EXTRA! ACTOR WANTS TO ACT!
Sidney Fields [1950]

Tyrone Power Applause is Not Enough
The publicity blurbs that movie studios send in are usually filed in my trash basket. but the one on Tyrone Power contained one literary beat. I thought Tyrone himself would like to read, so I showed it to him:

"Success apparently is in his blood. There are some himans whom fate can never keep down. They march forward and take by divine right the best the world affords. But success after all is nothing more than courage....the will to fight and keep on when everything seems darkest. Of such stuff is young Tyrone Power made."

"The guy who wrote that is probably writing my next movie script," Tyrone said, and I'm sure he blushed.

He admits to 35, stands about six feet, has dark brown hair and eyes, an easy grace, and an eagerness to please. He had just returned with his new wife, lovely Linda Christian, from Italy, where they had been married with much hoopla.

While in Europe Tyrone made two movie epics; one a little $4,500,000 thing called "Prince of Foxes," which The Darryl Zanuck insist is the last of such extravaganzas because the poverty-stricken movies can no longer afford them; and the second, named "The Black Rose," filmed in Morocco in England.

Propagating The Powers
Tyrone and Linda say they will settle down first and start a family and will try for two kids and she won't do any acting. Tyrone spent the last 17 months in Europe and Africa, and not too long ago piloted his own plane over 26,000 miles of south America. He's made about 30 movies these past 14 years....

"Which is fine," he says, "except you get tired of doing the same story over and over again. After we get settled I'd like to do a small picture, no spectacle, just a story about people who live and breather."

In spite of the 30 movies with "the same story over and over again," Tyrone started on the stage. Both his mother and father were actors and he knocked over the road with them. When they separated he lived with his mother. At 16 he went off to Chicago from his native Cincinnati to join his father, who was working with Fritz Leiber, the Shakespearean actor...

"I was with Leiber too. Excuse me. I mean I carried a spear in his plays for a short while. Then my father took me to Hollywood where he was to make a movie. But he died when it was half finished."

So at 17 Tyrone was on his own. He chauffeured a writer around, made hamburgers and malted milks in a drive-in, and was a mail clerk in a bank. Then he slipped into a show at the Pasadena Playhouse...

"The show as 'Lo and Behold,' longest revue on record. the curtain was up at 8:15 p.m. and came down at 1:30 a.m. to what I would generously call 'scattered applause.' The audience was quite scattered too.

"I recall a girl in the show named Eunice Quedens who changed her name to Eve Arden. Me? I sang and danced and was as stiff as a poker. Only thing I got out of it was learning how to tie a bowtie. I had four changes into a full dress suit."

Then Tyrone got involved in Chicago Fair exhibition called "Hollywood At the Fair," in which he informed the citizens how movies are made. He had only been in one up to then.

The Unspectacular Rise
After the Fair he besieged New York, haunted the casting offices, and was finally hired by Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic-as an understudy to three men: burgess Meredith, a Hugh Williams, and a John emery, who distinguished himself by withstanding a few years of marriage with Tallulah Bankhead and compared that tumultuous even to the decline and fall of the Roman empire. anyway, after a summer of stock Tyrone returned to appear in Cornell's "Romeo and Juliet," and "St. Joan"...

"No. Not opposite her. Just small parts. then my agent arranged a screen test and I got to Hollywood. It was as unspectacular as that."

His long stretch of movie making was interrupted only twice: When he came to Westport to act in "Liliom," and when he enlisted as a private in the Marine Corps, became a lieutenant and a transport pilot and spent three and half years flying around all the Pacific hellholes from Kwajalein to Japan.

Tyrone says he'd like to arrange his life so he could spend half the year in Hollywood and half in New York acting in real plays, a familiar sing-song by movie people. A Hollywood veteran might find a play tough going...

"Have you been to Morocco lately?" he asked tartly. "Only movie people would get up at 6 a.m. and walk into a sandstorm to shoot a scene." Then he sighed: "But you do get lazy in Hollywood. Awfully lazy."

Which means that he has the applause of the multitude, but he would like more than anything else to win his own self-approval. I don't think he has it yet.

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JOHN FORD'S THE LONG GRAY LINE
New York Sunday News, January 9, 1955
Little Old New York

You can guess that director John Ford decided to do the story of West Point because he could tell through the Irish eyes of Sgt. Marty Maher, whose career is one of the legends of the U.S. Military Academy. Ford, four-time Academy winner as a result of "The Informer," "The Grapes of Wrath," "How Green Was My Valley and "The Quiet Man," is a one-man chamber of commerce for Ireland.

And that is as it should be, because Ford's real name is Sean O'Fearna. Jus why he surrendered that lilting moniker for his resent nom de screen evades me. Perhaps, back in 1914, he didn't want his parents in Maine to know that he'd cast his lot with the odd people who were hopping around Hollywood, making faces at cameras.

Tearful Piece In The Long Gray Line O'Fearna, who is Ford, has teamed up with two other Celts, Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, and the net result is a magnificent thing, although you'll find yourself throttling back tears as the story builds from one climax to a greater one.

President Eisenhower, Gen. Omar Bradley and other West Pointers who have seen it say that it is the most moving document they've ever witnessed. Ford, with his usual sensitivity, unlocked the emotion-charged story of West Point as it never has been revealed before.

About 14 years ago, when Sean O'Fearna and your reporter both were much younger, he told me that the old western star, Harry Carey, played a most influential part in his career. "I started at the old Universal lot, as a prop man, in 1914," explained Ford. "The next year, I was 19 and was pressed into action to direct a western, "The Sky Pilot." The studio told me that Harry Carey would star in it, but pointed out that as Carey's contract would not be renewed, I could handle him with a minimum of respect.

"Naturally Carey and I became great friends and he gladly helped me on my first picture. He knew all the answers, all the tricks of the business."

John Ford chuckled.

"In fact, we became so enthusiastic that what the studio had charted as a two-reeler ran up to 5,200 feet, FIVE REELS! When the studio saw what we'd done, they fired the both of us.

A Long Shot

"We were saved by 1,000,000-to-1 shot," continued Ford. "The same week we have chased off the premises by Carl Laemmle, justifiably irate, a group of bankers arrived at the Universal lot to check on their investment in the company. They told Mr. Laemmle they wanted to view some completed film ready for the market.

"The only completed film was our five-reeler. Mr. Laemmle showed it to them. They loved it. So I was re-hired at $125 a week and Harry Carey's contract was picked up at $1,600 a week."

Fourteen year ago, in 1941, John Ford's formula for a hit picture was this:

"Louse up your hero," he explained to me. "Get him thrown in jail, as quickly as possible, even if you just picture him stealing a horse, or something. Heroes shouldn't be clay statues, mind you, but for popular acceptance, it helps if the hero's feet are made of clay. Recognition of that fact made Harry Carey a great western star. He was never a holier-than-thou cowboy, like most of his western colleagues."

Ford felt, in 1941, that it was easier to do a picture with competent actors, NOT stars. "Stars have their own ideas," he explained, wryly. But in 1954, Ford teamed up two important stars, Tyrone and Maureen, with happiest results. And Tyrone gets into plenty of trouble-but don't steal a horse; all he steals is Maureen, who is a classy filly.

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June 4, 1955
Columbia has decided Carmen Cavallero will record the piano music for Music for Duchin, the biography of the late Eddy Duchin, popular pianist and orchestra leader.

The studio at one time thought of using Duchin records but discounted the idea when it was felt the arrangement and recording techniques were out of date. Tyrone Power will finger a dummy piano keyboard on the screen as Duchin, much as Cornell Wilde did for the studio a decade ago in A Song to Remember. Jose Iturbi supplied the recordings for the earlier feature a life of Chopin.







FILM TO RE-CREATED OLD CASINO HERE
Columbia Will Alter Fascade of Tavern on the Green for The Eddy Duchin Story
June 4, 1955
Thomas M. Pryor

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. July "The Tavern on the Green" in Central Park is scheduled for a face-lifting operation with a reverse twist. Columbia Pictures has obtained permission to redesign the exterior of the restaurant so it will resemble the old Central Park Casino.

The Casino, which figures prominently in The Eddy Duchin Story, flourished as an after-dark oasis 25 years ago. The late musician go this start there as a pianist with Leo Reisman's orchestra. Tyrone Power will impersonate Mr. Duching.

Walter Holscher, Columbia's art director, and John Roche, of the studio's construction department, will leave Hollywood Tuesday to await the arrival by train of 49 pre-fabricated set units. These when assembled, will duplicate the facade of the casino. The sets are designed to fit as a shell over the Tavern on the Green.

