![]() ![]() As it is it's an average good action film. Later that year, he married actress Jean Wallace, who. They had a daughter, Wendy, and divorced in 1951. Hickman played as the son of Ronald Colman movie The Prisoner of Zenda. so’ he started his career during the 30s when he signed a contract with Paramount studios. Darryl was always interested in acting from an early age. If he had cut out the romance and say made Jean Wallace a female oil fire fighter in that male preserve this could have been a classic. He married actress Patricia Knight, who had appeared with him in several plays, in 1938. Also Read: Cornel Wilde Bio, Wiki, Net Worth, Age, Married & Wife. The location shooting added to the authenticity of the film. I must also point out a nice performance by Joe E. Still producer Wilde got good results for actor Wilde and the rest of the cast. Maracaibo did not have the budget Hellfighters did and it shows. Lane has history with Wilde, but she's also engaged to marry Lederer who plays a deaf and dumb oil millionaire who signs throughout the film and his words are interpreted by Landon, an orphan kid who Lederer raised. She and Abbe Lane, a girl who's been around vy for Wilde. The reason for that was that Wilde was trying to showcase Jean Wallace who plays a romance novelist. The film gets really good only when the oil fire fighting gets started. Although there was the usual rough house in the Wayne film, Maracaibo for the first two thirds is a second rate romance. Wilde Jean Wallace together with Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Joe E. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended hisĬareer in near-cameos in minor adventure films.Ten years before John Wayne did the Hellfighters another film that was clearly based on oil fire fighter Red Adair was made by Cornel Wilde on location in Venezuela. Tour-de-force adventure drama that brought him real acclaim as aĭirector. Several of his ventures into film noir in this period,īoth his own and other directors', are quite interesting Led him to form his own production company with the goal of directing In the 1950s his star dimmed a little, and aside from an Spent the balance of the 1940s in romantic, and often swashbuckling, He playedĪ few minor roles before leaping to fame and an Oscar nomination as Production of "Romeo and Juliet" that Hollywood spotted him. It was not until he was hired in the dual capacities of fencing ![]() Stage, he appeared in the Broadway hit "Having a Wonderful Time", but Shortening his name to Cornel Wilde for the In 1937, he married Marjory Heinzen (later known as Patricia Knight ), and they both shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on government documents. Though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on Thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, Shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde Olympic fencing team, he quit the team just prior to theġ936 Berlin Olympics in order to take a role in a play. Received a scholarship for medical school, but turned it down in favor He spent much of his youth traveling in Europe,ĭeveloping a continental flair as well as an affinity for languages. His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the nameĬornelius Louis Wilde. ![]() In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family. ![]()
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