Monday, December 29, 2014

Mr. X Blind Item #5 - Old Hollywood

Which B-list tough guy, who was almost A-list for a short period, was born and raised into a Jewish family, but when he got to Hollywood he was told by several [Jewish] studio heads to hide his faith from the public, because they wanted an 'exotic' leading man a la Rudolph Valentino? He did so, never discussing his faith to the public until his later years.

17 comments:

  1. The 10th Doctor11:48 PM

    Totslly off the top of my head, zero research: Yul Brynner?

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  2. MontanaMarriott11:49 PM

    Tony Curtis, who was born Bernard Schwartz I know this because he went to my high school in NYC lol

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  3. Tricia1311:53 PM

    Robert Mitchum

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  4. Tricia1311:54 PM

    He was gorgeous....

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  5. Paul Muni

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  6. John Garfield ( Jacob Garfinkle) he was in the original The Post Man Always Twice. Played a lot of boxers and thugs. Lana Turner was the leading lady and was still beautiful . She got hard looking by the 50s and then all that shit happened. Great movie tho.

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  7. ettacettera12:28 AM

    I'm with babs..John Garfield..often played tough guy parts

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  8. I agree with Tricia 13 -- Robert Mitchum.

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  9. Jessica Larson12:44 AM

    This isn't a blind, just read Garfield's Wiki page.

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  10. jenny breen12:47 AM

    Robert Michum wasn't Jewish he was Scottish and Norwegian He was one of my favorites and I doubt there were to many people who told him what to do. Tony Curtis didn't play tough so John Garfield sounds right.

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  11. Shelly Shell1:40 AM

    This is Garfield, he's career was ruined because he refused to name communist, he was A list breifly, died before he was 40 of a heart attack.

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  12. aemish2:04 AM

    That's awesome!

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  13. justme4:02 AM

    It could be Edward G. Robinson - real name Emanuel Goldenberg

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  14. back again6:02 AM

    loved him---- "Ryan's Daughter" was one of my fave movies-so depressingly beautifully filmed..everyone was singing the praises of "Dr.Zhivago" but R.D. really stayed with me.

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  15. I believe Mitchum did time on a chain gang for a pot bust, so I am not sure he would care about hiding his faith, whatever it was. I am with the John Garfield guess and the first Postman was great!

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  16. Kelly9:21 PM

    George Raft? He was tried out in the Valentino mode - even did a movie as a tango dancer - and did tough guy roles.

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