Alan Ladd's Star on a wall. 7 of 41. Citizen Kane.
I found this on a walk in the City of Plymouth. it is from a time which is well and trully gone but the famous names still live on. Please see the rest of the photographs I was lucky enough to take at the same time. He appeared in dozens of films in bits and small roles, including Citizen Kane. Most of these barely kept him and his household afloat. (He had married a high-school acquaintance, Midge Harrold, with whom he had a son.) His stepfather died suddenly and then his mother, to whom he was intensely devoted, killed herself by eating arsenic-laden ant paste. Ladd, who had suffered on and off from depression throughout his youth, lost his greatest champion and with her, one of the few strong supports for his fragile self-esteem. He still chafed at the negative effects his height had on his career and his self-image. It was at this point that Carol made Ladd's career. His performance as a hitman with a conscience made him a sensation. Ladd went on to become one of Paramount Pictures' most popular stars. Even a brief timeout for military service with the US Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit did not diminish his popularity. None of his subsequent films of the 1940s were as notable as This Gun for Hire, but he did appear to good effect in Raymond Chandler's story The Blue Dahlia alongside the similarly diminutive Veronica Lake (5'2" or m), with whom he teamed in several films.
Size: 5200px × 3467px
Location: Plymouth City England.
Photo credit: © Steve Welsh / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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