Till the End of Time from '46 with hunks Guy Madison, Bill Williams, and Mitchum

Guy Madison was one of my mom's movie star crushes when when she was a teenager (which she was when this film came out). She also liked Dorothy McGuire. She liked this movie and told me to watch it, but I didn't get too much out of it. Seems better to me now that I'm older.

By the way, McGuire, Madison and Mitchum were all under contract to David O. Selznick at the time, and this was one of his Vanguard productions that were relesed by RKO.

Bill Williams was Mr. Della Street and the Greatest American Hero's father.

Ruth Nelson, who plays the mother, was later blacklisted, I believe. Was married to director-actor John Cromwell (was the step-mother of actor James Cromwell).

Guy Madison was so stunningly beautiful.

Back when you went to the movies and saw beautiful faces.

Not that Dorothy McGuire wasn't very attractive but I remember thinking this guy could get anybody and he was crushing on this war widow.

Guy, weeping shirtless in bed, needs comfort!

"Why can't I quit you?!"

Another fun tidbit about Ruth Nelson I heard many years ago: when she was a young starlet, she posed as the lady with the torch that became the symbol for Columbia Pictures.

Sorry, I can't authenticate it but hope it's true.

Is Guy Madison the most beautiful actor of all time? I can’t think of anyone more beautiful.

He's certainly one of the main contenders, R11.

Looking at color photos from the early days of his career, it looks they often lightened his hair to look blonde.

He couldn't act, at the time, but he did become a good actor eventually.

Where, when and how, r14? On Wild Bill Hickock?

R15 Never saw the show. I thought he was a good actor in Five Against the House (1955), and Hilda Crane (1956) with Jean Simmons. Did you think he was a bad actor on Wild Bill Hickok? It was a long-running show.

Guy Madison, my goodness. He truly epitomized all-American handsomeness and virility.

Ruth Nelson has never been mentioned as an early torch lady.

The more modern Columbia lady looks like Annette Bening.

Yes r17. So many good looking men lack his aura of virility.

I have to laugh at the line where Mitchum tells Guy he looks cute.

Unfortunately I find Dorothy McGuire as dull as dishwater.

And poor Bill Williams aged fast. He was so hot as the sailor in Deadline at Dawn (1946).

His asshole tasted like Henry Willson.

Well, r18, no one is mentioned as having posed for that 1936 logo so it doesn't mean Ruth Nelson didn't. I would imagine whoever wrote that article had no idea who Ruth Nelson was, so even if they'd come upon her name in their research they wouldn't have thought mentioning her would mean anything to anybody. Clearly, that writer was not a DLer.