According to the flap of his book A Damned Serious Business: My Life in Comedy, Rex Harrison "Drew great pleasure from wine, women, and song." A fine sentiment coming from a man that allegedly drove not one but two women to suicide. Which in a way only adds to Harrison's macabre appeal to me (I'm sick I know). I personally think he is the most attractive man to ever grace the silver screen. No other has commanded such a cocky and masculine aura. He had a fiercely aggressive confidence that is impossible to resist.
He is especially irresistible as "the ghost" in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. He is the ultimate romantic Gothic figure as a strangely potent dearly departed sea captain. An absolute lovely vision in head to toe black. I embarrassingly swoon a bit every time I see him make his first entrance in the film.
