The church was chosen because its interior is old-fashioned and ornate, but not too affluent-looking for the movie's blue-collar characters, Mr. Petrie said.

William Bendix (January 14, 1906 - December 14, 1964) was an American film, radio, and television actor, who typically played rough, blue-collar characters.

Mr. Carver feels strongly about the down-and-out, blue-collar characters in his stories.

Many of the former town's houses were built to house railroad workers, many immigrant laborers working in the local yard, who gave Hillyard an independent, blue-collar character.

Like the miners who called this place home, the city of Butte prides itself on its feisty, blue-collar character.

There are entirely too many colorfully crude blue-collar characters in "Costello," and the show's star, Sue Costello, is one of them.

'They're My People' Mr. Carver came from the hardscrabble world of the down-and-out blue-collar characters in his stories.

It didn't open the airwaves to blue-collar characters.

The New York Times said, "There are entirely too many colorfully crude blue-collar characters".

A self-taught painter, he captures the color and energy of blue-collar characters in his kinetic cityscapes.