Jeff was Jewish posing as WASP. I marked two radio scripts and have finished synopses and five movie stories. Do editors really encourage libel lawsuits in order to sell books? He was widely liked and admired . "It's no Indian story," said Chandler, "let Cochise rest in peace. He was famous for being extremely tall, very grey, and having a deep, gravelly voice and piercing eyes. . Then they're not really much of an "old film buff" are they? ), though I've never seen any of her movies. I can't go anywhere unnoticed. Williams' revelations about Chandler angered many readers. "Jeff Chandler Sought for 'Angry River;' Wanger Plans Mounties Movie", Schallert, Edwin. "[6] Chandler's performance as a similar resistance leader-type in Sword of the Desert brought him to the studio's attention, and he was borrowed from Universal for the role in May 1949. Here I thought Esther was a goody two shoes and it turns out she was a big ol size queen. I want to eventually branch off into writing and directing. Chandler refused the role and was replaced again by George Nader, but this time, the dispute was not over money, but due to Chandler's overwork. Jeff & Esther. He left to work on a movie after three and a half weeks. I'd like to do some writing. I know plenty of film buffs who have never heard of him or seen his movies (most of which aren't very good). Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. He most likely was a cross dresser. He was a sweet guy, definitely all man.. She hardly had the reputation, even back then, as being a sympathetic pushover. Earlmar signed a six-picture deal with United Artists, under which Chandler was to appear in at least three of the films. I was born to be an executive an idea man. "I loved the book and read it straight through," she says. Corwin and others believe that Chandler is the latest victim of high-stakes celebrity publishing, in which each subsequent tell-all must tell more. The couple had two daughters, Jamie Tucker (May 16, 1947-2003) and Dana Grossel (1949-2002). He was a sweet guy, definitely all man. Chandler had appeared on air in Rogue's Gallery with Dick Powell, who was impressed by the actor, and put pressure on Columbia to give Chandler his first film role, a small part as a gangster in Johnny O'Clock (1947). I wasn't there, so I don't know, but if Esther was bitter about the end of the relationship or felt ill-used in some way, she wouldn't have been the first person or the last to smear the reputation of an ex. Shortly after his last film Merrill's Marauders (1962), Jeff died, at 42, from blood poisoning after an operation for a slipped disc. "Looking at Hollywood: Orson Welles Will Star in and Direct 'Badge of Evil'", Hopper, Hedda. Betty Grable never confirmed Dan Dailey's cross dressing after Dailey died, R44. Worse yet, Lamas refused to allow Williams' three children from her marriage to Gage into his life. Jeff Chandler's agent was Doovid Barskin of The Barskin Agency in the late 50s. Family & Personal Life. [54], Chandler made another for Universal, A Stranger in My Arms with June Allyson. He's almost totally forgotten. "[57], Chandler formed another production company, August, for which he made The Plunderers, a Western, distributed by Allied Artists. "Jeff Chandler, Wife Refuse Reconciliation: Actor Offers to Continue $1500-a-Month Allowance; She Asks Total of $6500". . . "He told me (about his cross-dressing), and (his prior wife) Marge knew. And in Hollywood, if you're not working on a picture or getting ready for one, you have to keep studying. Jeff Chandler and Esther Williams. ", Williams knew that some people would resent her dredging up the past. "Ann Sheridan, Jeff Chandler to Co-Star in 'Steel Town': Looking at Hollywood", Hopper, Hedda, "FILM CHIEFS MEET UNION OFFICIALS: Studio Heads and Actors Guild Aides Bargain Over Strike Issues" by MURRAY SCHUMACH. Anyone who would pick up a book on Esther Williams would know who Jeff Chandler was. Jeff Chandler, better known by the Family name Jeff Chandler, was a popular Athlete. Hello and thank you for being a DL contributor. Williams was newly married to a medical student, Leonard Kovner - she would later have to buy him out of the marriage for $1,500 - and the priapic Weissmuller tried it on with her so often . That was Fred Astaire, Cyd Charise and Janice Paige. It's on YouTube. He then went over to Warner Bros. to make Merrill's Marauders, which was his last film. Jane Russell commented, "I've never heard of such a thing. It's all there: the family friend who raped her when she was 13 and 14; her 1959 doctor-supervised LSD trip; second husband Ben Gage, an "alcoholic albatross" who blew $10 million of her money; third husband Fernando Lamas, a vain egotist who made her drop her career; a brief affair with Victor Mature; her scrapes with death while making her series of swimming musicals during her 15 years at MGM. He later reflected "I've tried heavies but audiences didn't seem to take to that. Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle in 1946. One can sue if they think their dead famous relative was libeled, but they cannot win, the case would be thrown out of court. r57 you talk about Jane Russell like she was some uninformed rube from the sticks. Her son was 15 and she would drive over every night and make sure he ate and then she would go home to Lamas. Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918 - June 17, 1961) was an American film actor and singer in the 1950s. SHE WAS. Former champion swimmer Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler embrace during a scene from 1957's 'Raw Wind in Eden.' (JAMES PRINGLE/AP) But she did all the water work herself despite ongoing risks. Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel; December 15, 1918 June 17, 1961) was an American actor, film producer, and singer best remembered for playing Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Complete with a pun that she never re-cunted her story! Ten or 20 years ago, she says, she couldn't have written "The Million Dollar Mermaid," "only because I hadn't analyzed (my life). Because this is Datalounge, silly. . "I developed an ulcer. A third operation followed on May 27, in which he received an additional 20 pints of blood. Film historian David Shipman wrote this analysis of Chandler's image: Jeff Chandler looked as though he had been dreamed up by one of those artists who specialise in male physique studies, or a mite further up the artistic scale, he might have been plucked bodily from some modern mural on a biblical subject. They all make up stories to sell books. Even if he was a crossdresser, it would not change anything. Showing all 39 items. I had a huge crush on Chandler when I was a little girl and he was certainly NOT Mr. Boynton on Our Miss Brooks. Hollywood stars reached into homes of people who never went out to a movie. . I guess anything is possible, but it's very difficult to imagine him as a cross-dresser! The couple had two daughters, Jamie Tucker and Dana Grosse. Silver-haired actor who portrayed Cochise in Broken Arrow. When Esther came out with the story, Jane insisted that it was untrue. In 1955 he became only the second star to play at the Riviera, after Liberace was the featured headliner. [76] He died on June 17, 1961. ). The car jack-less beauty, after being rebuffed (and hilariously mocked) by a passing Apache family's truck, is eventually rescued from the burnt orange heat of broiling midday by jeep-driving mining engineer Jeff Chandler and his half-drunken doctor pal Dan Duryea. When she defended Jeff, she had spent decades on film sets with all sorts of mengay, straight, effeminate, macho, etc. American actor Jeff Chandler as Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill in a scene from the film 'Merrill's Marauders', 1962. It was nothing to him that Williams did all the housework and the cooking, then got up from the sofa when he ordered, "Get me a Coke. Chandler replaced Lee J. Cobb, and it was one of his least-typical roles, a character part rather than a leading man. About his cross-dressingthat she was forced by her editor to make it up to sell more books? . He spoke his mind, recalls Hunt, and paid the consequences (he was suspended by Universal for turning down assignments). "Nothing happens to you that you can't handle," she says. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick, - Maureen O'Hara on acting with Chandler in War Arrow (2004), Writer-director Delmer Daves was looking for an actor to play Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950) at 20th Century Fox. It pissed him off, perhaps making him think she was condescending to him. One of the aspects of her book that I found fascinating was her talking about how she and other big female stars of the era dealt with working their pregnancies (and miscarriages and abortions) into their studio contracts and schedules. Her stories about Gene Kelly I don't think were ribald, at least as far as them ever hooking up. He was one of Universal Pictures' more popular male stars of the 1950s. Get personalized pricing by telling us when, where, and how you want to use this asset. After he was discharged from the service, he became busy acting in radio dramas and comedies until he was signed by Universal. He was the first actor nominated for an Academy Award for portraying an American Indian. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stage and film personalities, where he acted in school plays; his schoolmates included Susan Hayward. Williams is happily married today to Edward Bell, partner in her swimming pool and swimsuit businesses. "Jeff Chandler Among Movie Visitors Here" Tinee, Mae. "Now Jeff has gone, I feel like one of my band of brothers has left this world, and I'm going to dearly miss him," he wrote. Esther had a lot of strange stories. "Drama: Henry Fonda to Have Lee Cobb as Costar". While Gene Kelly danced and Judy Garland sang, Esther Williams swam into the heart of America with her dazzling smile, stunning aquabatics, and whole-some appeal. It was in the fifties that Jeff would become a star, making westerns and action pictures. Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle (1918-1989) in 1946. died in 1989 at age 71. She didnt. Sipping from a glass of lemonade, the former MGM star says she was simply telling the truth when she revealed that Jeff Chandler, the actor she nearly married in the late '50s, had been a closet cross-dresser. If they haven't seen any of his films (or think they haven't! New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux (1965) ISBN -374-52268-5 Chandler himself had nearly lost an eye and had been visibly scarred in an auto accident years earlier. All other countries are giving inducements to companies and to players; even a little country like Israel is trying to formulate a plan for subsidies. And of course, there are photos in Hollywood Babylon II of Dan in drag. [10][12] It was the last film he made outside Universal for a number of years. He was a favorite of macho directors like Budd Boetticher (Red Ball Express) and Sam Fuller (Merrills Marauders.) His specialty: men of integrity who quietly endured the worst that the enemy or society could dish out. Hunt co-starred with Chandler in The Plunderers (1960). Above all, he was impossibly handsome. A casually racist remark from Russell's character, indignantly referring to . Chandler, known for his rich baritone voice and prematurely gray hair, died in 1961 as the result of a botched operation for chronic back pain. She found the hallucinogenic drug an enlightening experience. "BETTE DAVIS SEEKS TO LEAVE WARNERS: Negotiations Are Under Way to Cancel Contract, Making Actress a Free Agent" by THOMAS F. BRADY, "LANCASTER, HECHT BUY MAILER NOVEL: Actor to Play Lieut. Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918 - June 17, 1961) . EXCEPT, R26, Esther never married Jeff. [70], Esther Williams wrote in her 1999 autobiography that she broke off their relationship and that Chandler was a cross dresser. Companion. Discover Jeff Chandler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. [17] As part of the arrangement, Chandler signed a deal with Fox to make a film a year with them for six years. Hot. He had injections to deaden the pain and enable him to finish the production. The couple had two daughters, Jamie Tucker (1947-2003) and Dana Grossel (1949-2002), before separating in 1954. . He was a cross-dresser., To which actress Jane Russell, who played opposite Chandler in the 1955 melodrama Foxfire, responds: Ive never heard of such a thing. When Esther Williams worked at MGM in the '40s and '50s in a series of swimming musicals, movie stars didn't reveal the truth about themselves or their co-stars. She repeated them in her autobiography as a means of introspection. The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography. Married in 1946; divorced in 1959; died in 1989 at age 71. . None of it helped. There have been many people who have, since his death, come forward and outed him as both a transvestite and a homosexual, including Betty Grable, Andre Previn, and now Scotty Bowers. He followed this by playing the role of Cochise in two sequels: The Battle at Apache Pass (1952) and Taza, Son of Cochise (1954). So yes, an estate can sue for libelous content in some circumstances. I didn't, R18. You tell them off! In 1952, exhibitors voted Chandler the 22nd-most popular star in the US. None of these embarrassed people were in Esther's bedroom. How dare they claim to be film buffs when they've not seen all three! [11][12] He tested for Columbia's The Loves of Carmen[13] but did not get the part. At a trial, Fred Otash said the detectives had followed them to get the story. [66] Their divorce was granted in June 1959, with Chandler giving his wife $100,000 and over $2,166 per month in alimony plus $500 per month in child support. She made her film debut with MGM in an "Andy Hardy" picture called . Williams' revelations about Chandler angered many readers. Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle (1918-1989) in 1946. "You men all ask the question," Williams says. She then married singer/actor Ben Gage in Nov 1945 and had three children to him. Why should she re-can't? )they must surely have read about him in all the info there is on Old Hollywood. Of all the things you could make up - why that? [34] Both The Robe and Magnificent Obsession became big hits. That would be sheer gossip.. The Lady Takes a Flyer with Lana Turner and Raw Wind in Eden with Esther Williams. Recalling the evening she allegedly found Chandler in red wig and flowered chiffon dress, Williams writes, Here was my lover--a strong, manly figure by anyones estimate--who had just been standing before me in high heels and a dress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. She eventually was spotted by a MGM talent scout while working in a Los Angeles department store. Chandler was born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the only child of Anna (ne Herman) and Phillip Grossel. If she wanted to make up a story about someone - why him? She met her first husband Leonard Kovner while she was at college but she admitted that after a time she found him very dull and she didn't need him. I went to college with his son in the (early!) Jeff Chandler was in relationships with Esther Williams (1957 - 1960), Mamie Van Doren (1954), Susan Hayward (1954 - 1955), Julie Adams (1953 - 1954), Mrta Torn (1951) and Marilyn Maxwell. RIGHT: Again with Esther Williams. The couple had two daughters, Jamie Tucker (1947-2003) and Dana Grossel (1949-2002), before separating in 1954. [10] Hollywood tended to cast him, though, in different nationalities. [29] On Peggy Lee's radio show, he had demonstrated a talent for singing, and he pursued this through the decade.