UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15482562
Format:
58 Min.
Content:
Before James Dean and Marlon Brando, before Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, there was John Garfield. A tough kid who grew up in the 1920's on the streets of the Lower East Side, Brownsville and the Bronx, Garfield (whose original name was Julius Garfinkle) was one of the first dark-haired, working-class ethnic outsiders to turn into a Hollywood star, following the path of actors like James Cagney. Garfield's chip-on-the-shoulder style and his rugged looks often cast him as a social outsider on the screen: a boxer, a gangster, a soldier. The persona affected actors from the 1950's onward. His relatively brief but dazzling career was cut short by a heart condition and the Hollywood blacklist. He was never a Communist, but he refused to name those, including his wife, Roberta, who had been. He died of a heart attack in 1952 at 39, and 10,000 fans gathered outside Riverside Memorial Chapel in Manhattan. At the time it was the largest turnout for a celebrity funeral in New York since Rudolph Valentino's... ''He's a forgotten star,'' said David Heeley, one of the producers of ''The John Garfield Story,''... (Bernard Weintraub: Recalling John Garfield, Rugged Star KO'd by Fate, New York Times, 30.1.2003)
Note:
Orig.: USA, 2003
In:
The postman always rings twice : [DVD-Video mit Movietext], [London], 2009, (2009)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Garfield, John
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Biographie
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DVD-Video
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Garfield, John
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Schauspielkunst
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Film
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DVD-Video
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Biographie
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DVD-Video
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Biografie
Author information:
Scorsese, Martin
