Word: barthelmess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Richard Barthelmess, 68, square-jawed movie idol of the '20s and '30s, best remembered as the country-boy hero of Tol'able David and the rescuer of distraught D. W. Griffith heroines in Broken Blossoms and Way Down East, a canny New Yorker who invested his savings well, lived out a comfortable retirement (since 1942) with a Long Island mansion and a yacht; of cancer; in Southampton...
...Griffith's greatest errors came during the shooting of a comedy in Mexico around 1920. Miss Gish and Richard Barthelmess were starred, and the part of a domestic was played by a minor actor. The domestic's part was done so well that Miss Gish approached Griffith with the suggestion that the unknown be put on a contract for future films. The director refused: "The fellow can act, but he looks too foreign, too Latin. I couldn't sell him to the American Public." The actor, on the verge of his part in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, was Rudolph...