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Golden Boy. (1939 film) Golden Boy is a 1939 American drama romance sports film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and William Holden. It is based on the 1937 play of the same title by Clifford Odets. [1][2]
With Lee J. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939). Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball), a schoolteacher, and her husband, William Franklin Beedle Sr., an industrial chemist. [1]
Golden Boy (play) Golden Boy. (play) Golden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced on Broadway by The Group Theatre in 1937. Odets' biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name, starring William Holden in his breakthrough role, and also served as the basis for a 1964 musical with Sammy Davis Jr.
Robert Taylor. . . (m. 1939; div. 1952) . Children. 1. Barbara Stanwyck (/ ˈstænwɪk /; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year professional career she was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility.
Daniel Taradash (January 29, 1913 – February 22, 2003) was an American screenwriter.. Taradash's credits include Golden Boy (1939), Rancho Notorious (1952), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), Désirée (1954), Picnic (1955), Storm Center (1956), which he also directed, Bell, Book and Candle (1958), Morituri (1965), Hawaii (1966), Castle Keep (1969), Doctors' Wives ...
Clifford Odets. Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) [1] was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, as O'Neill began to withdraw from Broadway's commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash. [2]
Golden Boy (manga), a 1992 series adapted into a 1995 anime and 2010 spinoff manga. Golden Boy (novel), a 2013 novel by Abigail Tarttelin. Golden Boy (Wild Cards), a superhero from the Wild Cards book series. Golden Boy (DC Comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. Sandy Hawkins, or Sandy the Golden Boy, a character in the DC ...
Campaign Medal. Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacoby; [2][3] December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor, known both for film roles and his work on the Broadway stage, as well as for his television role in the series, The Virginian. [4] He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectable ...