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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 .
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 ...
In "Shane," Alan Ladd plays the titular role in this beloved 1953 Western. As Shane, a gunslinger with a rough past who's looking to settle down after befriending a family (that is until he has to ...
Andre Brandon deWilde (April 9, 1942 – July 6, 1972) was an American theater, film, and television actor. [1] Born into a theatrical family in Brooklyn, he debuted on Broadway at the age of seven and became a national phenomenon by the time he completed his 492 performances for The Member of the Wedding.
Oscar-winning producer and influential motion picture executive Alan Ladd Jr., who ushered in the “Star Wars” era of motion pictures, died Wednesday.
Alan Ladd Jr, the veteran film producer who won a Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart, commissioned George Lucas to write Star Wars and was an influential executive for Fox and MGM/United Artists ...
Ladd's professional career in Hollywood began in 1957 with a supporting role in a film starring his father titled The Big Land.As a result of that film's success, Samuel Goldwyn Jr offered him a role as a mute in the 1958 movie The Proud Rebel, once again playing opposite his father and co-starring Olivia de Havilland.