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| • | William Eythe (April 7, 1918-January 26, 1957) was an American Motion Picture, Radio, Television and Theater actor. Born in Mars, Pennsylvania, a small town located about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, he was interested in acting from a young age. He attended Carnegie Tech University and studied acting and he began writing his own plays. "Lend An Ear," was one of his early plays and proved to be a theatrical success, later going on to have a Broadway run.
Eythe eventually moved to New York, where he got various jobs performing in radio dramas and as an announcer for a local television station. During the Second World War, many of Hollywood's young male stars were away at war, and the film studios were forced to locate newer, younger actors who were below the age of military service, or those actors who were considered unfit for service due to medical conditions. Eythe, who had poor hearing, was one such actor, and he was spotted by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox films.
He was given a screen-test, and landed a role in the film "The Ox-Bow Incident," which co-starred Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. In 1943 he starred opposite Jennifer Jones in the Academy Award winning film "Song of Bernadette." Eythe's star was rising fast in Hollywood, and he acted in films with stars such as Anne Baxter, Vincent Price, and Tallulah Bankhead.
The Hollywood publicity machine linked Eythe with many of the hottest young stars in Hollywood of the time, Anne Baxter, June Haver, Margaret Whiting, but in real life Eythe was gay. Eythe was involved in a relationship with the actor Lon McCallister, a very popular young screen actor at the time. When a movie fan magazine published photos of Eythe and McCallister together, Darryl F. Zanuck, president of 20th Century Fox was furious, and as punishment sent Eythe to England to film the movie "Meet Me At Dawn." Eythe was badly miscast in this film as a duelist, which was the first film to be shot at the new 20th Century Fox Studios in England. When Lon McCallister joined Eythe in London and their photos together made the papers, Zanuck cancelled Eythe's contract to Fox.
In a seemingly state of panic, Eythe quickly married a young 20th Century Fox contract actress, Buff Cobb. The marriage was short lived and was not a happy one, and the couple would soon divorce. Later Cobb would sue Eythe for support payments, which would lead to Eythe's later arrest. Cobb later went o
Source: [wikipedia: eythe, william]
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