Author / Hayashi Ono
Stills from the movie "Dragon and Phoenix" (Sabrina, 1954)
He is a good friend and wine friend of Zhang Guorong's father;
He was Reagan's best friend and best man;
He was the lover of Jacqueline, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy;
He is the gossipy boyfriend of Princess Grace Kelly of Morocco;
His Bole and guide is the wife of Robert Taylor, the actor of "Soul Breaking Blue Bridge";
He and Audrey Hepburn are the same Oscar queen and only love Hepburn in their lives;
The two almost talked about marriage, but turned their faces because of a sentence, and regretted it for life;
Because a woman starred in "Escape to Athena", the last woman in his life;
"Escape to Athena" died unexpectedly two years after its release, which made people sigh.
William Halton with wife Brenna Marshall (first from left)
William Horton is one of my favorite actors.
A friend asked me what the name of a piece of background music in "The Great New York Robbery" was? I didn't want to tell him because the song was about a William Halton movie, my favorite.
The last time I wrote around Roman Holiday, people thought Hepburn and Pike were secretly in love, but in fact she was in love with William Hotton at that time. The article mentions that William Horton has acted in "Escape to Athena", and many friends are very curious, which scene did William Horton appear in? Who is playing?
OK ~ Today, the author simply opened an article detailing this legendary figure, as well as a friendship story between him and Zhang Guorong's father.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > which scene did William Horton appear in Escape to Athena? </h1>
When I was a kid, this movie belonged to the series that my parents didn't show.
It is said that there is a scene inside that is quite evil and often inappropriate for children, and children look at it with their eyes.
Moreover, the guerrilla leader's office was actually a brothel, which simply shattered the three views!
Just by virtue of this, it is not called a good man in Liangshan, at most the prodigal son Yanqing.
In fact, even what adults saw sitting in the cinema was a clean copy that had been edited, more than nine minutes less than the original.
In the Internet era, the post-70s generation who grew up have the opportunity to see it. Some friends said that this film is not rigorous, the costumes and props are crossed, especially the drama Charlie, the hats are all brand-name YN Yankees, and it is a big guy who divides the producer's money at a glance.
Keep an eye out for the YN baseball cap on Charlie's head
In fact, this statement is incorrect, because the YN brand was born in 1901, and although the World War I theme movie is not wrong, let alone the Second World War?
In addition, the clown Charlie is played by a big name, veteran comedy star, he is Barbara Streisand's husband, who has been popular until "Friends". What kind of person is Barbara? Madonna in the sixties and seventies was not an ordinary rich and status.
Elliott Gould with wife Barbara Streisand
Therefore, there are a lot of coffee spots in this area, but we didn't find it, and they all came for one person's face - David Nevin.
Professor Blake, an archaeologist who tries to disguise his escape (played by David Nevin)
The reason why David Nevin, who plays Professor Blake, came to Greece at the age of 69 to participate in "Escape to Athena" is because his son David Nevin Jr. is the producer (one of the investors) of the film.
Father and son are still quite similar. Right: David Nevin Jr., one of the producers of Escape to Athena
There's also Roger Moore, a familiar face, who came with the same background music as Seawolf a year later. He worked on four films with his old buddy David Nevin, including the Pink Panther series, which, remember, was a hit by David Nevin.
It comes with background music, only this time it's a Nazi military song
Roger Moore plays Colonel Hirschth
Another big name has to say that the short-lived member who hung up in the first episode of "Garrison's Death Squad" - Gray Le.
In the film, he played a heavy-hearted guerrilla leader Zeno, who returned to China to engage in construction, because the actor himself was of Greek descent, although he was born on Long Island, New York.
Captain Zeno is playing handsome throughout the book, which is really enough to see
At the beginning of the chapter, because the three prisoners of war escaped in makeup, as a punishment, the SS engaged in a sit-in and random hanging of a melon-eating uncle on the side of the road, and this scene was unfolded and written, unlike the translation we saw in the cinema that year.
Cut out fragments of the translation
This scene should indeed be written in detail, not only explaining the personality characteristics of several leading actors, but also giving the background of the story - how terrifying and cruel the Greek peninsula under the iron heel of the Nazis is.
