“I remember once, when I was about twenty-two or twenty-three”: AI Oct. 11, 1995.
“Absolutely fantastic”: AI August 17, 1995.
“I remember one time, he and Neville Brand were in his car”: AI April 8, 1997.
“A couple of times he used to wake me up”: AI March 5, 1995.
“I remember when he didn’t drink”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“There might have been a hundred people there”: AI July 8, 1995.
“I also knew when he wasn’t drinking”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“His drinking was getting pretty bad”: Ibid.
“The guy never said anything”: “Hanging Tough with Lee Marvin,” Jane Wilson, LA Times West, Aug. 27, 1967.
“There’s a thing that happens with actors” AI Oct. 9, 1999.
“He’s quite kid, isn’t he?” AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“Don’t you want you and your family to get brown as berries?”: Print The Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford, Scott Eyman, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999, p.493.
“Have I ever had a part where I didn’t get killed?”: “Lee Marvin Alive and Tired of Dying It Up,” Don Alpert, LA Times, Feb. 10, 1962.
“Duke would talk slow”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“I won’t jump out a third story window”: “He’ll Play It Straight On New TV series, actor Lee Marvin won’t act,” Jack Leahy, Sunday News, Aug. 25, 1963.
“This is like six in the morning”: AI August 17, 1995.
“I was talking to what’s-his-name, Eddie G. Robinson”: “The Ultimate Drinking Buddy,” Lewis Grossberger, New York Magazine, Aug. 25, 1980.
“On the plane is where he said to me”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“Yet they still suffer from recurring nightmares”: “Troubled Homecoming,” Thomas Childers, VFW, April, 2009.
“As you progress from bit to feature player,”: “Maverick Marvin,” Kirk Honeycutt, NY Daily News, Feb. 11, 1986.
“When he was really lucid”: AI August 17, 1995.
“I called the parents of the kids I invited”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“Movies went to TV from the the theaters until The Killers”: AI Aug. 2, 2001.
“Are you going to play the older killer?”: A Siegel Film, Don Siegel, London: Faber & Faber, 1993,
“He was, in my view, one of the foremost actors of his time”: AI Jan. 20, 1997.
“He started putting down and condemning every other actor on the set,”: Ibid.
“I used to look at his body language”: AI Oct. 6, 1996.
“He was a gifted actor who could rehearse and perform”: AI Aug. 2, 2001.
“This guy couldn’t act worth a shit”: AI Jan. 20, 1997.
“That’s the greatest death scene I believe I’ve ever seen”: Ibid.
“Schools like NYU, UCLA and USC…”: Ibid.
“Lady, I just don’t have the time”: The Killers DVD, Criterion Collection, 2003.
PART III: TAKING THE POINT
CHAPTER 9: “TENSION, BABY, JUST TENSION”
“Lee, don’t be schmuck!” AI Oct. 9, 1999.
“Lee is in kind of a special category in Hollywood,”: “‘Killer’ Lee Marvin is Back In Action,” Louella Parsons, Herald Examiner, March 16, 1965.
“It was at that moment that I realized my career…”: “Remembering Lee Marvin” Michael Burkett, Orange County Register, Sept., 1, 1987 [reprint].
“Whatever picture I do next, had better be the right one”: “‘Killer’ Lee Marvin is Back In Action,”
Louella Parsons, Herald Examiner, March 16, 1965.
“John Wayne was the toughest of them all”: AI Oct. 11, 1995.
“Hell no. A book by a seventy-two-year-old broad? Not me”: “Marvin Plays His Father,” Jerry Parker, Newsday, Aug. 3, 1980.
“In essence it’s the ‘Ugly American,’ ”: Ibid.
“I think he drank sometimes to stop the pain,”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“Yes, he could be irrationally enraged,”: Ibid.
“Yeah, he got the guns out after a certain point”: AI Oct. 11, 1995.
“If he just showed his head just an inch,” AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“We were at the intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Blvd.”: Ibid.
“He would look at you from under his eyebrows,” AI Nov. 15, 1995.
“He literally would black out,”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“I was in Robinson’s Dept. Store,”: AI Nov. 15, 1995.
“Lee got drunk and he [Cabeen] put him in the [motel] room,” AI Dec. 10, 1995.
“I didn’t even know they were coming to my house,”: AI Nov. 15, 1995.
“The first thing was his personality,”: AI July 4, 1994.
“Among those that stand out in the best sense,”: “Reviewing Stand,” Archer Winsten, NY Post, July 29, 1965.
“I think he was a hell of an actor,”: AI July 4, 1994.
“He was the seventh guy after six of them turned it down,”: AI August 17, 1995.
