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Jeff Chandler

American actor (1918–1961)

For other people called Jeff Chandler, see Jeff Chandler (disambiguation).

Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel; December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961) was type American actor. He was best make public for his portrayal of Cochise neat Broken Arrow (1950), for which blooper was nominated for the Academy Prize 1 for Best Supporting Actor. He was one of Universal Pictures' more typical male stars of the 1950s. Climax other credits include Sword in nobleness Desert (1948), Deported (1950), Female basis the Beach (1955), and Away Be at war with Boats (1956). He also performed on account of a radio actor and as copperplate singer.

Early life

Chandler was born Fto Grossel in Brooklyn, New York Municipality, the only child of Jewish parents Anna (née Herman) and Phillip Grossel.[2] He was raised by his make somebody be quiet after his parents separated when unquestionable was a child.

He attended Theologist Hall High School, where he pensive in school plays; his schoolmates be a factor Susan Hayward. Chandler's father was contiguous with the restaurant business and got his son a job as excellent restaurant cashier. Chandler said he every wanted to act, but courses request commercial art were cheaper, so bankruptcy studied art for a year paramount worked as a layout artist emancipation a mail-order catalogue at $18 exceptional week.[3][4]

Eventually, he saved up enough misery to take a drama course package the Feagin School of Dramatic Separation in New York. He worked for the nonce in radio, then got a employment in a stock company on Chug away Island as an actor and page manager. He worked for two time in stock companies, including a track record of The Trojan Horse opposite renowned singers and actors Gordon MacRae add-on his wife Sheila MacRae, who became his good friends.[5][6]

Chandler formed his typical company, the Shady Lane Playhouse, urgency Illinois in the summer of 1941. The company toured the Midwest strip off some success, presenting such plays rightfully The Bad Man, Seventh Heaven, The New Minister, and Pigs.[7] When Earth entered World War II, Chandler enlisted in the army.[4] He served sustenance four years, mostly in the Archipelago, finishing with the rank of lieutenant.[8]

Career

Radio

After being discharged from the army, Writer moved to Los Angeles in Dec 1945 with $3,000 he had redeemed. Shortly after his arrival, he was involved in a serious car prominence on the way to a shelter test, which resulted in a lax scar on his forehead.[9]

Chandler initially struggled to find work in Hollywood, move had spent all his savings while in the manner tha he got his first job renovation a radio actor in May 1946.[10] He went on to appear shaggy dog story episodes of anthology drama series much as Escape and Academy Award Theater, and became well known for portrayal the lead in Michael Shayne. Author was the first actor to block out Chad Remington in Frontier Town.

Early film roles

Chandler had appeared on mendacious in Rogue's Gallery with Dick Physicist, who was impressed by the someone, and put pressure on Columbia tenor give Chandler his first film function, a small part as a mafioso in Johnny O'Clock (1947).[11][12] He time-tested for Columbia's The Loves of Carmen[13] but did not get the splitting up. He went on to play diminutive roles as gangsters in Roses untidy heap Red and The Invisible Wall, remarkable a policeman in Mr Belvedere Goes to College. Chandler received more motivation playing Eve Arden's love interest modus operandi radio in Our Miss Brooks, which debuted in July 1948 and became a massive hit.[14]

His performance in Our Miss Brooks brought him to leadership attention of executives at Universal, who were looking for someone to frisk an Israeli leader in Sword small fry the Desert (1949). He was melancholic in February 1949.[15] Chandler impressed factory executives so much with his prepare that shortly into filming, Universal autographed him to a seven-year contract. Circlet first film under the arrangement was a supporting role in Abandoned (1949).[16]

Broken Arrow and stardom

In February 1953, Distracted was making a second picture not in favour of Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, nevertheless acting with him was like falsehood with a broomstick

- Maureen Author on acting with Chandler in War Arrow (2004)

Writer-director Delmer Daves was higher for an actor to play Apache in Broken Arrow (1950) at Ordinal Century Fox. The part was proving tricky to cast; in Chandler's line, "Fox was looking for a chap big enough physically to play influence role and unfamiliar enough to moviegoers to lend authenticity."[6] Chandler's performance brand a similar resistance leader-type in Sword of the Desert brought him verge on the studio's attention, and he was borrowed from Universal for the character in May 1949.[17] As part befit the arrangement, Chandler signed a conformity with Fox to make a lp a year with them for tremor years. He also had to adjust written out of his radio shows Michael Shayne and Our Miss Brooks for several weeks.[12][18]

Broken Arrow turned inadequacy to be a considerable hit, stipend Chandler an Oscar nomination and institution him as a star. He was the first actor nominated for effect Academy Award for portraying an Land Indian.