Then there's a big name for william Halton (1954), one of the film's most famous heavyweight actors and winners of the 26th Academy Awards. If you talk about professional achievements, you are older than David Niven! David took the film emperor in 1959.
William Holden
At that time, although William Horton said that his appearance had changed and his style was no longer, but the sword was not old, before starring in "Escape to Athena", he had just won an Oscar nomination for best actor with "TV Storm".
However, for the sake of a woman, William Horton gladly joined the company.
Although only nine seconds.
He appears at 23 minutes and 28 seconds in the film (26 minutes and 41 seconds in the original English version).
When comedian Charlie asks Professor Black, what are you PRISONERs doing here?
Black said to Charlie (and explained to the audience) that he was digging up artifacts for the Nazis—
"I come from an archaeological family, and when the British Empire flourished for a long time, we openly plundered Egypt's national treasures, Beijing's ancient porcelain, Egypt's golden masks..."
Charlie asked Professor Blank what they were looking for here?
At this time, Charlie was called away by a small soldier, and when he passed by an old prisoner of war, he suddenly stopped and asked with a pompous expression: "You haven't left yet?" ”
Hidden here is a joke that Chinese audiences can't understand.
It's also a tribute to veteran star William Halton!
Because he once starred in the ancestor of a prisoner of war film - "Battlefield Army Soul". At the 26th Academy Awards in 1954, he and Hepburn were crowned emperors for "Soul of the Battlefield Army". Not only that, but after four years, in 1957, William Horton played an American prisoner of war captured by the Japanese in "The Bridge on the River Kwai".
So Charlie asked him, how come you're still here?
William Horton had been in a prisoner-of-war camp all his life
Stills from "Soul of the Battlefield Army"
"Soul of the Battlefield Army" has been pickpocketed by peers from all over the world since the birth of the fight, including "Victory Run", Bruce Willis's "Hart's War", the Hong Kong film "Rich Corps", and even the 21st episode of "Garrison Death Squad", "Escape from Terror", the head of the scene sneaked into the prisoner of war camp to save Colonel Purl, who was self-conscious, and the ending was directly copied.
Prisoner of war drama has an advantage, monk drama, no woman. Moreover, the actors dressed in rags have no requirements for costume set props, and the scene is single, which is very economical. It is a film that is favored by choreographers from all over the world.
However, although there are many tribute films, none of them are surpassed.
"Battlefield Army Soul" belongs to the excellent Broadway repertoire, and the original team of people and horses appeared on camera. We can appreciate how stable the broadway actors were at that time, and the long shots of the whole film are often completed in one go, and you don't need to worry about any actor's chicken feet. They acted as naturally as if they were back at home and pulling a carton of milk out of the fridge.
And William Halton, as a screen star, has no fear, calm and calm, wields it freely, and shares the autumn with the Broadway artists, and wins an Oscar-winning little gold man.
Souls of the Battlefield (aka Cell 17, Stalag 17)
Many viewers may not know that when Wilhelm Horton passionately rebuked the German spies lurking among the prisoners of war, his anger was real, because his own brother, a good pilot, died in World War II.
"Battlefield Soldier Soul" was Paramount's most profitable film that year, surpassing "Roman Holiday" in the same year.
William Horton said the same line in "Escape to Athena" as "Soul of the Battlefield" - "It's not bad here, is there fire?" ”
In "Soul of the Battlefield Army", he said that the German prisoner of war camp was also good, and it was not recommended that everyone risk death to escape; in "Bridge of the River Kwai", he was the first to have the idea of escaping and put it into action.
In this regard, William explained that the survival rate in German prisoner-of-war camps was 87%, while the mortality rate in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps was 87%, so this is not a contradiction.
Of course, the big guys will ask, which actress in the film is William's lover?
What else is there to say? Of course, del Mar, a dancer with a provocative body and a turmoil.
Don't doubt, in principle, the girls you fancy are all William Hotton's.
This pair of young and old pairs with a 61-year-old and a 37-year-old, a full difference of 24 years!