The picture will go before the camera July 25 with the filming on location sequences in various parts of Manhattan, including the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf Astoria, the Rodin Room of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Terminal and the basement piano storage room Steinway Hall. George Sidney is the director.

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MOTION PICTURE SCENE On Location; Museum Series
August 14, 1955

NEW YORK. New York Memorial Hospital. As the Boston musician who succumbed to leukemia at the peak of his popularity, Mr. Power was revealing the grim medical diagnosis to the English girl he later marries.

"The real tragedy of Duchin's life, and of the picture," said the actor while the pipe-smoking Mr. Sidney arranged another camera angle, "was his dying at such a young age, only 42. Most people don't remember that....Yes, I knew Eddy quite well. Working right here across from the Hospital reminds me of how I used to visit him over there when he was a patient, toward the end.

"But this isn't a tragic picture, by any means. Call it a serious drama with music, intended to follow Eddy as he comes down here form Boston, joins up with Leo Reisman's band, and attains success on his own.

Miss Novak is, of course, the young woman Columbia has groomed for stardom in such predecessors as "Pfffft" and recently "Picnic." Mr. Whitemore appears as Duchin's long-time manager, Wally Weber, and the 13 year old Rex Thompson plays Duchin's son. Miss Shaw has been in the United States exactly three weeks. Encouraged by Bob Hope, during a recent Australian tour, to "look him up some tine� in Hollywood, she did so exactly fourteen days later. The actress was promptly trotted to Columbia by Hope's agent and placed under contract. And she received her current assignment the same day.

Incidentally, the entire week's work on the local scenes will run roughly twenty minutes out of a total length of two hours.

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The Eddy Duchin Story
August 14, 1955

NEW YORK. Tomorrow, having framed its protagonists against authentic local scenery, the seventy-man location unit for Columbia's The Eddy Duchin Story goes home. Last week found director George Sidney, his technicians and cast, headed by Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore and young Rex Thompson, briskly setting up shop for the Cinemascope color project in such random sites as Central Park, the residential upper East Side and the Warldorf Astoria (where amid today's Sabbath quiet Mr. Power will conduct a ban in the Starlight Room, piano-and Duchin-style.)

Tuesday morning, Mr. Power and Miss Shaw, an Australian television actress making her film debut as the musician's second wife (Miss Novak plays the first), went through a tense scene at the foot of the Seventy first Street ramp before New York.

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TYRONE POWER--'NO WEDDING BELLS'
"Pictorial TView", Sunday, September 23, 1956
By Louella O. Parsons [Motion Picture Editor, International New Service]

I had to travel 6,000 miles to interview Tyrone Power, who has been away from Hollywood so long I haven't had a chance to really talk with him since I saw him while I was in Rome last summer.

An untidy, grimy Ty greeted me at the Shepperton Studios in London where, as the main figures in Seven Waves Away, he wears a soiled shirt and trousers that have seen better days. He is the captain of a luxury liner which floundered and sank, much as the Andrea Doria did recently, taking to death a number of the passengers.

The title of Richard Sale's story is based on the famous sea legend, Death rides the Crest of the Seventh Wave, Richard, who also is directing it, wrote it some years ago and it is a coincidence that it was being produced ands was within three weeks of completion when the Andrea Doria made sea history by her tragic disaster.

Ty and I sat facing the most extraordinary set I have ever seen in a studio. It is a huge tank filled with 300,000 gallons of water, so deep it can drown any of the lifeboat occupants who fall into this perfect replica of the sea.

"We get wet a dozen times a day," Ty said, "and I wear this one costume and never have to comb my hair."

The artist responsible for the backgrounds of Moby Dick changes the clouds to fit the time of day.

There was so much action on, with Lloyd Nolan dying in the lifeboat which saved only 37 out of the 1,156 unfortunate souls, that I had to work fast to get my story with Ty.

"Are you going to re-marry Annabella?" I asked Ty, having heard that he and his former wife were seeing each other very often.

"It's funny that you should mention Annabella now, because I just talked to her today and she wants to come and see the children before they return home," he said. "But as for marriage, that's not for me. I have had two, and that's enough. I see Annabella often and we are good friends, but you can take my word for it, I am not marring anyone.

"I won't say that I don't go out with women," Ty's eyes twinkled. "I hope to take many beautiful ladies to dinner and the theater, but as for serious intentions--I have none. Incidentally, my children were here just a while ago. They wanted to see the big tank where the lifeboat flounders," said Tyrone.

Ty was so happy to have the little girls with him a while longer this summer. He was hoping to get permission from Linda Christian for them to stay with him a little longer, but up to the day I visited him he had no word from her. He has a nice house and they play in the park with their little friends every day. Romina has become a fine little horsewoman and she and Ty go riding every opportunity he gets. They spend the week ends in the country and both have a great time riding and swimming.

One by one Tyrone summoned his cast of Seven Waves Away, made up of some of London's finest talent, to meet me. Of course, I already knew Lloyd Nolan, who was a sight to behold after is death scene. He was covered with fake blood and wore a tattered old shirt. He is appearing every night on the London stage in Caine Mutiny Court Martial. He told me they did absolutely no business until he went on television and since that day they have had a sellout business.

Moira Lister, who is a real beauty, is another who works by night at the theater and by day at the studios. She said she also does a live television show every Sunday night. In spite of this she looked fresh as a daisy.

Mai Zetterling, and I do wish she would change her name, it's so difficult to remember, plays the lead. She, too, is an attractive blonde with the ;pink and white complexion seen so often in England. Her clothes were soaking wet because she had just been practically drowned in the open boat by the huge waves.

There seems to be a real esprit de corps among the cast and they all told me of Marie Lohr's bravery. She plays a frail opera singer, and although she cannot swim she refuses to wear a lifebelt for her scenes in the water.

One young man Richard Sale believes will go far is Stephen Boyd, who was with Clifton Webb in The many Who Never Was. He probably will be in Hollywood by the time this is in print. He goes there for Island in the Sun for 20th Century Fox, and he is a most attractive young man.

It seemed as if a steady procession of actors, executives, staff, etc., came up while I was interviewing Ty. Among them was Ted Richmond, Ty's partner in this and other Copa Productions. Ty had told me he will be over here for some time because he does The Devils' Disciple next.

"We toured fifteen weeks with it," he said, "and now I am going to make the picture, an dafter that we go to Italy for Lorenzo the Magnificent; so you see," he said, "I'll be pretty busy."

"Will Ted be with you all this time?" I asked. "He will be with me much of the time," said Ty, "but if he's a good boy we'll let him go home for awhile."

Richard Sale, between directing scenes, explained the mechanics of his picture which is made with a smaller camera carried right on the boat. There is only this one scene in the entire picture. They had the advice of the British Admiralty so they know their sea scenes are correct.

Richard told me they usually use drops, but there are no drops in this picture. They had the advice of the British Admiralty so they know their sea scenes are correct.

I'd gone to the studio with Mary Anita Loos (Mrs. Richard Sale in private life). She has just finished a short story called Deep Purple, the title of which probably be changed to Five women and One Man. It's a very cute idea, with a surprise ending.

As we left, Ty walked out to the car with me. "Don't you get lonesome so far away from home?" I asked him. He said, "Making pictures is pretty much the same in any country. It just happens that all the pictures now scheduled for me need a foreign locale. But I'll be seeing you in Hollywood," he added as he waved goodbye.

To me, Ty is amazing. I've known him ever since he came to Hollywood 20-odd years ago, and he has aged surprisingly little in all that time.







TYRONE POWER--IN PERSON
Tyrone Power Is Still a Struggling Actor
March 23, 1958

By Don Ross

Tyrone Power, who arrives in New York Wednesday in a stage production of Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah," in which he plays six roles, looks upon the stage as a sort of catharsis, Or purification, after all the years he spent in Hollywood making movies he had contempt for and Letting his talents go to waste.

In the formidable Shaw work, which expounds the dubious thesis that men would be much smarter if Their term of life could be lengthened to 300 years, Mr. Power plays two Adams (an innocent Garden of Eden one and morose middle aged one after the Expulsion), two Church of England divines (one a whinnying, bucktoothed young rector and the other a dignified Archbishop), a 100-yeard-old called Zozim and a practically disembodied old party named the Ancient who is centuries old and does nothing But think austerely.

