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"He was loaded with natural ability, terrific coordination. Ty and Basil Rathbone
were known as the best fencers in the movie world."
-- Bob Buck (Tyrone’s co-pilot in the 1947 trip, which began a lifelong friendship.)*
"He was an all-American boy, but he could talk religion, philosophy, art, literature
-- most things except politics. He felt that fame shouldn't necessarily set someone
up to run for office; politics, he believed, was a special game. If you wanted
to play it, it was something you had to take on full-time if you wanted to accomplish
anything."
-- Bob Buck (*Tyrone’s co-pilot in a 1947 trip, which began a lifelong friendship.)*
“Ty was one of my great crushes.”
-- Lynn Bari (played Tyrone’s sister in “Blood and Sand”)*
"He never complained. He proved to himself that in the theatre he could be as
great as his father and as his father had hoped he would be."
-- Raymond Massey (co-star of “John Brown’s Body”)*
"He remained a dear and close friend of Dorothy’s (Massey’s wife) and mine for
the rest of his short and merry life. He crammed an awful lot into it…He had
a great capacity for having fun, a capacity distressingly rare these days.”
-- Raymond Massey (co-star of “John Brown’s Body”)*
“There was one absolutely gorgeous man in Hollywood I had admired from afar for several years. When I saw him in a nightclub or at a motion picture function, I would just stare. And when I was told that Twentieth Century-Fox wanted to borrow me for a film with this dream man, I nearly fainted. At last I was going to work with -- and more than likely, be kissed by -- Tyrone Power… Of course I tried to be very sophisticated, but privately, on the inside, I was very excited. As I began to know Ty, I decided the word “devil“certainly suited him. Not only was he more handsome off screen than on (and that took some doing), but he was one of the funniest men I ever met.”
-- Dorothy Lamour (Tyrone’s leading lady in “Johnny Apollo”)*
“Three of Dad‘s best Hollywood friends -- Cary Grant, Van Johnson, Tyrone Power -- had wanted to play the title role. The choice of Power, with his dark looks and boyish charm, seemed perfect.”
-- Peter Duchin (son of Eddy Duchin, speaking of the making of “The Eddy Duchin
Story”)*
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