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Lana always maintained that there was nothing more than friendship with Sinatra, but Ty was not convinced that this was true. It was a huge movie for that year. Gossip went into high gear when she visited him on the set of Captain from Castile, early in 1947. Despite Darryl F. Zanuck's reservations, he decided to go ahead and give him the lead role in the movie, once Henry King and Fox editor, Barbara McLean, convinced him that Power had a greater screen presence than did Don Ameche.
His grave is marked by a unique tombstone, in the form of a marble bench. He made several musicals, including Alexander's Ragtime Band, Second Fiddle, Rose of Washington Square, and The Eddy Duchin Story. He worked a deal to get a percentage of the profits, and he ended up making one-million dollars from the movie, a very large sum in those days.
He went door to door, trying to get work as an actor, and, while many contacts knew his father well, they offered praise for his father but no work for him.
just a tiny tot
with sister, Anne
The family moved to California in 1915, and there they welcomed a sister, Anne Power, into their family on August 26, 1915.
As young Tyrone held him in his arms, his dad died of a heart attack. He was 4th billed in the movie, but he had by far the most screen time of any other actor. The filmmakers used some of the long shots that Tyrone Power had filmed, and an observant fan can see him in some of the scenes, particularly in the middle of the duel.
Tyrone Power was buried at Hollywood Cemetery, now known as Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California, at noon, on November 21, 1958, in a military service.
But, on September 1, 1947, Ty began a 32,000-mile journey, piloting his airplane, "The Geek", with Bob Buck, as co-pilot; Bill Agner, flight engineer, Bob Stevens, navigator, Bill Ritter, radio operator; Jim Denton, 20th Century Fox public relations; Bill Gallagher, Ty's secretary). King was impressed with his looks and poise, and he insisted that Tyrone Power be tested for the lead role in Lloyd's of London, a role thought to already belong to Don Ameche.
In August 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps, starting out as a private, having refused his studio's offer to get him an officer's commission.
1 spoken by Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet
2 spoken by Horatio upon Hamlet's death in Act V, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Tyrone Power (1914-1958)
His remarkable good looks helped to make him a star and leading man when he began in movies at the age of twenty-two and he made about fifty films during his career, in a variety of genres as well as swashbucklers.
He got a false start at 20th Century-Fox, though, when he was assigned to Sing Baby Sing, at the request of Alice Faye, already a star for the studio. It read as follows: "I shall always remember Tyrone as a bountiful man, a man who gave freely of himself. At the end of the year his father died of a heart attack, supposedly in Tyrone's arms, and Tyrone was on his own in his search for an acting career.
After two small and unconvincing film roles in the early 1930's in 'Tom Brown of Culver', and 'Flirtation Walk', Tyrone opted to go back to New York to gain more experience on the stage.
After making a couple light romantic comedies, That Wonderful Urge and The Luck of the Irish, Tyrone Power found himself once again in swashbucklers - The Black Rose and Prince of Foxes.
Ty and Linda Soon after his separation from Annabella, Ty began a much publicized romance in 1946 with MGM star, Lana Turner. The Powers drifted apart, and they divorced around 1920.
After the divorce, Patia Power worked as a stage actress, performing in regional stage and with stage stock companies.
He appeared in a bit part in 1932 in Tom Brown of Culver, a movie starring actor, Tom Brown.