Going to the doctors every once in a while, despite feeling healthy, is a good thing. Many times, it is during regular checkups that people learn they suffer from certain illnesses or conditions.
When the parents of a 14-year-old girl spotted strange marks on her neck, they believed it was color from her shirt, or maybe dirt. But after the dark color didn’t go away after trying to wash it off, it raised a red flag.
As they were unaware what was wrong, the worried parents took their daughter to the doctors. The moment the doctor laid eyes on the girl’s neck, she demanded tests to be run in order to check how the girl’s pancreas worked. Apparently, those marks, which resembled dirt, showed that this organ didn’t function properly. The pancreas plays an essential role in converting the food we eat into fuel for the body’s cells. This organ has two main functions: an exocrine function that helps in digestion and an endocrine function that regulates blood sugar. Problems with the pancreas can affect the entire body. If the pancreas does not produce enough digestive enzymes, for example, food will not be properly absorbed. This can lead to weight loss, diarrhea, and diabetes.
Thankfully for this teen, her mom and dad acted right away and further damage was prevented. She was prescribed proper medications and is now doing fine.
Whenever you notice anything unusual about your body consult a specialist as soon as possible.
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Bidzina Ivanishvili, a billionaire from Georgia, the former Soviet Republic on the Black Sea, made his money at the time of the mad collapse of the USSR. When he returned to his home country from Russia, back in 2003, he undertook numerous populist movements and people dubbed him the billionaire with the heart of gold. This affection he enjoyed helped his newly formed political party win the elections in 2012, with Bidzina taking the role of a Prime Minister of Georgia.
Now, as much as this man’s life is interesting for Georgians and people from other countries, it’s his two albino sons who took the country by storm. Some years ago, when pictures of Bera and Tsotne Ivanishvili emerged online, people were eager to learn more about their personal lives.
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Bera is now a famous musician. His brother, who is 11 years younger, is also a creative soul interested in arts and painting.
As the family split their time between Russia, Georgia, and France, Bera was born in Paris. Regarding his albinism and being different from most of the people he knows, he has a unique view and believes that being albino is something he as a musician and someone people look up to should help raise awareness of.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been in a place without being stared at,” Bera told Wired. “But growing up different, as an albino kid, it was never a problem for me because of my parents.”
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The brothers’ mother, Ekaterine also spoke of her children’s albinism. “When someone is just born this way, standing out, they’re gonna hate this person for being born different. They’re being jealous, and evil. I dealt with it. Like a gangster. You know? Yes, it gave me that warrior mentality. But everyone is not made for this,” she said.
When Tsotne was born, Bera, who is 11 years older, was over the moon. He recalled saying that his little brother was just like him, as Tsotne is albino, too. “And he saw that he can be different and society can love you and, you know, the females can love you. You know, it’s important,” Bera said.
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Both brothers learned how to embrace their condition and love the way they are. Instead as of a flaw, they consider being albinos their super power. “My dad is genuinely shocked to this day. ‘Is there really any people that think the way you look is bad? You guys are like angels. The way you are is so cool,’” Bera told Wired.
Bera started his mucis career after meeting producer Rob Fusari, who had previously worked with artists such as Lady Gaga and Destiny’s Child. Fusari helped Bera a lot, including teaching him how to hide his “post-soviet” accent while singing by stretching “awkward-sounding vowels into calculated melodies.”
“Bera is incredibly unique,” Fusari said. “He brings a magical energy. It’s kind of like being around a unicorn.”
The brothers are extremely close and often share photos of themselves together.
In 2018, after dating for a couple of months, Bera got engaged and later married his girlfriend Nanuka Gudadvadza, as reported by Georgia Today. In 2019, they welcomed son Beruka.
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Bera and Tsotne Ivanishvili are the perfect example that being different can be a good thing.
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The advancements in medicine are moving at a rapid pace, yet, there are still plenty of things doctors and researchers are unable to discover about human’s brain. For example, just recently, world-renowned cartographer of the brain, Scientia Professor George Paxinos AO, from Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) discovered a previously unknown hidden part of the brain found close to brain-spinal cord junction. Besides neurons, our brains contain a number of blood vessels and a third class of brain cells known collectively as glia — many of which are even more poorly understood than neurons. Scientists do all in their power to break these numbers down, which would eventually lead to a better comprehension of how the brain functions and how information is processed.
One part of our brain known as pineal gland, a small, pea-shaped gland in the brain, is still surrounded by mystery regarding its full potential. This pineal glad is also known as “third eye” because of its primary function of ‘letting in light and darkness.’
