Clark Gable plays roguish newspaperman Peter Warne; he encounters Ellie Andrews, played by Claudette Colbert, on a night bus to New York.
The experience of playing a newspaperman, said Stevens, had left him with an enhanced sympathy for "good journalists" and heightened criticism of the bad.
In "The Wire," which he joined in its fourth season, he played a newspaperman who became a political operative. .
George Clooney, One Fine Day - His signature role as ER's resident Lothario wasn't exactly the paternal type, though he was a pediatrician, but Clooney wisely kicked off his film career playing a newspaperman and single dad.
When his $60-a-share 60-a-share 60-a-shareebuffed in April, the Aussie newspaperman played a loffercalm game of charm.
Fredric March plays a disgraced newspaperman who tries to get back in his editor's good graces by delivering the heart-rending story of a Vermont factory girl dying of radium poisoning.
John Lithgow will return to Broadway next spring to star in "The Columnist," playing the famous midcentury newspaperman Joseph Alsop in a new drama by David Auburn, who won both the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play in 2001 for "Proof".
At the top of any list is Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole," in which Kirk Douglas plays as unscrupulous a newspaperman as ever bled ink.
After playing the roles of tabloid newspaperman, tabloid television host, and tabloid controversialist, he could now adopt the role of tabloid historian.
There's a much better academic relationship in TEACHER'S PET (1958), one of the last old-fashioned star-powercharming Hollywood comedies, directed by George Seaton, Clark Gable, still sexy at 57, plays a gruff, self-taught newspaperman who thinks the idea of going to school to learn journalism is a lot of bunk.
