Then in the mid-30s, he decided to get cosmetic surgery; the cuts got infected and he was left with heavy scarring, which he was very depressed about.
I'd heard that from reading about Only Angels Have Wings; it's always interested me because the scars have never been that obvious from the audience. He looks bruised under the eyes, as if sleepless, but not much more. It does work well for the character. I would not have attributed it to permanent scarring without inside knowledge, nor would I say it ruined his looks. But these things always feel different from the inside.
During WWII, he enlisted in the Navy Reserve and served as a lieutenant commander, and after that, he never returned to cinema; apparently he'd done very well investing his money, so could live off that.
That I hadn't known. Thank you!
(He must have a biography somewhere. I hope it's a good one. I have a couple of biographies which are only so-so, but since they're the only ones for their subjects, I got them.)
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I'd heard that from reading about Only Angels Have Wings; it's always interested me because the scars have never been that obvious from the audience. He looks bruised under the eyes, as if sleepless, but not much more. It does work well for the character. I would not have attributed it to permanent scarring without inside knowledge, nor would I say it ruined his looks. But these things always feel different from the inside.
During WWII, he enlisted in the Navy Reserve and served as a lieutenant commander, and after that, he never returned to cinema; apparently he'd done very well investing his money, so could live off that.
That I hadn't known. Thank you!
(He must have a biography somewhere. I hope it's a good one. I have a couple of biographies which are only so-so, but since they're the only ones for their subjects, I got them.)