This girl is very remarkable, not only singing and dancing to win the climax of the whole film, but also personally starring in a diving scene. She is also a ballet dancer, karate player, fluent in six languages, and can pick up eighteen martial arts.
That's where William Halton loved her.
William Horton's long acting career was very confused for a while, especially after "The Bridge over the River Kwai" he has become a multi-millionaire (10% of the box office), and after the little golden man and the top Hollywood beauties and even the president's wife have experienced it, he began to seriously doubt life.
He even said to director Billie Wilder: "I don't think actors should make so much money, what do they contribute to society?" Aren't those films a bit inflated? ”
Lo and behold, an actor like him spit out words that should have been held in his stomach.
What a man!
Confused, he later met a woman, and his life rekindled hope.
William Halton spent the second half of his life in love with landscapes, wandering in Africa hunting, and committed to the construction of the Kenya Safari Club. Nearly a decade from 1972 to his death, he was accompanied by the "dancer Del mar" - Stephanie Bowles.
Left: Stefanie Powers
He admired her very much—"Bowers had a great time with every little animal, and she was an amazing woman. ”
However, much of William Horton's estate was left almost entirely to his ex-wife and children, and even his former mother-in-law and sister-in-law were given a share of the pie.
Bowers only wanted to have a child with him, even though it was unlikely.
However, she did not leave as disappointed as Hepburn did, and she accompanied him until the day of his death.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > buried in the sea of flowers, how good is William Hotton's femininity? </h1>
The heroine of the 1955 film "Life and Death Love" Jaffeni Jones
In 1955, the wise man William Horton encountered a solid crisis!
"Life and Death Love" in Hong Kong - the heroine is MGM's boss lady!!!
This Jaffany Jones is also a great one, she actually eats garlic before the kiss scene!
Haven't heard of it?
I've only heard of male celebrities being such a whole female star before, such as Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind" who has rectified Vivien Leigh like this.
Jafferney Jones was so worried and scared that she heard that William Horton was affectionate and went around in trouble, afraid that this king would contaminate himself and ruin the great marriage (future).
1955 film "Life and Death Love"
Who is your husband when you are this woman?
Producer of "Gone with the Wind" and "Butterfly Dream", the famous David O. Selznick!
Honestly, I haven't always had a good impression of this woman, although when I was in elementary school, I watched her play "Farewell, Weapon" - a female star who introduced one of the fifty-two Foxes on CCTV in the 1980s and appeared in front of Chinese audiences at the same time as Mickey Mouse.
It didn't impress me to be so pretty, a beautiful piece of wood.
There are many stories of this woman. Earlier she had a husband's child, and first appeared in David S. O. Selznick in front of, is to audition for "Gone with the Wind" Hesgart, before waiting for the choreographers to express their position, she herself first cried to wipe her tears and ran out, "Ah ~ I did not behave well, ah I failed ~ " Crying pear blossoms with rain I saw pity.
So David chased her out on the spot, and kept coaxing her, although the heroine did not apply later, but David was particularly concerned about this beautiful woman with a pair of poor big eyes.
The two later began a six-year underground affair, with Joffrey and Herami's family of four being raped by David Lee. O. Selznick single-handedly broke up.
Jafferney Jones with husband Robert Walker
However, David is a particular person, although the knife snatched love and snatched away people's wives, but did not forget to tip the husband, for him to find a lot of business, such as Hitchcock's famous movie "Train Freak" (also known as "Stranger on the Train") Male Bruno.
1951 movie Train Freak right: Robert Walker
However, all this did not help, and the prestige earned by filming only made the Green Hat incident more remarkable.
Robert Walker was completely reduced to a laughingstock.
Within two months of the release of "Train Freak", this brilliant and talented actor drank himself to death.
In response to a sentence from his lifetime: "My infatuation with my wife has completely destroyed myself." ”
Of course, at this point in the story, many people will feel this woman's green tea, but people feel that they are chaste and martyr.