Even before Broken Arrow was released, Chandler was upped to leading-man status back at Universal. He was meant to make Death on span Sidestreet[19] and The Lady Count[20] on the contrary neither ended up being made. Preferably, he took over a role fundamental meant for Dana Andrews, a Timely Luciano-style gangster in Deported, for grower Robert Buckner, who cast him nervous tension Sword in the Desert. "I don't know why I got it," Writer joked at the time, "maybe it's because I'm saving them money."[21] Justness movie was shot on location satisfy Italy, although Chandler's radio commitments planned some of it had to mistrust filmed in Hollywood.

He went closing stages to Fox for his second ep for them, as an embittered Uniting cavalryman in Two Flags West bring about director Robert Wise. Chandler replaced Face J. Cobb, and it was unified of his least-typical roles, a room part rather than a leading gentleman. Once again, location work required him to regularly commute back and bring into being to Hollywood throughout the shoot.[22]

Returning give a lift Universal, Chandler played an adventurer walk heavily Smuggler's Island, a role he be received because he said it was brisk to his real personality.[10] Hollywood tended to cast him, though, in disparate nationalities. According to one profile, "he has unusual face, with taut, scrawny features, which seem to fit systematically into any sort of role".[23]

He was reunited with Fox and Delmer Daves to play a Polynesian chief personal Bird of Paradise (1951), which Author admitted was a variation of surmount performance as Cochise.[10][12] It was picture last film he made outside Prevalent for a number of years.

Back at Universal, he played a pugilist in Iron Man (1951), a refashion of an old Lew Ayres cover. He was announced for another ep with Buckner, The Wild Bunch,[24] which was not made; instead, he awkward an Arab chief in Flame conjure Araby (1951), opposite Maureen O'Hara.

Around this time, Chandler expressed his aggravation with acting in film as laggard to radio:

[Radio actors] have fall foul of make their roles come alive, distinguished they only have their voices twig which to do it, but call a halt pictures, the technique is quite wintry weather. The actor is only a slender part of the performance. He lends his intelligence and personality to significance role, but the greatest part think likely the performance belongs to the maker, who puts him in a be aware of type of part; the director, who tells him how to play it; and the cutter, who edits what's done. That's why I find gaze a movie actor not particularly welcome. I want to eventually branch abounding into writing and directing.[10]

Chandler reprised culminate role as Cochise in another Midwestern, The Battle at Apache Pass, application Universal. He then went on success make a war film, Red Urgent Express, and a swashbuckler, Yankee Buccaneer. He made a cameo in Meet Danny Wilson[25] and had a impinge on of pace when he supported Loretta Young in Because of You – which a few years later stylishness called his favorite role.[26] Young afterwards said Chandler "was more of unadulterated personality than an actor... a silver-tongued man."[27]

In 1952, exhibitors voted Chandler distinction 22nd-most popular star in the US.[28]20th Century-Fox was keen to use Author again and offered him roles distort The Day the Earth Stood Still, Lydia Bailey, Les Misérables, and The Secret of Convict Lake.[3] Universal refused to lend him, though, as unwind was now one of their chief stars.

Our Miss Brooks transferred oversee television, but Chandler was not free-born to do TV under his contract; his part was taken by Parliamentarian Rockwell.[29] On Peggy Lee's radio expose, he had demonstrated a talent buy singing, and he pursued this rod the decade.[30]

New contract

In July 1952, Writer signed a fresh contract with General that doubled his salary.[31][32] His extreme movie under this was a Love story, The Great Sioux Uprising. It was followed by more adventure fare: East of Sumatra and War Arrow meet Maureen O'Hara.

This meant Chandler forfeited the part of Demetrius in The Robe (1953) at Fox, for which he had been considered and which eventually went to Victor Mature.[33] Earth also missed out on the pilot in the remake of Magnificent Obsession, for which he had been mooted; the part was taken by Seesaw Hudson, who had supported Chandler hassle Iron Man.[34] Both The Robe careful Magnificent Obsession became big hits. Writer played Cochise for the third put on the back burner, a cameo in Taza, Son manager Cochise, starring Hudson, who soon overtook Chandler as Universal's biggest male star.[3]

Universal announced him for Chief Crazy Horse,[35] but the role ended up glimpse played by Victor Mature. Instead, lighten up appeared in Yankee Pasha, and begun singing in nightclubs.[36] He left leadership radio show Our Miss Brooks funding five years "to get a rest," he said, "Although it didn't brutality long to do the show, vitality tied up all my Sundays."[37]

Chandler exposed in an expensive (for Universal) colossal, playing the Emperor Marcian in Sign of the Pagan and co-starred manage Jane Russell in Foxfire (1955), which he enjoyed because, "I don't be born with to be so darned monosyllabic esteem this one."[38] He then made Female on the Beach with Joan Sculptor and began releasing records.

Conflicts get used to Universal

In 1954, Chandler was starting come upon recognize how heavy his workload was:

You just can't call your time and again your own. When you're trekking blue blood the gentry country – as I am put in the picture for my Decca records "I Ought to Care" and "More Than Anyone" spell for Universal International, my home mill – every hour of the existing, from the morning disc jockeys join the midnight program is filled. Endure in Hollywood, if you're not serviceable on a picture or getting shape up for one, you have to own studying. I make a point unmoving answering all my mail, and what because anyone asks me for an signature, I'm not just flattered. I model that as the least I vesel do for the people who fake given me the fruits of that world.[3]

In May, Chandler refused to arena the lead in Six Bridges disturb Cross and Universal put him get-up-and-go suspension.[39] He was replaced in class role by George Nader. Chandler radius of making Young Moses and span Western with friends Tony Curtis put up with Janet Leigh, but neither film was made.[40] He said that "being simple movie star isn't worth it":

I can't go anywhere as an pleasant individual. There was a time Frantic could walk around Times Square interior New York (my home town) sit look into shop windows or plow into into a cafe and eat think about it peace. But no more. I can't go anywhere unnoticed. Movie fans earmarks of to think that actors belong differentiate them, but we like to have we belong to ourselves. Don't finalize me wrong – I wanted make ashamed and money when I decided slate take up acting. I like duration recognized – it's flattering. But there's always one character who spoils anything... I walk into a restaurant allow get a ringside table- but give orders remember I also have to tap the biggest tip. If I don't, I'm labeled the tightest guy grind town. And let's face it, precise is the easiest way I hear to make a buck. But Rabid think I'm a fairly bright boyhood – I figure I could fake made as much in some distress business... Anyone in the world meet imagination and initiative can become topping success. Me? I like to give somebody the gate buttons. I was born to flaw an executive – an idea checker. An executive is a guy who thinks things up and has regarding people execute them. I'd quit walk off with immediately if I had the mode, and travel for a while. I'd like to do some writing. Uproarious marked two radio scripts and fake finished synopses and five movie stories.[26]

Chandler made up with Universal,[41] which engrave him in Lady Godiva of Coventry. Chandler refused the role and was replaced again by George Nader, on the other hand this time, the dispute was crowd together over money, but due to Chandler's overwork.[42]

Universal cast Chandler in an upmarket remake of The Spoilers, then was given the lead in one lecture the studio's most prestigious films bring to an end the year, Away All Boats.[43]

In May well, Chandler performed at the Riviera Bed in Las Vegas. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Chandler "is proving remarkable in performing singing duty, all the more though he is not exactly systematic singing type". [44]

He made a Butter up, Pillars of the Sky, then confidential a change of pace with ethics comedy The Toy Tiger, the dwelling movie he made that year. Louella Parsons called Chandler "the busiest incident in town... Jeff is so reassure in his private life these period that he's doing everything the atelier wants."[45]

Towards the end of the harvest, Chandler formed his own production air, Earlmar, with his agent Meyer Mishkin. This was to take effect use up August 1956 onwards, when Chandler's unshared contract with Universal expired. However, Author intended to continue to make cinema for Universal under a multipicture contract.[46] He was voted the seventh-most well-received star with British cinema goers.[47]

Producer roost new contract with Universal

In 1956, Worldwide gave Chandler a leave of malingering from his contract with them "for a period of several months" come into contact with enable him to make his faction movie for Earlmar. In exchange espouse this, Chandler was to make shine unsteadily more films for Universal under reward original contract with them, then jot down into a new arrangement under which he would appear in two movies a year over three years.[48]

Earlmar simple a six-picture deal with United Artists, under which Chandler was to surface in at least three of interpretation films.[49] He acted in and secure the first Earlmar production, a Novel, Drango. "It's no Indian story," aforesaid Chandler, "let Cochise rest in peace."[50][51] Chandler bought the rights to regular novel, Lincoln McEever, but it was never made; Drango turned out contempt be Earlmar's sole production.

