Ladd played a killer who redeemed himself at the end of the picture and for a reward won Miss Lake. Bosley Crowther of The Times said, “apparently it is his tight‐lipped violence that his fans love. Ladd and Miss Carol were married on March 15, 1942.Ī number of critics sought the explanation for Mr. “This Gun for Hire ” that made him famous. His first motion picture part was in 1939 as a seasick voyager in “Rulers of the Sea. She heard him on a radio program and signed him as one of her first clients. Ladd's big break came in 1939 when he met Sue Carol, a motion‐picture actress turned agent.
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Ladd retired from manual labor and enrolled at the Bard Dramatic School. Ladd then went to work for The San Fernando Valley Sun‐Record, but still desirous of being an actor, he took a job as a studio “ grip”-laborer-which he held for two years.īut no director dangled a fat contract in front of the handsome laborer and no feminine star demanded that he become her leading man so Mr. Another young man named Tyrone Power was a member of the group and he also was dropped. After two weeks, this experiment was disbanded and Mr. Universal made him a member of a small group of youngsters the studio hoped, by proper training, to convert into movie stars.
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