This will be the second appearance of "Back to Methuselah" on Broadway. In 1922 the Theater Guild put on a version that had a few cuts and took three evenings to play. It ran nine weeks and lost $20,000. The Theatre Guild is also putting on the present show in association with Arnold Moss, Who has condensed the massive play, which Shaw thought his masterpiece but nobody else did, into two hours' running time.

Appearing with Mr. Power are Faye Emerson (who plays Eve and three other roles) Arthur Treacher (three roles) and Valerie Bettis (the snake and two other roles).

Mr. Power, who is forty-three, has obviously taken on a tough assignment that would tax any actor, let alone one who has lain almost fallow in Hollywood for so many years. It has been made even more difficult for him by the three month tour, during which "Back to Methuselah" played in forty-two cities and towns in the South and East before its New York opening.

It was a gruelling succession of one-night and two night stands--the hardest kind of theater campaigning. Mr. Power worked seven days a week, travelling 11,000 miles, mostly by a bust which was so cold at times that he had to warp a blanket around his legs. He ate in mediocre restaurants. (This perhaps was the hardest of all because he likes, after the performance, to eat a fine filet mignon charred on the outside and blue on the inside, and it takes a sophisticated restaurant to provide one of these done the way he likes it.)

The other night in Philadelphia, where "Back to Methuselah" spent a week before its New York opening, Mr. Power was devouring a succulent charred filet at Frankie Bradley's restaurant. He was asked why in the world a man who had it made in Hollywood would subject himself to all the discomfort and hard work of a frantic tour and, moreover, risk his reputation in Shaw's difficult play.

EXPLANATION


"Working in a five day week in Hollywood going home to a beautiful house with a lovely swimming pool, having a well stocked larder and a well stocked bar--and having a lousy script at the studio to work on, "that's tough", said Mr. Power. "Compared to that, this is enjoyable."

Of the forty three movies Mr. Power has appeared in since 1936 he can contemplate only four with satisfaction and pride. The bad movies have apparently left him with a feeling of guilt that he feels he must make amends for. "Is this tour your way of expiation?" he was asked. He accepted the word as applicable.

Mr. Power's female fans who have thrilled to his handsome face with its large expressive eyes, his raven hair and his fine physique in swashbuckling costume dramas like "The Captain from Castile," "Prince of Foxes" and "The Black Rose" will perhaps be shocked by their hero's contempt for more than 90 percent of his product. The unworthy ones were, he said, "dishonest." They pandered to a taste that the studios themselves had created."

The four "honest" ones, he said, were "Nightmare Alley", "Blood and Sand", "Seven Waves Away" and the current "Witness for the Prosecution."

Mr. Power has a conviction that the stage is the place for a man who really wants to act. This is why he is on the stage. This does not mean that he had renounced the movies. He has respect for the medium--he thinks, for example, that Alec Guinness's performances in the "Bridge on the River Kwai" was a marvelous thing--and he will continue to make movies, at least part of the time. He has his own company now--Copa Productions--and this will give him an opportunity to make only the films he believes in. For twenty two years he was under contract to 20th Century-Fox and made the films they believed in.

But most of the time he wants to be on stage.

He believes that an actor proves himself by taking on the toughest challenges. "Nobody ever developed muscles by doing the easy things," he said. "You have to reach out in life. You have to build up friction. There has to be an abrasive."

UNDER FIRE


A reporter said he hoped Mr. Power wouldn't be abraded by the New York critics.

"I wouldn't let that deter me in the least, he said. He is a hard man to deter. A year or so ago he had the leading role in "A Quiet Place," a play which died on the road before it got to New York. In New Haven, where it tried out, audiences howled with laughter at scenes between Mr. Power and Leory Dana that were supposed to be touching but didn't come off.

"This is the sort of thing that tries an actor's soul" said Mr. Power. "But if you're at all perceptive you're bound to profit by such an experience. I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but I wouldn't want to go through it again."

Mr. Power was born to the theater. His father was an actor, and so was his great grandfather. He made his acting debut in Chicago in 1931 when he was seventeen in a minor role with a Shakespearean repertory company of which his father was a member.

Four years later young Tyrone played Benvolio in Katharine Cornell's Broadway production of "Romeo and Juliet," and the next year he was De Poulengey in her "Saint Joan." In 1936 he made his first screen success in "Lloyd's of London" and after that he was Hollywood's man, with the unhappy results we have seen above.

In 1950 he took the leading role in the London stage production of "Mr. Roberts." His contract with 20th Century allowed this. A couple of years later he barnstormed in a highly successful dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Bennet's poem "John Brown's Body." Mr. Laughton directed it. The company toured 28,000 miles in 46 states.

When the troupe appeared in New York in 1953, the New York critics applauded.

In 1954 Mr. Power's contract with 20th Century Fox ended. The next year he appeared with Miss Cornell in Christopher Fry's "The Dark is Light Enough." One critic called his performance "lightweight."

Mr. Power believes that "Back to Methuselah" will make the grade. But if it should not he will keep trying.

"I know I can do it." he said.







POWER ROLLS 'SHEBA' HITS LEGIT PLANS HAZY
Variety, Sept. 23, 1958

MADRID, Sep. 23.�Looking biblical in a three-cornered beard, Tyrone Power has arrived here for his filming star in "Solomon and Sheba" opposite Gina Lollobrigida. Old Testament saga in Technirama, financed and to be released by United Artists, is the actor's first in a series of five films abroad.

Power and his Copa Productions partner-producer Ted Richmond are associated with Edward Small in the upcoming religioso spectacle. As currently credited, "Sheba" will be an Edward small presentation produced by Ted Richmond.

Actor failed to confirm stateside reports of his Broadway appearance next spring with Ingrid Bergman in "Anna Karenina." Impressed with the Moscow Art Theater's dramatization of the Tolstoy novel and admitting he will continue to devote a semi-annual portion of his time to stage the spring, Power unbearded a "no definite commitment yet." He said he presumed the "Karenina" announcement was a Gregory Ratoff trial balloon. (Ratoff is slated to stage the venture.)

Power said his next film, tentatively titled "One Against Tomorrow," would be done entirely in Stockholm beginning February, possibly with Leet Thomson ("Ice cold in Alex") as director and a Swedish actress in one of the two femme roles.










FILM CAMPAIGN ON LUZON
Philippine Island Invaded by Hollywood To Depict Guerrilla War Against Japs
By Harold Mendlesohn

MANILA. To give documentary realism to "American Guerrilla in the Philippines," Hollywood is taking the whole kit and caboodle to this island scene of the Ira Wolfert novel--a mere 7,800 mile location jaunt. Starring Tyrone Power and Micheline Prelle, with a supporting cast of 1,000 Filipino extras and bit players, the film directed by Fritz Lang, will depict the role played by American and Filipino guerrilla fighters in helping pave the way for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's eventual return to the archipelago. Power will represent a composite of various American guerrilla leaders--servicemen who chose to continue to fight rather than surrender to overwhelming enemy forces.

The entire production, first Hollywood story to be shot entirety on an actual battle locale, will be photographed, in full color or far-flung Luzon Island. to equip the movement, Twentieth Century-Fox shipped here 126,000 pounds of materiel, including cameras, cranes, booms and generators, aboard the President Harrison.

With the staccato echoes of gunfire not yet fully vanished from the contemporary Philippine scene government officials have assured the visitors adequate police protection against roving, outlaw bands now terrorizing the countryside. The Holywood lands are still somewhat saucer-eyes over the sign prominently displayed on the desk counter in the swank Manilla Hotel, headquarters for the troupe: "Deposit firearms here."

Experts

To lend and even greater measure of authenticity to the tale, studio executives are consulting with numerous Filipino guerrilla leaders, including col. Rupert Kangleon, now Secretary of National Defense, regarding technical details of the dramatic episode.

The studio will be racing against time in its operations since the picture will have to be completed before the advent, some two months hence, of the torrential monsoons which bring an average of 90 inches of rain annually. to expedite production the company will divide into two units, both groups shooting simultaneously.

Practically ever known type of transportation--caribou cart, helicopter, pedcab, jeep, outrigger canoe and donkeys--will be used by the troupe in moving into isolated locations deep in the fastness of Luzon's tropical interior.

Facilities of Manila's six major film studios have been offered to Fox, and, where necessary, cover sets for "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" will be constructed so that shooting may continue without interruption during the brief spells of inclement weather which the natives report may be expected during the summer season.

Extensive salvage operations are being undertaken both in panoramic Manila Bay and up the busy Pasig River to acquire Japanese vessels and American motor torpedo boats necessary for the story. In most instances the war-casualty crafts are being raised from their watery graves only to face a fate of being nice again sunk during the unfolding of the screen tale.