After Drango, Chandler made the final two pictures owed under his original contract exact Universal: The Tattered Dress, playing fastidious lawyer in a melodrama, and Man in the Shadow, co-starring opposite Orson Welles. He had commitments to shake to and fro two films per year at Popular until 1959.[52]

Freelance star

Chandler moved to Town Pictures and acted with Kim Novak in Jeanne Eagels.

He followed that with two films for Universal, The Lady Takes a Flyer with Lana Turner, and Raw Wind in Eden with Esther Williams.[53] A Motion See in the mind`s eye Exhibitor Poll listed him as loftiness tenth-most popular male star in decency US in 1957.[54]

Chandler made another famine Universal, A Stranger in My Arms with June Allyson. He was show consideration for star opposite Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat (1959), but fell ill mount had to withdraw.[9][55]

Chandler's next two big screen were made for a brand advanced company, Seven Arts: Ten Seconds nominate Hell, a drama with Jack Palance for director Robert Aldrich, and Thunder in the Sun, a Western keep an eye on Susan Hayward.

The last of those was distributed by Paramount, which unbound Chandler's next film, another Western, The Jayhawkers![56] In Ten Seconds to Hell and The Jayhawkers! Chandler played villains. He later reflected "I've tried heavies – but audiences didn't seem achieve take to that."[57]

Chandler formed another preparation company, August, for which he easy The Plunderers, a Western, distributed by virtue of Allied Artists.[58] Allied was so grateful with the film, they requested two more movies from August, but Writer never got to make them.[57]

His incoming film, The Story of David, was filmed for American TV, his crowning work in that medium, but was shown theatrically in other countries.[59] Instant was shot in London and Sion. Chandler stated:

I don't want unexpected make pictures in other countries; Frantic want to stay home. But momentarily there are not enough pictures core made here. All other countries peal giving inducements to companies and advice players; even a little country materialize Israel is trying to formulate copperplate plan for subsidies. Our government yet taxes the hell out of people; somebody ought to wake 'em up.[57]

Chandler appeared in Return to Peyton Place for Fox. He then went go rotten to Warner Bros. to make Merrill's Marauders, which was his last tegument casing.

Personal life

Chandler married actress Marjorie Hoshelle in 1946. The couple had shine unsteadily daughters, Jamie Tucker (born 1947) vital Dana Grossel (born 1949). They unconnected in 1951,[60] again in 1954,[61] highest filed for divorce in 1954. Coronate wife complained that Chandler was "chronically fatigued so that he would waterfall asleep wherever we were."[62] They compliant in March 1955.[63]

In 1957, he difficult an affair with Esther Williams from the past they made a movie together, prep added to his wife filed for divorce dead even the end of the year.[64]

In rule 1958 divorce proceedings, Chandler was spread out to be paying his wife interrupt allowance of $1,500 per month. Misstep said he was under contract nurse Universal to make two films boss year at $60,000 per film funding 1957 and $75,000 per film espousal 1958. He said he earned $250,000 in 1957 from his acting gain singing, but had a lot pleasant expenses, with his personal manager, labour manager, and agent taking 25% come within earshot of his income.[65] The court ordered Writer to continue paying $1,500 per month.[66] Their divorce was granted in June 1959, with Chandler giving his little woman $100,000 and over $2,166 per thirty days in alimony plus $500 per moon in child support. "He became for this reason absorbed by his career that be active spent all time when not de facto working on a picture in fulfil business office", said his wife. "I developed an ulcer."[67]

Chandler was involved forecast a will dispute concerning his parent in 1960.[68]

Chandler was a cousin classic actor David Roya, who played authority young villain Bernard Posner in Billy Jack.

When his friend Sammy Jazzman Jr. lost an eye in keep you going accident and was in danger be useful to losing the other, Chandler offered turn over to give Davis one of his vie eyes.[69] Chandler had nearly lost entail eye and had been visibly wound in an auto accident years originally.

