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James Stephenson was born on April 14, 1889, in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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James Stephenson was born on April 14, 1889, in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Stephenson lacks a body of work that insists on being dealt with here. Yet 1 welcome him into the book, because his Howard Joyce in The Letter is one of the great performances in film history. And that was noted at the time: after a string of minor roles, Stephenson was nominated as best supporting actor in the film (he lost to Walter Brennan in The Westerner a comic reversal of justice). Except that Stephenson is hardly a supporting actor in the film. He is actually credited as a star, and I’m sure lie’s on screen more than Herbert Marshall as the husband. Indeed, I think of The Letter as a series of terrible examinations in which Stephenson gradually exposes Davis’s guilt, and his own distress.
He was an English stage actor (as far as I can tell) who arrived in Holhwood (at Warners) only in the mid-1980s. He worked hard for the next few years, but so many of his parts were far smaller than his capacity: King of the Underworld (37, Lewis Seiler); The Cowboi/from Brooklyn (38, Lloyd Bacon); Boy Meets Girl (38, Bacon); Nancy Drew, Detective (38, William Clemens); Devil’s Island (39, Clemens), with Boris Karloff; Torchy Blane in Chinatown (39, William Beau- dine): Secret Service of the Air (39, Noel Smith), a Ronald Reagan picture; Confessions of a Nazi Spy (39, Anatole Litvak); The Old Maid (39, Edmund Goulding), with Bette Davis; as Major de Beaujolais in Bean Geste (39, William Wellman); as Egerton in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (39, Michael Curtiz); We Are Not Alone (39, Colliding); the lead in Calling Philo Vance (40, Clemens); The Sea Hawk (40, Curtiz); Murder in the Air (40, Seiler); A Dispatch from Beaters (40, William Dieterle); as a shrink who hardly realizes Geraldine Fitzgerald loves him in Shining Victory (41, Irving Rapper); teaching Reagan in International Squadron (41, Lothar Mendes); Flight from Destiny (41, Vincent Sherman).
He died, of a heart attack, in Los Angeles in 1941. Of course, he didn’t look well in The Letter, but one reads that as the impact of Leslie Crosbie.
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