[30]. At the very least they should be aware of Joan Crawford and "Female on the Beach". American Actress Esther Williams was born Esther Jane . According to one profile, "he has unusual face, with taut, bony features, which seem to fit neatly into any sort of role".[23]. [64], In his 1958 divorce proceedings, Chandler was revealed to be paying his wife an allowance of $1,500 per month. In addition to his acting in film, he was known for his role on the radio program Our Miss Brooks and for his musical recordings. Broken Arrow turned out to be a considerable hit, earning Chandler an Oscar nomination and establishing him as a star. He was cast in February 1949. Jeff Chandler: American actor and singer (1918 - 1961), Actor, Film actor, Singer, Songwriter, Television actor, Film producer, Stage actor, From: United States of America . He's The Busiest, Now". They separated in 1951,[60] again in 1954,[61] and filed for divorce in 1954. He worked for two years in stock companies, including a performance of The Trojan Horse opposite famous singers and actors Gordon MacRae and his wife Sheila MacRae, who became his good friends. She was the fifth and youngest child of Louis Stanton Williams (January 19, 1886 - June 10, 1968) and Bula Myrtle (ne Gilpin; October 8, 1885 - December 29, 1971). Russell was very homophobic, in response she said: "I've never heard of such a thing. When she made the book deal with Simon & Schuster, "they said, 'See if you can write a page-turner.' I think Esther Williams later admitted she made it up to sell copies of her autobiography. Rhonda Fleming, Maureen O'Hara, Kim Novak, Jane Russell, Esther Williams, and his Brooklyn friend Susan Hayward. Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 - June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. Off screen, Chandler was both a civil rights activist and die-hard baseball fan known to suit up with the Dodgers for spring training. Jane Russell whom I did adore when she was a young star via Howard Hughesbecame a right wing Religious bitch in later lifeno wonder she would deny the JC storiestoo left wingy! r68, just because you remember him doesn't mean 99% of the population does, so why don't you check the facts before you stupidly label other people as dumb? Yes you can, family members have sued over things like this. Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle in 1946. Some features on this site require a subscription. Actor. Jeff Chandler girlfriend, wife list. So Esther said "Just tuck a foot under your ass and you will sit up taller." ", In the book, Williams extols Lamas' lovemaking ("God knows he'd had enough practice to have earned a black belt in the bedroom arts.") Esther's recollection of Joan is even crueler than her recollection of Jeff. "He became so absorbed by his career that he spent all time when not actually working on a picture in his business office", said his wife. Betty died in 1973, Dailey in 1978. In 1957, he became involved with actress Esther Williams, causing his wife to divorce him. CENTER C: Chandler assists Esther Williams. [quote]Betty Grable never confirmed Dan Dailey's cross dressing after Dailey died. Jeff Chandler was a 6'4" gorgeous hunk of beefcake with thick curly silvery hair and he was often photographed to show off his massive hairy chest. He definitely had guts to open in Vegas. That's Gay 101 or are every one of your old film buffs straight? The couple had two daughters, Jamie Tucker (1947-2003) and Dana Grossel (1949-2002 . Williams waves off the backlash to her book as naive. The so-called revelations about Chandlers fetish, she says, are common knowledge, dating to the 60s and a Chicago Tribune interview she gave to Gail Sheehy. Hello. Chandler moved to Columbia and acted with Kim Novak in Jeanne Eagels. Esther Williams wrote in her 1999 autobiography that she broke off their relationship and that Chandler was a cross dresser. R56 = Another pathetic self-hating creep trying to claim everyone on DL thinks alike. Our government still taxes the hell out of people; somebody ought to wake 'em up.[57]. [5][6], Chandler formed his own company, the Shady Lane Playhouse, in Illinois in the summer of 1941. Esther Williams (Esther Jane Williams) was born on 8 August, 1921 in Inglewood, CA, is an American swimmer. Why has this not been mentioned? "'Chief Crazyhorse' Held Right for Jeff Chandler; Slate Signs Term Deal", Schallert, Edwin. 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