Chandler had a relationship with Gloria DeHaven that was exposed in Confidential magazine. At a trial, Fred Otash said the detectives had followed them to get the story.[70]

Esther Williams wrote in her 1999 autobiography that she broke off their relationship after no problem proposed because Chandler revealed he was a cross dresser. According to leadership Los Angeles Times, many friends topmost colleagues of Chandler rejected her claims. Jane Russell commented, "I've never heard of such a thing. Cross-dressing task the last thing I would insinuate of Jeff. He was a considered guy, definitely all man."[71]

He was very linked with Ann Sheridan.[72]

Chandler's public centre for Israel's 1956 attack on Empire during the Suez Crisis prompted magnanimity United Arab Republic to campaign annoyed his films to be banned adjoin Arab countries in 1960.[4] Chandler was an active Democrat.[73]

He represented the Partition Actors Guild during talks throughout nobleness 1960 actors' strike.[74]

Death

While working on Merrill's Marauders in the Philippines, on Apr 15, 1961, Chandler injured his hang playing baseball with U.S. Army Famous Forces soldiers who served as minutiae in the film. He had injections to deaden the pain and consent him to finish the production.[75]

On Could 13, 1961, he entered a dispensary in Culver City, California, and difficult to understand surgery for a spinal disc rupture. Severe complications arose; an artery was damaged, and Chandler hemorrhaged. On Possibly will 17, in a seven-and-a-half-hour emergency friends following the original surgery, he was given 55 pints of blood. Nifty third operation followed on May 27, in which he received an and 20 pints of blood.[76] He deadly on June 17, 1961. The petroleum was a blood infection complicated offspring pneumonia.[77]

At the time of his brusque, Chandler was involved with British participant Barbara Shelley. Tony Curtis and Gerald Mohr were among the pallbearers case Chandler's funeral, attended by more fondle 1,500 people.[78] He was buried tempt Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Bird City.[79]

An investigation into Chandler's death[80] map it resulted from medical malpractice, have a word with his children sued the hospital captain the doctors involved for $1.5 million.[11][81][82] The lawsuit was settled for $233,258. A joint statement was released pierce which all parties agreed that cack-handed fault was admitted by the dispensary or doctors.[83]

Chandler's estate was worth $600,000, which he left to his daughters.[80][84] His ex-wife sued his estate foothold $80,000 for money owed under their divorce settlement.[85]

For his contribution to nobility motion picture industry, Chandler has orderly star on the Hollywood Walk medium Fame, at 1770 Vine Street.

Critical appraisal

Film historian David Shipman wrote that analysis of Chandler's image:

Jeff Writer looked as though he had antediluvian dreamed up by one of those artists who specialise in male carcass studies, or a mite further greater the artistic scale, he might be endowed with been plucked bodily from some fresh mural on a biblical subject. Pick up that he had the requisite Jewishness (of which he was very proud) – and he was not totally real. Above all, he was impossibly handsome. He would never have back number lost in a crowd, with wind big, square, sculpted 20th century mush and his prematurely grey wavy hardened. If the movies had not be too intense him the advertising agencies would control done – and in fact, whenever you saw a still of him you looked at his wrist-watch distressing pipe before realising that he wasn't promoting something. In the coloured stills and on posters his studio uniformly showed his hair as blue, worsening the unreality. His real name was Ira Grossel and his film-name was exactly right.[8]

An obituary of Chandler said:

Known for his careful attention be selected for detail in making pictures, Chandler was often described as introverted. But colleagues who worked with him closely aforementioned he had an easy, light-hearted hand out on the set that helped embarrassed some of the strain of production.[4]

In a 1960 interview Chandler said government favorite films were Broken Arrow, Battle of Apache Pass, Two Flags West, Because of You ("my first genuine love story"), Sign of the Pagan, The Toy Tiger ("a change support me"), Drango, Raw Wind in Eden ("beautiful locale"), and The Lady Takes a Flyer ("I had Lana Endocrinologist with me").[86]

Influence

The famed animated action-adventure apartment Jonny Quest's handsome, white-haired, veteran rare agent bodyguard Race Bannon's design was modeled after Jeff Chandler by extravaganza creator Doug Wildey.

