Hugh Marlowe

She's uncredited on screen.

It stars Betty Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, George Merrill, Hugh Marlowe.

Thelma Ritter, Gregory Radoff, Marilyn Monroe, whatever happened to her, and Barbara Bates.

But most importantly, Anne Baxter plays the titular Eve Harrington, a devoted fan who, well, she starts out as a fan and ends up as a, well, the biggest star, I guess, in the world of this film.

This film was released in 1956 and directed by Fred F. Sears.

Hugh Marlowe stars as Dr. Russell Marvin, a scientist working on America's satellite program.

Marlowe was another familiar face in 50s sci-fi.

His role opposite Michael Rennie's Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still led to being cast in several other genre films, including World Without End and The Magnetic Monsters.

Surely if it were made today, it would be a lot flashier and more gimmicky, and probably March and Douglas would be made into the villains.

Rod Serling wrote the liberal script, adapting a novel by Fletcher Niebel and Charles W. Bailey II, also with Ava Gardner, Edmund O'Brien, Martin Balsam, George McCready, Whit Bissell, and Hugh Marlowe.

All right.

So yeah, he doesn't let his politics out all that often in the book.

Very good, very striking image.

The Day the Earth Stood Still, Datafile, made in 1951, stars Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe.

Background info.

Most film studios in the 1950s tried to outdo their competitors with monster sci-fi.

So there's instantly a, oh, could this family pull together with the alien? Is the alien the missing element of it? Her fiancé is deeply unsympathetic.

I don't think it's how he's written.

He's a sort of standard 50s contract player at Fox, a guy called Hugh Marlowe, who gets third billing, but honestly doesn't really pull his weight.

He might be the only slightly sort of duff element in the film, in that I think it would be a different and better film if Hugh sympathised with with him and believed in their relationship, but you don't really.