WHY TYRONE POWER'S SON LOST FATHER'S NAME
Sunday News ; By Florabel Muir ; November 26, 1961
In domestic arrangement unusual even for Hollywood, Debbie Power Lowe, shown above with frequent date, actor Brett Halsey, agreed last week told her estranged husband, Arthur Lowe Jr., adopt her 3-year-old son by Tyrone Power, who died shortly before [the] boy was born. Debbie has [a] 1 1/2 year old son by Lowe, with whom she lived les than a year. she said she agreed to adoption so that "the boys could live as brothers."
The 3 year old heir to a dynasty of glamour and stardom will not be able to carry on the dashing family tradition as Tyrone William Power 4th--unless he takes it as a stage name. Henceforth, he will be legally known as Tyrone Power Lowe.
The boy's legal father now is really his stepfather, Arthur Lowe Jr., estranged (and probably soon to be divorced) husband of Tyrone Power's widow, Deborah.
Though 30 year old Debbie and Lowe, 35, grandson of tycoons Marcus Lowe and Adolph Zukor, have been separated for more than a year. Lowe makes daily visits to Tyrone and his own 1 1/2 year old son by Debbie, Gerald (Gerry) Zukor Lowe.
The two boys have been raised practically as cribmates, and despite their own differences, Debbie and Lowe felt that he shouldn't be separated now. So, 10 days ago, together and affectionate in an estranged way, Debbie and Arthur appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court and the highly unusual adoption was approved.
Before making the move, the couple discussed the plan with their baby doctors, carious child psychiatrists and representatives of the Los Angeles County Adoption Board.
'Best Think,' Debbie Says
"I think it will be the best thing for my son by Ty," Debbie explained. "He and Gerry are very close, and they will be always together, raised as full brothers.
"Arthur is just as much a father as little Ty's own father could have been. It would be different if his father were alive, but this way I believe it will work out well for him and his future will be in safe hands."
Debbie and the boys have been living in Beverly Hills apartment since she and Lowe separated less than a year after their marriage. Some Hollywood observers think formal divorce proceedings have been held up pending the adoption, but Debbie denies this.
"Neither of us has any plans to remarry," she says. "In fact, I am just about fed up with marriage"
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Debbie's prudence is based on the experiences of three unions--terminated by divorce death and estrangement, in that order.
She Won Hearts But No Contracts
The dark-harried, soft-voiced daughter of a well to do lumberman contractor in Mississippi, she came to Hollywood for a summer vacation in the early '50s. She liked it, made friends stayed to attend UCLA classes and then married actor Nico Minardos.
Late in 1957, three years after their divorce, she met Tyrone Power, who had previously been married to actresses Annabella and Linda Christian. One of the nicest things about Debbie, Power thought, was that while she enjoyed Hollywood, she had no hell-bent theatrical ambitions.
On May 7, 1958, they were quietly married in Tunica, Miss., where her family lived. Six months and a week later, on Nov. 15, 44 year old Power died suddenly while on location in Spain for the filming of "Solomon and Sheba." On Jan. 22, 1959, Tyrone William Power 4th (5 pounds 12 ounces) was born in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles.
To many still grieving Power fans, the story should have ended right there, but Debbie began dating Lowe, one of the richest and most eligible bachelors in Hollywood. On Oct. 26, only nine months after little Tyrone's birth, less than a year after his father's death, Debbie and Lowe were married by justice of the peace in Las Vegas.
"I am sure that people who would have qualms certainly aren't any friends of mine," Debbie said defensively. "My friends wouldn't have any reservations about it."
However, the following Sept. 17, after 11 months of marriage, the Loews separated, and despite the patter of four little feet, no signs of reconciliation have appeared.
Just the other night, Lowe escorted Mary Morrison, widow of restaurateur Charlie Morrison, to a party. Debbie is seen frequently in the company of 28 years old Brett Halsey, movie-TV actor and a handsome young veteran of two unsuccessful marriages.
Brett first met Debbie casually some five or six years ago, before she knew Tyrone. "We have been friends that long," Debbie says. "He is a wonderful friend. but my friendship with Brett Halsey is just that--friendship."
Friend Halsey, blue-eyed and black haired, is an athletic 180 pounder who stands 6 feet 2. With him, Debbie explains, she is relaxed because they like the same things, laugh at the same jokes, enjoy the outdoors and get a kick out of riding in fast cars. As a matter of fact, Brett used to race cars, but quit after a bad accident in a Mexico road race three years ago.
Used to Be Good Ol' Charley Hand
He is a native Californian whose real name is Charles Oliver Hand Jr. He was born June 20, 1933, in Santa Ana, the oldest of four boys and one girls born to a building contractor and his wife. On his father's side, he is related to a noted federal jurist, the late Learned Hande, and also to Adm. William F. Halsey. Through his mother, he is descended from Juan Francisco Reyes, first Spanish alcalde of Los Angeles.
Brett went to school in Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Cruz, and just a typical red-blooded California boy, he played football, basketball, track and tennis. For recreation, he took swimming, sailing and horseback riding and, at the other extreme, somehow picked up an interest in chess.
In 1950, he entered the Navy for a two year hitch, serving in various installations as a disk jockey. He came back to LA to study radio-TV technique, planning a career in radio and working meantime as a radio studio page in Hollywood.
There, his tall, dark and lean looks caught the eye of Jack Benny and Mary Livingston. Through them, he met producer William Goetz, who put him under [a] two year contract to Universal International. At the U-I studios, he labored hard but humbly, getting 33 roles, chiefly minor.
He's Still in Minors but Coming Up Fast
At the expiration of the contract, Brett went independent, appearing in feature pictures and in many TV shows. His film credits include "The Return of the Fly," "The Return of the Fly," "The Best of Everything" and "Return to Peyton Place," while on the home screens he has been seen in Playhouse 90, studio One, Gunsmoke, Sea Hunt and silent Service, among others.
Currently, Brett is under contract to 20th Century-Fox and also plays Paul Templin, a freelance magazine writer headquartered in Hawaii, in ABC-TV's Follow the Sun series. (Along the line, studio executives persuaded him to drop Charles Oliver hand, and he picked Brett Halsey as a theatrical name because, after all, Harlsey is a family name. He has since had it legalized.)
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TYRONE POWER'S SON IN DAD'S FOOTSTEPS
New York Daily News
By Louis Sobol ; November 30, 1982
He's the spitting image of his father, the late actor Tyrone Power. Now, after studying for the last two years under Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Tyrone Power 4th is ready to follow in dad's footsteps.
"I'm looking for work," Power 23, told the People Page during a dinner party at Eliot's Sunday night. "I'm attending casting calls."
The party, given by Jim Mitchell and Tony Manning for Hollywood designer Jean Louis and wife Maggi, enabled Power to sit beside living legend Loretta Young, who starred with his pop in "Second Honeymoon," "Suez" and "Ladies in Love."
Also among the 30 guests were actor Robert Horton and his wife, Marilyn, Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Lynn (he's the dentist who administers to the greats of opera and ballet); Loretta's daughter, Judy Lewis; Tony Winnder Lillian Montevecchi of "Nine," and Frank Bowling, who runs the ritzy Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Loretta, as beautiful as ever, never had met young Power, whose mother is Debby Minardos. (Senior, also was married to Annabella and Linda Christian.)
Loretta mesmerized the young actor and the other guests at her table with tales about her studio days in Hollywood, "when you always worked, even when you weren't filming--they'd always find something for us to do."
Power, whose godfather is actor Rock Hudson, took it all in.
"I'm ready to do anything," he said. "Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway I'm not afraid to work, I love acting." Good show.
 
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