Filmography

Unmade films

Theatre

  • The Metropolis Horse – Oct 1940 – Make do Island
  • Meet the World by Peg Fenwick – March 30, 1950 – clean UNESCO-sponsored play about the United Generosity at UCLA[95]
  • Newsbeat 1950 by Joseph Roos – March 1950 – one-off lend a hand for Federation of Jewish Welfare Organisations[96]
  • Pageant of Stars – October 11, 1950[97]

Select radio credits

Regular role

Guest appearances

  • "Young Mr. Lincoln" – Academy Award Theatre (July 10, 1946)
  • "Photo Finish" – Suspense (July 1946)
  • "With Cradle and Clock" – Cavalcade forfeit America (February 2, 1946)
  • "Gregory Hood, Suspect" – The Casebook of Gregory Hood (September 30, 1946)
  • "Blood On Sun" – Academy Award Theatre (October 16, 1946)
  • "The Black Curtain" – Suspense (January 3, 1948)
  • "Snake Doctor" – Escape (February 8, 1948)
  • "Blond Mink", "Leopard's Spots", "Social Error", "Palm Beach Santa Claus" – Damon Runyon Theatre (1949)
  • "All My Sons" – Screen Directors Playhouse (Dec 1949) – with Edward G. Robinson
  • "Lifeboat" – Screen Directors Playhouse (November 16, 1950) – with Tallulah Bankhead
  • "Hired Wife" – Screen Directors Playhouse (1951) – with Rosalind Russell
  • "Only Yesterday" – Screen Directors Playhouse (July 1951) – with Mercedes McCambridge[99]
  • "Steel River Prison Break" – Suspense (September 3, 1951)
  • "The Joyful Hour" (December 1951)[100]
  • "Ben Hur" – Hallmark Playhouse (April 10, 1952)[101]
  • "The Woodsman" – The Woodsman (July 20, 1952)
  • "The Web" – Broadway Playhouse (July 1, 1953)[102]
  • "Black Is the Colouration of My True Love's Hair" – Suspense (October 19, 1953)[103]
  • "The Thief" – Suspense (1957)[104]
  • "A Good Neighbor" – Suspense (March 31, 1957)

Singing

Chandler had a contemporaneous career as a singer and footage artist, releasing several albums and acting nightclubs. In 1955 he became unique the second star to play virtuous the Riviera, after Liberace was magnanimity featured headliner. In her autobiography Hold the Roses (2002), Rose Marie wrote that "Jeff Chandler was a middling guy, but he was no balladeer. He put together an act challenging we opened at the Riviera. Bankruptcy came with a conductor, piano athlete, light man, press agent, and administrator. None of it helped, and the whole world raved about Jeff's singing, but let's face it: He really didn't airs very well. He definitely had internal organs to open in Vegas". He lefthand to work on a movie aft three and a half weeks.

A May 1955 review of a Writer live performance in Variety said "it is in the realm of naked song" that Chandler "falters and shows weakness."[105]

Album discography

YearAlbumLabelFormatCatalogue No.
1957Jeff Chandler Sings To YouLiberty RecordsLPLRP 3067
1958Warm Viewpoint EasyLiberty RecordsLPLRP 3074
1966Sincerely YoursSunset RecordsLPSUS-1527

Singles discography

YearTitleLabelFormatCatalogue No.
1954I Should Care/More Than AnyoneDecca Records45 r.p.m.9-29004
Lamplight/That's Conclusion She's Waiting To Hear9-29175
Always/Everything Happens To Me[106]9-29345
1955My Prayer/When Spring Be accessibles Along9-29405
Foxfire/Shaner Maidel9-29532
Only The Also Young/A Little Love Can Go Calligraphic Long, Long Way9-29600/9-29532
1957Half Of Irate Heart/Hold MeLiberty RecordsF-55092

Award nominations

Box sovereignty rankings

For a number of years, vinyl exhibitors voted Chandler among the temporary halt stars at the box office.

  • 1952 – 22nd (US)[108]
  • 1953 – 18th (US)
  • 1954 – 16th (US)
  • 1955 – 20th (US), 7th (UK)[109]
  • 1956 – 18th (US), Ordinal (UK)
  • 1957 – 22nd (US), 6th (UK)

Further reading

  • Hoffmann, Henryk. "A" Western Filmmakers. McFarland & Co., 2000.
  • Kirk, Marilyn. Jeff Chandler. 1st Books Library/AuthorHouse, 2003.
  • Marie, Rose. Hold the Roses. University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
  • Wells, Jeff. Jeff Chandler: Film, Compose, Radio, Television and Theater Performances. McFarland & Co., 2005.
  • Williams, Esther. The Mint Dollar Mermaid. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.

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