Word: brynners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buccaneer (Paramount) introduces to the moviegoing millions the most exciting new film personality since Clark Gable with a mustache: Yul Brynner with hair. Yul did not really grow his own. The studio has provided him with a "transformation"-a curly, reddish-brown confection that suggests a sensitive blend of Bonaparte, Presley and well-kept Irish setter. Unfortunately, the picture will surely prove for many moviegoers, no less than it was for Actor Brynner, a hair-raising experience...
...lights, left the youngsters plenty to work with. They had a $6,000,000 production nut to crack, along with "a million-two" ($1,200,000) set aside for promotion. They had Vista-Vision, Technicolor, five big stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
...Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits of the face on the $20 bill. And Actor Brynner does little more than bound about parapets-probably on the theory that a man who has produced a head of hair should not also be called upon to produce a performance...
...Romero eulogized his pal: "He was a beautiful man. He was beautiful outside, and he was beautiful inside. Rest well, my friend." Actress Loretta Young caused a stir in the chapel by arriving in Oriental makeup from a stint before TV cameras. Outside, there were loud cheers for Yul Brynner, Ty's replacement as Solomon. "Look at him," one woman shouted. "He's growing a beard. And him with his bald head...
...decided not to cash in on a $2,500,000 insurance policy and pull out of the picture, problems piled up. Should they use a double to finish the scenes Ty had left undone? At least 50 applicants asked for the job. Even the final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made over. He was already growing a beard so the last scenes would have to be shot first, then a shave and a run through the early days...