Montgomery Clift with Shelley Winters?
Rather mismatched couple. I guess that's the plot of the movie though. Or at least the turnout bridging the second and third acts.
All Movie Reviews www.cultfilmfreaks.com
In what ways do you perceive them as being "mismatched"?
George and Alice were both from humble backgrounds and approximately the same age. Both were reasonably attractive. They both worked for the same company in close proximity to one another. Although basically a "good girl", Alice was attainable. That's usually all that it takes.
Montgomery Clift was a very handsome man, and seemed to eventually fit in with the upper class set in the film. Clift and Elizabeth Taylor made a gorgeous couple.
Shelley Winters was made to look plain and dumpy, and her character was socially awkward and uneducated. She was made to seem somewhat annoying as well, the director was quoted as saying that the audience was meant not to like her, according to TCM.
Winters and Clift seemed totally mismatched to me.