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- Tyrone Power is best remembered as a handsome leading man of Hollywood movies, that good looks which he possessed since childhood. He came by his acting naturally as the son of British stage legend Tyrone Power Sr., with who he acted on stage as early as age seven. He worked as a theater usher in Cincinnati growing up, but the acting bug brought him back to Hollywood. The Power name initially got him through casting doors, which closed upon his father's passing in 1931. Those casting doors were reopened specifically by Darryl F. Zanuck, which led to a long term contract with 20th Century Fox, and movie stardom. His stardom went international with the movie Blood and Sand (1941). He enlisted as a Marine Corps pilot during WWII, following which his wanderlust led to travels through South America. He would return to Hollywood and movie stardom, which had an abrupt end with his sudden death in 1958 at age forty-four while he was filming what would be his last movie, Solomon and Sheba (1959), in Spain.
- The glamorous face that the public now knows of Joan Crawford took quite the evolution from her movie career beginnings, where she played a variety of roles, both glamorous and non-glamorous. Before starting her movie career, she worked on Broadway, where she was noticed by movie producers and offered the part of Rose-Marie (1928). In the mid-1930's when her career had already taken off, she co-starred in a number of movies with Franchot Tone, with who she would enter into a brief marriage. The glamorous Joan Crawford would eventually emerge in the movie Susan and God (1940). That movie would lead to her Oscar winning performance in the title role of Mildred Pierce (1945). Her movie roles dwindled by the late 1950's, her time taken up by being an executive with a national soft drink corporation instead.