ROBERT VAUGHAN ON MCQUEEN!
Robert Vaughan in "The Magnificent Seven"!
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Robert Vaughn was born in 1932 and is an actor noted for his stage, film and television work. He's best-known as the always suave spy "Napoleon Solo" with Co-Star David McCallum as "Elya Kuryakin" in the popular 1960s TV series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." although he continues to be a popular television actor into the 21st century. He acted with McQueen in such films as "The Magnificent Seven", and "Bullit".
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ROBERT VAUGHN: "He was the ultimate movie star. He had what we refer to as "The X-Factor", that's what it is. He had enormous sex appeal on-screen. Well, Steve and Yul (Brynner) had a much-publicized feud. It was definitely a sense of 'the old champ' and this was 'the newcomer' coming up to get a crack at 'the old champ'. With Steve, I'd get a knock on the door at 6 o'clock. "What is it?" He'd say, "Did you see how big Brynner's gun is?" "No, I didn't notice it". (Another knock on the door...) "What!" He's say, "Did you see that horse that he got? They changed the horses on him, you know. He's got a bigger horse than anybody. Everbody's going to be looking at that bald-headed bastard".
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"Steve did talk during that picture--"Magnificent Seven"-- quite a bit about his childhood and certainly thought he had gone to the 'school of hard knocks' before he got into the acting business. Neile, his wife really had an enormous amount to do with his selection of making Steve McQueen---Steve McQueen the Star. And she really guided his career.
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"Steve sent me the movie "Bullitt" in its original draft form and I sent it back to him three or four times saying, "This movie doesn't make any sense; I don't understand the plot. Why are you doing this? You're producing the movie. You've got a long-term deal with Warner Brothers to produce seven pictures under your banner (Solar Productions). So, why are you producing this one?" I noticed the script got clearer and clearer, the more money they offered!
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"By the time The "Towering Inferno" came around (1974) he was, I think, planning on not working much anymore, lying back and enjoying the money from "Towering Inferno"---the profit from the gross, I believe it was--which is a very hard deal to get in Hollywood".
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Tomorrow: A visit with Director Lawrence Kasdan!
posted by Michael Manning @ 12:00 AM
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Hello Michael ,
A great post , you are very interesting ,a fountain of info , I love movies old and new and watch (I confess) far to many at times , the good bad and ugly ones haha. I always remember the movie and a lot of the dialogue etc for years and years but can never remember the names ;(,,,,lucky I remember mine at times LOL
And by the way thank you for the sweet comment on my blog , and have a great day Michael , happy movie watching ,,,enjoy.
Greeneyes
Greeneyes: lol! "Here's looking at YOU, kid" (wink, wink)!
i've checked out your site before--very interesting indeed. you really put a lot of work into it. followed your link just now from green-eye's blog. i grew up watching the man from uncle. i had a crush on elia kuryakin--not david mccallum, but his character. boy, when i think about that now *lol*, but i was a kid, and kids have crushes. loved steve mcqueen; he was so cool. ok, now that i've pretty much told my age.....
Well, you are young really. David was really quite effective in "The Great Escape" and is very active today in film. Some of those lines were so damn funny in the scripts, I never knew how Robert Vaughn kept such a straight face as "Napolean Solo"!!! Thanks for your visit. I'll stop by your site too!
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