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Dick Powell
Age: 58 (passed away Jan. 2nd, 1963)
Height: 6'
Birth Place: Mountain View, Arkansas, USA
Born: Nov. 14th, 1904
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BIOGRAPHY: In the 1930s , Dick Powell (I) was the juvenile lead in the Warner backstage musicals opposite such rising stars as Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell. After his career in musicals, he was cast in private-eye roles and became a producer and director for both TV and movies.
TRIVIA:
- In the 1940s he sold his 55-foot yacht, Santana, to lifelong sailing enthusiast 'Humphrey Bogart' (qv). The vessel subsequently achieved celebrity status as "Bogie's Boat" due to his numerous seafaring expeditions, and Bogart even named his production company, Santana Productions, after it.
- He was awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard, for Television at 6745 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Radio at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
- As of early 2007, his birthplace in the small town of Mountain View, AR still stands on the north side of Main Street. It's a modest circa 1895 house (sadly in a state of benign neglect) with a wraparound porch with a small historical marker and a badly weathered display out in front that details his 1936 engagement to 'Joan Blondell' (qv), marriage to 'June Allyson' (qv) and more recent death of his brother.
- His daughter 'Pamela Powell' (qv) was adopted during his marriage to 'June Allyson' (qv).
- He was yet another casualty of the 1956 film _The Conqueror (1956)_ (qv) filmed near a nuclear test site in Utah. Many of the people involved with the film, including Powell, who directed, eventually died of cancer, either caused by, or exacerbated by, working on it. Others included actors 'John Wayne (I)' (qv), 'Susan Hayward (I)' (qv), 'Ted de Corsia' (qv), and 'Agnes Moorehead' (qv).
- His estate was reportedly valued at $10,000,000 at the time of his death.
- In _The Day of the Locust (1975)_ (qv), Powell was portrayed by his son 'Dick Powell Jr.' (qv).
- Father of 'Ellen Powell' (qv), from his marriage to 'Joan Blondell' (qv). He adopted Joan's son, 'Norman S. Powell' (qv) in February 1938.
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