Posted on 06/19/2023 12:06:50 PM PDT by V K Lee
Don’t forget Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Rich babe with a kept man-George Peppard I do believe. Shouda been me she was keeping.
Another future tv star who was in the movie was Billy Gray who played Bud in Father Knows Best .
Actors are... actors.
Gary Cooper played Howard Roark in "The Fountainhead" - and confessed that he was thoroughly flummoxed by the impassioned defense he gives in the famous scene where he explicates Ayn Rand's philosophy. He simply couldn't understand it.
Regards,
Oh really? I over looked that one. From the actor bio books I’ve read, sometimes, a character or background actor remains in that status for their whole career, with no big breakout role ever coming that is suited just for them. It has to happen under the right kind of Director/ Producer as well in order to allow for the growth.
Some of these background or minor character actors are grateful just for those short term gigs. At least they are working in some capacity in the theater. For each actively employed actor, there are likely 25 unemployed actors of equal talent still looking for a gig.
Hud Bannon was right....I’d of gone after her too.
Also, don’t forget In Harms Way with John Wayne.....great movie.
...and Aunt Bee.
I liked the meeting at the McDonalds.
Sam Jaffee played Dr Zorba in Ben Casey.
Lol. No one ever accused actors of being smart.
Bringing with him a cook book.
Married to Rod Dahl. A train wreak of a marriage.
Loved when he corrected his math problem.
Klaatu verada nicto
The film was suppose to be based on the short story </>”Farewell to the Master.”</i> I read the short story and that is a huge stretch, to say the least.
And she was perfectly cloyingly strained in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Indeed she did...that actor was Gary Cooper, and it tormented her the rest of her life and turned her into a pro-life advocate. She is a hero in my book. From one obit:
"Despite all this, Neal’s abortion of her unborn child was the greatest sorrow of her life. For three years Neal carried on an affair with Gary Cooper, then 47 years old and married, in 1949 when she was 23. The pair, which played opposite each other in the film version of Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead," discovered that Neal was pregnant.
Neal revealed in 1988 in her autobiography, “As I am”, that she succumbed to the pressure put on her by Cooper and believed that having a baby out of wedlock would end her time in Hollywood.
“If I had only one thing to do over in my life,” she wrote, “I would have that baby.”
Perhaps that was one underlying motivation for Neal’s public support of her fellow actress Ingrid Bergman, who gave birth to her own child out of wedlock in 1950, exposing her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. For that, Bergman was denounced as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation" by the U.S. Senate. Neal would later tell PEOPLE magazine in 1988 that she wished she had Bergman’s bravery to give birth to her own child, rather than succumb to the pressure to cover up the pregnancy and the affair.
Monsignor Jim Lisante, a longtime friend of Neal and Catholic priest of the Diocese of Rockville Center, NY, told the 2003 National Right to Life Committee’s Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner audience that the actress told him 20 years earlier that aborting her child was the greatest tragedy in her life.
"Father, alone in the night for over 40 years, I have cried for my child,” said Neal, according to Lisante. “And if there is one thing I wish I had the courage to do over in my life, I wish I had the courage to have that baby."
Lisante told the pro-life advocates gathered that evening that Neal would reach out many times to other women contemplating abortion saying, “Don't make my mistake. Let your baby live."
Lisante also said that Maria Cooper, daughter of Gary Cooper, became friends with Neal after she ended the affair and told the actress that it took her longer to forgive Neal for aborting her baby brother or sister, than for the adulterous affair with her father."
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