William Powell, His Career & His Mustache

Just feeling in the mood for a little William Powell ... he had an interesting career line.  Started as the bad guy with a villain's mustache.

                  Hal Skelly and Bill in Behind the Make-Up (1930)

Hits it big at MGM with The Thin Man (1934) and becomes the debonair Mr. Powell who could play it straight or for laughs.  The mustache becomes oh so elegant.

                        Bill at his debonair and elegant best

Then he is in the position to play most any role he wants, bushy white mustache included.

     Senator Melvin G. Ashton in The Senator was Indiscreet (1947)