette

In GOLDTOWN GHOST RIDERS:

Nobody's ever seen 'em. That is close, anyhow. Ever so often they come ridin' out of Ghost Canyon, up there where there's mists and clouds. If you look, you can see right now. Down out of their hidden canyons they come, like they was ridin' out of another world. Protectin' their hidden gold, that's why they're hauntin' us -- keepin' gold-hungry miners from diggin' up their graves.

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Betty Buckley

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Giving Barbara Stanwyck cooking instruction in CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT:

Watch now. I show you how to flip-flop the flop-flips.

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Lurene Tuttle

In GOODBYE, MY FANCY:

You don't get expelled for staying out all night, unless there is a man connected with it.

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Buddy Ebsen

In CAPTAIN JANUARY:

You never did anything righter in your life.

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Since the 1st has come and gone, 3rd, 4th, 8th, 18th, 22nd, 26th based on my own personal preference.

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Madeline Kahn

In BLAZING SADDLES:

Hello, handsome, is that a ten-gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?
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