He and Myrna Loy set the standard, but he and Carole Lombard are also charming together in My Man Godfrey, which they made several years after their divorce IRL. He was also involved with Jean Harlow until her tragic death of kidney failure at 26. He liked young blonds. #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky
Beck JonesNobody wore the pencil (moustache, that is) with more panache. William Powell, BOTD in 1892, may be best known for the Thin Man series, adapted (and inspired) by the fiction of Dashiell Hammett. Though he lived to be 91, he made his last film, Mister Roberts, in 1955. #moviesky #films