Stars of Vaudeville #989: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coburn
Today is the birthday of the much beloved character actor Charles Coburn (1877-1961). How perfect that it happens to fall on Father’s Day this year, for the first role that comes into mind when I think about Coburn is Barbara Stanwyck’s father in The Lady Eve (1941), at once affectionate and doting…and roguish and larcenous. One is quite convinced […]