#Duel in the Sun

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Candid photo of Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck on the set of Duel In The Sun (1946)

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[stone-cold-groove]

Gregory Peck for Chesterfield cigarettes.

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[adrian-paul-botta]

Lillian Gish candid 10050 Cielo Drive (1946) she rented the mansion during filming ''Duel in the Sun''

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[tunasaladonwhite]

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[oscar-nominee-tournament]

Oscar Nominee of All Time: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

GRACE KELLY (1929-1982)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1953 for Mogambo

WINS:

Lead- 1954 for The Country Girl

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JENNIFER JONES (1919-2009)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1944 for Since You Went Away

Lead- 1945 for Love Letters, 1946 for Duel in the Sun, 1955 for Love is a Many Splendored Thing

WINS:

Lead- 1943 for The Song of Bernadette

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[hollywoodlady]

Gregory Peck photographed for 'Duel in the Sun', 1946.

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[byneddiedingo]

Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)

Cast: Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Herbert Marshall, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tilly Losch, Butterfly McQueen. Screenplay: David O. Selznick, Oliver H.P. Garrett, based on a novel by Niven Busch. Cinematography: Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, Harold Rosson. Production design: J. McMillan Johnson. Film editing: Hal C. Kern. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.

This is a bad movie, but it's one distinguished in the annals of bad movies because it was made by David O. Selznick, who as the poster shouted at moviegoers, was "The Producer Who Gave You 'GONE WITH THE WIND.'" Selznick made it to showcase Jennifer Jones, the actress who won an Oscar as the saintly Bernadette of Lourdes in The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943). Selznick, who left his wife for Jones, wanted to demonstrate that she was capable of much more than the sweetly gentle piety of Bernadette, so he cast her as the sultry Pearl Chavez in this adaptation (credited to Selznick himself along with Oliver H.P. Garrett, with some uncredited help by Ben Hecht) of the novel by Niven Busch. Opposite Jones, Selznick cast Gregory Peck as the amoral cowboy Lewt McCanles, who shares a self-destructive passion with Pearl. Both actors are radically miscast. Jones does a lot of eye- and teeth-flashing as Pearl, while Peck's usual good-guy persona undermines his attempts to play rapaciously sexy. The plot is one of those familiar Western tropes: good brother Jesse (Joseph Cotten) against bad 'un Lewt, reflecting the ill-matched personalities of their parents, the tough old cattle baron Jackson McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his gentle (and genteel) wife, Laura Belle (Lillian Gish). Pearl is an orphan, the improbable daughter of an improbable couple, the educated Scott Chavez (Herbert Marshall) and a sexy Indian woman (Tilly Losch), who angers him by fooling around with another man (Sidney Blackmer). Chavez kills both his wife and her lover and is hanged for it, so Pearl is sent to live with the McCanleses -- Laura Belle is Chavez's second cousin and old sweetheart -- on their Texas ranch. It's all pretentiously packaged by Selznick: not many other movies begin with both a "Prelude" and an "Overture," composed by Dimitri Tiomkin in the best overblown Hollywood style. It has Technicolor as lurid as its story, shot by three major cinematographers, Lee Garmes, Ray Rennahan, and Harold Rosson. But any attempt to generate real heat between Jones and Peck was quickly stifled by the Production Code, which even forced Selznick to introduce a voiceover at the beginning to explain that the character of the frontier preacher known as "The Sinkiller" (entertainingly played by Walter Huston) was not intended to be a representative clergyman. There are a few good moments, including an impressive tracking shot at the barbecue on the ranch in which various guests offer their opinions of Pearl, the McCanles brothers, and other things. Whether this scene can be credited to director King Vidor, who was certainly capable of it, is an open question, because Vidor found working with the obsessive Selznick so difficult that he quit the film. Selznick directed some scenes, as did Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, and Josef von Sternberg, all uncredited. The resulting melange is not unwatchable, thanks to a few good performances in secondary roles (Huston, Charles Bickford, Harry Carey), and perhaps also to some really terrible ones (Lionel Barrymore at his most florid and Butterfly McQueen repeating her fluttery air-headedness from GWTW).

#Duel in the Sun #King Vidor #Gregory Peck #Jennifer Jones

[citizenscreen]

Dimitri Tiomkin conducts a 75-piece orchestra while recording the theme music for King Vidor’s DUEL IN THE SUN (1946).

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[everythingi10ved]

Gregory Peck In 'Duel In The Sun'(1946)

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Duel in the Sun cosmetics! 

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[illustraction]

DUEL IN THE SUN (1946) - GREGORY PECK MOVIE POSTERS (Part 1/10)

This 10 part Blog honors the legendary Hollywood actor, GREGORY PECK who during 58 movies shot between 1943 and 1998, embodied and portrayed US heroism and nobility. Peck was nominated for 4 Oscars and won in 1961 for his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. Yet it is his action movies (Western, War, thrillers) which defined him as one of the greatest actors of the Hollywood era.

The Blog focuses on those and we start with his best Western and one of the most visually amazing cinematography in the epic 1946 Western co-starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.

Above are various rare original posters from Italy, Japan and Sweden (click on each poster for detail)

Director: J. Lee Thompson Actors: Gregory Peck, Stanley Baker, James Darren, David Niven, Irene Papas, Anthony Quinn

All our Gregory Peck posters are here

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The posters above courtesy of ILLUSTRACTION GALLERY

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[adrian-paul-botta]

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Selznick’s next project for Jennifer Jones was his much publicised, expensive ($5,255,000) production of Duel in the Sun (1946), an opulent, unrelentingly brutal, grandiose Western that took over a year and a half to make and which has been called by some a Wagnerian horse opera and a Liehestod among the cactus. Like Since You Went Away, it was another exercise in Selznick’s obsession with surpassing Gone With the Wind, and he cast his prize actress-amour as Pearl Chavez, the tempestuous half-breed who comes between two brothers (Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck). The plot included prostitution, rape, suicide, attempted fratricide, and ended with a protracted gun duel between Pearl and the outlaw brother (Peck) in which both are killed. Duel in the Sun earned both Miss Jones and supporting actress Lillian Gish nominations for Academy Awards, and $11,300,000 at the box-office, despite its critical lambasting.

#lillian gish #david o selznick #1946 #close-up #promotional photos #Duel in the sun

[hollywoodlady]

Jennifer Jones on the set of 'Duel in the Sun', 1946.

#jennifer jones #Duel in the Sun #40's #on the set #by lady hollywood