It is in charge of the production of serotonin derivative melatonin that has to deal with our hormones that affect the modulation of sleep/wake patterns, including our seasonal functions. The pineal gland is placed near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres.
Many believe that this tiny part of our brain is the portal between the physical and the spiritual world. French philosopher René Descartes regarded the pineal gland as the principal seat of the soul and the place in which all our thoughts are formed.
If activated, the gland could allow us to travel to other dimensions, or better known as astral projection.
However, the main reason why we can’t use the full potential of the pineal gland, according to researchers, is because its function is lowered due to its absorbtion of most of the sodium fluoride that enters our bodies. The water supply in the US contains 90% of fluoride and other various components.
For more on this incredible part of our brain go to the video below to listen to what Rick Strassman, M. D has to say.
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Roseanne Barr’s ability to make people laugh made her the second highest-paid female actress in the industry during the last two seasons of the hit show Roseanne.
Born to a family of Jews with Russian roots who found themselves living in a strict Mormon society in Salt Lake City forced the family to pretend they were Mormons themselves. Speaking of her childhood, the actress told The Guardian in 2008: ”Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew; Sunday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon we were Mormons,” and added: ”You weren’t supposed to think there. First of all it was frowned upon to be a girl, and second of all to be a fat, dark-haired girl who had no waist, and third to be a loudmouthed, short, fat, dark girl.”
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She started her career as a comedian after she left home and went to Colorado where she worked a number of poorly paid jobs. Eventually, she ended up working as a cocktail waitress. She practiced her comedy with the customers who advised her to try herself as a comedian.
”My customers encouraged me to go down to this comedy club. I didn’t know it was there. So I went down there and watched everybody,” Barr told Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
During a performance at the famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, Barr attracted the attention of comedy producer George Schlatter which led to gigs on The Tonight Show in 1985, and Late Night with David Letterman in 1986.
That was a start of a very successful career. Barr was soon dubbed ”Domestic Goddess” and her working-class edge humor made her a famous name in the showbiz.
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Barr revealed that she found inspiration for her comedy from her personal life. ”It’s all personal experience. I’m not an actress. I’m not Meryl Streep. I don’t go up there and invent all this stuff. It has to come from what you really feel and believe, or else it’s not real. And if it’s not real, people don’t think it’s funny,” she told Forth-Worth Star-Telegram.
During the late 80’s, Barr became a household name and a mega star with the show Roseanne, which aired from 1988 to 1997.
The first episode was watched by 21 million households, a staggering number indeed.
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Barr often got into argument with the producers, especially because all the credits for the show were given to writer Matt Williams. This made Barr angry and she demanded him to be replaced by other writers, which eventually happened.
Besides enormous popularity, the show brought Barr a number of awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Over the years, she had gone through some tough times, including a brain injury at the age of 16 which affected her health a great deal at the time.
Later, in the midst of her popularity, an incident almost ruined her career and her popularity. During a nationally aired baseball game, Barr performed the American anthem, ”The Star-Spangled Banner,” when she grabbed her groin and spat in the middle of singing. This made people furious. They though she was disrespectful and even then-President George H. W. Bush called it “disgraceful.”
”I’m not going to apologize for doing it, because I feel like it was the wrong choice for all of us to make. But not anybody anticipated (the reaction) would be this negative . . . You can all take this as fun or you can act like this is the worst thing committed by an American. I went down there with the best intentions. We thought it would be a fun, positive thing . . . I’m sorry I didn’t sing so good. How much more can I say?” Barr responded.
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Barr was married three times and has 5 children. She first got pregnant at the age of 18. At the time, she was very poor and didn’t have a decent place to live. However, despite the situation, she was determined to give birth, and that’s exactly what happened. Sadly, as she didn’t have enough money to take care of her baby daughter, she put her up for adoption but promised to find her later in life. ”You remember this. I’ll see you when you are 18,” she whispered in her daughter’s ear.
In 1972, a year after giving birth to her first child, Barr met Bill Pentland. Two years later, the two tied the knot and welcomed three children together. However, as Barr’s career took off, her marriage started falling apart. She has always spoke of Bill dearly.
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In 1990, Barr married fellow comedian Tom Arnold. Their relationship was quite complicated, mainly because of his alcoholism and drug addiction, something he eventually managed to overcome. It was during this marriage that Roseanne found consolation in plastic surgeries. ”I think that’s why I had all that surgery. Every time I had a break I would have surgery. I think just to get away from him [Arnold] and then when I came back there’d be nurses in the house and I wouldn’t be alone with him,” Barr told The Guardian.
She also struggled with her weight and was on strict diets numerous times. One time, she was able to lose 350 pounds. Then, in 1998, she had undergone gastric bypass surgery. “I had my entire digestive system removed, so I should look thinner,” she joked in 2007.
