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Post by kims on Aug 20, 2024 17:39:26 GMT
In another thread, someone suggested the book THE ENTERTAINER about Lyle Talbot and it is a great book covering the times as well as the bio of Talbot. In the book, the author: Talbot's daughter, tells what Robert Montgomery did to help start SAG including snubbing the mob. Combine that with the fact Montgomery was in battle, not a desk jockey, during WWII, I decided I must read about him next. Strange, I can't find that a biography was written about him. He seems more interesting than many stars with multiple biographies focusing on the sensational. Oh, maybe he didn't have any sensational stories to interest the usual star biographers.
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Post by topbilled on Sept 5, 2024 14:12:52 GMT
In another thread, someone suggested the book THE ENTERTAINER about Lyle Talbot and it is a great book covering the times as well as the bio of Talbot. In the book, the author: Talbot's daughter, tells what Robert Montgomery did to help start SAG including snubbing the mob. Combine that with the fact Montgomery was in battle, not a desk jockey, during WWII, I decided I must read about him next. Strange, I can't find that a biography was written about him. He seems more interesting than many stars with multiple biographies focusing on the sensational. Oh, maybe he didn't have any sensational stories to interest the usual star biographers. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Sept 5, 2024 14:50:01 GMT
In another thread, someone suggested the book THE ENTERTAINER about Lyle Talbot and it is a great book covering the times as well as the bio of Talbot. In the book, the author: Talbot's daughter, tells what Robert Montgomery did to help start SAG including snubbing the mob. Combine that with the fact Montgomery was in battle, not a desk jockey, during WWII, I decided I must read about him next. Strange, I can't find that a biography was written about him. He seems more interesting than many stars with multiple biographies focusing on the sensational. Oh, maybe he didn't have any sensational stories to interest the usual star biographers. |
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Post by topbilled on Sept 5, 2024 14:59:40 GMT
Some stars do not have biographers interested in their stories. Another one is Alexis Smith. I've always wanted to know more about her life and her marriage to Craig Stevens. They are both kind of an enigma. No tell-all book on either one of them.
Not long ago I had watched an episode of Marcus Welby M.D. produced in 1971. In the story, Smith & Stevens play wealthy neglectful parents of a teenaged daughter. And it occurred to me that not only did I ever see them play parents in anything else, they were not parents in real life. So that's kind of an interesting assignment for them...like who they might have been in a parallel universe.
Smith would do well on stage in the 1970s, which led to a resurgence of interest in her as an actress on television and in films. But she and Stevens seem to have had a strong partnership and still did guest roles together, sometimes in foreign films and on episodic TV. Anyway, I think there's a lot to both of them that is left unexplored. One thing I do wonder is since they did not have children and must have amassed a considerable net worth, was their fortune left to a charity or a university? It's like they came and went but what is their true legacy? |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Sept 5, 2024 15:16:34 GMT
Some stars do not have biographers interested in their stories. Another one is Alexis Smith. I've always wanted to know more about her life and her marriage to Craig Stevens. They are both kind of an enigma. No tell-all book on either one of them. Yea, maybe that she was just a mid-level actor\star and as you noted, little "scandal ,etc.." that there wasn't enough of a perceived market for a bio. (and if the actor was a major star, a bio is likely to include a lot of mostly-made-up-gossip,, stuff I rather not read in the first place). |
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Post by kims on Sept 5, 2024 23:20:07 GMT
Back when we didn't talk about "stuff" we would have whispered Alexis was barren. Men were never thought to be barren for some reason. Read Julian Fellowes' BELGRAVIA for confirmation. Now we think one or both are gay. Wouldn't it be amusing to find out that their careers got in the way?
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Post by topbilled on Sept 6, 2024 1:31:32 GMT
Back when we didn't talk about "stuff" we would have whispered Alexis was barren. Men were never thought to be barren for some reason. Read Julian Fellowes' BELGRAVIA for confirmation. Now we think one or both are gay. Wouldn't it be amusing to find out that their careers got in the way?
Some stars with hectic and demanding careers have still managed to adopt children and hire other people to help raise them.
I just read up on Donna Mills yesterday. In the mid-1990s, when she was in her 50s, she adopted a girl and raised the girl mostly on her own. I suppose a hot Hollywood career may prevent some actresses from getting pregnant in their childbearing years, but they can find a way to have children and raise a family later if it's what they want.
In the case of Barbara Stanwyck & Robert Taylor, she seems to have been too busy with her career to have children with him (she had adopted a son with her first husband Frank Fay). After their divorce, Taylor married Ursula Theiss and he had two children with her.
Incidentally, Robert Preston and his wife Catherine Craig were married for 47 years and never had children. But I've read anything about theirs being a lavender marriage. That may have been a case where they were unable to conceive and decided kids were not in the cards for them. |
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