George Macready

Let's keep that in the present tense and hit that five minutes back thing if you want to hear us discuss his childhood career again.

George McCready gasps for air as William Hendricks.

He was iconic in Gilda.

You want to talk about Gilda? I could derail the podcast with asking you about talking about Gilda.

So I really, he really transformed.

I was really impressed that that was actually true.

George McCready in there.

I firmly

Yeah, it's I mean, it's a stunning it's a stunning, wonderful cast.

I also love that you get to see George McCready, you know, who's the secretary of the Treasury, who I always think of as Gilda, you know, from from the movie Gilda, which is which is another perfect movie.

And

it's a perfect movie,

But what if the star is B-level, was always B-level, and wanted to ascend to a higher level and wanted to use musical theater as the ways of doing that? And that is what happened with our star du jour, Jean Barry.

Now, today, us in musical theater know Gene Barry as the original George in La Cage aux Folles, from which he was almost fired.

But who was he before that? Well, he wasn't always Gene Barry.

When he was born in 1919, his name was Eugene Class, but soon it was clear that young Eugene was quite talented.

By 1966, Burke was no longer.

But never fear, Barry was back two years later with Robert Stack and Tony Franciosa in a very unique TV show, I like this one, called The Name of the Game, where each week, each of those men would alternate being the leads.

Barry, once again, second choice, took over for George McCready.

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