![]() ![]() Thankfully for film history buffs like me, Wilde appears shirtless in most of his films. ![]() Wilde guest starred on one of the funniest I Love Lucy Hollywood episodes, the one where Lucy dresses as a bellboy to sneak into the hunky actor’s hotel room and hilarity ensues.īy this time, the roles offered to Wilde had a certain unsettling sameness, and he abandoned what was, at the time, a $150,000 a film career to become a writer-producer-director. In it, Wilde has one of the all-time greatest lines of demented dialogue as he faces Charlton Heston (in tights!) and says in an awful French accent: “ You are CIRCUS!” I used to use this line on guys that I was hot for in the 1970s. ![]() DeMille’s The Greatest Show On Earth (1952), the worst film to ever win the Oscar for Best Picture. Some of his fun classic films: the romance Forever Amber (1947), the juicy noir Road House (1948) with Ida Lupino, and the ultimate B-movie Gun Crazy (1950).įor crazy camp cinema experience, you must check him out as the crippled trapeze artist in Cecil B. This twisted film about a monstrous woman so possessive of her husband that she kills his crippled brother and her own unborn child, is one of the great melodramas of all time. Also that year was the great film noir Leave Her To Heaven starring gorgeous Gene Tierney. He played composer Frédéric Chopin in A Song To Remember, a totally camp film with mysterious beauty Merle Oberon as writer George Sand, which inexplicitly brought him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. He soon was cast in small roles in good films like High Sierra (1941) with Humphrey Bogart. Wilde was also cast as Tybalt in this production, which led to a Hollywood contract. In 1940, Laurence Oliver hired Wilde as a fencing teacher for his Broadway production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, which co-starred Olivier and his new bride Vivien Leigh. He spent much of his formative years in Europe, where he found his passion for fencing. The modestly talented Wilde was an Olympic fencer when he was first discovered.īorn Kornel Lajos Weisz in Hungary to Jewish parents who fled to the USA ahead of those damn Nazis, Wilde was a cunning linguist proficient in Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Russian. October 13, 1912– Cornel Wilde, not to be confused with gay author Oscar Wilde or racial equity activist Cornel West he was a darkly handsome actor with a gorgeous smile, a beautiful voice, and a remarkable physique, which he took great pride in. In “Leave Her To Heaven” (1945), Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, via YouTube ![]()
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