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Robert Walker (actor, born 1918)
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- {{marriage|Hanna Hertelendy|July 27, 1949}}
Early life
Walker was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Emotionally scarred by his parents' divorce when he was still a child, he subsequently developed an interest in acting, which led his maternal aunt, Hortense McQuarrie Odlum (then the president of Bonwit Teller), to offer to pay for his enrollment at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1937. Walker lived in her home during his first year in the city.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}}Career and personal life
While attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Walker met fellow aspiring actress Phylis Isley, who later took the stage name Jennifer Jones. After a brief courtship, the couple married in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 2, 1939.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}} Walker had some small unbilled parts in films such as Winter Carnival (1939) and two Lana Turner films at MGM: These Glamour Girls (1939) and Dancing Co-Ed (1939). Walker and Jones' elder son Robert Walker Jr. later became a successful film actor. Their other son Michael Walker (1941-2007) was also an actor who appeared in films The Rogues (1964), Coronet Blue (1967) and Hell's Belles (1969), as well as several 1960s television series.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}} File:Till the Clouds Roll By 1.jpg|thumb|upright|Dorothy Patrick and Walker in Till the Clouds Roll ByTill the Clouds Roll ByFile:Lurene Tuttle hugs Robert Walker, 1946.jpg|upright|thumb|With Lurene TuttleLurene TuttleRadio
Walker costarred in the weekly radio show Maudie's Diary from August 1941 to September 1942.BOOK,weblink's+Diary,+light+comedy%22+%22Robert+Walker+as+Maudie's+friend+Davy+Dillon%22&pg=PA442, Dunning, John, John Dunning (detective fiction author), On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, 1998, Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 978-0-19-507678-3, 442â443, Revised, 2019-10-04, Isley then returned to auditioning and her luck changed when she was discovered in 1941 by producer David O. Selznick, who changed her name to Jennifer Jones and groomed her for stardom.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}}MGM
The couple returned to Hollywood, and Selznick's connections helped Walker secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}} where he started work on the war drama Bataan (1943), playing a soldier who fights in the Bataan retreat.He followed it with a supporting role in Madame Curie (1943).Stardom
Walker's charming demeanor and boyish good looks proved popular with audiences, and he was promoted to stardom with the title part of the romantic soldier in See Here, Private Hargrove (1944).He also appeared in Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944), in which he and his wife portrayed doomed young lovers during World War II. By that time, Jones' affair with Selznick was a matter of common knowledge, and Jones and Walker separated in November 1943 during production of the film."Jennifer Jones Sues To Divorce Actor Walker", The Washington Post, April 22, 1945, p. M4. The filming of their love scenes was trying for Walker, as Selznick insisted that Walker perform multiple takes for each scene with Jones.{{cn|date=July 2022}} She filed for divorce in April 1945. She and Selznick were married in 1949. Since You Went Away was one of the most financially successful movies of 1944, earning over $7 million.Thomson, David (1993). Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick. Abacus, p. 418.Back at MGM, Walker appeared alongside Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), the story of the Doolittle Raid. He played flight engineer and turret gunner David Thatcher, and it was another box-office hit.Walker starred as a GI preparing for overseas deployment in The Clock (1945), with Judy Garland playing his love interest in her second non-musical film.{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.He then appeared in a romantic comedy with Hedy Lamarr and June Allyson titled Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945). He next appeared in a second Private Hargrove film, What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945), and a romantic comedy with June Allyson, The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945).Walker starred in the musical Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), in which he played the popular composer Jerome Kern. The film earned rental receipts of more than $6 million. He starred as composer Johannes Brahms in Song of Love (1947), which costarred Katharine Hepburn and Paul Henreid, but the film lost MGM more than $1 million. He also appeared in a film about the construction of the atomic bomb, The Beginning or the End (1946), which also resulted in a loss at the box office, and a Tracy-Hepburn drama directed by Elia Kazan titled The Sea of Grass (1947), which was profitable.In 1948, Walker was borrowed by Universal to star with Ava Gardner in the film One Touch of Venus, directed by William A. Seiter. The film was a non-musical comedy adapted from a Broadway show with music by Kurt Weill. Walker married Barbara Ford, the daughter of director John Ford, in July 1948, but the marriage lasted only five months."Robert Walker's Wife Is Granted Divorce", The Washington Post, December 17, 1948, p. 26.Back at MGM, Walker starred in two films that lost money, Please Believe Me (1950) with Deborah Kerr and The Skipper Surprised His Wife (1950) with Joan Leslie. More popular was Vengeance Valley (1951), a Western with Burt Lancaster.File:Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train trailer (2)..png|left|thumb|Walker in Strangers on a Train (1951)]]Final years
In 1949, Walker spent time at the Menninger Clinic, where he was treated for a psychiatric disorder.Linet, pp. 229-232 Following his discharge, he was cast by director Alfred Hitchcock in Strangers on a Train (1951), for which he received acclaim for his performance as the charming psychopath Bruno Antony. In his final film, Walker played the title role in Leo McCarey's My Son John (1952), a film that warned of the dangers of the virulent spread of communism. Despite the film's theme and Walker's identification as a Republican, he took the role to work with McCarey and costar Helen Hayes rather than because of any political motivation.WEB,weblink My Son John, 29 January 2017, Walker died before production finished, so angles from his death scene in Strangers on a Train were spliced into a similar melodramatic death scene near the end of the film.René Jordan. "Now you see it, now you don't: the art of movie magic," in The movie-buff's book, ed. Ted Sennett, New York: Bonanza Books, 1975, pp. 132-142.Personal life
Walker was a registered Republican who supported Dwight Eisenhower's campaign in the 1952 presidential election,Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 34, Ideal Publishers and was of the Mormon faith.Morning News, January 10, 1948, Who Was Who in America (Vol. 2).Death
On the night of August 28, 1951, Walker's housekeeper found him in an emotional state. She called Walker's psychiatrist Frederick Hacker, who arrived and administered amobarbital for sedation. Walker had allegedly been drinking before the outburst and it was believed that the combination of amobarbital and alcohol caused him to lose consciousness and stop breathing. Efforts to resuscitate him failed and he was pronounced dead shortly thereafter at the age of 32.BOOK, Brettell, Andrew, Imwold, Denis, Kennedy, Damien, King, Noel, Leonard, Warren Hsu; von Rohr, Heather, Cut!: Hollywood Murders, Accidents, and Other Tragedies, Barrons Educational Series, 2005, 253, 0-7641-5858-9, In her biography of Walker and Jones titled Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quoted Walker's friend Jim Henaghan (who was not mentioned in official accounts of the death), as saying that he was present at the events leading to Walker's death. Henaghan stated that he had visited Walker's house in Los Angeles, where they played cards and Walker was behaving normally. Henaghan claimed that Walker's psychiatrist arrived and insisted that he receive an injection and, when Walker refused, Henaghan restrained him in order for the physician to administer the injection. According to Henaghan, Walker soon lost consciousness and frantic efforts to revive him failed.Linet, pp. 268-271Walker was buried at Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park in Ogden, Utah.{{Citation needed |date=December 2023}}Filmography{| class"wikitable"
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References
Notes{{Reflist}}Bibliography- Linet, Beverly (1985) Star Crossed: The Story of Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. {{ISBN|0-399-13194-9}}
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