Spent part of today watching a 1950's fil called "The Black Tent" on Channel 24.
I found it hilarious watching the main star a 1950's matinee idol called Anthony Steel who spent (according to the story) months stuck in a Bedouin tent after escaping barely alive from Rommel's Afrika Korps. Yet for scene after scene his chin was clean-shaven and his angelic curls were immaculately combed.
It made me realise what it means nowadays when stars "suffer" for their roles in the name of realism. Steel must have been rather vain I think. Mind you he had a nice taste in women..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Ekberg
Sadly his career in the US never took off and he eventually lived in obscurity.
I found it hilarious watching the main star a 1950's matinee idol called Anthony Steel who spent (according to the story) months stuck in a Bedouin tent after escaping barely alive from Rommel's Afrika Korps. Yet for scene after scene his chin was clean-shaven and his angelic curls were immaculately combed.
It made me realise what it means nowadays when stars "suffer" for their roles in the name of realism. Steel must have been rather vain I think. Mind you he had a nice taste in women..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Ekberg
Sadly his career in the US never took off and he eventually lived in obscurity.