Hello WA2K.
Hatchet Lady? Our Letty? Never, never , never.
Speaking of Hatchet Ladies, Esther Williams really did a job on one of today's birthday celebs.
Remember:
Jeff Chandler (December 15, 1918-June 17, 1961) was a popular American film actor in the 1950s.
Born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Chandler attended Erasmus Hall High School, the nucleus of many stage and film personalities. Later, he took a drama course and spent two years in stock companies before serving in World War II. After discharged, he was a busy radio actor both in drama (such as episodes of Escape) and comedy (playing bashful biology teacher Phillip Boynton on Our Miss Brooks). His first film appearance was in Johnny O'Clock (1947).
In the 1950s, Chandler became a star in western and action movies. His first important role was in Sword in the Desert (1948), as an Israeli freedom fighter. He would be nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), the first of three screen appearances as the legendary Apache chief, followed by The Battle of Apache Pass (1952) and Taza, Son of Cochise (1954).
The rest of the decade, Chandler turned in a top leading man. His sex appeal, curiously heightened by his prematurely gray hair and tanned features, would put him into drama and costume movies. Some of his pictures in this period include Away All Boats, Toy Tiger, Drango, The Tattered Dress, Man in the Shadow, Foxfire, A Stranger in My Arms, and Thunder in the Sun. His leading ladies would include June Allyson, Joan Crawford, Rhonda Fleming, Susan Hayward, Maureen O'Hara, Jane Russell and Esther Williams.
Shortly after completing his role in Merrill's Marauders (1962), Chandler died in Los Angeles, California at age of 42, from blood poisoning following what should have been routine disc herniation surgery. He was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Jeff Chandler is honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Possessed of a fine singing voice, at the height of his film fame, he recorded several successful albums for Liberty Records.
Esther Williams, in her tell-all 1999 biography, put Jeff back in the tabloid news after asserting that he, her former lover, was a cross-dresser. This has not been substantiated.
not being a fan of theirs, i couldn't locate anything suitable.
A woman scorned and all that, I guess.
