![]() ![]() More comments from past conversations about Lee Marvin the actor and videos with him can be seen here: Gripping the steering wheel and looking for crime on the mean streets, while nursing the usual hangover. Lee Marvin always looks as though he has a throbbing headache from the revelry of the night before and he is always ready to share the pain with others. The fifties attitudes, clothes and the "I-don't-give-a-rip-what-you-think-of-me" gaze that the leading man has are a real kick-and holy cats, that show made The Untouchables look like kindergarten in the realism dept. Yearley, Marvin was a helluva warrior (even when wounded, which happened more than once) and just exactly as he appeared on screen in real life.ītw, did you know that the complete DVD series of M Squad can be had for less than 23 bucks on Amazon?! I love that show. I may have mentioned this in the past, but in college I had a history professor who was in the same Marine unit that Marvin was in during the assault on the Solomon Islands during some of the worst fighting of WWII. Marvin in print-and I'm even happier to read of any time when someone stood up to that pedantic bully, Lee Strasberg, who always sounds vile-though I know that many talented people worshiped the ground he walked on. I'm glad to read that it looks as though more attention is being paid to the entertaining Mr. (sorry the YouTube player code isn't working for me) I will also go ahead and post this YouTube classic, which many of you probably have seen and is featured at my website on Ford, from an interview Marvin did for John A. from “Drinks with Liberty Valance: Lee Marvin Shoots from the Hip” in Robert Ward’s upcoming journalism collection Renegades (Tyrus Books) If it’s not bigger than life, put it on television.” ![]() That’s the what the old guys understood about movies. You’ll never see skillets and steaks like that in anybody else’s picture. He describes the scene in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance where a white-aproned Stewart is working in the restaurant kitchen and the steaks and skillets alike are giant-sized. When it came to director John Ford, however, Marvin was glad to have him in his outfit, or to be part of Ford’s. I didn’t dig it when he came in using his acting-school reputation to get the creamy acting jobs that some other old actor who’d paid his dues might have really needed. He threw me out, so I said ‘f*** you’ and walked. Strasberg was furious when I corrected him. What I was going for was that the guy was trying to feel pain, because if he had any pain, it meant he wasn’t going to die. When it’s in the terminal stage, there isn’t any pain. After I did the scene, he starts in with, ‘Well, you were going for the pain in your leg, but I didn’t see it, so you didn’t put it over and thus the scene failed.’ I told him that he didn’t know anything about gangrene. I did a ten-minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro. I went to his joint once, back when I was first hanging out in New York, doing plays. “.It’s important not to think too much about what you do. Marine and future Cat Ballou, Lee Marvin recalls his introduction to Method Acting and its founding godfather, whose strictures were seldom countermanded. ![]() I thought I would post this from James Woollcott at The New Yorker (from an upcoming book by Wolcott), I thought it was so funny and typically Marvinian:įormer U.S. ![]()
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