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Around the time her second marriage ended, Barr got the most important call in her life.
“A tabloid called to tell me, ‘We found your daughter.’ I was stunned.
“They had gotten hold of the birth certificate of the baby girl I bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption after nine days in Denver when I was 18. I was so pissed off. I had left information allowing her to find me when she turned 21. I had even told my own kids about the adoption a year earlier because I knew she was 17 and might try to find me,” the actress told People.
Around a month after that fateful call, Barr and her daughter reunited at the Westwood Marquis Hotel.
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In 1995, Barr married her third husband, Ben Thomas, with whom she has son Buck. The marriage ended in 2002.
Today, Barr lives with partner Johnny Argent. The two reside on her farm in Hawaii, known as the Hidden Hamakua Farm.
Barr has a net worth of $80 million.
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Stunningly beautiful, successful, and brave, this is the story of Christina Aguilera, the woman who grew up right in front of the eyes of her fans and is still making enchanting music up until this day. On top of that, the stunning musician is a devoted mother and serves as an inspiration for millions of young women who are not afraid to follow their dreams, just as she did.
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Aguilera found herself under the spotlight after she was chosen to be part of the Mouseketeers on The All New Mickey Mouse Club along with other future stars like Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling. This show was her breakthrough and she managed to make a name for herself at a very young age.
In fact, Aguilera’s talent for singing was obvious. Not only she was great at it, but she never missed a change to sing as well. Her mother, who divorced her father and moved with Aguilera and her sister to Rochester, Pennsylvania from New York, took her daughter to Japan to record her first single with Japanese pop star Keizo Nakanishi. Their song, All I Wanna Do, was a huge hit and at that point, everyone knew this cute blonde girl would make a successful career in the music industry.
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Witnessing how her father was always dominant over her mother, Aguilera promised herself to always be her own queen.
Speaking to Cosmopolitan, the singer said, “When it comes to personal relationships. I made up my mind at a really young age that I had to do for myself. I never wanted a man to tell me what I could and couldn’t do, what I could and couldn’t spend, I always knew I had to be the queen of my castle.” And, she kept this promise.
As her career took off, Aguilera made some bold moves regarding both her music style and the way she dressed. However, as many loved what she was offering, others believed she was being inappropriate and called her names. This was mainly because of her songs Lady Marmalade and Dirty. She, however, never seemed to care what people say, although their words affected her to certain degree.
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“It’s hard to hear yourself being called names,” she told Cosmopolitan. “I remember being hurt by these commercials on MTV, pitting Britney as the good girl and me as the bad girl. It’s like, if I’m going to be demure and innocent, that’s OK. But if I’m going to just be myself, I’m trouble.”
“Dirrty was extremely controversial at the time, but it would be nothing now. I hope I paved the way and helped set the ground rules that women can be any version of themselves they wanna be, and proud of it.”
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For her work and the incredible music she makes, Aguilera has won five Grammy Awards and a number of other awards and recognition, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Alongside her music career, she starred in the film Burlesque, for which she wrote and sang the theme song, and was a coach on six seasons of the singing competition television series The Voice from 2011 to 2016.
Aguilera married music producer Jordan Bratman in 2005 and had her first child three years later. The couple, however, divorced in 2011 and she started dating her current fiancé and the father of her second child, Matthew Rutler, shortly after.
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In the past, Aguilera battled anxiety and she now speaks openly of those times and has a word of advice for anyone who is going through the same.
“Be kind to yourself,” she told L’Officiel Italia. “We are all walking on the path of inner research, it is our work as human beings and each one follows a different path, so it makes no sense to make comparisons, ‘Swim in your lane. If you waste time looking over your shoulder to see what others are doing, you lose sight of it,’ is the best advice I’ve ever been given.”
She hasn’t always been skinny, but she also says that she never weights herself because what really matters is to learn how to love yourself the way you are. However, she lost weight in 2013 after she started exercising but says she never follows strict diets.
“I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place. But, it’s all about embracing yourself and your body type,” the musician told Stylecraze.
We love that Aguilera always feels confident about herself no matter her weight. She is such an inspiration. Don’t you agree that she looks stunning at the age of 41?
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Expressive, emotional, rebellious, and with a strong sense of style, Kat Von D stole the hearts of millions when she was asked to fill in for tattoo artist Daren Brass on the TLC show Miami Ink back in 2005. Ever since, she became a much-loved TV personality who managed to establish an empire and make millions of dollars.
