It’s worth suffering through this Dobie Gillis clip for the appearance of Warren Beatty, who’s onscreen from 3:15 to 4:23. The 22 year-old actor played the snooty jock Milton Armitage, Gillis’s romantic nemesis, for six episodes during the ’59-’60 season. The interesting thing is that Beatty, obviously in agony, didn’t use his own scruffy offbeat charm in order to steal the scene. He’s playing a rich and arrogant smoothie in a very immersive and low-key fashion. The affected blue-blood accent is the only concession to comedic sitcom acting.
