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Golden Boy —The Dramatic Ups and Downs of Actor William Holden
It was Hollywood in early 1950, and legendary director Billy Wilder had a big issue. In two weeks, shooting would open on his next film, “Sunset Boulevard,” and his mercurial young star, Montgomery Clift, had just backed out of playing the lead.
Clift was set to portray Joe Gillis, a struggling author who agrees to draft the screenplay for silent screen star Norma Desmond’s comeback picture, only to become her slightly unwilling lover.
It was a tricky part that not everyone would vault at, including Fred MacMurray, who had worked with Wilder on “Double Indemnity” six years earlier. He simply did not want to play a gigolo. The recently arrived Marlon Brando was considered, but he was still unproven, with no movie credits. Gene Kelly was approached, but was unavailable.
It was only then that Wilder thought of William Holden. Holden was then a star of the second rank; he always got his name above the title, but the movies he made were pretty standard: war pictures, romances, light comedies.
The handsome, affable Holden had broken through a decade earlier in the high-profile s
(CBS News) The off-screen behavior of some of our biggest stars diverges somewhat from their on-screen personas. Here's Anthony Mason with a Hollywood Confidential:
At a poolside party in Los Angeles, an 88-year-old bartender serves up cocktails and conversation. His mention is Scotty Bowers, and for half a century he had another occupation, which made him intimately acquainted with some of Hollywood's best-kept secrets.
He did not retain a little inky book, he told Mason, but kept it all in his head.
In the Golden Era of Hollywood - the 1940s and '50s - the studios carefully manicured the images of their stars, and fiercely guarded their private lives.
But Bowers knew there was another side to the metropolis, a sort of subterranean Hollywood.
Off the set, many stars had wild appetites they could not acknowledge.
Bowers says he discreetly arranged "companionship" for Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Tyrone Power, William Holden, even FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.
"Somebody said to George Cukor, the director, 'You know, Scotty's a hustler,'" Bowers recalled. "He said, 'Yes, but he's a gentleman hustler!'"
"That meant something to you?
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Candle in the Dark
- A Holiday Anthology
- By: Gabriel Belthir, J Coatsworth, Emily Moreton, and others
- Narrated by: Evan Harris
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
In almost all traditions, winter has been a time to huddle around the fire and be thankful for those the fire is shared with....
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The years of his drinking started taking its toll on Holden's chiseled looks by the 1960s. Despite being relatively young still, he was considered Hollywood old college and began losing roles to younger stars like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. This in turn caused Holden to liquid more. He did continue to make some good movies like: The Wild Bunch (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), and his last movie S.O.B. (1981). However, by that time he was no longer the handsome principal man of movies.
In 1981, Holden was living in Santa Monica, California, on Ocean Avenue. He was partial owner of the building at #535. The Shorecliff Towers.