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 Joel McCrea - Biography - Moviefone
By 1920, high schooler McCrea was a movie stunt double, and by the time he attended USC, he was regularly appearing at the Pasadena Playhouse.
McCrea's big Hollywood break came with a part in the 1929 talkie Jazz Age; he matriculated into one of the most popular action stars of the 1930s, making lasting friendships with such luminaries as director Cecil B. DeMille and comedian Will Rogers.
It was Rogers who instilled in McCrea a strong business sense, as well as a love of ranching; before the 1940s had ended, McCrea was a multi-millionaire, as much from his land holdings and ranching activities as from his film work.
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 Greatish Performances: Joel McCrea, Sullivan's Travels
McCrea's virtues as an actor--modesty, precision, simplicity--caused him to be undervalued even at the height of his success, and many movie fans today do not even know him.
McCrea knew he had been given some of the smartest, fastest, funniest dialogue ever written for film, and the overriding virtue of his performance in Sullivan's Travels is that he makes himself the servant of it.
McCrea gives Sullivan a body language that is in keeping with the character's life of ease and sophistication but that belies, mostly in pauses, a charming embarrassment at being human.
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 Joel McCrea Summary
Joel McCrea's final major Western was Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country, which has been considered a classic since its release in 1962.
Born in South Pasadena, California, McCrea became interested in films after graduating from Pomona College.
McCrea married the actress Frances Dee in 1933.
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 Gerald Peary - interviews - Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea and Gary Cooper were not only tall and terse in the saddle, shy and "Yes, ma'am," "No ma'am" polite on the ground, but bosom pals.
Likewise, Joel McCrea carried forth the legacy, playing a virtuous man of the law in most of the 24 shoot-'em-ups he made between The Virginian (1946) and Ride the High Country (1962), his last major film.
McCrea remembered a scene in Foreign Correspondent in which he kept tripping on steps in his size 12 shoes.
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 JOEL McCREA VIDEOS & DVDs AT HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
One of Joel McCrea's first starring breakthroughs was this macho role as an Alaskan salmon fisherman fighting a dirty-dealing rival with both fists.
Joel McCrea is the reporter caught in the middle of a spy ring, threatening a pacifist conference, with his fiancee's father the possible spy leader.
Joel McCrea stars as the legendary frontier scout, Indian fighter and bison killer in William Wellman's sweeping Western epic, one of the first made in color.
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 Bright Lights Film Journal | Sex and Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea, an amiable, modest actor who turned down parts because he felt he wasn’t good enough for them, began his career as a male beauty.
McCrea himself became increasingly wry and wary, and it is this quality that would serve him well in his best work, which came in the forties.
McCrea knows that Arthur (both actress and character) is a rare butterfly, easily frightened, and he has to coax her gently but firmly.
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 Joel McCrea at Brian's Drive-In Theater
McCrea and Dee had three children, including actor Jody McCrea, who appeared in a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s, including Bikini Beach, Muscle Beach Party, and Pajama Party.
McCrea proved to be a good businessman with his investments and real estate holdings, which made him wealthy.
In 1959, McCrea and his son Jody McCrea starred in the half-hour NBC TV series Wichita Town, but the series got lost in the glut of westerns airing during the season and was canceled in 1960.
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 Joel McCrea, Francis Dee bio
According to IMBD.com, a website dedicated to films, Joel McCrea was one of the great stars of American westerns and a popular leading man in other movies as well.
McCrea’s wholesome good looks and quiet mannerism led him to roles in romantic dramas and comedies where he became increasingly popular as a leading man.
After her breakthrough role in “Playboy of Paris” with Maurice Chevalier, she met McCrea on the set of the 1933 film “The Silver Cord” and the two were married the same year.
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 Joel McCrea Height - McCrea's
Joel McCrea's height is 6 ft 2.5 in (189 cm)
I thought I've heard before that McCrea looks huge next to Veronica Lake because he was 6'3" and she was 5'2".
McCrea was taller that Randolph Scott in Ride the High Country.
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 Joel McCrea - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Joel McCrea has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Blvd. and another star at 6241...
Joel McCrea, an amiable, modest actor who turned down parts because he felt he wasn?t good enough for them,...
Joel McCrea - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Joel McCrea Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Jody McCrea at Brian's Drive-In Theater
The son of actor Joel McCrea and actress Frances Dee, Jody McCrea was born Joel McCrea Jr.
Jody McCrea appeared in nearly all American International beach party films, with the exception of The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.
