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Nov 14, 2017 · Dick Powell was a Southern boy, although you’d never know it from his voice. Born in Arkansas in 1904, Powell grew up in the Ozark Mountains. But, he was no drawling hillbilly — he attended college in Little Rock where he developed a taste for literature, a taste for business, and a taste for music, not necessarily in that order.
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.
Biography. 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). Prior to that film, Powell was a bankable ...
Six Things to Know About Dick Powell. Powell as Rex, with Joyce Holden. as a "humanimal" who was a horse. 1. He once played a dog in a movie! In the 1951 comedy You Never Can Tell, a German Shepherd named King inherits a fortune following his eccentric owner's death--but then is swiftly murdered.
Actor | Director | Producer | Singer Born Richard Powell on Nov. 14, 1904 in Mountain View, AR. Died Jan. 2, 1963 of cancer in Dick Powell's Wilshire Boulevard apartment, Calif. D ick...
Aug 17, 2023 · Dick Powell (1904–1963) aka: Richard Ewing Powell. Richard Ewing Powell was a musician, actor, and director. An ambitious man always pursuing new avenues for his creativity, Powell experimented with different media (radio, film, and television) at a time when not many did.
American actor. Learn about this topic in these articles: Bacon. In Lloyd Bacon: Warner Brothers. …musical, it featured Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, and Warner Baxter. Even more critical to its success were the contributions of composers Al Dubin and Harry Warren and dance director Busby Berkeley.
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