“We had lunch in Bel-Air at Harold’s house,”: AI May 31, 1995.
“The first script was rather a female adventure story,” AI Feb. 23, 1998.
“I was concerned that Kirk Douglas, as a major star,”: Ibid.
“I told him, ‘It’ll get you out of playing heavies,’ ”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“I started laughing when I read the first line,”: “Lee Marvin: A New VIP in the Pecking Order,” Joseph N. Bell, National Observer, Feb. 28, 1966.
“There’s too much chaos here,”: AI Feb. 23, 1998.
“He was a wild man,”: AI Oct. 12, 1995.
“As filming went on, we socialized in California at my house…”: AI Oct. 9, 1995.
“What bothered Lee about Jane…”: AI Oct. 12, 1995.
“I remember early on, Lee had the driver stop…”: Ibid.
“He had seen Harold call me over each time,”: AI Feb. 23, 1998.
“Well, I remember one day,” AI Oct. 9, 1995.
“Another funny incident was on the last day,”: Ibid.
“If you watch that scene closely,” AI Feb. 23, 1998.
“I was in a changing room in I. Magnin’s trying on something,”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“This woman called and I answer…”: Ibid.
“I wish you well but it’s so hard for me to understand…”: Ibid.
“When I first came to town…”: AI Feb. 23, 1998.
“The horse crossed his legs…”: Ibid.
“The film was a lucky strike,”: Ibid.
“I’ve been doing good things for years…”: “Lee Marvin: A New VIP in the Pecking Order,” Joseph
N. Bell, National Observer, Feb. 28, 1966.
“The slow growth for me was actually planned ahead,”: “Ballou Goes Up” Briefing, Sept. 1965.
“I went to a [prerelease] screening of Cat Ballou,” AI March 13, 1996.
CHAPTER 10: EVERYBODY GETS THEIR “VI-CARIES”
“Let’s just you and me face it, buddy,”: “Lee The Marvel,” Stage & Cinema, Sept. 8, 1967.
“If someone’s going for my life…”: “Lee Marvin,” Pat McCabe, Tiger Magazine, Summer, 1968.
“Most people only wise up…”: “Hanging Tough with Lee Marvin,” Jane Wilson, LA Times West, Aug. 27, 1967.
“The only thing in life that’s really interesting….”: Ibid.
“The whole thing of success is just a big accident,”: Ibid.
“I like a martini. I like rum,”: “The Star You Love To Hate,” Arnold Hano, Pageant, May 1966.
“When I do a scene I make it as rough as I can,”: “A Cool Head Hits it Hot,” Martin Cohen, True, Oct. 1965.
“People get a vicarious thrill out of what I do,” “‘Bad Guy’ Marvin Enjoys Role,” Roderick Mann, Miami Herald, April, 30, 1966.
“He had a body language that was altogether different…” AI April 8, 1997.
“They were some group,” AI May 7, 1995.
“Shooting was postponed one day because of rain”: “Lee Marvin” Leatherneck, Robert Johnson Jr.,
July, 1985.
“From then on [after Valance], we were cool,”: AI Sept. 3, 1994.
“See how I was cut out in that vest?”: Ibid.
“He had no fear,”: AI May 7, 1995.
“Lee Marvin told me one thing that set in my mind…”: AI Oct. 29, 1994.
“Yeah, he’d do a lot of fight scenes,”: Ibid.
“He’s crazy. He pulled a thing once, geez!”: Ibid.
“I saw it when we’d drive to the set,”: AI Sept. 3, 1994.
“The sober people on that film gave me more trouble….”: AI May 7, 1995.
“Cabeen was an asshole,”: Ibid.
“Oh if it weren’t for Lee Marvin, I wouldn’t get billing,”: AI Sept. 3, 1994.
“Oh -- I didn’t think it was all THAT funny,”: “Candid Hollywood,” New Bedford Standard Times, June 5, 1966.
“Two will get you twenty…”: “A Frank Fellow,”: Florabell Muir, Daily News, March 11, 1966.
“I want to be in competition with the best,”: “Lee Marvin Talks Marriage,” Sheila Graham, New York World-Telegram, March 15, 1966.
“The men with whom I’m competing….”: “Lee Marvin Academy Award Nominee, Talks of Many
Things on Visit Home,” Kingston Daily News, April 12, 1966.
“I just said, ‘Oh Lee, I think you should reconsider it,’ ”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“Lee was on the aisle. I was next to him,”: AI Oct. 9, 1999.
“Thank you, thank you all, very much,”: “Lee Marvin: Hollywood’s Straight Shooter,” A&E Biography DVD, 2001.
