Eternally Spartacus: Superstar Kirk Douglas turns 90 but has no desire to slow downEvan Henerson Los Angeles Daily News
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Douglas reunited with Kubrick for yet another epic, the magnificent Spartacus (1960). The film also marked a key turning point in the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted during the McCarthy "Red Scare" hysteria in the 1950s. At Douglas' insistence, Trumbo was given ...
Image Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images The year was 1960, and Kirk Douglas was staring as Spartacus, but all these years later, it is the role he was secretly playing that he's now most proud of. Douglas, 95, survived a stroke a few years back and even though his speech ...
, the dimple-chinned “Spartacus” star with the larger-than-life persona, died Wednesday. He was 103. He was the father of actorMichael Douglasand paterfamilias of a Hollywood family that included his sons, producers Joel and Peter and grandson Cameron Douglas. ...
Best Known For: Actor Kirk Douglas brought his formidable chin and talent to classic movies such as 'Spartacus' and 'The Bad and the Beautiful.' He’s also the father of actor Michael Douglas. Astrological Sign: Sagittarius Death date: February 5, 2020 ...
it becomes clear that while Kirk Douglas may be playing Jack Burns, Jack himself is playing a role – the role of a figure who never really existed.Trumbo and Miller created this mythic figure to reconcile our history with our present, but the ironic truth is that the myth is no longer ...
With Stanley Kubrick’sSpartacusin 1960, Douglas would leave perhaps his most indelible mark on cinema both as an actor and as a producer who insisted that blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo be properly credited for his script. “That was a terrible time in Hollywood history,” he told Inter...
He was approached by the conductor Christo Christov, who was over the moon when he was given the project, explaining that Kirk Douglas’ famed character Spartacus was a hero in Bulgaria, as the country occupied the same real estate as Thrace, where Spartacus was born. For Christov’s ...
Douglas famously used his clout in other ways, perhaps most famously by allowing blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo to put his name on “Spartacus.” Although there has been some dispute over just how significant that was in “breaking” the blacklist, as Douglas suggested in his autobiography...