Word: typecasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each union went out the window along with his roving eye. His taste for young flesh led to three statutory rape scandals, plus a juicy paternity suit-but the older he got, the more he seemed a cardboard sinner. Finally a bloated travesty of his younger self, he was typecast in his last three films as a drunk, and his forthcoming autobiography is called My Wicked, Wicked Ways...
...Rabbit Trap. A fable about a plodding father's effort to hold his son's respect, starring Ernie (Marty) Borgnine, who stands in as much danger as maple syrup of being typecast as lovable...
...bang-bang-bang that puts the audience out of its misery. Somewhere along the line this picture even manages to ring in a Swede who says, "By yumpin' yiminy!" In the main role Actor Ladd has achieved a certain originality: he has managed to break the strong, silent typecast he has so long been set in. In The Big Land he plays the weak, silent type. At 5 ft. 7 in. and 145 lbs., Ladd has always sat fairly small in the saddle, but since turning to independent production, his stature has been diminished by a striking executive slouch...
Proper Background. In appearance, manner and background, Macmillan is typecast for Foreign Secretary. He is tall (6 ft.) and debonair, with a dashing guardsman's mustache and expensive tailoring casually worn. His grandfather, Daniel Macmillan, was a Scots crofter (tenant farmer) who migrated to London, and in years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier...
Like Champagne. For Rosalind, Wonderful Town is a Broadway homecoming after an 18-year absence. During her Hollywood exile she appeared in 40 movies, fought her way to stardom as an accomplished, but badly typecast, comedienne, and saw her movie career almost dwindle away into a nothingness of unexciting parts...