Born Katherine von Drachenberg on March 8, 1982, in Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico, Kat got interested in punk music and dressing in black to the surprise of her mom and dad who were active Seventh-day Adventist Church missionaries. They, however, never interfered with her dreams and wishes, even when she decided to drop out of school and focus on tattooing at the age of 14.
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When she turned 6, her family moved to America, and a decade later, she became American citizen. “I was six years old, and the seven hour drive that it took to reach the Texas border felt like weeks,” she recalled. “Even though I didn’t fully understand what big changes were ahead, I felt it. I think we all did.”
Speaking of her young years, she says she experienced physical, mental, and emotional mistreatment, but her parents weren’t aware of it and she never blamed them.
“I love my childhood, I think I had a great childhood. I think my parents made a huge mistake in sending me to a school, but that was under the guise that it was going to help me in a way that it didn’t. And again, I don’t think it’s their fault or anything,” she said.
Kat had her first tattoo, a small Misfits skull, at the age of 14, and soon after, she started doing tattoos on others with a homemade tattoo gun made from a guitar string alongside a motor made of a cassette player.
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At the age of just 16, she opened her first tattoo shop and some time later, Kat moved to San Bernadino, Los Angeles where she started working at the Sin City Tattoo studio, under the guidance of artist Dave Smith who taught her everything about the job.
“I took my portfolio in and all of my drawings and said to the guy who ran the shop, ‘look, I know I’m under age but I really want to do this,’” Kat told Big Tattoo Planet.
“And he said, ‘I will take you on. I can see from your work that you are really good, and you can go somewhere with this.’ Dave taught me a lot about all aspects of tattooing, sterility, needles, and machines, things that I really had no clue about as I had missed out on the apprentice side of things.”
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2005 was the year the entire country and most of the world learned of the charming girl of Miami Ink. Kat turned into a celebrity almost overnight.
“The network had wanted to add a female artist to the crew for some time, and Chris Garver, who owns the shop where I work now in LA, vouched for me, and that was pretty much it, I got on the show,” she explained.
“It’s really hard for me to be embarrassed, so being in front of the camera wasn’t too difficult, though at first, it was kind of annoying getting used to all of the behind-the-scenes stuff, the cameramen, the lighting crew. There’s so much going on that viewers obviously don’t see, and we have to get used to all of that. But no, it’s not a big deal to me and now I could tattoo with a million people around me watching, it doesn’t really matter.”
Some two years later, she got her spinoff, LA Ink, and rose to even greater fame.
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At the start of her professional career, Kat tie the knot for the first time, but her marriage only lasted for four years. Then, in 2018, she married Rafael Reyes – also famous as Leafar Sayer, artist and known for creating the music genre Cholo goth.
Kat Von D spoke in the past that she could never see herself as a mother. She thought that being free-spirited to the extend she is didn’t go well with kids. “I’ve known since I was seven years old that I was never going to have kids. I just always imagined myself as this worldly, traveled gypsy lady. It’s not what I want, and I don’t want to put my body through it.”
However, life had different plans for this incredibly charming woman. In December 2018, she and her husband welcomed son Leafar Von D Reyes.
“Meet our beautiful baby boy,” she wrote at the time. “Thank you to all our beloved friends+family, fans+followers for your patience in us announcing his long-awaited arrival!”
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After leaving her make-up empire, Kat truned to making music and performing. “To be honest, for the most part it’s been such positive response to the music that even I was surprised. I was expecting more negative criticism but that hasn’t been the case. Sometimes I will see people saying like, ‘oh you need to stay in your lane or stick with tattooing.’” Kat Von D told Euphoriazine of her music career.
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Just imagine what kind of person one has to be in order to risk their own life for the sake of that of others. Having a heart of gold, one might say. Or a kind soul and generous mind, others may add. Well, 88-year-old Bob Nill had it all, and even more than that.
This man used to work in banking and served in the Coast Guard, but once he retired, he just couldn’t stay still. He wanted to work again, so he got a job as a crossing guard at the Christ the King Parish School in Kansas City, Kansas some 5 years ago.
He was loved by all the students who all called him Mr. Bob.
Sadly, this incredibly loving man lost his life after he saved two children from being hit by a speeding black sedan. Witnesses say how he prevented the kids from getting on the car’s way and he ended up being hit by it himself.
“He stopped [two kids], and they listened, thank God, but then he, of course, was the victim,” school principal Cathy Fithian told KMBC 9.
Everyone who knew Bob would say he was an extraordinary man. His nephew, Randy, said how the family wasn’t surprised by Bob’s act, because he always cared for everyone.
“What my Uncle Bob did for just getting little kids across the street seemed probably trivial to some people, but for him, it was a really important job, and now, we really know how important it was. He maybe saved some lives.”
