Alan Ladd

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Comment by Miss Retro on May 2, 2009 at 12:29pm

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Comment by Addie on January 26, 2009 at 5:05pm

I think Alan Ladd's, wife, manager/agent, was very good about helping him get work and picking his projects.

I was looking for the bottom quote but saw these others and thought I would post them also--

"Once Ladd had acquired an unsmiling hardness, he was transformed from an extra to a phenomenon. Ladd's calm slender ferocity make it clear that he was the first American actor to show the killer as a cold angel." - David Thomson ("A Biographical Dictionary of Film, " 1975)

"That the old fashioned motion picture gangster with his ugly face, gaudy cars, and flashy clothes was replaced by a smoother, better looking, and better dressed bad man was largely the work of Mr. Ladd." - "New York Times" obituary (January 30, 1964)

"Alan is a big star to everyone in the world except Alan. He thinks he's in the business on a raincheck." -- Sue Carol, his wife/manager

"I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I."

Comment by Miss Retro on January 26, 2009 at 3:39pm

That's true Malcolm none of the pics I've seen of him are bad.

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