…that Zero Mostel never got to play Nero Wolfe. If he could have been persuaded (possibly with a large hammer) to play it deadpan, it could have been marvelous. Picture Zero Mostel, in Wolfe’s leather chair, looking up from his book to say
Pfui!
Now, who to cast as Archie?
The View from the Foothills 
A young Cary Grant? Since we’re talking dead people anyway . . .
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I was thinking more maybe Clark Gable. Archie’s quintessentially a wise-cracking American. Cary Grant’s just not write.
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