He was identified as a whiskered and elderly Abel (David Wiley), a crazy, inebriated, homeless Bible-spouting fanatic who showed them a slimy, detached eyeball that he had found.Jerry: I wish you wouldn""t leave.Dale: Why not?Jerry: I think I feel an attack coming on.(He starts dancing in he hallway).See, there it is.Dale: So I see.Jerry: There""s only one thing that""ll stop me.Dale: Oh, you must tell me what it is!Jerry: My nurses always put their arms around me.(She rolls her eyes) Well, I""ll call the house detective and tell him to puthisarms around you.Jerry describes to Horace the ""complaint"" that he has just seen: "I""ve just seen the complaint and she""s lovely, she""s delightful, she""s charming, and she wants to sleep.To save all of them, Gandalf declared: "The dawn will take you all." He broke a shielding rock with his staff, and when the trolls were exposed to sunlight, they turned to petrified stone.Uncharacteristically, he was not ""punished"" for walking out on his marriage.Before Mary Astor was chosen for the role of "other woman" Edith, other actresses had been considered, including Walter Huston""s real-life wife Nan "Ninetta" Sunderland, unknown actress Rosalind Russell, and silent-era beauty Dolores Costello (who had recently divorced John Barrymore).