Historic Sites

Historic Corregidor in Manila Bay, and the peninsula of Bataan, scene of the infamous Death March, will be included among the many locations. the bulk of the Filipinos recruited here will be seen in the exodus from the cities following the initial stages of the Japanese invasion in the early days of the vet.

Tropical conditions in this equatorial archipelago make necessary an airborne ferrying service for unprocessed film, which will be flown approximately 50,000 miles weekly to an from Hollywood.

Special refrigerated containers, each holding 10,000 feet of film, were made in Hollywood. constructed of aluminum, the receptacles weigh 110 pounds each, containing space for sixty pounds of crushed ice, which must, be replaced every fifty-five hours. They are designed to keep the sensitive Technicolor film at a constant temperature of 34 degrees.

Power, filmland's most widely traveled actor, only recently finished movie assignments in Italy and Africa. On completion of "American Guerrilla in the Philippines," he will journey to England to appear in a play before returning to his home base. During the war the actor, a Marine transport pilot, was variously stationed at Kwajalein, Saipan and Kyushu. He made a stop-over at Samar, one of the southern islands in the Philippines, but did not get into Luzon.







SEX APPEAL PALM FOR TYRONE, AVA
Jan. 31 1950

Hollywood, Jan. 31 (UP)--Sex appeal championships of the World were voted today for Tyrone Power among males, and Ava Gardner, female class, by 150 of Hollywood's most beautiful movie stars.

Howard duff and Montgomery Clift trailed Power in voting for the sexiest man, and Jane Russell followed Miss Gardner.

Aly Gets a Vote

Rita Hayworth ranked sixth but her Indian prince, Aly Khan, received only one extra's vote for sex appeal. Marlene Dietrich was the only grandmother in the top 10. She placed ninth.

Betty Grable was No. 21. Clark Gable nearly 50 years old, ranked fourth in sexiness, Gregory Peck was seventh, Robert Taylor 8th and Errol Flynn got one vote.

Only One for Ingrid

Ingrid Bergman also received just one vote, which was one more than her director, Roberto Rossellini, polled.

The poll of 150 extras also showed only three admit wearing falsies; five have the nerve to wear French bathing suites; 16 like to kiss men with mustaches, and two favor nude bathing at the beach.






ADDED POWER
By Earl Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Tyrone Power were discussing their next baby as they sat at supper on a recent midnight in "21."

'When is it due?" I asked Mrs. Power...which is to say, beautiful and shapely glamour gal, Linda Christian.

"In August. And we'll be home in California then."

"You don't look it."

"Stick around," she replied with a laugh. "You'll see."

"Have you any inside information on what it'll be?"

"You mean what gender? It would be nice to have a little brother for Romina. She's boy-crazy at this point...And now, if you'll excuse me, the baby must have its nose powdered..."

Off she went to the ladies' room.

This will be the second child for the glamour couple married with such big headlines in Italy on Jan. 27, 1949. Four years after, the marriage seems to be a big success.

They're one of the world's most attractive couples. Power, dinner-jacketed from his show. "John Brown's Body," was the handsomest man in the place....and also one of the smartest, sharpest and most talented...They seem to have the secret of getting along.

For when Linda returned, and sat between us, he suddenly said to me, "Would you want to move over there? Linda is getting smoke in her eyes."

"I guess I'm allergic," she said. "It's terrible the way I get red eyes.

"It's too social nowadays....not to smoke. In a book somewhere I read about a woman being graceful without having to smoke.' It's true, women smoke to look graceful."

Apologizing, I put out my cigarette, happy in my discovery of one woman who doesn't smoke.

Power, originally a Cincinnati boy, has been seeing America during the past year with "John Brown's Body"--and will return to "the road" with it in the fall.

"We go up the west coast," he said.

"We did a stretch of 25 days on the bus," he continued. "Slept on the bus. Just like a band playing one-nighters.

"I found out one thing. Proportionately, there are just as many people in Ironwood, Mich., and Hibbing, Minn., who want to see live theater as there are in New York.

"I met people who'd never seen a picture of mine. Educators in Manhattan, Kan. they were just fascinated by the show.

"They said 'We're going to see your next picture. When is the next one coming to town?"

"And was Linda along on the bus?" I asked.

"I wasn't allowed to ride on the bus," she said. "I was getting over having the first baby and getting strengthened enough to have another one."

She was sort of a show-follower; went along by train and plane....Some days Power road a bus all day arriving in a small city just in time to climb into costume and to the theater.








HE'D LIKE TO STAY HOME, BUT NEVER GETS A CHANCE
By Wanda Hale ; November 5, 1950

Four years in Marine service during the war, followed immediately by a long stay in Italy for the filming of "The Prince of Foxes," gave Tyrone Power a bad case of homesickness.

As a cure he bought a home in Hollywood three years ago for himself and his bride, Linda, with all the intentions in the world of settling down to a normal family life. But more movies made in faraway places and his London engagement in "Mr. Roberts" have denied him this perfectly natural longing.

"Mr. Roberts" is responsible for the closed Power home in Hollywood. Not that Ty would have it any other way. Hi heart was set on doing that play and it was the one thing that cold drag him away from his honeymoon house.

MOVIE JOB FIRST

Once sure of the "Mr. Roberts" role, Ty worked harder than he ever worked in his life making enough pictures to keep him in contact with his movie public during the London stage engagement.

Three films were ready for release when the 20th Century Fox star finally began rehearsals for his theatre sting. Two of them, "The Black Rose" and "American Guerrilla in the Philippines," took Ty out of the country. The third, "Rawhide," a western with Susan Hayward, was made in California; but as most of this picture was photographed on location, Ty again was deprived of leisurely living in his Hollywood home.

"The Black Rose," shown here in August and now touring the country, was filmed in Africa and England. "American Guerrilla," made in the :Philippines, arrives at the Astor Theatre on election day, November 7. "Rawhide" is expected at the Roxy around the first of the year.

IN GUERILLA ROLE

"American Guerrilla in the Philippines," from the book by war correspondent Ira Wolfert, stars Ty as Chuck Palmer, an American who organized guerrilla warfare on the enemy right after the fall of the Philippines.

"Mr. Roberts" will terminate its run shortly before Christmas. Ty and Linda had fervently hoped that they could spend that family holiday in their own home. But they won't. Word comes from London that Ty will remain there indefinitely to star in the old Leslie Howard fantasy, "Berkeley Square," which will be called "Beyond Time and Space." If the Powers get home for Easter they will be lucky.

Another bulletin just received re Tyrone Power states that upon completion of "Beyond Time and Space" in England, the actor will go to Argentina to play a South American cowboy in 20th Century Fox's "The Way of the Gaucho," "Home Sweet Home"--it's just a Stephen Foster song to the Tyrone Powers.







TY HAS FILM WANDERLUST
By Aline Mosby ; December 3, 1952

HOLYWOOD. Dec. 3--Tyrone Power, the Rover Boy of Hollywood, decided today he prefers to make his movies far away from Hollywood because life can be a little narrow and dull around here.

For nearly four years, 20th Century-Fox studio has shipped the handsome profile on so many "location" movies around the world that the headwaiter at Ciro's doesn't know him any more.

The "foreign" movie star emoted in Italy, Africa, England and the Philippines. We dashed back to Hollywood a year ago for one film--and even that was shot on location in the California mountains.

His current picture, "Diplomatic Courier," was scheduled to be filmed in Trieste. but the director's health kept it home. So Power's acting in his first movie entirely filmed in Hollywood since 1948.

The minute this winds up, he and wife Linda Christian are packing their bags again.

"I never stay around Hollywood unless I'm working and I have to," Power explained. "We're going to Mexico to see Mrs. Power's family. and next spring I hope to make another picture abroad.

"I prefer getting away from Hollywood. You get a broader outlook. who says you have to stick around here and read the trade papers every day?"

Around the Plaster city, he says all a guy bears is talk about movies and he figures this gets to be a bit monotonous when there is the rest of the world to look at. [I like to view different] ways of life. I like to make new friends."

With Power it was a case of Jin the movies and see the world." He hadn't traveled much until Fox shipped him over to Italy for "The Prince of Foxes." There he met the beauteous Linda, a seasoned traveler herself.

Ever since they've been dining at Maxim's in Paris instead of at Romanoff's...And strolling down beyond Street instead of Sunset Blvd. Even their temporary home here doesn't look California-sih. Power describes it as "an old Italian house fixed over to look like a Bermuda place."

