8 thoughts on “MCM: Tyrone Power

  1. Tyrone Power’s Zorro is almost the same movie as Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood … same plot, same actor as the bad guy (Rasil Batthbone) and same actor as the fat cleric (Eugene Pallet) .
    Also, the erupting volcanos is the background in Captain from Castile are NOT special effects. The New World scenes were filmed in Mexico while the local volcano was having some rumbly days. … other man candy in this one is Cesar Romero as Cortez :-)

  2. Also one of the best movie swordsmen around, Always got the choreography right, never got anyone hurt. Which is more than Christopher Lee, himself a fine fencer, ever could say about actors he worked with. Also, from all accounts, Power was a very nice guy.

  3. I so agree with you. I’ve been a Tyrone Power fan most of my life and those Irish good looks helped a lot. I probably drooled for a week after I saw “Prince of Foxes.” I still think he was the most beautiful man in the movies. Alain Delon ran a close second.

  4. I used to belong to a Tyrone fan club and have a couple of biographies of TP, plus a book of all of his films. My favorite, a forerunner of bodice-ripper historical romances, is The Black Swan.

    1. He was most beautiful of his era…watching him now in Suez…what eyelashes. Loved him in Razor’s Edge too. Just came here making sure he had an MCM post lol.

  5. Love his movies! Only actor who mastered every venue from comedies, war movies, time travel to swashbuckling. He was a damn fine looking man but was a wonderful actor at every level but received zero recognition. He also had the courage to go back to the stage with complex difficult productions How sad is that. Then Fate dealt him the final blow when he died at 44. The saddest of all was that he never met his boy nor raised his wonderful girls. Here is what is truly amazing, his children are all great in a phony world where many star children go to seed.

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