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  Tyrone Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1914, the only son of English-born Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power and Helen Emma "Patia" Reaume, who were both actors.
Power was descended from a long theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather, the celebrated Irish actor Tyrone Power.
Tyrone Power died from a heart attack in Madrid, Spain, while filming Solomon and Sheba in 1958, aged 44 (and was replaced in that movie by Yul Brynner).
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 Tyrone Power
Tyrone Power was the third of four actors in the Tyrone Power line, and one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the screen from the early 1930s until his sudden death in 1958.
Power was the son of classical stage and screen actor Tyrone Power Sr.
Power was driven to the hospital in co-star Gina Lollobrigida's Mercedes, and was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival.
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 Tribute to Tyrone Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tyrone Edmund Power, was born to a long line of great actors.
His great grandfather, Tyrone Power was a comic actor in the early 1800's and his father Tyrone Power Sr.
Tyrone Power could be described by using the word dedicated.
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 Tyrone Power @ Classic Movie Favorites- Biography
His father, known to historians as Tyrone Power Sr., but to his contemporaries as either Tyrone Power or Tyrone Power the Younger, was a huge star in the theatre (and later in films) in both classical and modern roles.
His three children, including his namesake, Tyrone William Power IV (known professionally as (I) Jr., Tyrone Power), have all followed him in the family acting tradition.
Son of Tyrone Power Sr., father of Romina Power and Taryn Power.
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 Classic Actresses - Tyrone Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tyrone Edmund Power was born on May 5, 1913, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tyrone costarred with Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette and with Gene Tierney in The Razor's Edge.
Tyrone was married to actress Annabella from 1939-1948.
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 Article -- Tyrone Power
Tyrone Power is signed up for the biggest fight of his life today as a Lieutenant of United States Marines in the battle for freedom.
Tyrone, Jr., 17, played Shakespearean roles with his father in New York and Chicago, then came with him to Hollywood where Tyrone, Sr., had a part in The Miracle Man. Young Ty met movie celebrities, was welcomed everywhere with his famous father.
Tyrone Power was young, handsome, at the peak of his career and for the first time getting an intoxicating taste of glamorous Hollywood life.
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 Tyrone Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The son of silent-movie actor Tyrone Power (who died in 1931 shortly after completing his only talkie, The Big Trail), he resolved at an early age to follow in his father's footsteps, acting on stage while still in his teens and making his movie debut as a cadet in Tom Brown of Culver (1932).
Power was assigned featured roles in Girls' Dormitory, Ladies in Love (both 1936), and Lloyd's of London (also 1936, as the grown-up character played as a youth by top-billed Freddie Bartholomew) before winning top billing in Love Is News (1937), an insipid comedy-romance that costarred Loretta Young.
Power and Faye did it one more time, in Rose of Washington Square (1939), a barely disguised version of entertainer Fanny Brice's ill-fated marriage to gambler Nicky Arnstein; it too was a smash, despite Power's limning of a basically unsympathetic character.
www.movietreasures.com /main/Tyrone_Power/tyrone_power.html   (1248 words)

  
 National Obituary Archive(NOA) - Arrangeonline.com
His father, Tyrone Power Sr., was a stage actor in London, as was his mother.
Power divided his time between the stage and silver screen, appearing in a number of productions in the last years of his life.
Power told someone one time that his life would be complete if he had a son and died on stage.
www.arrangeonline.com /Obituary/obituary.asp?ObituaryID=13661   (276 words)

  
 TYRONE POWER VIDEOS & DVD'S AT HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
Norma Shearer stars, with Tyrone Power as Count Axel de Fersen, John Barrymore and Robert Morley as Louis XV and XVI, and Gladys George as Madame Du Barry.
Tyrone Power inherits the role made famous by Rudolph Valentino, playing the son of a famous matador who finds fame, fortune and happiness following in his father's footsteps, only to have it taken away when a society girl averts his attention from the ring and his longtime sweetheart.
Tyrone Power stars as the pianist/bandleader who was the talk of '30s New York cafe society but whose personal life was marred by tragedy.
www.hollywoodteenmovies.com /ForSaleTyronePower.html   (1711 words)

  
 Tyrone Power - Mr. Debonaire
Tyrone Power, one of film's greatest matinee idols, adored by women and emulated by men, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on May 5, 1914 to famous Shakespearean actors Frederick Tyrone Edmund Power and Helen Emma Reaume Power, known by the stage names Tyrone and Patia Power.
Tyrone was in ill-health as a child and his family, which now included younger sister Anne, moved to San Diego, California's warmer climate.
Tyrone married Deborah Ann Montgomery Minardos on May 7, 1958 and was delighted to learn he was to become a father again.
www.meredy.com /tyronepower   (969 words)

