Summer Under the Stars: James Garner
Star of the Day: James Garner
The Americanization of Emily (1964): "A British war widow falls for an opportunistic American sailor during World War II."
He called my love, Julie Andrews, a bitch!!!!! Also, hello Melvyn Douglas! You were a welcome surprise!
But onto the man of the day: James Garner.
He's such a great leading man. He's handsome but not so movie-star good looking that you can't believe him as anything but himself, every James Garner film I've ever seen he's so thoroughly convincing as the character he's playing I find it hard to believe he's not an American dog robber, or an old man reading a lady with Alzheimer's a love story (my first James Garner film, as I'm sure so many gals of my generation also first saw him in The Notebook), or a country bumpkin wooing a city lady (one of my favourite of his films that played yesterday, The Wheeler Dealers), or a suburban bachelor who grudgingly falls in love with Kim Novak (what, like it's hard? Also one of my faves that played yesterday, Boys' Night Out).
In The Americanization of Emily he's sarcastic, sardonic and the only one who's playing this totally straight. Everyone else has a slight bit of parody or camp about them. It makes him so interesting to watch. This was a fun one, a good send up of military propaganda, and I may or may not have picked it because of my fair lady, but he was definitely the one I was focused on!
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