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Richard Ewing Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) [1] was an American actor, singer, musician, producer, director, and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man, starring in projects of a more dramatic nature.
Dick Powell. Actor: Murder, My Sweet. Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs.
Dick Powell. Actor: Murder, My Sweet. Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs.
Mar 12, 2018 · Diagnosed with lung cancer six years later, Dick Powell succumbed to the disease the day after New Year’s, 1963. He was just 58. He left an estate valued at $10 million, a tribute to his business instincts and success as a producer. But what I and his other living fans remember is up on the screen — it’s Dick Powell the actor.
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss. Born in Mountain View, the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas, Powell attended the former Little Rock College in the state capital, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Charlie ...
Dick Powell was an American actor, singer, voice actor, and director. He is best remembered as the first actor to portray the fictional character, private detective ‘Philip Marlowe,’ on screen. As a young boy, Powell was encouraged by his father to sing in church choirs.
Nov 14, 2017 · In 1944, Dick Powell was forty years old, divorced from Joan Blondell…and still a romantic tenor, singing on a radio show for a beauty cream popular with middle-aged women. He knew that a picture was being made from James M. Cain’s hardboiled crime thriller Double Indemnity , and pressed himself forward for the part, desperate to ...
Dick Powell old time radio star, singer, actor, film producer, director and studio head.
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A romantic singing lead in a number of musicals throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Dick Powell traded in his tenor voice and good guy image to take on a more hard-boiled persona following a career-transforming performance as Phillip Marlowe in the classic film noir "Murder, My Sweet" (1944).