Having their first baby last month didn't make stay-at-homes out of them, either.

"The baby is too young for our Mexico trip. But next spring she'll go abroad with us," he said.

"I prefer not to work here because I think movies are better when they're shot on actual location. You get the feel of the people. The only places I haven't been now are the Scandinavian countries and India.

"I'm very fortunate," he added, "to have a career that allows me to travel."








Little Old New York
THE POWER HOUSE
By Ed Sullivan
February 22, 1953

The Power House

The first Tyrone Power, great-grandfather of the movie star who is now at the Century theatre, created a sensation on the stage of the Park Theatre, New York City, as long ago as 1833. In coming of stature in Stephen Vincent Bennet's "John Brown's Body," the great-grandson finally has attained the dramatic distinction of the Tyrone Powers who went before him.

Tyrone Power the Elder, his great-grandfather, was born in the County of Waterford, Ireland, Nov. 2, 1795, and great up to become a famous Irish actor. His stage success was so enormous that he was brought to American for three tours, in 1833, 1836 and again in 1840. After this last tour, Power and 122 shipmates aboard the 1,600-ton steamer President were drowned when it foundered in a storm off Nantucket Shoals, en route to Ireland.

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Great-grandfather Tyrone had four sons. One of them, Harold, the movies star's grandfather, was an intimate of Gilbert and Sullivan and George DuMaurier. Gilbert penned a two-hour show for grandfather Harold and his wife which they brought to Chickering Hall, in 1877.

In this Entertainment, as it was characterized in the advertising, Grandfather Power and his wife, at Gilbert's insistence, employed a bare stage. Seventy-six years later, another Tyrone Power is appearing in a play which stresses absence of scenery.

One of Grandfather Power's brothers, William Tyrone Power, was knighted by Queen Victoria for gallantry in the Crimean War, and became quite stuffy.

When he learned that Harold's son, Tyrone the Younger (father of the movie star), wanted to go on the London stage, he persuaded the family to ship the youth off to Florida to learn orange-growing.

But the young man thwarted Sir William.

Five years after he ran away to St. Augustine, Fla., to join Ralph Bell's stock company in 1886, the youngster's extraordinary talent won him a place in the 'distinguished company of the great Augustine Daly. He later co-starred with a supported such giants of the theatre as Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Julia Marlow, Mrs. Fiske, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Florence Roberts, William Faversham, Frank Keenan, Joseph Haworth and Henrietta Crosman.

As the final blow to Sir William, Tyrone the Younger played a Command Performance before Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle with famed Herbert Beebohm-Tree. Sir William never quite got over that complete repudiation of his judgement.

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Just as independent in his thinking as his father, today's Tyrone Power got into pictures the hard way, at the Chicago Century of Progress. He stood outside a concession which lured unwary tourists by promising to show them how moving pictures were made in Hollywood. Neither he nor the operators of the concession ever had been west of Chicago. They had one phony moving picture camera, the usual prop chairs which were supposed to have supported famous director, and that was it.

But Power, the shill or barker, did a heluva job in attracting young femmes and their mothers. They took one look at him and rushed to buy tickets. Instead of going inside, they just hung around the entrance and kept looking at Ty.

Because of his family's illustrious theatre background, Katharine Cornell engaged him as an understudy in one of her shows. Movie scouts discovered him, screen-tested him and he was off to Zanuckville-on-the-Los Angeles River.

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The public made him a star in curious fashion. He'd played a small part in "Girl's Dormitory," designed to launch, Simone Simon as the newest Fox star. the public ignored Simone, but girls started demanding information about the dark-haired boy who'd played one scene with her.

When director Henry King was casting "Lloyds of London," he told Zanuck he couldn't find a young juvenile to fit the role. "Take a look at a kid who's been getting a bundle of fan mail on the lot," said the producer. That picture made Tyrone Power a star overnight. Unfortunately for him, he was so good-looking that the studio rushed him into one picture after another, without too much regard for story quality. He rarely distinguished himself.

Two years ago, Tyrone insisted that he be permitted to play "Mister Roberts" in London. The blood of Tyrone the Elder was beginning to stir. The surge never receded. Today he has come into complete stardom.











POWER QUITS ROLE IN UNIVERSAL FILM
Actor Too Busy for Studio's 'Bengal Rifle,' Despite Profit Participation Feature
[July 20, 1953]

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. July 20--Tyrone Power will be too busy to make "Bengal Rifle," the picture for which he had entered into a profit participation deal with Universal. He was to have made the film in the fall with Ted Richmond, the producer, and Rudolph Mate the director, who worked on "Mississippi Gambler" one of the studio's biggest money makers this year. the studio plans to go ahead with the picture, after finding another leading man.

Power gave as his reason for giving up the role the fact that he is starring in "King of the Khyber rifles" at Fox, and soon will start a 26 week tour in "John Brown's Body.".....Louis King, who left Twentieth Century-Fox two years ago, is expected to return to the studio under a new five year directorial contract. His first assignment will be "The Australian Story", announced as a Tyrone Power vehicle.....[1953] Tyrone Power is expected to appear in the screen version of Kenneth Robert's novel, "Lydia Bailey," at Fox. Although both Linda Darnell and Micheline Prelle have been announced by the studio at various times as the leading woman in the film, the assignment is still open, according to today's intelligence. the picture will start late next month with Jules Schermer producing and Jean Negulesco directing.....

















TYRONE POWER WILL SET UP OWN ITALY PRODUCING UNIT
By Joe Hyams ; August 19, 1953

HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 18--Tyrone Power, the latest big name star to plan his own independent production, said this morning is going to set up his own producing company in Italy, using Italian backing for his first film, which he expects to be "Lorenzo the Magnificent." His reasons for the move are three-fold: hi likes the leisurely life of Italy; production costs can be held down, and his financing is coming from Rome.




















TY, LINDA MARRIAGE ON ROCKS AFTER A COLLISION OF CAREERS
New York Daily News
By Florabel Muir ; October 19, 1954

Hollywood, Oct. 18--Tyrone Power and Linda Christian separated today over "conflicting careers" almost five years after their marriage in Rome set off a near-riot among soxers.

Power moved out of their Beverly Hills home and into a hotel, but said there were "no immediate plans for divorce."

In a statement through Twentieth Century Fox, Power said he and the red-haired actress were "incompatible' because of conflicting careers. He said there were no outside romanced responsible for the breakup.

Ty and Linda, Mexican born daughter of a Dutch oilman, have two daughters, Romina Francesca, 3, and Taryn, 2.

This is the 30 year old Linda's first marriage. Power, 39, was divorced by actress Annabella in 1948 after nine years.

The Catholic Church did not recognize Ty's fist civil wedding and allowed him to marry Linda on Jan. 27, 1949, in one of Rome's historic churches. The Pope received them after the ceremony.

Linda in Television

Linda gave up a promising movie career when she married Power, but recently has been appearing frequently on television.

Power, a film idol for almost two decades, ends his 18 year contract with 20th Century this weekend and heads for a starring role on Broadway.

He is scheduled to appear with Katharine Cornell late next month in Christopher Fry's new play, "The Dark is Light Enough."









LINDA SUES TO SHED TY;PURDOM DIVORCE DELAYED
April 19, 1955

Hollywood, April 19.--Linda Christian, whose heart does flips over actor Edmund Purdom, sued film star Tyrone Power for divorce today. She charged grievous cruelty.

But Purdom, whose heart had been doing the same thing over the red-haired Linda, agreed--somewhat reluctantly--to hold up for 90 days his own divorce suit.

Purdom, estranged from his wife Tita, began his suit four months ago.

Linda and Purdom turned up in different courts at the same time.

Miss Christian, who has been estranged from Ty since last October, appeared in Santa Monica court but gave no specific instances of her cruelty charges.

She said agreement had been reached with Ty on their children, Romina, 3 1/2, and Taryn, 1 1/2. They will be with her for 10 months, with Power two, and Ty Will have supervision of their education.

Lot of Money, Lot of Property

The property settlement has not yet Been put in writing. It involves a lot of money and a lot of property. Power's divorce form French actress Annabella cost him $50,000 a year alimony.

Linda, 30, and Power, 39, were married nine years ago after a year long international romance.

They were married under floodlights in Rome, the church sanctioning the marriage because it did not recognize the civil ceremony that united Ty and Annabella.

Blames All on Purdom

Ty blamed the breakup of their marriage on that British fellow Purdom.

