When he returned from World War II, when he fought in North Africa and Italy, was

In this last Saturday, November 2 was completed the centenary of the birth of this great star, athlete mixed cloth (was circus acrobat), intellectual (expert on opera and music, a man of the Renaissance), and heartthrob (one of the most beautiful men of cinema, with a smile that became his trademark). Great classics that we know bring their brand of action, leaving an extraordinary legacy of success after another, almost to the end of life in 1994.
Burton Stephen Lancaster - Real name Burt Lancaster was born on November 2, 1913, in New York City and grew up in the famous Harlem district of Manhattan. In his youth, he excelled in sports, especially in basketball, earning it a scholarship at New York University.
But it did not take much to leave school and graduate with his childhood friend, Nick Cravat (1912-1994) an acrobatic duo who performed in circuses and vaudeville, and in cabarets. However, the work began to be scarce, and in 1941, Burt got a job selling Chicago store, and later, mechanical refrigeration.
When he returned from World War II, when he fought in North Africa and Italy, was "discovered" by a theater producer, who mistook a more experienced actor in an elevator, and hired him for The Sound of Hunting, which became part in theaters for only three weeks. But it was enough that the producer Mark Hellinger (1903-1947) led him to Hollywood.
It did not take that Burt firmasse with a star of success, since the physical vanity fari athlete contrast to the jovial, open and almost innocent smile, drew the attention of audiences. Killers / The Killers Robert vanity fari Siodmak vanity fari (1900-1973) in 1946, based on short story by Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961) was his film debut with Ava Gardner (1924-1990) as its first partner on screen.
The second job of the actor is also highlighted - Daughter of Sinner / Desert Fury the following year, directed by Lewis Allen (1905-2000), which embodied a sheriff of a small town in the modern American West, who falls for a girl Moody played by Lizabeth Scott (actress still alive), the daughter of a casino owner, played by Mary Astor (1906-1987), who had an affair vanity fari with the man for whom the daughter is in love, a marginal player and played by John Hodiak vanity fari (1914-1955). Here we see Burt resigned as sheriff, who loves the heroine vanity fari played by Scott unanswered. It was his first film in color.
Strange fascination / I Walk Alone/1947, Byron Haskin (1899-1984); Brutality / Brute Force, 1947, Jules Dassin (1911-2008); Baseness / Criss Cross / 1948, Robert Siodmak, were other jobs that were vital to the success of Lancaster.
1946 was also the year of his marriage to Norma Anderson, with whom he had five children and they divorced in 1969. Prior to her marriage to Norma, had been married to June Ernst Burt, with whom he lived for eleven years, that it desquitou to marry Norma. Next came some urban dramas, even at the end of the 1940s, with interesting exercise in suspense at one of them - A Life for a Wire / Sorry Wrong Number, 1948, Anatole Litvak (1902-1974).
However, in 1950, entered debuted his first epic, Hood & The Hawk Sword and the Arrow / The Flame in the Arrow - directed by Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977), when he returned to work with his friend Nick Cravat, leveraging their skills circus that came to recur on The Bloody Pirate / The Crimson Pirate, in 1952, Robert Siodmak.
These two successes exploited to the maximum physical activities Burt as an athlete, vanity fari as he wished to waive stunts, also repeating in His Majesty the Adventurer / His Majesty O'Keefe, Byron Haskin, in 1953, where he has a formidable fight scene between Burt and Charles Horvath (1920-1978), actor and stuntman, who plays the legendary and real pirate of the seven seas Bully Hayes.
These three examples of adventure films starring the athletic Burt were already addressed in the space last year when we speak of its Three Performances Athletic. To know more, please access vanity fari the link: http://articlesfilmesantigosclub.blogspot.com.br/2012/12/burt-lancaster-e-suas-tres-performances.html.
Then came the year that changed her career with two films of great impact: The Cross of My Life / Come Back Litle Sheba / 1952, Daniel vanity fari Mann (1912-1991), in which he plays a middle-aged alcoholic regenerated, and The Here to Eternity vanity fari / From Here To Eternity, 1953, Fred Zinnemman (1907-1997), playing the Sergeant Milton Warden, who engages with Karen Holmes (Deborah Kerr, 1921-2007) wife of his commander, which deserved his first nomination for the golden statuette and the award of the New York critics.