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2 unusual facts about Joel McCrea


Adventure in Manhattan

George Melville (Joel McCrea) is a know-it-all crime reporter who tracks down a robber.

Maureen Stapleton

She once said that it was her infatuation with the handsome Hollywood actor Joel McCrea which led her into acting.


Alice White

She attended Roanoke College in Virginia and then took a secretarial course at Hollywood High School also attended by future actors Joel McCrea and Mary Brian.

Bonita Granville

Renamed These Three, a 1936 film that told the story of three adults (played by Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, and Joel McCrea) who find their lives almost destroyed by the malicious lies of an evil attention-seeking child.

Jock Gaynor

His acting career began when he appeared in 1960 as the character Joe Malone in NBC's Wichita Town with Joel McCrea.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

The Whales of August

Other greats turned down the producers' overtures for other reasons, e.g., Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Katharine Hepburn, John Gielgud.


see also

The Children's Hour

Its film adaptations, These Three (1936) starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and The Children's Hour (film) (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner.