Gable & Claudette Colbert actually. Seen it at least 5 times.
Loved Shane and Winchester `73 too.
But then anything with James Stewart in it is pure gold.
James Stewart, a great American, on and off the screen.
Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin were great in Shane.
For my money, Van Heflin is one of the greatest (and most underrated acoters) of that era.
SmokingJoe: I agree with you. One of my favorite childhood memories was listening to old 45 RPM records of Jimmy Stewart reading the Winnie the Pooh books (I'd get to listen to these when I was home sick).
A favorite Jimmy Stewart memory was back in the mid-1960's when he came out to campaign for William Scranton, who was running for governor in Pennsylvania. I was a teenager at the time and lived in Delaware but since we got our broadcast TV from Philly, we always got Pennsylvania news. Well, Jimmy shows up at a campaign event in Scranton, PA, to support William Scranton running for governor against the Pennsylvania Dem machine (must have been around 1962). He shows up wearing his Air Force Reserve uniform -- I think he was still an active Air Force Reserve Brigadier General, I believe -- and he comes out in this huge auditorium with 20,000 screaming Republicans. In typical fashion Jimmy begins, "You know, I was once told that you could put all of the Republicans you can find in Pennsylvania and put them into a single phone booth..... Some phone booth!" What a rip-roaring pitch he made. I hadn't realized what a good conservative he was until that night and it made him even more my favorite Hollywood personality.