Executive Suite

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Cast

William Holden
as McDonald Walling

June Allyson
as Mary Blemond Walling

Barbara Stanwyck
as Julia Tredway

Fredric March
as Loren Phineas Shaw

Walter Pidgeon
as Frederick Y. Alderson

Shelley Winters
as Eva Bardeman

Paul Douglas
as Josiah Walter Dudley

Louis Calhern
as George Nyle Caswell

Dean Jagger
as Jesse W. Grimm

Nina Foch
as Erica Martin

Tim Considine
as Mike Walling

William Phipps
as Bill Lundeen

Lucy Knoch
as Mrs. George Nyle Caswell

Mary Adams
as Sara Asenath Grimm

Virginia Brissac
as Edith Alderson

Edgar Stehli
as Julius Steigel

Harry Shannon
as Ed Benedeck

Charles Wagenheim
as Luigi Cassoni

Virginia Eiler
as Western Union Operator

Jonathan Cott
as Cop

Robin Camp
as Mailroom Boy

Ray Mansfield
as Alderson's Secretary

Bert Davidson
as Salesman

May McAvoy
as Grimm's Secretary

Willis Bouchey
as Morgue Official

John Doucette
as Morgue Official

Esther Michelson
as News Dealer

Gus Schilling
as News Dealer

Abe Dinovitch
as Cab Driver

Cameron A. Grant
as Salesman

Faith Geer
as Stork Club Hatcheck Girl

Mimi Doyle
as Telephone Operator

Mary Alan Hokanson
as Nurse

Paul Bryar
as Stork Club Waiter

John Banner
as Enrique, Stork Club Waiter Captain

Raoul Freeman
as Avery Bullard

Bob Carson
as Lee Ormond

John R. McKee
as Umpire

John Hedloe
as Reporter

Wilson Wood
as Airport Clerk

Michael Lally
as Spectator at Ball Game

Kasia Orzazewski
as Liz

Phil Chambers
as Toll Station Attendant

Matt Moore
as Servant

Carl Saxe
as Worker

Dick Landry
as Worker

Kazia Orzazewski
as Liz, Old Woman

Burt Mustin
as Sam Teal

Helen Brown
as Miss Clark

John McKee
as Umpire

Ann Tyrrell
as Shaw's Secretary

Chet Huntley
as Narrator/Tredway

Roy Engel
as Jimmy Farrell

Maide Norman
as Wailing Housekeeper

Dan Riss
as City Editor

Lucille Curtis
as Maid

Tom McDonough
as Worker

David McMahon
as Reporter

Ralph Montgomery
as Reporter

Bernice Simmons
as Guest

Helen Dickson
as Guest

Nesdon Booth
as Guest

Hugh Boswell
as Guest

Jack Gargan
as Bit Role

George Sherwood
as Bit Role

Jerry Sheldon
as Bit Role

Gene Coogan
as Bit Role

Darren Dublin
as Bit Role

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• Sep 05, 2010

  A great movie about corporate competition, and with great actors too.
  Aj V Super Reviewer
• May 17, 2009

  Very good 50's corporate drama. Top cast all give fine perfomances. Holden and June Allyson are well matched and Barbara gives her all in her few scenes.
  jay n Super Reviewer
• Dec 04, 2007

  McDonald Walling: If you want to stab a dead man, why don't you do it yourself, instead of having someone else do it for you?

  Julia O. Treadway: Get out of here.

  McDonald Walling: Go on, sell out! Smash everything he lived for. That's what you want to do, isn't it? Pay him back for loving the company more than he could love you?

  Julia O. Treadway: Will you get out of here!

  When John Houseman serves as the producer of a film, I most assuredly sit up and pay attention. Houseman's acumen as a producer, as a director, as a production assistant to the likes of Orson Welles on Citizen Kane, and even more visibly as a stage and screen actor on projects such as The Paper Chase, is extremely keen. Okay, so there are some poor moments in this film. The one clinch-and-break scene quoted at the top here is a prime example. Overall, however, William Holden's acting lifts this cunning portrait of corporate business mentality to a whole new higher plane. What do you think?

  On the heels of having watched Stalag 17 for the umpteenth time last week, a role for which Holden was nominated for Best Actor, I have to say that, in my first viewing of Executive Suite, he's even better here. You watch this and you know why he rose to the top of the Hollywood acting food chain. Contrast the very wooden moment cited above with his dressing down of the Treadway board of directors scene just before the movie ends, and you will see Mr. Holden on absolute acting fire.

  And in the scene immediately following, you'll watch Barbara Stanwyck absolutely dominate the landscape in a face-to-face with June Allyson. It's as if you're watching a split screen of two different movies. Stanwyck stands out in full 3-D relief; Allyson is almost a paper silhouette, a kind of Javanese shadow puppet by comparison. Additionally, Fredric March and Shelley Winters prove why they went as far as they did in the acting business.

  What a wonderful, if uneven, film. Mr. Houseman, you are truly missed. Gotta add William Holden to my all-time favorite actors list pronto : )

  Lanning : Super Reviewer
• Aug 09, 2007

  When Executive Suite started and the credits rolled off the names that made up the powerhouse cast (finishing with directing credit going to the late, great Robert Wise) I thought I was in for a greatly underrated and overlooked classic. When the end credits rolled I by no stretch of the imagination felt the same way. The first half hour to 45 minutes of Executive Suite started off strong enough but eventually turned into an instructional video about how to helm a hostile takeover. The cast was good enough even if there wasn't nearly enough Barbara Stanwyck. Not enough of my interest was held for me to get the details but by the time William Holden delivered that Rynd-esque speech at the end I didn't really care enough to recommend this movie. But then again my DVR cut off at the very end.
  Michael G Super Reviewer

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