{"id":5702,"date":"2006-12-13T08:39:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:24:47","slug":"lew-ayres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5702","title":{"rendered":"Lew Ayres, A Dissipated Elegance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tsutpen.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/collect-em-all-18.html\">I love this image.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000817\/\">Lew Ayres<\/a>.  Except for film buffs and <i>Dr. Kildare<\/i> buffs, Lew Ayres is one of those forgotten actors.  But he gave some marvelous performances, had a terrific career.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, I love his performance as the dissipated brother in <i>Holiday<\/i>.  He is always a tiny bit wasted in that movie, but there&#8217;s a kindness there, a nonjudgmental quality that makes him lovable.  He is a disappointment to his family, and perhaps to himself as well.  He is on the sauce at all times, running from his pain, but still, he has an elegance that the others do not have.  A gallantry that still exists, beneath the alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>There have been times when I will rewind one of the big group scenes in <i>Holiday<\/i> just so I can watch what Ayres is doing in the background, when the focus is NOT on him.  <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s always alive, always funny, the mark of a good actor.  He doesn&#8217;t wait for his close-up to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this image. Lew Ayres. Except for film buffs and Dr. Kildare buffs, Lew Ayres is one of those forgotten actors. But he gave some marvelous performances, had a terrific career. In particular, I love his performance as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5702\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[314,496,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12525,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions\/12525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}