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Ted DeGrazia's hand gesture, clutching a cigarette, is remindful of silent movie actor Dustin Farnum (1874-1929) on the set of Light of the Western... more
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Ted DeGrazia's hand gesture, clutching a cigarette, is remindful of silent movie actor Dustin Farnum (1874-1929) on the set of "Light of the Western Stars," 1918.
Farnum gained acclaim in 1914 as the star of Cecil B. DeMille's celebrated Western "The Squaw Man."
Farnum never made a talkie but he had appeared in 11 Broadway plays including "Squaw Man" in 1911.
"Stars" was partly filmed in the Las Moros Ranch in southern Arizona (northwest of Nogales) and in Sonora, Mexico.
Dustin Hoffman was named after Farnum.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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