“He certainly didn’t act like that tough, hard-drinking character…” “Julie New Darling of Oscar
Set” Sheila Graham, NY World Telegram & Sun, April 21, 1966.
“Yes and no. Yes because everybody likes…”: AI Feb. 23, 1998.
“I was willing to try it and Lee mumbled something….”: Ibid.
“Well, the English government wouldn’t allow American…”: AI Oct. 25, 1994.
“The Yank stabbed me mate,”: AI August 26, 1995.
“Bob Aldrich used to always say…”: Ibid.
“He wants to intimidate you but…”: “Lee Marvin Finds his Spot in Gorky Park”: Roger Ebert, Gazette Telegraph, Jan. 8, 1984.
“What a character,”: AI Dec. 16, 2011.
“Lee’s a pro,”: AI April 6, 1999. “I had cut my finger…” Ibid.
“As a patriotic American…”: “Rep. Corman Lauds 3M Co., Mascott, Marvin for Hell”: Hollywood Reporter, Jan. 25, 1967.
“Marvin asked: ‘I have script approval?’ ”: “Lee Marvin: A Dying Breed, John Boorman, Close-Ups, NY: Workman Publishing, p. 406.
“The Killers had a different situation already,”: AI Aug. 2, 2001.
“He was endlessly inventive…”: “Lee Marvin: A Dying Breed, John Boorman, Close-Ups, NY: Workman Publishing, p. 406.
“Lee was having one of these anxiety attacks….” AI Dec. 10, 1995.
“He really liked her,” Ibid.
“Well, I’m really flattered by that,” AI Aug. 2, 2001.
“So, Carroll said to Lee during the film,” AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“I saw Point Blank at a film festival…”: “My Style,” Richard Stayton, LA Herald-Examiner, Feb. 4, 1985.
“We sit down in the master bedroom,” AI Feb. 12, 1995.
CHAPTER 11: “I AIN’T SPITTIN’ ON MY WHOLE LIFE”
“A female reporter from New York came to the London set,”: AI Aug. 26, 1995.
“He didn’t have a place to live…”: AI Jan. 16, 2011.
“I don’t know if I remember it correctly…”: AI March 13, 1996.
“He was one of the few stars that would bring…”: AI Aug. 17, 1995.
“Lee and I, from the beginning, would see Japanese films,”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“This guy hypnotizes you with his genius,”: “Marvin Plays His Father,” Jerry Parker, Newsday, Aug. 3, 1980.
“It all paralleled beautifully,”: “‘Hell In the Pacific’ Was Just That for Film Crew,” Wayne Warga, LA Times, May 31, 1968.
“Mifune is beyond professionalism,”: Ibid.
“Those who died, if they were still alive,”: “Old Foes with a New View of War,” P.F. Kluge Life, Sept. 27, 1968.
“We had limo that we had come in from the hotel,”: AI Oct. 9, 1999.
“They released it during the Christmas weekend in Westwood,” AI July 13, 1995.
“Screw’em. Let’em do their own killing,”: AI w/L.Q. Jones, July 13, 1995.
“A friend of Lee Marvin’s called Roy Sickner…”: Special collections file, Margaret Herrick Library of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
“I don’t think there were six pages of mine left….”: “Mad As Hell: The Life and Work of Paddy Chayefsky, NY: Random House, 1994, page 249.
“I saw what happened there,”: AI Oct. 29, 1994.
“He and I were standing there by the microphone,”: AI May 5, 1998.
“They had a screening at Warners and Marvin was invited,”: AI Nov. 20, 1994.
“[Sam] approached me about doing The Wild Bunch,”: “Lee Marvin’s Great, Goddamned
Moments of the Big Kavoom,”: Grover Lewis, Rolling Stone Dec. 21, 1972.
“Lee Marvin is a superb…”: David Denby, New York Magazine, Oct. 1969.
“Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever, Monte”: “Monte Walsh,” Paramount/CBS DVD.
“I would love to do love scenes,”: “Lee Marvin Alive and Tired of Dying It Up,” Don Alpert, LA Times, Feb. 10, 1962.
“It was really very strange,”: AI Jan. 14, 2012.
“One of the other things he did was when we first got there,” Ibid.
“Lee Marvin was not a tough guy acting like a tough guy,”: AI Oct. 9, 1994.
“I remember one time we were in some restaurant…”: AI Sept. 1997.
“One thing that Lee and some of the other stuntmen said was…” AI Jan. 14, 2012.
“Then came Jeanne Moreau,”: Ibid.
“He says more in less words,”: “Lee Marvin, Hollywood’s Most Dedicated Hell-Raiser,” Jim Sirmans, Saga, June, 1974.
