Posted Monday night, March 2, 2020.
Sam Spiegel was the producer, but the movie’s better known for its director, David Lean...and its star: from “The Patch”, by John McPhee....
An unknown movie actor checked into an English hospital and took a couple of dozen scripts to bed with him. He is unknown because he has so far appeared in only three minor pictures. He had the scripts with him because producers all over the world are nonetheless begging him to work for them. He needed hospitalization because he is physically shot. During the last twenty months, he has suffered sand burns on his feet, sprained both ankles, cracked an anklebone, torn ligaments in his thigh and hip, dislocated his spine, broken his thumb, partially lost the use of two fingers, sprained his neck, and suffered two concussions. The survivor’s name is Peter O’Toole, and he is Sam Spiegel’s Lawrence of Arabia.
Jeez. And some people thought John Ford was tough on actors!
Posted by: Nondisposable Johnny | Tuesday, March 03, 2020 at 01:22 PM