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WW2 veteran Russell Short (1925-2010) spent the war as a teenager stranded on a remote Pacific island. His outfit had been dropped off and then... more
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WW2 veteran Russell Short (1925-2010) spent the war as a teenager stranded on a remote Pacific island. His outfit had been dropped off and then forgotten.
They were told to maintain air silence, as the U.S. was island hopping in preparation for the eventual air and land invasion of Japan.
Russell is celebrating July 4th at the University Medical Center. Lee Marvin died three years earlier in 1987 at the Tucson Medical Center
Marvin had acted in John Boorman's "Hell In the Pacific" (1968) where he plays a pilot deserted on an uninhabited island; his sole Japanese adversary Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) likewise stranded.
In real life Marvin had been a teenage Marine sniper on the Pacific island of Saipan.
{NOTE: A fascinating account of the endless frustrations in making "Hell," on a remote Pacific island, with numerous script revisions (even though there is little dialogue as both Marvin and Toshiro Mifune, spoke only their own languages,...
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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