“This was something I think he felt like he could help children and help himself feel good about what he was doing,” Randy added.
The school released a statement paying tribute to Bob, who died as a hero.
“We would like to give you an update on our crossing guard, Mr. Nill. Our hearts are heavy as we inform you of his passing. Please continue to keep Mr. Nill and his family in your prayers as well as the students, parents, and teachers who witnessed today’s accident.
“Also know that Mr. Nill is a hero. He stopped two of our students from crossing the road as the car approached.”
The rebel of the Hollywood’s golden age, actor Robert Mitchum, was a man of many talents. Playing villain in most of his movies, combined with his disobedience and resistance to authority in his personal life, this acting legend was perceived by many as a tough guy, and is remembered as such even today, 23 years after his death.
Robert’s distinctive facial feature along with his incredible skills which weren’t limited to acting only, but directing, producing, and singing as well, made him one of the most famous names in the history of film. A man of considerable charm, Robert possessed the innate ability to make everyone love him.
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Born in August, 1917, in Bridgeport, Connecticut to father James Thomas Mitchum who worked as a shipyard and railroad worker and a mother who immigrated to America from Norway, he was part of a traditional American working-class family. Sadly, when he was just 18 months old, his father died in an accident and his mother Ann Gunderson remarried to Major Hugh Cunningham Morris, a British officer.
Robert was a mischievous child who couldn’t be controlled easily. After being expelled from a number of schools, his mother decided to sent him to Delaware to live with his grandparents.
That didn’t calm his rebellious soul and he continued to end up in troubles throughout his teenage years. One time, according to Robert himself, he was detained for vagrancy and forced to work in a chain gang from where he escaped and returned to Delaware. The good thing that came from his stay with his grandparents is that he met their first neighbor Dorothy there. The two fell in love, got married, and strayed together their whole lives.
It was in Long Beach, California, in 1936, four years before he tied the knot, that Robert had his first encounter with acting. His sister Julie, who lived there, persuaded him to join the local theater guild. He took some minor roles, but once his children were born he decided to turn to a 9-to-5 job in order to be able to provide for the family.
During WWII, Robert worked as a machine operator for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, but the loud sounds from the machines affected his hearing and he suffered temporary blindness, so he quit and turned to acting again. It was probably the best decision he has ever made.
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In 1945, Robert had his major breakthrough playing soldier in the war film The Story of G.I. Joe for which he earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting role. This, however, didn’t result in him getting parts in typical conventional Hollywood dramas. Instead, he became the “soul” of low-budget crime dramas, later known as films noirs.
What was truly special about this man with troubled soul was that he excelled each and every role perfectly. His sleepy, “lizard,” eyes only added to his charm.
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One of his most memorable performances is that of the charlatan preacher in the thriller The Night of the Hunter, which is considered until this day one of the greatest films in Hollywood history.
“I wanted to take it all the way,” he said. “I wanted to scare people to death. The book did that. It was ten times as frightening as the picture. But Charles had such good taste. He kept saying, ‘I make my living reading the Bible. I can’t do this sort of thing.’ As it was, it was pretty good… I guess.”
Robert Mitchum playing Reverend Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter
Robert’s personal life was surrounded by many scandals. In 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana. He spent 43 days at a prison farm in California. He didn’t see it as a big deal like Hollywood and the press because he always spoke how he was a passionate user. ”The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity,” Mitchum later explained.
This scandal, however, only made him more famous and more wanted as his name was all over the magazines.
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Robert was particularly praised for his incredible portrayals of the sympathetic marine in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), the Australian sheep drover in The Sundowners (1960), the convict in Cape Fear (1962), detective Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely (1975), and more.
In 1955, during the filming of Bloody Alley, Robert caused a scene by breaking the set because his car wasn’t ready. He was fired and producer John Wayne took the role.
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Although he spoke of his profession as an opportunity to visit places and new people and believed to be an actor in Hollywood was a privilege, saying, “I didn’t make what these young guys, the Spielbergs, are making. But I had a hell of a lot of fun. Working with all the great leading ladies of my day. Marilyn Monroe, and Jane Greer. I think she was the most underrated of them all. Working with guys like John Huston and Raoul Walsh,” he also said many times that moves bored him.
During the filming of Ryan’s Daughter in 1970, he had suicidal thoughts, but his friend, screenwriter Robert Bolt, talked him out of it.
Robert passed away in 1997, at the age of 80 in Santa Barbara, California. He had lung cancer.
This actor, who was one of a kind, created an image for himself as an irresistible man who could excel any role. He truly marked an era in the history of film.
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