Joel McCrea: Self
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Joel McCrea : I saw what a regular guy he was. He was a terrific and very original, interesting man. And so, I said that I want to do the picture, and he said you've *got* to do the picture. And I said I know it. And so we did, and we had the greatest time.
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Joel McCrea : He never tried to show you how to act. He never said you're not giving enough. He never bawled anybody out. I never saw him do anything but instill confidence.
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Joel McCrea : If somebody said, "Now we can make this over and you can have Clark Gable. How would you like that?" And George said, "Not for this. I wanted McCrea for this." You see, he had that kind of confidence in himself. So that if it were somebody better, which like Gable or Cary Grant or somebody, George would say, "No, for this, I want you."
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Joel McCrea : George was guided to do the right thing at the right time.
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Joel McCrea : [referring to a romantic scene in "The More the Merrier"] It wasn't written that way. George just said you come home and you're, you know, you don't want to say good night, but you have to and so forth and so on, and he kind of went on. He said, "Let's just fool around with it a little bit." So, I was fooling around with it a little bit, and then all the time she was talking about he OPA and the CCC and all the different things - I was copping feels around with her all the time, and George was sitting back at the camera laughing.
