Word: facedown
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...became a star with his first facedown, in the picture that created the western. He also became the Virginian. In private, Coop could talk to royalty without fingering his white tie. Onscreen, he guarded his strength-of-ten, a quality that came to be called "bankability" in Hollywood's nervous '50s. For 36 years-a longer span than even Gable's-he was the gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind-because he thought he "wasn...