Ray

She said that he left her broke, well what she considered broke anyway. Her friend Barbara Stanwyck once commented on the fact that Joan was always pleading poverty, when all she had to do was sell one of her many pieces of priceless jewellery.

Moor Larkin

Completely erroneous. You can study his British career in the endless depth of my trio of sites, starting with the one at the bottom of my post.

At the peak of his international fame in Danger Man, around 1966 he had gone or been taken to Hollywood, and came home after a few days...... Not the actions of a wannabe, I don't think. He had had a two to three year contract with Rank around 1957-58 and then gave up movies for several years thereafter, because he couldn't deal with all the nonsense and wasting of time.

That was why he became a TV actor, he liked the quick turn-around and constantly changing jobs and lack of "circus" he found inherent in feature-films at the time. He was also never happy with anything he did in films, so that probably influenced him too.......

He ended up in America for all sorts of reasons I expect.... Movies certainly were not one of them. When he first went there he spent several years living in New Mexico, not noted as a hive of movie-star activity in the early 1970's........

He made something of a hit in Ice Station Zebra (I don't think fame had the slightest bearing on why he made that movie), but greater *success* than Danger Man? I don't think so. He deliberately walked away from television after he completed his pet Prisoner project and seemed to try and move into the more anonymous, production side of the business of Show Business. He's worked spasmodically in America, but apart from his never-seen-since Rafferty TV show, in 1977, he has only ever done one-offs and several of those have been in England and Canada.

Hollywood and Fame? Furthest thing from his mind imho

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mrs tiswas

But Patrick McGoohan has upset many folk in the industry. I have read the man's bio and he does really treat some co-stars with contempt. That behaviour usually works against him, and Moor Larkin he would not of been a better Bond than Sean Connery OK, for SC has the edge in his looks. But PMG I do like in some ways, but I feel sad that he was reduced to crappy B-movies and Colombo.

YOUR CLAIM TO FAME IS THIS!!! Shilpa Shetty to Useless Jade

bhowells

Judy Garland in "I Could Go On Singing,", Garland hadnt hit the skids exactly but she was unwell during the making and the film had to be completed in a hurry. Only saw it once, wasnt that bad, Radio Times Film guide give it three. Her last movie of course, but the year after its release she had her own series on CBS in the state for one season.

batman

Many actors aspire to a career in B-movies and things like Columbo. I would have been happy to do that kind of well-paid, interesting work.

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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RichardKimble

New poster here. Howdy y'all.

Peck, Alan Ladd, Kirk Douglas and several other H'wood stars made films in Euope to take advantage of a US tax law passed at that time. This law (enacted in order to entice technicians and roughnecks to the Middle Eastern oil fields, but exploited by LaLaLand accounting firms) provided that if you worked outside the Us for 18 months and did not return for more than 10 days during that period, you would not be taxed on your income. This was quite appealing when upper scale tax rates in the US were approaching 80%.

I don't know details about Peck or Ladd, but Douglas in his autobiography says his tax deductions under the law were disallowed, and he received a bill for the Internal Revenue Service for $750,000.

TRIVIA: In thre early 50s James Garner, just back from serving with the army in Korea, planned to take advantage of this tax break -- not as an actor, but as an oil field hand in Saudi Arabia. But just before he planned to leave, he ran into a producer who hired him for a play...

rbrooks2008

For me, Carole Landis didn't seem to fit well into her role in Brass Monkey. Then again, I did see it on Oxford's tv Channel 6 station where everything goes to die.

As to the other side of the coin, if you come from a typically British family then you'd appreciate The Anniversary with Bette Davis in the central role.

Well, if you told them I designed it, d'you think that might help?

batman

But she was very good in Noose with Nigel Patrick.

Jingle bells Batman smells ... I heard that at school Daddy.

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Mysteryfan

Ray milland was mentioned and he is a british subject, so I thought.

penfold

He certainly started his career here in the silent era....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

wadsy

Hell Boats1970

This was on TV here last Sunday & starred James Franciscus as comander of a

British WW2 torpedo boat. Also starring were Elizabeth Shepherd & Ronald

Allen who played a troubled married couple quite well ( although Allen's

facial expression didn't change very much.

( Apparently Elizabeth Shepherd was originally cast as Emma Peel

in "The Avengers" but was replaced by Diana Rigg!).

Euryale

Yes, Milland was certainly born a British Citizen, in Neath, Wales. However, I think he adopted American nationality after moving to the States.


Euryale.