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...movie was made in England in 1957, some years after Chaplin, a British subject, abruptly exiled himself from the U.S. rather than submit to threatened McCarthyite inquiries about his politics and morals by immigration officials. The onetime monarch of the box office and American moviegoers' affection typecast himself as the deposed King of a mythical country visiting the U.S. to promote an Atoms for Peace program. From the King's point of view, America's movies are shown to be drenched in sex and violence, its jazz too loud (though what is played is a decade...
...curiosity," he said during a Kojak shooting break last week in Hollywood, "and at first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters to Europe, where he worked unenthusiastically as a villain in Italian potboilers...
Divorced. Sean Connery, 43, the Scottish actor who was typecast as Superspy James Bond in Dr. No, Thunderball and four other 007 epics; and Diane Cilento, 40, novelist and actress who played the randy wench Molly Seagrim in Tom Jones; after eleven years of marriage and one child; in London...
...Kaye's clients in radio saw the magazine and announced to his listeners, "That's no Arab, that's my Jewish agent." For his own part, Kaye says he is worried that his Zionist grandmother will be offended and he is concerned that he has been typecast. So he won't be able to pose as Moshe Dayan some day. On the other hand, he did not have to split the $200 modeling fee with an agent...
With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...