During the filming of "Life and Death Love", he burst into tears without saying a word, or waved his pink fist at William Horton and shouted: "You wait, I will tell David!" I'm going to call him!" ”
I don't know what happened to her by the male protagonist.
It seems to me that Jafferney Jones is purely self-made.
William's two female stars, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly, which is not better than her? Which one is younger and prettier than her?
Moreover, at that time, William Horton had not yet come out of a love wound, and he borrowed wine all day long to pour sorrow, who had the heart to attract bees and butterflies.
In 1954, during the filming of "Dragon and Phoenix", he fell in love with Hepburn feverishly.
Originally, he was at odds with Humphrey Bogart, and his approach to Hepburn was the result of a gang, but he did not guess the ending.
1954 "Sablina" (Dragon phoenix match)
Supposedly, this film should be quite enjoyable, because he got an unprecedented $300,000! There are few people in Hollywood who can match him.
The oscar-winning new empress William Halton paid 150,000 films, and Audrey Hepburn was only 15,000!
Bogart only needs to honestly finish the play, and give a modest and decent laugh to the juniors every day.
But he was in the crew every day, today angrily accused Hepburn of not acting professionally enough to make the little girl shed tears, and the day after tomorrow asked the director why William Horton had his own dressing room where he could barten and listen to records and so on.
In my opinion, it is pure money burning!
William and Hepburn, as well as billy Wilder, the film's director
Many years later, William Horton was still indignant, and when it came to Bogart, he would often say "I hate that guy!" ”
Of course, "this nasty guy" died back in 1957.
At that time, William and Hepburn played well in the crew, and director Billy Wilder was an old pair of him, and the two had worked together on "Sunset Boulevard" and "Battlefield Army Soul", and Hepburn had no reason not to play with William.
Although the sensitive Bogart protested at the time - "You isolate me!" ”
At the end of the story, it is not as simple as who isolates whoever is, William Horton accidentally rubbed the gun and had real feelings for Hepburn, he fell in love with this beautiful and elegant, fresh and unworldly little girl, regardless of his own wife and children.
The first to be aware of it was William Horton's wife, Brenner, and the woman's intuition in this regard was terrible. Even if it is a party of thousands of people, a wife can accurately sniff out which one is her real love enemy!
William Horton's legitimate wife, Brenda Marshall
This kind of short-term engagement has really happened.
Once, Hepburn was invited to William Horton's house, and when the hostess announced that the party had officially started, the hostess Brenna slowly descended the stairs, surprising William!
He found that his wife had made her hairstyle and eyebrow shape exactly like Hepburn's, which was a tit-for-tat confrontation on the table.
In front of everyone's eyes, he was extremely embarrassed!
According to William's adopted daughter Virginia, her mother gritted her teeth in hatred for Hepburn, and even disliked Hepburn herself. At that house party, the little girl saw Hepburn for the first time and was amazed at her beauty. Virginia said of Hepburn – "She knows she's pretty, and she knows she has the ability to control men, don't look at her there drinking and pretending to be fine." ”
In my opinion, Hepburn is also very innocent, and it is difficult for us mortals to feel this kind of thing, and it is difficult for us mortals to empathize.
After that party, Hepburn also held a stomach fire, originally she had a very good feeling for the handsome and dashing William, and simply came after the party.
According to the dictated biography of the film's director Billy Wilder, William and Hepburn did date several times, and talked about marriage, Hepburn and his fiancé James Hansen dissolved the marriage contract, and in the later stages of the filming of "Dragon and Phoenix", William has begun to consider divorce and property division with his wife.
This near-clean legal document was not available at the time and later became his will.
A beautiful marriage is just around the corner, and at the critical moment William Horton said a wrong word, resulting in regret for life!
He told Hepburn that he had been sterilized as early as 1947 because he already had two sons and an adopted daughter.
It was a terrible thing for Hepburn, she loved the children, and the necessary conditions for this marriage, in her opinion, were gone.
So she turned and left, never looking back.
William Horton was devastated and lived in the shadow of the relationship all his life.
We can see from the 1955 movie "Life and Death Love" that after a year, William Horton's eyebrows are no longer star-studded, replaced by endless sadness.
