Quick Links Who Is Steve McQueen? How Did Steve McQueen Stage a Car Crash? Steve McQueen's Post-Magnificent Seven Career Steve McQueen's legendary coolness translates to real-life daring ingenuity in Hollywood career maneuvers. The breakout star's focus on expanding acting chops led to creative solutions to balance TV and film roles. McQueen's meticulous planning and drive to excel in acting forged a charismatic Hollywood persona.
Few actors in Hollywood history have embodied the definition of cool more than Steve McQueen. The Oscar-nominated actor and star of such iconic movies as The Great Escape, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, The Getaway, The Thomas Crown Affair, Le Mans, Papillon, and others lived on the edge of danger throughout his life and career. In 1980, McQueen died from a heart attack at age 50, cutting short one of the all-time great cinematic acting careers on record.
While McQueen fans know his penchant for driving and racing cars,...
Few actors in Hollywood history have embodied the definition of cool more than Steve McQueen. The Oscar-nominated actor and star of such iconic movies as The Great Escape, The Cincinnati Kid, Bullitt, The Getaway, The Thomas Crown Affair, Le Mans, Papillon, and others lived on the edge of danger throughout his life and career. In 1980, McQueen died from a heart attack at age 50, cutting short one of the all-time great cinematic acting careers on record.
While McQueen fans know his penchant for driving and racing cars,...
- 6/2/2024
- by Jake Dee
- MovieWeb
Quick Links What Is Trackdown? What Is President Trump's Border Policy? How Does Trackdown Predict Trump's Border Wall Policy?
The phrase "life imitates art" has never rung truer than in an eerily prophetic 1958 episode of the TV western Trackdown. In the show's 30th episode, "The End of the World," a con man named Walter Trump (Lawrence Dobkin) fools naive Texas villagers into believing that the end days are near. To seize power and control the village, Trump warns the locals that a looming existential threat requires the construction of a protective border wall, calling to mind President Donald Trump's infamous Mexican border policy that his 2016 campaign was built on.
In addition to predicting President Trump's border policy, the prescient Trackdown episode is loaded with one shocking premonition after another. As the legally embattled former Potus runs for re-election in 2024, the U.S./Mexican border issue will inevitably be raised,...
The phrase "life imitates art" has never rung truer than in an eerily prophetic 1958 episode of the TV western Trackdown. In the show's 30th episode, "The End of the World," a con man named Walter Trump (Lawrence Dobkin) fools naive Texas villagers into believing that the end days are near. To seize power and control the village, Trump warns the locals that a looming existential threat requires the construction of a protective border wall, calling to mind President Donald Trump's infamous Mexican border policy that his 2016 campaign was built on.
In addition to predicting President Trump's border policy, the prescient Trackdown episode is loaded with one shocking premonition after another. As the legally embattled former Potus runs for re-election in 2024, the U.S./Mexican border issue will inevitably be raised,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Jake Dee
- MovieWeb
Barbra Fuller, who starred as the daughter Claudia on the long-running radio soap opera One Man’s Family, all while appearing in films for Republic Pictures and such TV shows as Adventures of Superman, has died. She was 102.
Fuller, who lived in the Los Angeles area, died Wednesday, her godson J.P. Sloane announced.
On the San Francisco-set One Man’s Family, created by Carlton E. Morse, Fuller played one of the Barbour family’s five kids from 1945 until the NBC Radio drama completed its 27-year run in 1959. Her character, a twin with kids of her own, was gone from the program for a couple of years before she came aboard.
“It was a fun part. Claudia was a good girl with interesting qualities,” she said in Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers’ 2006 book, Ladies of the Western.
In 1949, Fuller signed with Republic and was under contract with the B-picture studio for a year,...
Fuller, who lived in the Los Angeles area, died Wednesday, her godson J.P. Sloane announced.
On the San Francisco-set One Man’s Family, created by Carlton E. Morse, Fuller played one of the Barbour family’s five kids from 1945 until the NBC Radio drama completed its 27-year run in 1959. Her character, a twin with kids of her own, was gone from the program for a couple of years before she came aboard.
“It was a fun part. Claudia was a good girl with interesting qualities,” she said in Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers’ 2006 book, Ladies of the Western.
In 1949, Fuller signed with Republic and was under contract with the B-picture studio for a year,...
- 5/18/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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