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Aug 6, 2018 · Meanwhile, Pamela began a string of affairs. Their 23-year-marriage finally ended in 1964, with Pamela coming out on top in the divorce settlement. Fortuitously she had hired a sharp young lawyer named Marvin Mitchelson, who won her a $2 million settlement, an unheard-of sum for the time. Mason was virtually cleaned out and for the rest of his life, worried about money. ... James Mason the man was complex and enigmatic: a somewhat moody, private, and solitary figure who could withdraw into ...
Apr 24, 2009 · When Judy Garland died of an accidental drug overdose, James Mason gave the funeral eulogy. In it, he said that posterity does not remember entertainers. In years to come, he added, those who had ...
James Neville Mason (/ ˈ m eɪ s ən /; 15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was an English actor.He achieved considerable success in British cinema before becoming a star in Hollywood. He was the top box-office attraction in the UK in 1944 and 1945; his British films included The Seventh Veil (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945). He starred in Odd Man Out (1947), the first recipient of the BAFTA Award for Best British Film.. Mason starred in such films as George Cukor's A Star Is Born (1954), Alfred ...
Aug 24, 2009 · He was not infallible; challenged to play a much older man in A Place of One’s Own (1945), he turns very fussy and false, and he shouts and grimaces his way through another Lumet movie, the deadly A Deadly Affair (1966). Nor was he comfortable in the exuberantly awful Georgy Girl (1966), a film of total Mod incoherence that nonetheless proved a big, inexplicable hit. In his twilight years, Mason was forced to take what he could get to pay for an expensive divorce from his first wife Pamela ...
Aug 9, 2018 · From North by Northwest to Lolita, James Mason is the brooding, dashing star of countless classic films, in Britain and Hollywood alike. Here, Sarah Thomas, the author of a new study, tells us why there’s more to Mason than his magnetic on-screen presence. ... The Deadly Affair (1967), directed by Sidney Lumet, sees Mason portraying Charles Dobbs, the older, watchful man exploring different modes of Cold War power, which deviates from espionage’s glamour to the ordinary banality of the ...
Oct 20, 2023 · Mr Justice Swift heard allegations about the behaviour of James Mason, a former Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector, during the latest stage of litigation centred on Kristina O’Connor.
Jul 28, 1984 · By 1945, Mr. Mason was the top box draw in British films. ''The Seventh Veil'' confirmed him as the screen's most polished brute. Pauline Kael concluded that the melodrama was ''a rich, portentous ...
The Deadly Affair is a 1967 British spy film based on John le Carré's first novel, Call for the Dead (1961). The film stars James Mason and was directed by Sidney Lumet from a script by Paul Dehn.. As it is a Columbia Pictures production and Paramount owned the film rights to the name George Smiley, the central character is renamed Charles Dobbs; however, his police liaison Mendel and wife Ann's names are retained.Paramount had acquired the film rights to the Smiley character name when ...
Mason seemed, at 69, to be not only in the prime of life but, most particularly, in the prime of James Mason. He projected civilization, manners, wit, the perfectly phrased understatement. “Look at these bookshelves with real books on them,” he said, conducting a short tour of his suite at the Whitehall.
Dec 1, 2004 · Mitchelson subpoenaed dozens of witnesses and threatened to reveal in court James Mason's more recherché sexual exploits. The actor was glad to settle. ... and had an affair with Winston ...