The Purdoms became estranged a month after the Powers busted up. Edmund wanted his wife to get the divorce. She refuse because they are Catholics.

Like the Powers, the Purdoms have two little children, so Mrs. Purdom took recourse to the children's Court of reconciliation, where broken families go to patch things up.

When Edmund agreed with Judge Louis Burke's suggestion that he hold off his divorce suite for 90 days--in hope reconciliation--Mrs. Purdom walked across the room to where her husband sat.

Purdom promptly arose, turned his back on her and walked out. "I didn't want my picture taken with her," he explained.













Linda Christian Sued
Feb. 8, 1955

LOS ANGELES (AP) --Suit for return of $132,500 worth of jewlelry has been filed against Linda Christian, who is separated from her husband Tyrone Power. It was filed by Van Clee & Arpels, Inc., New York jewelry concern. The suite alleges that on Jan. 11 Robert H. Schlesinger, member of a wealth Milwaukee family, gave a check for $100,000 to Van Cleef & Arpels on account. The check proved to be worthless A demand for payment or return of the jewelry was turned aside, the suit said.





LINDA GETS MILLION AND A DIVORCE
May 4, 1955

SANTA MONICA, CALIF., May 4 (AP)--Linda Christian has lost Tyrone Power but gained a million dollar divorce settlement.

A superior court judge yesterday awarded the Mexican born actress and uncontested divorce from Power, third generation star of a famous theatrical name.

Miss Christian, 30, said between crying spells: "He wanted to be alone."

Power's first wife, French actress Annabella, used a similar story in 1948 to win $50,000 a year alimony.

OVER 3 YEARS AGO

Miss Christian disclosed the marriage nearly ended three years ago, she testified:

We were house guests in Nassan in December of 1952. Mr. Power was very distant, so much so that our hostess remarked about it.

"Then he said he wanted his freedom. I hadn't told him yet that we were going to have our baby. when I did he said 'all right, we'll think about it a little longer."

When her lawyer started reading a letter Power wrote to her in 1953, Miss Christian sobbed. The letter began:

"My dearest, it seems we cannot help hurting each other. I was never able to give you the one thing you really wanted--understanding."

Once more in the letter, Power asked for his freedom.

NO WEDDING PLANS

Linda told reporters she had no plans to marry British actor Edmund Purdom with whom she has been linked romantically, she said: "I am gong to Spain to make a picture in a few days. I will not see him."









IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT
Tyrone Calls on Eva: Vot Vil Zsa Zasa Say?
By Earl Wilson ; May 7, 1955

Girl Talk...

Dream man Tyrone Power astonished NBC folks last night by dropping into Eva Gabors dressing room when she did "Justice."

Ty and Eva--who was looking very expensive in a chic housecoat--allowed Gary Wagner, the peripatetic photographer, to shoot 'em sitting together on a chaise lounge.

I don't want to start any family rows, but gosh, it was just a couple of weeks ago that a confident claim was being laid to Ty by another Gabor--sister Zsa Zsa........







LINDA AND TYRONE TO MEET TODAY
June 3, 1957

PARIS, June 3 (INS)--Actress Linda Christian and her former husband, Tyrone Power are planning a little talk in Paris tomorrow--but apparently not about reconciliation.

Linda said: "I will not ask Ty for a reconciliation. I never asked him for anything. I am not going to ask him now."

Power, who has already said there is no chance of a reconciliation, told International News Service he and Linda are planning a private get together. Asked if she still love Power, Linda looks wistful and said: "I don't think I can answer that. Don't you think I must have a deep feeling for the man I married and the father of my children?"

Commenting on the publicity she and Power have received since the recent death of the Marquis de Portago, Linda said: "There is just one thing about this. One of us has to bear the brunt of this unpleasantness. Ty is a well known public figure. It is he who sells the tickets, I don't care really, but I wish I didn't have to do all the suffering."







FOX WILL REMAKE 'BLOOD AND SAND'
Third Version of Ibanez Story to Star Sophia Loren--Owen Verdon Signed
Sep. 2, 1957

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 1--Another version the third of the motion picture classic "Blood and Sand" will be produced next year by Twentieth Century-Fox, according to Buddy Adler, executive head of the studio productions, Sophia Loren, Italian actress, will co-star with an unselected American actor. In the drama of bullfighting.

Based on the novel by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, the story was initially produced by Paramount in 1922, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi. In 1941, Fox remade the picture with a cast headed by Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth.....

















IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT
By Earl Wilson
Nov. 17, 1958

......Errol Flynn--usually laughing--looked grave. Tyrone Power had been about his closest friend. "They usually say when a man dies, 'His time has come,' but I don't think Ty's time had come yet," he said grimly at "21".

Veteran B'way Talent Scout Joe Pincus discovered Power in '35 when he had a bit part in a Katharine Cornell "Romeo and Juliet," got him $400 a week at 20th Century, and Darryl Zanuck gave him a lead in "Lloyd's of London." Was he a success? Why, his alimony to Annabella and Linda Christian was said to have totaled $3,000 per week! Power regularly visited Pincus to thank him. "He was such a nice guy who never got big-headed and never thought he was significant," said Pincus--who also sent Don Ameche to Hollywood.

















LINDA WINS CUSTODY IN POWER SUIT
December 20, 1959

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. (UPI)--Actress Linda Christian won legal custody of her two children by the late Tyrone Power, and petitioned in their behalf for a share of the actor's estate. She estimated it at $5,000,000.

Miss Christian, second wife of the actor, was made legal guardian of Romina Francesca, 7, and Taryn Stephanie, 5, in an appearance before Probate Judge Harold W. Schweitzer.

LINDA ASKS $1,300 MONTHLY

She then filed the petition asking a total of $1,300 a month for the town children form the estate.

Power's will, made known 10 days ago, made no provision for Miss Christian or his first wife, Annabella. It specified that the actor, who died of a heart attack in Madrid last month, provided sufficiently for them while he lived.

The will was divided equally six ways among his widow, Deborah; her unborn child; Romina and Taryn; his mother and sister.

Miss Christian said Power's estate includes real estate, cash and interests in films in which he starred.

LEGAL PRELIMINARY

Attorney James Fizzolio said the guardianship action is a necessary preliminary to filing suit for support.

Power's settlement with Miss Christian, which provided for her to retain custody of the children, called for substantial alimony. It has been estimated Miss Christian collected more than $1,000,000 from the actor under its provision prior to Power's death.








HOLLYWOOD'S MR. ROMANCE
Rumor Links Ty Power With Each New Leading Lady. Nothing to It, Says He
By Hedda Hopper
1958

HOLLYWOOD - I figure that every actress should take a crack at interviewing just to show her how a columnist has to dig for her bread and butter. So, when I found Katy Jurado in Tyrone Powers dressing room in Mexico City, where he was making "The Sun Also Rises," I said: "Give with the questions, girl; I'll take care of the notes."

"O, good!" exclaimed Katy. "How you begin?" (If Katy skips a few English words occasionally, attribute it to her rapidity and enthusiasm for speech.)

"Start with what makes the world go around," I said. "Love."

"That's for me," said Katy, and Ty began to look like a man trapped in a cave.

Well he might have. Between marriages, he can get more romantic reports stared about himself than any other guy in pictures. In former days he could scarcely get thru a picture without the publicity department having him betrothed to his leading lady, and his luck is no better now.

Before seeing him with Katy, I had done a bit of snooping, and came up with these reports: Ty was engaged to Swedish Actress Mai Zetterling, reconciling with ex-wife Linda Christian, and seeing a lot of French chanteuse Juliette Greco. Before the day was over, the Mexican radio announced he was engaged to Katy Jurado, too.

What you look for most in a woman?" asked Katy, determined to get on with the interview. "Health," said Ty laconically. "Check," said Katy. "I am very healthy."

"Objectivity," I admonished. "This is an interview, not a courtship."

"OK," said Katy, "You like health in a woman. What else?"

"Maturity," said Ty.

"What you mean maturity; you want the healthy old woman?" she asked.

"Somebody with a definite viewpoint toward life," said Ty. "Let's put it this way: I dislike amateurs at this stage."

"Well, would you consider [____] to school by 7; of wanting a Broadway play that wouldn't flop.

but I had my angle on Ty. He is never happy unless working. He goes right from this picture into "Witness for the Prosecution," with Marlene Dietrich. After this, he's going to look for a play in England. He's not lonely, and his marriage with Linda is washed up.

