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Hi QE -
You will have better luck posting on the IMDb site, specifically on the Message Boards for
Burt Lancaster and/or Chuck Connors here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000044/board/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175200/board/
You will have better luck posting on the IMDb site, specifically on the Message Boards for
Burt Lancaster and/or Chuck Connors here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000044/board/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175200/board/
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QE,
Perhaps this article will help, although it suggests that the relationship between the two was pretty much a professional one structured around the film they did together....which doesn't definitely answer your question in the negative, although it suggests it...
note: I am not an IMDb employee, nor in any way affiliated with IMDb
Perhaps this article will help, although it suggests that the relationship between the two was pretty much a professional one structured around the film they did together....which doesn't definitely answer your question in the negative, although it suggests it...
Mr. Connors recalled how he had landed the starring role in "South Sea Woman":bob
"I had done just a couple of pictures," noted Chuck, "and I was sitting outside a little dressing room at Warner Bros, and they were testing a lot of people (for the role of Pvt. Davie White) and I was sitting in my Marine uniform waiting to be called and I went out to get a breath of fresh air, when down the street comes Burt Lancaster in a Marine uniform. (Chuck said the name "Burt Lancaster" almost with awe-and remember he was recalling almost 40 years in the past). And, in those days the stars never tested with the actors. So I said to him, "Mr. Lancaster what are you doing here?" And he was a baseball fan, so he just decided to come down and test with me. So he took me in the dressing room to, as he said, run the lines, and I didn't even know what that expression meant then. Finally I figured him out and I said, oh you mean you want to practice?
So anyhow we read the scene and man he looked at me and said Boy we've got to work on this! About then my name is called on the loudspeaker to come in on stage and Burt goes to the door and yells out to the people. Hey, I'm talking here, we'll be another 20 minutes, go ahead and test somebody else. Well he went over that scene, seven pages long, to give me some semblance of approaching it proper. And then I went in and did it and got the part. But Burt took that time on his own and I gotta give him credit... In South Sea Woman, both Marines were attracted to the luscious Virginia Mayo, and Connors portrayed the hero who defeats the enemy but sacrifices his own life-and then received the medal of honor posthumously.
When Burt Lancaster was disabled with a stroke in late 1990, Connors was hit hard by it - he tried to call Burt's office but they weren't giving out any information at that time.
note: I am not an IMDb employee, nor in any way affiliated with IMDb
bluesmanSF, Champion
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Perhaps this can be merged with https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/were-burt-lancaster-and-chuck-connors-friends-did-they-play-...
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Thanks so much for the article. I am still in love with Burt's film presence and have now started watching Chuck Connors in "Rifleman" and had once seen South Seas Woman on late nigt TV. (I thought this was onr of the worst movies I'd ever seen!) But I just thought it would be so cool if they were buddies. Can you imagine what asight they'd look visiting in Brooklyn? Anyway, thanks again for the article.
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The two, just hanging out, would be quite cool!
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