[SevenofNine]

WOW that good story Bender

Did you know his daddy Victor

I hear he was something on movie sets

There is story that TCM did interview one of the actor of the Quiet Man both Victor, John Wayne John Ford shut down Irish pub they ran out of booze

[Bender2]

Victor McLaglen died in 1959 when I was 13-years old but we lived in Natchez, Mississippi, the year before, my father managing the construction of the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi south of Vidalia, Louisiana. The filming of the John Wayne - William Holden Civil War film, The Horse Soldiers, in and around Natchez was taking place. That was the first time I got to see John Wayne in person when my Mother took me out to watch them do some filming.

My Mother was much more interested in seeing Bill Holden. She had a teenage crush on him from her younger days... and it was still there. Mom was 31 then and still quiet a dish.

Many, many years later I auditioned for a part in Blake Edwards Wild Rivers that starred Holden. My Mother was really rooting for me to get the part so I could tell her stories of what Bill Holden was really like in person--

As I have reminisced before on FR, that was when Julie Andrews told me I was not ugly enough to play the son of Karl Malden's character.

Sad to say William Holden next film, S.O.B. was his last before his tragic, senseless death in 1981.

As to Victor McLaglen, never got to meet him yet I later was told that he was originally supposed to play Sergeant Major Kirby in The Horse Soldiers film but had to decline due to poor health. Judson Pratt ended up with the Kirby role.