About Mai Zetterling? She went to Mexico to make a film plug with Ty for their picture "Abandon Ship" and stayed 10 days. But he's not engaged. He's been going out with Juliette Greco; also Katy.

Long ago, when Ty was head over heels in love with Lana Turner, I protested she wasn't right for him. He said then: "You don't know the real Lana. I'll bring her to your house and show you." he did, and, just as he'd convinced me she was the love of his life, he went off and married Linda Christian.

I suppose his true love is acting. He represents the oldest theatrical family in modern history. Even older than the Barrymores and Drews.

Ty started his career at the Chicago World's Fair. But actually he made his acting debut at the age of 6 playing in Indian boy at San Gabriel mission. After this he toured with his father in Shakespeare.

What are some of the outstanding qualities you prefer?" I asked.

"Loyalty to people and things you really like," he said.

Jim Denton has been with Ty 21 years. Bill Gallagher lasted as his personal manager for the same length of time. Director Henry King made a star of Ty in "Lloyds of London." This is the tenth picture he's done with King.







THE LYONS DEN
By Leonard Lyons ; 1950

STAR: It was at Subic Bay where "American Guerrilla in the Phillippines" was being filmed. The scene was to show refugees fleeing with their belongings. Fritz Lang, the director, distributed packages for each member of the cast to carry, then shouted to Tyrone Power: "Hey, Ty, what are you carrying?..."The plot," replied the star, "the plot."

That's the way it was in so many of the movies made by the handsomest of all Hollywood actors. Directors knew that his name on the marquee would compensate for any deficiency in the plot..Power had little formal schooling. His father, he said, demanded only that he read Shakespeare aloud for 30 minutes each day. "Even if you don't understand it, read it aloud." Reading Shakespeare, he felt, would develop the young man's mind and voice.

His looks brought him attention wherever he went, except at his own studio. Once, at 20th Century-Fox, where he was making "Nightmare Alley," I saw him enter the commissary, costumed for his role. He wore a grimy suit, a soiled, tattered shirt, a dirt-stained cap and his hands, face and teeth stained with grime. Zanuck greeted him, "Hello, Ty, are you working?"

He checked into a N.Y. hotel during a summer heat wave, found the room too warm and phoned the manager: "Please send up two fans--two youngsters complete with autograph books

.....when he enlisted to be a Marine Corps pilot, at the base in corpus Christi, he had to be inoculate over and over again--because autograph hunters ripped his name off the registry he signed each time as a record of the event.

when he was commissioned a second lieutenant, he filled out the customary questionnaire--including the inquiry about ambition in civilian life. He wrote "Uncertain." Before he went overseas he walked down 5th Ave., with his wife who nudged him to notice huge diamond clips worn by a lady approaching them. "I don't look at ladies chests," said Lt. Power, "only at men's shoulders."

In South Africa he was presented with a stuffed, life-size pink elephant, and was told he could keep it on the lawn of his Hollywood home. He had to decline the gift explaining that such a sight would ruin his neighbors' drinking....Elia Kazan, who directed Power in a movie [SIC], told him: "A producer once said that if I went to a plastic surgeon and got a nose like yours, he'd make me a star. I didn't go."

We'd see him nights at the Little Club, the Stork and El Morocco, ever besieged by admirers but still sounding those revelations of insecurity inherent in all stars. He said he'd been working in a Katharine Cornell-Guthrie McClintic show when he received his movie offer. McClintic advised him to accept it. "But I never could be sure," said Tyrone Power, "If McClintic was speaking as a friend of mine or as a friend of the Broadway theater."....












AUTHOR SAYS BOOK PUBLIC IN U.S. HAS 'GROWN UP'
New York York Herald Tribune ; April 15, 1953

The American reading public has "grown up" and is willing to read stories about the suffering of the wounded in Korea as well as accounts of the heroes, W. E. White, author and journalist, said yesterday at the Book and Author Luncheon at the Astor.

Mr. White's latest book, "Back Down to Ridge," tells the story of what happens to the fighting man wounded in Korea from the time they are hit on the battle until they reach a hospital in the United States. Confessing now that he was a bit apprehensive about the reaction to his book, Mr. White said he wasn't sure at the time to what extent literature is part of show business, and wondered whether a book devoted entirely to the Americans wounded in the Korean fighting would find a public.

Book Liked by Soldiers

Not only was he pleased that the book was well received by American readers, Mr. White said, but he spoke of the number of letters he had received form combat soldiers who were grateful for his story. He also mentioned that "Stars and Stripes," the Army newspaper, was running the book in serialized form, because it was felt that it would help to lift the morale of the soldiers to know how well they would be cared for if they were wounded.

Mr. White was one of the three speakers at the final Book and Author Lunceon for the 1952-53 season. the luncheons are sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune and the American Booksellers Association. The other speakers were Quentin Reynolds, whose new book, "The Amazing Mr. Doolittle," is the saga to Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, one of America's great flyers, and Tyrone Power, actor.

Mr. Power read selections from "John Brown's Body," by Stephen Vincent Benet. Mr. Power, with Raymond Massey and Judith Anderson, formed the trio that gave the dramatic reading, directed by Charles Laughton, of this epic poem on Broadway on a nation-wide tour.

Mr. Reynolds said that in gathering material for his book on Gen. Doolittle he interviewed some 200 men whose lives had been influenced by Doolittle, and "I couldn't find one man who disliked him or didn't think he was one of great men of history."

Mrs. Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the Herald Tribune, presided.







LINDA CHRISTIAN FILES SUIT TO DIVORCE TYRONE POWER
New York Times ; 1953

HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (IP)--Linda Christian, actress, files suit for divorce today against Tyrone Power, actor, charging his "cruelty" put their marriage on the rocks.

After a separation of six months, Miss Christian brought suit in near-by Santa Monica. Attorneys had reached an oral agreement on division of property. the complaint charged unspecified acts of cruelty and said the forty-year old actor had caused her "grievous mental suffering."

In addition to a division of community property, Miss Christian, who is thirty, asked the court to award her "reasonable" support for herself and their two children, Romina, three and a half, and Taryn, one and a half.

Mr. Power is in Boston appearing in a play with Katharine Cornell. He formerly was married to French actress Annabella.

Wedding in Rome

He and Miss Christian were married in Rome on Jan. 27, 1949. The wedding drew a shrieking crowd of more than 8,000 women and a huge police forced was required to maintain order.

Miss Christian at the time of her separation said that she wanted to follow a film career but Mr. Power did not approve.

Miss Christian's name figured in a recent suit by a New York jewelry firm, Van Cleef & Arpels, to recover more than $100,000 worth of jewels given her by an admirer, Robert Schlesinger of Milwaukee. The jewelry firm charged he stopped payment on a check for the jewels.

Miss Christian refused to give up custody of the jewelry pending a court hearing and her attorney said the jewels were not considered part of the [agreement].

It has been rumored that the Power's estrangement was caused by Miss Christian's interest in British actor Edmund Purdom. He has denied the rumors.

Mr. Purdom is estranged from his wife, Tita, and has instituted divorce proceedings. The Purdoms met today for the second time in a week in the Children's Court for Conciliation.

After a three-hour discussion with Superior Judge Louis H. Burke, Mr. Purdom agreed to suspend his divorce proceedings for ninety days. Mrs. Purdom had thrown the case into the conciliation Court with a petition seeking a patch their differences.

The Purdoms have three children and under California law in cases involving children either party may petition for a delay in a divorce pending conciliation attempts. Mr. Purdom had said he did not think a reconciliation was possible, but agreed to the delay.







LINDA UNTIES HER TY AND COLLECTS MILLION
New York Daily News ; May 4, 1955

Hollywood, May 3 (UP).--
A tearful Linda Christian won a divorce and a million-dollar property settlement today from Tyrone Power.

The 30-year-old red-haired actress testified that Power, 39, was "cold and distant" and he preferred to be alone.

Superior Judge Edward Brand granted an interlocutory divorce decree after a 15 minute hearing in Santa Monica.

Linda also received custody of their two little girls aged 1 1/2 and 3 1/2, who may visit Power two months each year. Attorneys for Miss Christian refused to estimate the amount of alimony and property settlement, but friends said it would be more than $1,000,000.

Percentage of Income

In the property settlement Power must pay Linda and their daughters a percentage of his income with a minimum of $15,000 and a maximum of $50,000 for the first two years and after that not more than $43,000 annually.

She also will receive 36% of Power's interest in a picture, "Mississippi Gambler," and 40% of his interest in "The Long Gray Line."

