He had short-term stints at MGM and RKO, and got regular professional acting work only when he turned to radio.

"[15], In 1936, Ladd played an unbilled role in Pigskin Parade. However he was unable to make a success of the shop. Mr. Ladd and Miss Carol were married on March 15, 1942. [5], In the early 1920s, an economic downturn led to Ladd's family moving to California, a journey which took four months. Mr. Ladd's big break came in 1939 when he met Sue Carol, a motion‐picture actress turned agent.

Birthday: April 21, 1943 How Old - Age: 77. Ladd was considered to play the lead in The Angry Hills but Robert Mitchum eventually was cast. [46][47][48] He was meant to be re-inducted on September 4, 1944,[47] but Paramount succeeded in getting this pushed back again to make Salty O'Rourke.

He was a child of Hollywood, ambitious to get into pictures. Alana Ladd was born on April 21, 1943 and is 77 years old now. "It wasn't on account of the picture", said Ladd.

Ladd's deal with Warners was for one film per year for 10 years, starting from when his contract with Paramount expired. On January 29, 1964, at age fifty, Alan Ladd was found dead at his Palm Springs home of an overdose of sedatives and alcohol.

She was an actress, known for Duel of Champions (1961), Hawaiian Eye (1959) and 77 Sunset Strip (1958).

Release for this film was delayed. [2], Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on September 3, 1913.

His first motion picture part was in 1939 as a seasick voyager in “Rulers of the Sea. He signed to appear in some episodes of General Electric Theater on TV. In 1948, he starred and produced Box 13, a regular weekly series for syndication, which ran for 52 episodes. In “The Glass Key ” in 1942 Mr. Ladd played a killer who redeemed himself at the end of the picture and for a reward won Miss Lake.

[3] His mother was English, from County Durham, and had migrated to the U.S. in 1907 when she was 19. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19520414&id=bFI1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=wYAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2789,1942454&hl=en, "City of nets: a portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s", Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated, "Rugged Screen Career of Alan Ladd Ended by Death", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Ladd&oldid=983595942, Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. "I like my home and my security and I don't intend to jeopardize them by being difficult at work. Then the breaks began. He became a high school swimming and diving champion and participated in high school dramatics in his senior year, including the role of Koko in The Mikado.

His mother moved to Oklahoma City, where she married Jim Beavers, a house painter (d. [73], Ladd's final three movies for Paramount were Thunder in the East, Shane and Botany Bay.

In all,. She died on November 23, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Universal made him a member of a small group of youngsters the studio hoped, by proper training, to convert into movie stars. His cool, unsmiling persona proved popular with wartime audiences, and he was voted by the Motion Picture Herald as one of the 10 "stars of tomorrow" for 1942. [51][52] However, in May 1945 General Lewis Hershey released all men 30 or over from induction in the army, and Ladd was free from the draft.

[32], Ladd briefly served in the United States Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit. [12], Ladd managed to save and borrow enough money to attend an acting school run by Ben Bard, who had taught him when he was under contract at Universal. De Mille and starred in ''Fox Follies'' and ''Girls Go Wild.'' But 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. Ladd retired from manual labor and enrolled at the Bard Dramatic School. He was cleaning a gun at his Hidden Valley ranch when he tripped. Alan Walbridge Ladd was born on Sept. 3, 1913, in Hot Springs, Ark., but his family moved to North Hollywood when he was 7. Ladd then appeared in Lucky Jordan (1943), a lighter vehicle with Helen Walker, playing a gangster who tries to get out of war service and tangles with Nazis.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Jan. 29 (AP)—Alan Ladd, the film star, was found dead today in his home here, apparently of a heart attack. ” But it was.

The movie was Ladd's second pairing with Lake. [13][14] Bard later recalled Ladd "was such a shy guy he just wouldn't speak up loud and strong.

[14][18] RKO eventually offered Ladd a contract at $400 per week. Alana was stricken with a stroke around 2001 which limited her mobility for the rest of her life.

– New York Times obituary (January 30, 1964). Official Sites, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. [70], In May 1951, Ladd announced he had formed Ladd Enterprises, his own production company, to produce films, radio and TV when his Paramount contract ended in November 1952. He followed this with Beyond Glory (1948), a melodrama with Farrow, which featured Audie Murphy in his film debut (and was released before Whispering Smith).[64].

[67] The following year, a poll from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association listed Ladd as the second most popular male film star in the world after Gregory Peck. When the paper changed hands, Ladd lost his job. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. [38] The New York Times reported that "Ladd in the brief period of a year and with only four starring pictures to his credit... had built up a following unmatched in film history since Rudolph Valentino skyrocketed to fame. “Nobody’s strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.”, “Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.”, “I know what’s good for me. Ladd made another cameo in an all-star Paramount film, titled Variety Girl, singing Frank Loesser's "Tallahassee" with Dorothy Lamour. I think he was very conscious of his looks. Paramount commissioned Raymond Chandler to write an original screenplay for him titled The Blue Dahlia, made relatively quickly in case the studio lost Ladd to the army once again.