Alan Ladd
1913-1964|
Biography
Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Alan Ladd Quotes
“A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting.”“I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.” “Maybe I can’t act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what’s good for me.” “I’ve always had a great respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me.” “Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.” “Our children were trained to look after each other.” “I’m shy and can’t for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.” “I’m working myself to death.” “I was a dummy in school.” “I’d rather be David Ladd’s father than Alan Ladd any day.” “I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.” “It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.” “I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.” “What good will a tax break do me if I’m crippled for life?” “Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.” “I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I’m not, and there’s no use wishing.” “It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.” “Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.” “My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don’t know anything that teaches them so much.” “Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.” “If you can figure out my success on the screen, you’re a better man than I.” “I’m no good with words but I’ll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.” “Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.” “As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.” “I don’t care how small the parts are, as long as they’re good.” “I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.” “I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.” “I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.” “I know what’s good for me. I can’t play black or gray. I can’t be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.” “I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.” “I was never trained for anything.” “I’m going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much.” “If I had my way, I’d do all my entertaining on the front steps.” “It’s natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn’t have.” “Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.” “Strangers still leave me self-conscious.” “When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don’t vary your tones you can’t get pretty tired of your own voice.” |
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The Actor
Alan Ladd has appeared in the following films:Tom Brown of Culver (1932) Once in a Lifetime (1932) Island of Lost Souls (1932) Saturday’s Millions (1933) Pigskin Parade (1936) The Last Train from Madrid (1937) All Over Town (1937) Hold ’Em Navy (1937) The Goldwyn Follies (1938) Come On, Leathernecks! (1938) Freshman Year (1938) The Mysterious Miss X (1939) Hitler – Beast of Berlin (1939) Rulers of the Sea (1939) American Portrait (1940) Meat and Romance (1940) Unfinished Rainbows (1940) Blame It on Love (1940) The Green Hornet (1940) Brother Rat and a Baby (1940) In Old Missouri (1940) The Light of Western Stars (1940) Gangs of Chicago (1940) Cross-Country Romance (1940) Those Were the Days! (1940) Captain Caution (1940) The Howards of Virginia (1940) Meet the Missus (1940) Victory (1940) Her First Romance (1940) I Look at You (1941) Petticoat Politics (1941) Citizen Kane (1941) The Black Cat (1941) Paper Bullets (1941) The Reluctant Dragon (1941) They Met in Bombay (1941) Great Guns (1941) Cadet Girl (1941) Military Training (1941) Joan of Paris (1942) This Gun for Hire (1942) The Glass Key (1942) Lucky Jordan (1942) Letter from a Friend (1943) China (1943) Skirmish on the Home Front (1944) And Now Tomorrow (1944) Salty O’Rourke (1945) Two Years Before the Mast (1946) The Blue Dahlia (1946) O.S.S. (1946) My Favorite Brunette (1947) Calcutta (1947) Wild Harvest (1947) Saigon (1948) Beyond Glory (1948) Whispering Smith (1948) Eyes of Hollywood (1949) The Great Gatsby (1949) Chicago Deadline (1949) Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950) Branded (1950) Appointment with Danger (1951) Red Mountain (1951) The Iron Mistress (1952) Thunder in the East (1952) Botany Bay (1953) Desert Legion (1953) Shane (1953) The Red Beret (1953) Hell Below Zero (1954) Saskatchewan (1954) The Black Knight (1954) Drum Beat (1954) The McConnell Story (1955) Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) Santiago (1956) A Cry in the Night (1956) The Big Land (1957) Boy on a Dolphin (1957) The Deep Six (1958) The Proud Rebel (1958) The Badlanders (1958) The Man in the Net (1959) Guns of the Timberland (1960) All the Young Men (1960) One Foot in Hell (1960) Orazi e curiazi (1961) 13 West Street (1962) The Carpetbaggers (1964) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) |
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