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Sat 25
My Favorite Brunette — Alan Ladd
A baby photographer is mistaken for a private eye and is hired by a beautiful woman to find her missing uncle. Through his ineptitude, he gains powerful enemies, and ends up on death row.
Air Time & Details for Alan Ladd, Sat 25, 12:00 pm -
Wed 29
The Iron Mistress — Alan Ladd
An account of the life of American frontiersman Jim Bowie takes him to 1825 New Orleans, where he falls in love with a duplicitous Creole beauty, seeks his fortune in the lumber business, and engages in politics and duels of honor.
Air Time & Details for Alan Ladd, Wed 29, 10:00 am -
Thu 30
The Badlanders — Alan Ladd
With the help of an explosives expert, two men plan the ingenious robbery of a gold mine shortly after their release from the Yuma Territorial Prison.
Air Time & Details for Alan Ladd, Thu 30, 2:30 pm
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Biography
About Alan Ladd
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Alan Ladd was a short (5' 5"), unexpressive lead actor with icy good looks and a resonant voice. He worked a variety of odd jobs -- in addition to radio and in local theater -- before entering films in his late teens as a bit player and grip. In the mid-'30s, he began appearing regularly in minor screen roles.
Hollywood agent Sue Carol discovered him and began trumpeting him as star material, and the actor eventually landed a major role in This Gun for Hire (1942) opposite Veronica Lake. He quickly became a major star, and was teamed with Lake in other films -- all hits. Ladd and Carol married in 1942, and she remained his agent for the rest of his life.
On the Top Ten box-office attractions list in 1947, 1953, and 1954, he continued to star in films throughout the '50s, but -- with the exception of Shane (1953) -- few of his films were noteworthy; most were entertaining adventures featuring Ladd bare-chested and in fistfights, but, by the late '50s, their appeal was waning. Ladd was the father of actors Alan Ladd Jr. and David Ladd, and former child actress Alana Ladd. He died in 1964.