It appears like Griffith was acting as some sort of an agent for the buyers or someone who looks for property and does leg work for real estate agents.

See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.

I'm not done with acting forever. I'm very grateful for what my acting has brought me. But you only get one life, and you want to do what you enjoy most, and that's what I'm doing now.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

He and Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift — the three of them — represented a new age in acting. Acting entered a kind of realism [in the mid-'50s] that was exploring depth of emotion for males, and a reality that was more accurate.

He was acting as an advocate at the time, that's a different role than as a judge,