Word: actor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 1947, cinemaddicts watched him as a gentle back-country father in The Yearling, as a lady-killing hunter in The Macomber Affair, as Lascivious Lewt in Duel in the Sun, and as the crusading journalist in Gentleman's Agreement-performances which established him as an actor of solidity and range...
...kind notices encouraged Peck and interested Hollywood enormously. The young actor earnestly wanted to become a good artist in a good Broadway play. But after three flops in a row, he began to feel that a little ready money, quickly made, would be very nice indeed-so long as it was clearly understood by everyone that after one picture he was going straight back to Broadway...
After-Hours. Caught neck-deep among Hollywood's peculiar blessings and obligations, Peck likes being regarded as a good actor. But he takes little pleasure in his fame, and none, apparently, in the standing, prestige or power he might have. He admits to some laziness, but adds, with proper self-respect: "I can be conscientious as hell under pressure...
...recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services of a promising, impoverished, idealistic, unknown young stage actor...
...gravest dangers as an actor may be his good looks, which invest any role he undertakes with a certain idealized, legendary quality. But his fine-featured face gives him enormous range as a movie hero: while remaining a virile 6 ft. 3 in., he can suggest, if the plot demands it, a man who is delicate, ill, or even morally weak. Peck appeals, as a very popular male star must, to both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber...