Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel <15 December 1918 - June 17, 1961) is the most remembered actor, film producer and American singer to play Cochise at Broken Arrow (1950), who was nominated for an Oscar. He was one of the most popular male stars in Universal Pictures of the 1950s, his best known credit including the Deserted Sword (1948), Deported (1950), Women on the Beach (1955) and Away All Boats (1956). In addition to his acting, he is known for his handsomeness, his gray hair is special, and for his music recording.
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Chandler was born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in the Brooklyn district of New York City, Anna's only child (nÃÆ' Â © e Herman) and Phillip Grossel. She was raised by her mother after her parents separated when she was a child.
She attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stages and movie characters, where she played a part in school play; his schoolmates include Susan Hayward. Chandler's father connected with the restaurant business and got his son a job as a restaurant cashier. Chandler said he always wanted to act, but the course for commercial art was cheaper, so he studied art for a year and worked as a layout artist for a $ 18 week order post catalog.
Finally he saved enough money to attend a drama course at Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York. He worked briefly on the radio, then got a job at a stock company on Long Island as an actor and stage manager. He worked for two years in a stock company, including a Trojan Horse performance on the other side of famous singer and actor Gordon MacRae and his wife Sheila MacRae, who became his best friend.
Chandler formed his own company, Shady Lane Playhouse, in Illinois in the summer of 1941. It toured the Midwest with some success, presenting dramas like The Bad Man , Seventh Heaven , New Minister and Pig . When America entered World War II, Chandler enlisted in the army. He served for four years, mostly in the Aleutians, ending up with the rank of lieutenant.
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After being released from the Army, Chandler moved to Los Angeles in December 1945 with $ 3,000 he had funded. Shortly after his arrival he was involved in a serious car accident on the way to a screen test, which resulted in a large scar on his forehead.
Chandler initially struggled to find a job in Hollywood and had spent all of his savings when he got his first job as a radio actor in May 1946. He went on to appear in episodes of anthology drama series such as Escape
Initial movie role
Chandler has appeared in the air at Rogue's Gallery with Dick Powell, who was impressed by the actor and put pressure on Columbia to give Chandler his first film role, the one-line section as a gangster in Johnny O'Clock. (1947). She was tested for Columbia The Loves of Carmen and did not get it but continued to play a minor role as a gangster at Roses Red and The Invisible Wall , and a policeman at Mr. Belvedere Goes to College . She received more attention playing girlfriend Eve Arden on the radio at Our Miss Brooks , which debuted in July 1948 and became a big hit.
Sword in the Desert
Chandler's appearance at our Miss Brooks led him to the attention of executives at Universal, who were looking for someone to play the Israeli leader in the Sword in the Desert (1948). He was cast in February 1949. Chandler greatly impressed studio executives with his work shortly after Universal shooting signed it to a seven-year contract. His first film under arrangement was a supporting role in Abandoned (1949).
Broken Arrow and stardom
Writer-director Delmer Daves is looking for actors to play Cochise in the West, Broken Arrow (1950), over 20th Century Fox. That part proved difficult to cast; in the words of Chandler, "Fox is looking for a man who is physically large enough to play that role and is quite alien to the theater audience to lend authenticity.Charler's performance as the same type of leader-resistance in the Desert Sword brought him to the attention of the studio and he borrowed it from Universal for the role of May 1949. As part of the arrangement Chandler signed a deal with Fox to make a year's movie with them for six years.He also had to be written out of Michael Shayne radio show > and Miss Brooks for a few weeks.
Broken Arrow turned out to be a big hit, making Chandler an Oscar nomination and making it a star. He was the first actor nominated for an Academy Award for playing an American Indian.
Even before Broken Arrow was released, Chandler upheld to restore male status at Universal. He was meant to make Death on a Sidestreet and The Lady Count but not finally made. Instead he took over the role originally intended for Dana Andrews, a Lucky Luciano-style gangster in Deported , for producer Robert Buckner, who threw it at the Sword in the Desert . "I do not know why I got it," Chandler said at the time, "maybe it's because I save their money." The film was recorded on location in Italy, although Chandler's radio commitments meant some of it had to be filmed in Hollywood.
It's back to Fox for their second film for them, as a hurt Union cavalry at Two Flags West for director Robert Wise. Chandler replaces Lee J. Cobb and it is one of his most characteristic roles, a part of character rather than a leader. Again, location work requires him to regularly go back and forth to Hollywood during filming.