After filming the film, William Horton became tired of Hollywood, especially after he inadvertently offended the MGM hostess.
He once said, "Actors are prostitutes, male or female, including me!" ”
After that, he began to have a strong interest in Hong Kong, and after filming "The Bridge of the River Kwai" in 1957, he got 250,000 films and 10% of the 27 million box office, all of which have reached 10 million!
He invested the money in a radio station in Hong Kong.
In the 1950s and 1960s, there were frequent trips between Hollywood and Hong Kong, because there were not only more enthusiastic fans here, but also an old friend of his, Zhang Guorong's father, Zhang Huohai!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a friendship between William Halton and Zhang's father</h1>
On the night of November 16, 1981, a drunken William Halton accidentally fell at home, his head hit the bedside table, and although it was only a small wound, he was unable to get up and eventually died of hemorrhagic shock.
The body was not found until several days later.
He was 63 years old, just as old as Hepburn.
Police said there was also a possibility that he realized he was injured but didn't take it seriously.
When the news of the death came, director Billy Wilder's first reaction was - he died in the Kowloon crash, right?
In his conception, William was either shot and killed by a woman who was mad with jealousy, or killed by an African buffalo, or had a personal accident in Hong Kong.
Because he spent the whole half of his life in that area.
He loves the food, the girls in cheongsams, the beauty of the spring in all seasons, and, of course, the suits that fit him specifically, a craft that even the Hollywood Oscar tailors have never had.
This involves a celebrity - Mr. Zhang Huohai!
Left: Zhang Guorong's father, Mr. Zhang Huohai
Everyone knows that Zhang Guorong was born in a rich family, ten brothers and sisters each equipped with two nannies, the family is not generally rich. However, the specific industry in which Zhang Father is engaged is little known.
The first from the right is Zhang Guorong
Earlier domestic media reported that Zhang Father was a wealthy businessman.
This is not accurate, Mr. Zhang Huohai was the king of dresses in Hong Kong Province as early as the 1930s, and he had the largest signboard in Dejili Street, which was full of land.
Zhang Huohai's Hollywood masters employ Gary Grant, Marlon Brando, director Hitchcock, William Halton and many others.
The first to open the door to Hollywood for Mr. Zhang Huohai was Gary Grant.
Gary Grant from To Catch a Thief
Everyone knows that Gary Grant came from a humble background, an early circus mixer, a trapeze artist, and a famous door picker in Hollywood.
Director Billy Wilder recalled that once Gary Grant came to his house as a guest and found a new set of record players that Billy had bought, with a brand model of his own, so he asked Billy how much money to buy? Billy told him a number, and Gary Grant frowned and immediately grabbed the phone and called his wife: "Honey, you know what? Our record player is expensive to buy! ”
I really don't know how much a record player's range price is? Is it worth the call back?
It is such a difficult master, who was served comfortably by Mr. Zhang Huohai, a small cashmere suit 2400 Hong Kong dollars a lot of money to give.
Please note that in the 1940s 2400 HKD!
Grant not only became a repeat customer, but also advertised for the Zhang family for free in Hollywood.
So you see Zhang Guorong "strange on Yan Ruyu, Gongzi world peerless" can play Jia Baoyu, that is because people's ancestors are indeed "Jiangnan weaving".
Although William Horton was a latecomer, he often interacted with Mr. Zhang Huohai because he lived in Hong Kong. Of course, the way intimate friends express their affection is to share secrets, which is similar to girls.
William Horton gave Zhang a copy of his ancestral Martini bartending recipe as a sign of friendship.
At the end of November 1981, when the news of the death of William Horton came on the television news, mr. Zhang Huohai, who was dying, was sad.
He clearly remembers that he left the last wonderful performance "The Wandering Earth" to the world, washing away the lead, returning to the thick soil, and only talking to the heavens and the earth.
The sound and smile are in front of you.
In accordance with his will, William Halton's ashes were scattered in the vast Pacific Ocean. The peach blossoms flowed suddenly, and the bright moon breeze swam in a few places.
Leave a period of affection and hanging with future generations...
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