McCrea appeared numerous times on this program which mostly consisted of interviews with celebrities and clips from premieres.
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 Joel McCrea News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
For a time it looked as if he would be detained at Warners, and Radio had Joel McCrea standing by to stop into the Foster role if necessary.
A new voice full of vision and inspiration came to the cineramic panorama of the west in the early sixties and this visionary would go on to have struggles, battles and finished art that still has it's fine...
Surrounded by green hills overlooking the Santa Rosa Valley, Wyatt McCrea helps preserve the dream of his famous grandparents, actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee-preserve the large ranch they established at the...
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 Joel McCrea Trivia -- notstarring.com
RKO was unable to secure the handsome actor for the role of Leo Vincey in their fantasy adventure spectacle from the H. Rider Haggard novel.
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 Joel McCrea Double Feature
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Dolores Del Rio, more »
Exotic anyway, with McCrea beaching his yacht in the South Seas and falling in love with native looker Del Rio.
When the interloper decides that he would be much happier living with his Luana in paradise than returning to his empty modern lifestyle, he upsets the girl's family...
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 Joel McCrea — FactMonster.com
After working as a stunt man in films, Joel McCrea got his first starring role in 1930's
By the time the 1930s had ended, McCrea's dependable, trustworthy persona helped him to complete more than 38 films, most of them westerns, including
After 1946 McCrea, who listed his occupation as rancher and called acting his hobby, appeared mostly in westerns, including the classic
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 Amazon.frĀ : Last of the Cowboy Heroes: The Westerns of Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy: Livres en ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne.
Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch.
This account of these three Western stars' careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years.
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 Joel McCrea Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Joel McCrea, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Reginald Owen, Herman Bing, Victor Kilian.
Starring Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young, Mary Boland, Cesar Romero, Lyle Talbot.
Starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines, Bruce Bennett, Frank Sully, Clyde Fillmore, Stanley Clements, Donald Douglas, Ann Savage.
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 Joel McCrea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Likable, ruggedly handsome figure, a durable star who first made his name in adventures and melodramas of the 1930s.
McCrea gave one of his finest performances in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) and brought an amiable, relaxed charm to his comic roles, especially when directed by Preston Sturges in "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) and "The Palm Beach Story" (1942) and by George Stevens in "The More the Merrier" (1943).
Although McCrea had starred in a number of Westerns and action pictures in the 30s (e....
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 Joel McCrea Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Although McCrea had starred in a number of Westerns and action pictures in the 30s (e.g., Cecil B. DeMille's "Union Pacific" 1939), beginning with William Wellman's "Buffalo Bill" (1944), McCrea starred primarily in Westerns for the rest of his career.
His many horse operas, the best of which included "Colorado Territory" (1949), "Trooper Hook" (1957) and "Ride the High Country" (1962), mirrored his own frontier roots as well as his personal life.
McCrea was married to actress Frances Dee from 1933 until his death; their son Jody McCrea (b.
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 LIBERTAS » Blog Archive » Joel McCrea Day on Turner Classic Movies
Joel McCrea with the ultimate dish, Veronica Lake.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 at 9:39 am and is filed under General, Turner Classic Movies/Classic DVDs.
I would like to purchase the movie starting Joel mcCrea and Barbara Hale called The Lone Hane.
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 Joel McCrea
A rancher and former rodeo star comes across a runaway boy while he is hunting a wild stallion.
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri.
Much to the chagrin of his producers, he sets off in tramp's clothing with a single dime in his pocket to experience poverty first-hand, and gets some reality shock.
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 Welcome to MODA Entertainment.com -- LICENSEBOX -- Joel McCrea Licensing
Western star Joel McCrea has been credited with over 90 roles, including such rootin'-tootin' classics as Ride The High Country, The Tall Stranger, The Outriders, The Virginian, Buffalo Bill, Wells Fargo (with wife Frances Dee), and Sullivan's Travels.
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 Joel McCrea — Infoplease.com
Frances Dee 2004 Deaths - Frances Dee Age: 96 striking movie star of Hollywood's golden era who starred in An American...
Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest, Robert Warwick, Franklin Pangborn
Clear Channel's market director McCrea says radio's in his blood: managing seven stations in Des Moines and Ames keeps him busy.
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 Joel McCrea Bio, News, Awards and Movie Credits - RopeofSilicon.com
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 Colorado Territory - Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell, Morris Ankrum ...
Colorado Territory - Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell, Morris Ankrum - 1949
Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job.
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 Movie Market (UK) - Joel McCrea posters, photos and autographs gallery
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