Back to Universal, Chandler plays an adventurer on Smuggler's Island, a role he loves because he says close to his real personality. However, Hollywood tends to throw it in various nationalities. According to one profile, "he has an unusual face, with hard features, bones that seem to fit any role."
He reunited with Fox and Delmer Daves to play the head of Polynesian at Bird of Paradise (1951), which Chandler recognized as a variation of his performance as Cochise. This will be the last film he made outside Universal for several years.
Back in Universal, he played the boxer at Iron Man (1951), a remake of the old Lew Ayres movie. She was announced for another movie with Buckner, The Wild Bunch , which was not created; instead he played an Arab leader at the Flame of Araby (1951), in front of Maureen O'Hara.
Around this time Chandler expressed his dissatisfaction with acting in film as opposed to radio:
[Radio actors] have to make their roles come alive, and they just have the voice to do it. But in the picture the technique is very different. The actor is only a fraction of his performance. He lends his intelligence and personality to the role, but the greatest part of the show belongs to the producer, who puts it in certain parts; the director, who told him how to play it; and cutter, which edits what's done. That's why I feel like being a film actor is not very satisfactory. I want to finally branch off in writing and directing.
Chandler repeats his role as Cochise in another West, Battle in the Apache Pass , for Universal. He then went on to make a war movie, Red Ball Express , and a braggart, Yankee Buccaneer . He made a cameo in Meet Danny Wilson and had a change of pace when he supported Loretta Young on Because of You - which he some years later called his favorite role. Young then tells Chandler "more of a personality than an actor... a charming man."
In 1952, the participants chose Chandler as the 22nd most popular star in the US. 20th Century-Fox is keen to use Chandler again and offer him roles at The Day the Earth Stood Still , Lydia Bailey , Les MisÃÆ' Â © rables and The Secret of Convict Lake . However, Universal refused to lend him because he is now one of their biggest stars.
Our Miss Brooks were transferred to television but Chandler was not allowed to do TV under his contract; his share was taken by Robert Rockwell. On Peggy Lee's radio show, she has shown a talent for singing and she's been chasing this for a decade.
New contract
In July 1952 Chandler signed a new contract with Universal that doubled his salary. His first film below is the West, The Great Sioux Uprising. This was followed by more adventure costs: East Sumatra and War Arrow with Maureen O'Hara.
This means Chandler missed out on Demetrius's section on The Robe (1953) in Fox, where he had been considered and who eventually went to Victor Mature. He also missed the lead in the remake of Magnificent Obsession , which he has debated; part of it was taken by Rock Hudson who had supported Chandler at Iron Man. Both The Robe and Magnificent Obsession are big hits. Chandler played Cochise for the third time, a cameo in Taza, Son of Cochise, starring Hudson, who soon took over Chandler as the biggest male star in the world.
Universal announced him to Chief Crazy Horse but the role was eventually played by Victor Mature. Instead she appeared on Yankee Pasha and started singing at nightclubs. He left our Miss Brooks radio show after five years to "rest," he said. "Although it did not take long to do the show, it binds all my Sundays".
Chandler appears in an expensive epic (for Universal), playing the Emperor Marcian in the Pagan Sign and starring against Jane Russell at Foxfire (1955) which he enjoys because "I do not have to too innocent of each other in this matter. " He then made Women on the Beach with Joan Crawford and began releasing recordings.
Conflict with Universal
In 1954 Chandler began to complain about his workload:
You can not call your own time. When you travel to the country - like me now for my Decca notes "I Must Care" and "More Than Anyone" and for Universal International, my home studio - every hour of the day, from morning disk jockey to midnight the program is filled. And in Hollywood, if you do not do the drawing or get ready for one, you have to keep learning. I made a point to answer all my mail and when anyone asked me for my signature it was not only flattered. I see it as the most I can do for the people who have given me the fruits of this world.
In May Chandler refused to play leadership at Six Bridges to Cross and Universal made it in suspension. He replaced the role by George Nader. Chandler talked about making Young Moses and a West with his friends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, but neither of them was made. He announced "becoming an undeserved movie star", complaining that:
I can not go anywhere as an ordinary individual. There are times when I can get around Times Square in New York (my hometown) and look into shop windows or go to cafes and eat calmly. But not anymore. I can not go unnoticed. Movie enthusiasts seem to think that actors are theirs but we want to feel that we belong to ourselves. Do not get me wrong - I want fame and money when I decide to act. I like to be recognized - it's flattering. But there's always one character that spoils anything... I go into a restaurant and get a table on the edge - but you remember I also have to leave the biggest tip. If not, I'm labeled the tallest man in town. And let's face it, acting is the easiest way I know to make money. But I think I'm a pretty smart kid - I think I can generate a lot of things in other businesses... Anyone in the world with imagination and initiative can be successful. I? I like pushing buttons. I was born to be an executive - an idea guy. An executive is a person who thinks everything and lets others execute them. I will stop working soon if I have money, and travel for a while. I want to write. I have tagged two radio scripts and have completed synopsis and five movie stories.
Chandler made up with Universal who threw it at Lady Godiva of Coventry. Chandler rejected the role and was replaced by George Nader. But this time the dispute does not exceed the money but because Chandler is already working.
Universal cast Chandler in an expensive remake of The Spoilers , was later given a role in one of the most prestigious films of the year, Away All Boats .
In May Chandler performed at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Chandler "proved remarkable in performing singing, although he was not the singing type."
He made Western, Pillars of the Sky , then had a change of pace with The Toy Tiger comedy, the fourth film he made that year. Louella Parsons calls Chandler "the busiest actor in town... Jeff is so happy in his personal life today that he does everything the studio wants."
Toward the end of the year, Chandler formed his own production company, Earlmar, with his agent, Meyer Mishkin. This was valid from August 1956 onwards, when Chandler's exclusive contract with Universal ended. But Chandler intends to continue filming for Universal under a multi-image contract. He was voted the seventh most popular star with a British cinema audience.
New Producer and Contract with Universal
In 1956, Universal gave Chandler time off from his contract with them "for several months" to allow him to make his own movie for Earlmar. Instead, Chandler will make two more films for Universal under his original contract with them, then go into a new setting where he will appear in two films a year for three years.
Earlmar signed a six-picture deal with United Artists, in which Chandler will appear in at least three films. He acted and produced the first Earlmar production, a Westerner, Drango . "This is not an Indian story," Chandler said, "let Cochise rest in peace." Chandler bought the rights to a novel, Lincoln McEever but it was never made; Drango will be the only Earlmar production.
After Drango Chandler made the last two movies because under his original contract with Universal: Tat Tatly Dress , played a lawyer in melodrama, and Man in the Shadow , starring with Orson Welles. He was committed to making two films a year at Universal until 1959.
Freelance star
Chandler then moved to Columbia and acted with Kim Novak on Jeanne Eagels, the popular "biopic".
She follows this with two films for Universal, The Lady Takes the Flyer , with Lana Turner and Raw Wind in Eden , with Esther Williams. The Motion Picture Exhibition Polling listed him as the tenth most male star in the US in 1957.
Chandler made the other for Universal, A Stranger in My Arms with June Allyson. He was allegedly starring in Operation Petticoat (1959) but fell ill and had to withdraw.
The next two Chandler films were made for a new company, Seven Arts:
The latter of them are distributed by Paramount, who also released the next Chandler movie, another from the West, The Jayhawkers . In Ten Seconds to Hell and The Jayhawkers Chandler plays the villain. He then reflects, "I've tried a fancy but the audience does not seem to accept that."
Chandler formed another production company, August, where he made The Plunderers , a Westerner, distributed by Allied Artists. The Allies were very pleased with the film they requested three more films from August, but Chandler never made it.
The next film, The Story of David , was filmed for American TV - his first work on the medium - but was shown theatrically in other countries. It was shot in London and Israel. Chandler states:
I do not want to make photos in other countries; I want to stay home. But suddenly there are not enough photos made here. All other countries entice companies and players; even a small country like Israel is trying to formulate a plan for subsidies. Our government still levies taxes from people; someone must wake them up.
Chandler appeared on Back to Peyton Place for Fox. He then goes to Warner Bros. to create Merrill's Marauders, which will be his last film.
Personal life
Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle (1918-1989) in 1946. The couple had two daughters, Jamie Tucker (1947-2003) and Dana Grossel (1949-2002). They split in 1951 and 1954, actually divorced in 1954. His wife complained that Chandler was "chronically tired so that he would fall asleep wherever we are." But they reconciled a few months later. In 1957 he had an affair with Esther Williams while filming together and his wife filed for divorce at the end of the year.
In the process of divorce in 1958, it was revealed that Chandler paid his wife an allowance of $ 1,500 a month. He said he was bound by a contract with Universal to make two films in a year, for $ 60,000 a film for 1957 and $ 75,000 for 1958. He said he earned $ 250,000 in 1957 from acting and singing but cost a lot, with his personal managers, business managers and agents taking 25% of his income. The court ordered Chandler to continue paying $ 1,500 a month. Their divorce was granted in June 1959, with Chandler giving his wife $ 100,000 and more than $ 2,166 per month in allowances plus $ 500 per month for child support. "He became so absorbed by his career that he spent time when he was not really working on a drawing in his business office," said his wife. "I have an ulcer."
Chandler also involved in a dispute about his stepdaughter in 1960.
Chandler is a cousin of actor Billy Jack David Roya, who plays Bernard Posner's young villain.
When his friend Sammy Davis, Jr. losing his eye in an accident and in danger of losing the other, Chandler offers to give Davis one of his own eyes. Chandler himself almost lost his eyes and was obviously injured in a car accident several years earlier.
Chandler has a relationship with Gloria De Haven exposed in Confidential Magazine. In a trial, Fred Otash said detectives had followed them to get the story.
He is associated with Esther Williams, who claimed in his autobiography 1999 Chandler was a cross designer and he broke up the relationship. According to Los Angeles Times , many friends and colleagues of Williams claims that Chandler rejected. Jane Russell commented, "I've never heard of such a thing, Cross-dressing is the last thing I expect from Jeff, he's a good man, surely everyone."
He is also associated with Ann Sheridan.
Chandler's public support for the Israeli attack in 1956 in Egypt during the Suez Crisis, prompted the United Arab Republic to ban his film in Arab countries in 1960. Chandler is an active Democrat.
He represented the Screen Actors Guild during talks throughout the 1960 actor strike.
Death
While working at Merger's Marauders in the Philippines, on April 15, 1961, Chandler injured his back while playing baseball with US Army Special Forces troops who served as extras in the film. She has injections to shut down the pain and allow her to finish production.
On May 13, 1961, he entered the Culver City hospital and underwent surgery for a spinal herniation. There are severe complications; the artery was damaged and Chandler was bleeding. On May 17, in an emergency operation seven and a half hours above and above the original operation, he was given 55 liters of blood. The third operation followed, on May 27, where he received an additional 20 liters of blood. He died on June 17, 1961. The cause is a complicated blood infection by pneumonia.
At the time of his death, Chandler was involved with British actress Barbara Shelley. Tony Curtis and Gerald Mohr were among the corpse bearers at the Chandler cemetery, which was attended by over 1,500 people. She is buried at Hillside Memorial Park Culver City.
Investigation occurred until the death of Chandler. It was considered malpractice and resulted in his children demanding a hospital for $ 1.5 million.
Chandler's own farm was worth $ 600,000, which he handed over to his daughters. His ex-wife sued his estate for $ 80,000 because it was under the settlement of their divorce.
For his contribution to the film industry, Chandler has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1770 Vine Street.
Critical appraisal
Film historian David Shipman once wrote an analysis of Chandler this:
Jeff Chandler seems to be dreamed up by one of the artists specializing in the study of a male body or, further mites to an artistic scale, he may have plucked the body of some modern mural on a biblical subject. For that he has the necessary Jewishness (which he is very proud of) - and he is not really real. Above all, he is very handsome. She will never disappear in the crowd, with her big 20th century face, square, and graying hair. If the films do not find it, then the agency will do it - and the fact is that every time you see him still there, you look at his watch or pipe before realizing that he is not promoting something. In the colored drawing and on the poster, the studio always shows blue hair, heightening unreality. His real name is Ira Grossel and his movie name is correct
An obituary from Chandler said
Known for his meticulous attention to detail in drawing, Chandler is often described as an introvert. But colleagues who work closely say he has an easy and light approach on the set that helps ease some of the production pressure.
Influence
Popular action-adventure series Jonny Quest's handsome, white-haired, bodyguard specialist veteran, Race Bannon design modeled after Jeff Chandler.
Movieography
Movies not created
- One Way Road (1950) - originally announced to lead
- Steel City with Ann Sheridan (1951)
- The Angry River (1952) - Powell Geography Expedition story of 1869
- Vermillion O'Toole with Ann Sheridan (1952)
- Holy Grail (1953) - religious epic set at 6 AD for Universal
- Huk (1954) - Second World War movie written by Stirling Silliphant
- Young Moses (1954)
- Chief Crazy Horse (1955) - mentioned for the role played by Victor Mature Lincoln McKeever (1956) - based on Eliezar Lipsky's novel about a frontier who was appointed to the Supreme Court - was intended to be Chandler's second film made for his own company and United Artists, after Drango
- The Gallileans (1956) for producer Aaron Rosenberg
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Regular role
- Michael Shayne (1948-49)
- Michael Shayne's New Adventure (1949)
- Miss Brooks 1948-1953
- Frontier Town 1952-1953 (billed as "Tex Chandler")
Guest appearances
- "Young Master Lincoln" - Academy Award Theater (July 10, 1946)
- "Photo Finish" - Tension (July 1946)
- "With Cradle and Hour" - Cavalcade of America (February 2, 1946)
- "Gregory Hood, Suspect" - Gregory Hood Handbook (September 30, 1946)
- "Blood On Sun" - Academy Award Theater (October 16, 1946)
- "Black Curtain" - Tension (January 3, 1948)
- "Snake Doctor" - Escape (February 8, 1948) Blond Mink, Leopard Spots, Social Errors, Santa Claus Santa from Palm
- "All My Sons" - Screen Directors Playhouse (Dec 1949) - with Edward G. Robinson
- "Lifeboat" - Playhouse Playhouse Directors (November 16, 1950) - with Tallulah Bankhead
- "Hired Wife" - Screen Directors Playhouse (1951) - with Rosalind Russell
- "Only Yesterday" - Screen Directors Playhouse (July 1951) - with Mercedes McCambridge
- "Steel River Prison Break" - Tension (3 September 1951)
- "The Joyful Hour" (December 1951)
- "Ben Hur" - Hallmark Playhouse (10 April 1952)
- "The Woodsman" - The Woodsman (July 20, 1952)
- "Web" - Broadway Playhouse (July 1, 1953)
- "Black Is My Real Love Hair Color" - Tension (October 19, 1953)
- "The Thief" - Suspense (1957)
- "A Good Neighbor" - Tension (March 31, 1957)
Sing
Chandler has a concerted career as a singer and recording artist, releasing several albums and playing nightclubs. In 1955 he only became the second star to play on the Riviera, after Liberace became his main headliner. In his autobiography Hold the Roses (2002), Rose Marie wrote that "Jeff Chandler is a great guy, but he is not a singer, he composed an acting and we opened on the Riviera He came with a conductor, piano, light guy, press agent, and manager.No one helps, and everyone rambles on Jeff's singing, but let's face it: He really does not sing very well He must have the courage to open in Vegas. He went to work in a movie after three and a half weeks.
Discography Album
Singles Discography
Award nominees
Theater
- Trojan Horse - Oct 1940 - Long Island
- Meet the World by Peg Fenwick - March 30, 1950 - a UNESCO-sponsored game about the UN at UCLA
- Newsbeat 1950 by Joseph Roos - March 1950 - a one-off performance for the Jewish Welfare Organization Federation
- Pageant of Stars - Oct 11, 1950
The box office rating
For several years, film exhibitors chose Chandler among the top stars at the box office.
- 1952 - 22 (US)
- 1953 - 18 (US)
- 1954 - 16 (US)
- 1955 - 20 (US), 7 (English)
- 1956 - 18 (US), 5 (English)
- 1957 - 22 (US), 6 (English)
Further reading
- Hoffmann, Henryk. "A" Western Movie Maker . McFarland & amp; Co., 2000.
- Kirk, Marilyn. Jeff Chandler. Library Book 1/AuthorHouse, 2003.
- Marie, Rose. Hold the Rose . University Press Kentucky, 2002.
- Wells, Jeff. Jeff Chandler: Film, Record, Radio, Television, and Theater Show . McFarland & amp; Co., 2005.
- Williams, Esther. The Million Dollar Mermaid . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.
References
External links
- Jeff Chandler on IMDb
- Jeff Chandler in the TCM Movie Database
- Jeff Chandler at Discover the Mausoleum
- Jeff Chandler as Cochise in Broken Arrow (radio version 1951)
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