Power must pay the alimony for 11 years and one month unless she remarries. she also received half interest in their home here plus a house at Cuernevaca, Mexico. The Powers were married in 1949.

The name of actor Edmund Purdom, Linda's steady escort since she separated from power last fall, was not mentioned in the hearing. Later reporters asked her if she planned to marry Purdom, who is estranged from his wife, Tita. But Linda said, "I have no plans at the moment for anything like that at all."

She testified Power told her two and a half years ago that he wanted to end the marriage. He first became "cool and distant and very abrupt in his manner" when they were houseguests of a friend in Nassau in December, 1952, she said.

"He asked then for his freedom," she said. "I hadn't told him that I was going to have a baby so I told him that. He said he'd think about it. He asked if I would go to Mexico and stay with my mother."

Reads His Letter

Power telephoned her in Mexico, Linda said, and told her again that he wanted his freedom. while she dabbed at her eyes with her handkerchief, the actress' attorney, Samuel Zagon, read a letter Power wrote to her while she was in Mexico. Zagon quoted Power as writing:

"My actions in Nassau must have left a great many things unsaid....we can't help hurting each other one way or another...you often said I never have been able to give you the one thing you always wanted--understanding...you must have realized something was wrong with me."







TY, LINDA SUES TO SHED TY; PURDOM DIVORCE DELAYED
New York Daily News
By Florabel Muir ; April 20, 1955

Hollywood, April 19---Linda Christian, whose heart does flips over actor Edmund Purdom, sued film star Tyrone Power for divorce today. She charged grievous cruelty.

But Purdom, whose heart has been doing the same thing over the red-haired Linda, agreed--somewhat reluctantly--to hold up for up for 90 days his own divorce suite.

Purdom, estranged from his wife Tita, began his suit four months ago.

Linda and Purdom turned up in different courts at the same time.

Miss Christian, who has been estranged from Ty since last October, appeared in Santa Monica Court but gave no specific instances of her cruelty charges.

She said agreement had been reached with Ty on their children, Romina 3 1/2, and Taryn, 1 1/2. They will be with her for 10 months, with Power two, and Ty will have supervision of their education.

Lot of Money, Lot of Property

The property settlement has not yet been put in writing. It involves a lot of money and a lot of property. Power's divorce from French actress Annabella cost him $50,000 a year alimony.

Linda, 30, and Power, 39, were married nine years ago after a year-long international romance.

They were married under floodlights in Rome, the Church sanctioning the marriage because it did not recognize the civil ceremony that united Ty and Annabella.

Blames All on Purdom

Ty blamed the breakup of their marriage on that British fellow Purdom.

The Purdoms became estranged a month after the Powers busted up. Edmund wanted his wife to get the divorce. She refused because they are Catholics. Judge Louis Burke's suggestion that he hold off his divorce suit 90 days--in hope of reconciliation--Mrs. Purdom walked across the room to where her husband sat.

Purdom promptly arose, turned his back on her and walked out.

"I didn't want my picture taken with her," he explained.







HE'S SINGLE AND HAPPY
[Hollywood's Changing Scene]
By Bob Thomas
New York Journal-American ; May 22, 1957

MEXICO CITY: What has happened to Hollywood, once the undisputed entertainment capital of the world?

More and more stars--like Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Joan Crawford--have moved their homes to other parts of the country or the world, coming "home" only to make occasional movies.

this is an important change from Hollywood of the '30s and '40s. I got some insight on the change from another of the fames evacuees, Tyrone Power. He has kept his Hollywood house because he wants a permanent home for his two children by Linda Christian.

But Ty prefers to go where his career takes him--to Paris and here for "The Sun Also Rises," to England for stage and screen work. He also keeps an apartment in New York.

I caught him in a relaxed moment in his Hotel Bamer suite and asked why he, a longtime Californian, had virtually given up the sunny state.

AFFECTED BY SMOG

"One reason is the weather," he said. "When I was working at Columbian, I noticed the smog really affected me quite badly. It's a terrible situation.

"And then there's the traffic. I didn't realize how bad it had gotten. Drives that used to take 20 minutes now stretch to 35 and 40.

"Another reason is what has happened to Hollywood itself. There used to be a fairly well defined movie colony of people you knew. Now a lot of those people have gone away and others, not necessarily of the movie business, have come in.

"Movies used to be of supreme importance in Hollywood. Now they are just an adjunct."

The newcomers to Hollywood don't have the flair of their predecessors, he commented. I agreed, declaring such colorful figures as himself are missed.

"Granted Errol Flynn and I are ageing," he laughed. "You'd think there would be young ones coming along to take our places. but the things the new people do seem a little chintzy. they don't have much flavor."

NO THOUGHT OF MARRIAGE

I asked him if he was planning to add to the movie lore with another marriage.

"No, no," he protested. "I won't say I'll never marry again, because that's pretty final. but I'm very happy the way I am now.

"I know several girls here and there who are excellent company and who have no thoughts of matrimony. Those who do are quickly discovered and eliminated.

"I've been single again for two years now, and I like it this way."

After an afternoon with his children, who are staying with Linda's mother here, Ty was preparing to go to the Mexican theatre. He marveled at the theatrical activity here--30 companies. He has long been stage-struck and spoke of the enthusiastic audiences in Dublin and London, where he played last year.

"The theatre belongs to everyone over there," he said. "It's too bad that it's so expensive in the U.S. If it weren't for expense accounts, I don't know how it would survive. Most guys can't afford the theatre unless they can put it on the swindle sheet."







LINDA MEETING TY IN PARIS
New York York Journal ; June 4, 1957
By Edward Ford

PARIS, June 4 (INS)--Linda Christian and former husband Tyrone Power are planning a little talk here today--but apparently not about a reconciliation.

"I will not ask Ty for a reconciliation," Linda said. "I never asked him for anything."

Power, who already has denied a possible reconciliation, said he and Linda are planning a private get-together.

"Either I will go to her hotel or have her come to mine for our talk," he said. "There will be no dinner or anything like that. We will not appear in public together."

Linda flew in from Cannes where she has been since the death of Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Spanish racing driver, killed in Italy recently.

Linda gave him his last kiss during the tragic Mille Miglia. After his death she said they had hoped to get married after he obtained a divorce.

Asked if she still loved Power, Linda wistfully replied:

"I don't think I can answer that. Don't you think I must have a deep feeling for the man I married and the father of my children."

Commenting on the publicity she and Power have received since de Portago's death, Linda said:

"One of us has to bear the [brunt] of this unpleasantness. He is a well-known public figure. It is he who sells the tickets. I don't care really, but I wish I didn't have to do all the suffering.













TY EYES MAI, BUT HE'S MARRIAGE SHY
By Sheilah Graham ; December 6, 1957

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 6--Tyrone Power slipped into Sweden to visit his long-time stanch friend, Mai Zetterling--then flew to New York to start his tour in Shaw's "Back to Methuselah." As for marriage with Mai. Ty admits he prefers the Swedish star to any other woman--but, with two failures, the man is marriage shy.

When Princess Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier go shopping in London, their entourage would put a Cecile B. DeMille to shame. They are followed by several detectives, a secretary and a group of Monaco officials. But so far it has been a case of just looking, not buying. .....

















TY POWER WEDS SOUTHERN BELLE
May 7, 1958

Tunica, Miss. May 7 (Special)--Actor Tyrone Power tried marriage for the third time today. He wed a beautiful dark-haired Southern belle who doesn't give two hoots about an acting career.

Power, 44, was previously married to actress Annabella and Linda Christian. His new bride is tall, stately Deborah Minardos, 26

Take Plane to L.A.

After the ceremony, the couple left for Memphis, where they boarded a Los Angeles-bound plane.

Deborah, daughter of well to do lumberman contractor Rice Hungerford 3d, had been Ty's only real romantic interest since his marriage to Linda Christian went on the rocks in 1955.

She had been married once previously, to actor Nico Minardos, but that marriage went pfffft two years ago after only two years.

All the principals involved, including the brides' parents and the Presbyterian minister, the Rev. T. T. Williams, who performed the ceremony, were keeping mum about the whole thing. Williams would only say, "I've promised not to say anything at all about it until later."

Flew From New York

Tyrone's bride, who was born in Greenwood, Miss., and attended the University of Mississippi, has lived away from her Tunica home for several years. She met Ty while he was on a nationwide tour with the theatre company performing "Back to Methuselah." They flew here from New York on Monday fro the marriage.

Ty's first marriage ended in 1948. When his second marriage, to Linda Christian, broke up, settlement was reported to have cost him over $1 million.










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