  
 Windy City Times
Tyrone Power Sr., whose grandfather was a famed Irish comedian, descended from a long line of actors and was an esteemed leading man in theater who later made movies.
The Powers decided it was best to take their beautiful but frail, sickly son, and his sister, to the warmer climate of southern California.
Tyrone had an affair with Lana Turner, and the couple was so physically gorgeous that their presence drew gasps from the crowd when they entered a room or a restaurant.
www.windycitymediagroup.com /gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=7889   (1452 words)

  
 A Tribute to Tyrone Power
In fact, Tyrone Power was one of the most popular male stars in Hollywood from the late 1930s until the 1950s, with the peak of his career coming previous to World War II, when he was best known for action films like The Mark of Zorro (1940) and Son of Fury (1942).
Power was born on May 5, 1914, to were Tyrone Power, Sr.
(actually Tyrone Power IV) represents the fourth generation of male actors by the same name, and although he has not yet achieved the success of his forebears, he is continuing to appear on screen, with a film called Leaving the Land reported as being in production in 2002.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa042802a.htm   (552 words)

  
 Tyrone Power - TheBestLinks.com - Hollywood, January 22, United Kingdom, 1914, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tyrone Power, Hollywood, January 22, United Kingdom, 1914, 1931, 1959, 1869...
Tyrone Power was the name of four members of a family of performers.
Tyrone Power (1795 - 1841) - a famed Irish actor.
www.thebestlinks.com /Tyrone_Power.html   (160 words)

  
 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Although best remembered for his darkly handsome good looks, Tyrone Power (1913-1958) also was an actor of considerable ability.
The son of matinee idol Tyrone Power Sr.
Power broke through as a star in the late 1930s in such films as 20th Century Fox's Lloyds of London (1936) and MGM's Marie Antoinette (1938), and became a swashbuckling favorite in such vehicles as The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Black Swan (1942).
www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,24071|24072||,00.html   (324 words)

  
 The Tyrone Power Pages - India
But after a while the rain goes away to come some other day, and Tyrone Power, physician and surgeon, braves the natives, burns their huts to kill the germs and the next thing you know the newsreel is on.
Power, glutton for punishment, was so anxious to get away from it all and let the scars heal that he tried to buy a passage for his wife, Annabella, and himself on the Atlantic Clipper.
Power isn’t in a boat with Brenda Joyce, University of California at Los Angeles co-ed who didn’t have swimming on her study course.
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 MTV.com - Movies - Tyrone Power, Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Though invariably referred to by latter-day historians as Tyrone Power Sr., British stage and screen actor Tyrone Power never billed himself as such during his lifetime.
The grandson of legendary Irish actor Tyrone Power (1797-1841) and the son of concert pianist Harold Power, he was sent to Florida by his family in 1883 to learn the citrus fruit business.
While filming The Miracle Man in 1931, Tyrone Power suffered a massive heart attack and died in the arms of his namesake son, who, out of respect for his father, billed himself as Tyrone Power Jr.
www.mtv.com /movies/person/50768/bio.jhtml   (280 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Great Shadow : Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tyrone Power heads the cast of the 1920 silent Great Shadow.
No, it's Tyrone Power, Sr., the celebrated stage-star father of the 1940s matinee idol.
Power plays a super-patriot who does battle with an incipient Bolshevik movement in the US.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/60186/moviemain.jhtml   (147 words)

  
 Welcome to Spokane CDA Living   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When Power came to town in August of 1917, his arrival at the train station was greeted with great fanfare from Spokane residents, including the first Miss Spokane, Marguerite Motie.
Power took his dream to Spokaneƕs elite, taking out ads in the local newspapers, and calling a grand meeting in the Marie Antoinette room of the Davenport Hotel.
Power signed up the eager residents and soon began to make good on his promise by building a complete studio around the old dance hall as modern as any Hollywood studio of its time.
www.spokanecda.com /articlesmin.html   (1538 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Tyrone Power Biography
He was the son of British born actor Tyrone Power Sr.
Power's spectacular good looks and good nature may have caused him to be underrated as an actor during his career and after.
Like his father, Power died while on a movie set, suffering a heart attack while filming 'Solomon and Sheba', in November 1958.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /new_site/biography.php?id=429   (322 words)

  
 Tyrone Power Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bride of the Storm (1926) (as Tyrone Power)....
The Law and the Lady (1924) (as Tyrone Power)....
Lorelei of the Sea (1917) (as Tyrone Power)....
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 Graumans (Mann's Chinese Theatre)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tyrone Power was just twenty-three when he was honored with having his prints placed in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
He signed the block of cement with the inscription, "To Sid - Following in my father's footsteps", which was a tribute to his father, Tyrone Power, Sr., who was an early film actor, but better known as a great stage actor.
Tyrone Power has a star on the Walk of Fame, in addition to having his hands, feet, and signature in cement at Grauman's.
www.tyrone-power.com /graumans.html   (361 words)

