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Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] the film is noted for its landscape cinematography , editing, performances, and contributions to the genre. [ 6 ]
Alan Walbridge Ladd [2] (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns. He was often paired with Veronica Lake in films noir, such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942), and The Blue Dahlia (1946).
Russell Maurice Saunders (May 21, 1919 – May 29, 2001) was a stunt man and acrobat.. Saunders did Alan Ladd's fight scene in Shane.He also doubled for Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain and An American in Paris. [1]
His father was Alan Ladd, an actor. His mother was Sue Carol, Alan Ladd's second wife, who was an actress and talent agent. His father had English ancestry, whereas his mother was of German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish descent. His siblings are Alana Ladd Jackson and Carol Lee Ladd; his paternal half-brother is Alan Ladd Jr.
McLean writes how deWilde achieved fame as the "tow-headed, gap-toothed boy" who starred in the films The Member of the Wedding (1952) and Shane (1953), the latter of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, at age 11, for uttering the immortal words "Shane, come back" to Alan Ladd. He continued into adulthood ...
Shane is a western novel by Jack Schaefer published in 1949. It was initially published in 1946 in three parts in Argosy magazine, and originally titled Rider from Nowhere . [ 1 ] The novel has been printed in seventy or more editions, [ 2 ] and translated into over 30 languages, [ 1 ] and was adapted into the 1953 film starring Alan Ladd .
Ladd and Dern started their journey of learning about their family history when Ladd was diagnosed with a lung disease in 2018 and given just three to six months to live by her doctors.
Shane is an American Western television series which aired on ABC in 1966. It was based on the 1949 book of the same name by Jack Schaefer and the 1953 classic film starring Alan Ladd . David Carradine portrayed the titular character in the television series, a former gunfighter and sometimes outlaw who takes a job as a hired hand at the ranch ...