Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...university after three years and took a Greyhound bus to New York City to study acting. He checked coats at "21," tested gags for Beat the Clock, and even washed dishes between minor television roles. When television moved west in the mid-1950s, he borrowed $50 and drove to Hollywood. He worked mostly in westerns, although at first the only way he could stop his horse was by running into a tree. Gradually he moved from "the fifth horse to the horse closest to the camera." By 1962 he was a series regular on Stoney Burke, a TV western with...
...proved too much for him to handle. "I started hanging out in saloons," he says of all those long treks from one picture location to another. There were plenty of fights. "I'd pick up a beer bottle and clear the table with it." One night back in Hollywood, he chased a fellow up Santa Monica Boulevard "like a raving banshee wielding a knife." His first marriage collapsed when he was 39. Then Oates discovered he had hepatitis. "I had to stop drinking completely, and that saved me, because I began to turn to other things." The other things...
Born. To Diana Ross, 27, singer and exemplar of the Motown Sound, and Robert Ellis Silberstein, 25, Los Angeles public relations executive: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Rhonda Suzanne...
Died. Horace McMahon, 64, bullnecked, gravel-voiced character actor who was long one of Hollywood's favorite heavies; in Norwalk, Conn. After several years as a bit player and a starring role on Broadway, McMahon went West and was soon typecast as a mobster-a bread-and-butter persona that he relished in many of his 135 films. "I was a jailbird," he said, "behind bars so often that Western Costume Company had a 'Horace McMahon' tag sewn into a convict's striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning...
...mien; of heart disease; in Tangier. "Acting is a Gesell-schaftspiel" declared Budapest-born Lukas. "When I speak lines in a play, I mean them; I am talking to someone. It's all real." Brought to America by Producer Adolph Zukor in 1927, Lukas first appeared on the Hollywood silent screen opposite Pola Negri in Loves of an Actress. He took a recess from films and in 1941 scored his greatest stage triumph portraying Kurt Müller, the dogged anti-Nazi hero of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine. Three years later he received an Oscar...