Posted on 05/25/2007 7:22:02 PM PDT by LouAvul
“....You could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
I saw him on the Carson show once, going off about everything and every one. Carson couldn't control the situation and had to lean back with a sick grin on his face as Hayden acted the perfect mentally disturbed guest catching the interviewer and producer by surprise. That was the only time I ever saw Carson at a complete loss and paralyzed into inaction.
Did you know the original line was “...pretty good weekend in Dallas...?” They had finished shooting when the Kennedy assassination happened, so they dubbed “Vegas.” If you watch Slim Pickens’s lips, you can see it.
“You gentlemen can’t fight in here; this is the War Room!”
Very interesting; thanks for the info.
Didn't he testify against commies, and then regret it, characterizing as a (failure of nerve?)?
Speaking of the Coca-Cola company, that reminds me of another great Cold-War era comedy, "One, Two, Three."
My fav.
Watched it for the first time with my husband and his co-workers many years ago.
I don’t remember that, exactly, but it would have been a typical Hayden moment. During WW2 he was an OSS agent and went behind enemy lines in Europe to help organize resistance groups, snatch people, etc. His most eccentric act I think was outfitting his sailboat with .50 cal machine guns and going U-boat hunting. He acted out the real swashbuckler during the war and nearly got himself killed doing it. He’s real lucky he never ran into a U-boat - they would have shot his sailboat to matchsticks.
BTW: Jack D. Ripper was RIGHT about the flouridation of water. ;-)
Hayden became a print model and later signed a contract with Paramount Studios, who dubbed the 6' 5" (1.96 m) actor The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies and The Beautiful Blond Viking God. His first film starred Madeleine Carroll, with whom he fell in love and married. But after just two film roles, he left Hollywood to serve as an undercover agent with William J. Donovan's COI office. He remained there after it became the OSS. Hayden also joined the Marines under the name John Hamilton (which was never his legal name). His World War II service included running guns through German lines to the Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into fascist Croatia. He won the Silver Star and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.
His admiration for the Communist partisans led to a brief membership in the Communist Party. According to his IMDB biography, as the Red Scare deepened in U.S., "he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties" and 'naming names'. His wife at that time, Betty De Noon, insisted that the 'names' her ex-husband provided were already in the hands of the Committee, which had a copy of the Communist Party's membership list. In any event, Hayden subsequently repudiated his own cooperation with the Committee, stating in his autobiography "I don't think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden
Jack D. Ripper as "penance"?
Meanwhile, Peter Sellers’ reportedly modelled his accent on the photographer Weegee, my FRnamesake.
Weegee was on the set of DR. Strangelove (and you can find his name in the credits). Kubrick had begun as a newspaper photographer and was a fan.
The film was to originally end with a pie fight (and you can see the deserts laid out on carts in various scenes) but the actors got to laughing and it was supposed to be carried out with grim seriousness to ridicule the idea of war.
There wasn’t the budget to shoot it again and Kubrick reconsidered. Stray photos from the shoot have been printed but I don’t know if the footage even exists today.
Probably the best satire movie ever made next to a Mel Brooks film. Wickedly funny.
I think I just realized what movie they were waiting to see when chanting "C-mon! Start the show" in that novel's final, cryptic scene.
Hi, Lou:
Did anyone else notice that in several scenes when Col. Kong’s B-52 was flying low level over snowy Russian contryside, the B-52 cast the shadow of a B-17 across the snow?
Jack.
Wow. The more I read this thread, the more I realize how rich this movie is. Gravity’s Rainbow, Teller, and Kissinger. Too much.
Hi, SleepingBeauty:
Kubrick had first started out to do a straight, dramatic End Of The World film, ala “Fail Safe”. The farther along the production of “Strangelove” went, the more irony and comedy began to seep in. Until Kubrick decided to pull out all the stops and create the first Nuclear black comedy.
Peter Sellers was slated to play four characters, originally. Squadron Leader Mandrake, President Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Col. “King” Kong.
Slim Picken was between films and was approached by Kubrick to play the Stetson whooping Nuke riding SAC pilot.
Jack.
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