“The decision to cut the film is unfortunate,”: “Bill Fraker Directing Bow,” Larry Cohen,
The Hollywood Reporter, Oct. 7, 1970.
“I ain’t spittin’ on my whole life,”: “Monte Walsh,” Paramount/CBS DVD.
“It’s Pam Feeley, from Woodstock,”: AI March 13, 1996.
“It’s kind of a comedy of a couple of con men…”:
“They didn’t get it,”: AI March 3, 2012.
“When the Chief died…”: “Drinks with Liberty Valance,” Robert Ward, Rolling Stone, Sept. 3, 1981.
“Lee invited Gene and me to drive out with him…”: AI Dec. 9, 1995.
“Actually, I thought Lee was protective of her in that thing,”: Ibid.
“I have made some mistakes I wish I hadn’t:”: “Lee Marvin’s Great, Goddamned Moments of the Big Kavoom,”: Grover Lewis, Rolling Stone Dec. 21, 1972.
“I met Lee Marvin in Bob [Aldrich’s] office,”: Will the Real Me Please Stand Up, Christopher Knopf, GA: Bear Manor Media, p.123.
“Bob has a knack for gettin’ a kind of cast together…”: “Lee Marvin’s Great, Goddamned Moments of the Big Kavoom,”: Grover Lewis, Rolling Stone Dec. 21, 1972.
“We were on that damned thing for a week,”: AI Oct. 25, 1994.
“I get a special kick playing rebels…”: “Lee Marvin the railroad hobo in Emperor Of The North…”
Bert Reisfeld, Photoplay[UK], October, 1973.
“He has that wonderful face,” AI July 13, 1995.
“I saw him someplace and he gave me the shooting script…”: AI March 13, 1996.
“Yeah, it was at a stage in my career where I wasn’t sure…”: AI March 26, 2012.
“In acting there are certain unspoken rules,”: Ibid.
“Marvin came in literally carrying an entire case of beer …” AI Jan. 19, 2012.
“Lee just couldn’t handle it,”:
AI July 13, 1995.
“Lee Marvin was sometimes not called for a week and a half,”: “Frankenheimer’s ‘Iceman’:
Another Chance for U.S.” Gregg Kilday, LA Times, Sept. 13, 1973
“We went over the points we wanted to make, the beats,”: July 13, 1995.
PART IV: THE REAR ECHELON,
“He was born to be my sergeant,” AI June 1, 1995.
CHAPTER 12: THE WHITE EYE
“It’s getting very difficult to be an actor “Lee Marvin Sitting in bahnhof watching the trains go by,” Colin Dangaard, LA Herald-Examiner, May 27, 1978.
“I could see his eyes widen a bit…”: AI May 5, 1999.
“Spikes is not only a bank robber…”: “Lee Marvin the railroad hobo in Emperor Of The North…”
Bert Reisfeld, Photoplay[UK], October, 1973.
“As they say, it never opened…”: AI May 5, 1999.
“It’s dangerous for the same reason antiwar films are dangerous,”: “The Klansman,” Judy Stone, Playgirl, July, 1974.
“I’ll either drink the town dry or I won’t touch a drop,”: “Women Like to be Scared of a Guy,” Phillip Judge, Girl Talk, Oct. 1975.
“I said to Lee, ‘I have to go back…”: AI Oct. 4, 1999.
“There wa a film that Lee Marvin and Cameron Mitchell did…”: AI Jan. 18, 1998.
“I was gong to direct it,” AI June 1, 1995. “Yeah, Lee was very good,”: AI Oct. 4, 1999.
“It’s a load of bull,”: “Women Like to be Scared of a Guy,” Phillip Judge, Girl Talk, Oct. 1975.
“Can you tell I did that one for the money?”: AI w/Paul Wasserman, March 13, 1996.
“The thing I look for now is how I really feel,”: “Lee Marvin, Hollywood’s Most Dedicated Hell-Raiser,” Jim Sirmans, Saga, June, 1974.
“I was always proud of what I did with Lee,”: AI Jan. 16, 2012.
“Well, to tell you the truth, Lee changed,”: AI Sept. 23, 1995.
“It’s a thing you continually do,”: AI Dec. 10, 1995.
“We were at the Holiday Inn, or something like that,”: AI Sept. 23, 1995.
“I’m going to be very candid about this…”: AI Feb. 12, 1995.
“You couldn’t have gotten seven people who were more different,” AI Jan. 21, 2012.
“He’s not a man of many words,” Ibid.
“Any time you do something like that,”: “Marvin’s ‘Great Scout’ a Replay,”: Ann Guarino, NY News, June 23, 1976.
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