  
 The Tyrone Power Pages
Tyrone Power was one of the top stars of Hollywood's heyday in the 30's & 40's.
Portraying a high-class con-artist who ends up as the "Geek" of a traveling carnival, the film wasn't successful at the box office and the studio promptly returned him to the reliable swashbuckler genre.
After nearly 20 years under contract to 20th Century Fox, Power left the studio in the early 50's to pursue theatre work and freelance.
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 Tyrone Power -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Born in (additional info and facts about Cincinnati, Ohio) Cincinnati, Ohio, Power, Jr.
He rapidly became a matinee idol, like (additional info and facts about Rudolph Valentino) Rudolph Valentino before him, whose fans followed his off-screen activities (including playing (A game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball) polo) as avidly as his films.
Although he was a (A member of a Catholic church) Catholic, Power divorced his first two wives.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ty/tyrone_power.htm   (455 words)

  
 Intelliflix: Rent Crash Dive on DVD
Anne Baxter, Archie Mayo, Milton Sperling, Dana Andrews, Tyrone Power, Sr.
Being Tyrone Power's final film effort before taking up active duty, "Crash Dive", is most often just dismissed as a footnote to his highly successful pre war career as one of Hollywood's most popular and goodlooking leading men.
It however is a highly enjoyable film in its own right which at times seems uncertain in which genre it is actually placing itself as it combines an exciting wartime submarine story with a light romantic story with many comedy elements.
www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=18516   (338 words)

  
 bigtrail1930
Tyrone Power, Sr., Tyrone's dad), the ruffian Lopez (Charles Stevens), and smoothie gambler hustler Bill Thorpe (Ian Keith).
The other reason for going is the lovely Ruth Cameron (Marguerite Churchill), traveling with her teenaged brother Davey and younger sister.
It should prove to be interesting mostly to Wayne fans as an early take on the youngish looking actor before he became a legend and for film buffs it offers a look at the early primitive methods of filmmaking in the talkie era.
www.sover.net /~ozus/bigtrail1930.htm   (560 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - The Big Trail
Many of the other main roles, however, went to trained Broadway actors such as Tyrone Power and Tully Marshall, and their stage technique looks very out of place on the screen.
Tyrone Power (Sr.—not his son, who would become a star at Fox in his own right a decade later) creates in his performance of the trail boss a bear-like, almost incoherent characterization that has to be seen to be believed.
The unknown leads—Wayne and Chapman—didn't have the drawing power either, despite being dispatched on a country-wide publicity tour.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/bigtrail.php   (977 words)

  
 dvdfuture.com :: Review - Big Trail, The
This was to be her only film as "The Big Trail" was never appreciated in its' own time.
She also had to be protected from Tyrone Power, Sr.
He was intent with having his way with her and Raoul Walsh had to hire some men to beat him up badly to get him to behave himself.
www.dvdfuture.com /review.php?id=380   (903 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When one of them is knocked off, Morris (their leader) thinks he'd better flee until the heat is off and he goes to hide out in a small town on the windswept California coast.
Once there, he learns of the powers of Bosworth, a local faith healer who seems to be able to make the lame walk.
Bosworth is superb as the faith healer, a role originally set for Tyrone Power, Sr., but given to Bosworth when Power died before shooting began.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=7115   (334 words)

  
 CineWomenNY: cinEnews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This, of course, drew throngs to the movie houses, and the film (which starred Tyrone Power, Sr.) grossed a tidy $3 million.
Her powerful personality and vision influenced a host of contemporary female filmmakers, including Frances Marion, Cleo Madison and Ruth Stonehouse.
And, of course, she was an early mentor and guide for some males who went on to great acclaim, including Frank Lloyd (The Sea Hawk, 1924), and Henry Hathaway.
www.cinewomenny.org /cinenews/feb03/ifshewerealive.html   (806 words)

  
 Article - The Cemetery Kid - 2/2000
Besides Fairbanks, DeMille, and Power, near the lake are the graves of Columbia Pictures czar Harry Cohn; director John Huston; actresses Janet Gaynor and Marion Davies; and singer Nelson Eddy.
At services for Tyrone Power in 1959, so many well-wishers jammed inside the grounds before the gates could be secured that those inside the small chapel had to strain to hear Cesar Romero's eulogy.
A poignant photo of Christian and the kids kneeling alone in an empty church was splashed across daily newspaper front pages the next day.Yet much of the cemetery's charm lies not so much in who is buried there, but in the how and why.
www.hollywood-underground.com /hfarticle1.htm   (5159 words)

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