When you live with Hollywood royalty for so long, it is almost easy to forget that, at one point, they were looking for a concert in search of a concert wherever they could get it. It is a difficult industry to give you a name, especially when so many others try to do the same. Sometimes you catch the role that puts your foot in the door on a whim, and for Clint Eastwood, his big break was the CBS Western series “Rawhide”. During eight television seasons, he was a pillar of the series while the wand has become the Bactle Rowdy Yates. If it is not for the landing of this show, which Eastwood described as dynamism that saved his acting career, he would probably not have exodus for Spain and become one of the major cinema stars because of the “dollars” trilogy defining the kind of Sergio Leone. It is sad to think of a world where the public was not presented to the infamous Sligint.
The success of “Rawhide” proves to what extent a role can be influenced in the evolution of the career of an actor, especially since Eastwood technically made his debut in the industry about four years earlier with an unbeaned part of “Revenge of the Creature” of 1955. He rebounded in non -credited roles in creature features like “Tarantula” Bits in films like “The First Traveling Saleslady”, in addition to reserving guest spots in shows like “Highway Patrol” and “Maverick”.
All these decades later, Eastwood turned into a genre to itself. He operated from his own production company and continued to make films well in the 90s, without any signs of stopping. With hindsight, it was clear that Eastwood had all the emissions of an increasing film star, so it was only a matter of time until he was discovered by good people. However, everything could have been very different.
The actors sometimes speak of all the “and so” roles they have transmitted, especially if the films themselves have become phenomena like “the matrix”. They are often so linked to the actors who did Play in them that it is difficult to imagine someone else in their place. When Eastwood was still in his pre-“Rawhide” time, he could have his big screen in a film Marilyn Monroe.
Clint Eastwood almost played in Joshua Logan’s bus stop
In an interview in 2021 with Parade, Eastwood was asked if his actor sensitivities had been influenced by the movie star Marilyn Monroe and, in doing so, revealed that her big break could have happened much earlier than she did with an important role in the 1956 “Bus Stop” film:
“Marilyn Monroe?! No, I was never influenced by her. I was ready for a role in [Monroe’s 1956 romantic comedy] “Bus stop” as a young man. The director, Josh[ua] Logan, was going to choose between me and John Smith. I was a little excited because she was so attractive, and I thought, It could be ok. And, of course, it didn’t become ok because Josh threw another guy in New York. As if you were ready to take the ball out of the park and then nothing. “”
Based on the 1955 stage play of the same name, “Bus Stop” is a romantic dramatic with musical elements with Monroe as a singer coffee named Chérie who dreams of Hollywood. His life becomes complicated when a traveling cowboy of Boorish named Beauregard “Bo” Decker (Don Murray) throws her targets. Through a contemporary lens, “Bus Stop” has a frightening plot on a woman who does not care about her abusive pretender, and finds herself in a plot to escape her claws before being able to bring her with force to Montana. Bo has no intention of letting her go until he amuses her. Murray received an Oscar nomination for the best support actor, but it is easy to see why it is not as venerated as other monroe functions like “Gentlemen prefer blondes” and “Some Like It Hot”.
If Eastwood had been interpreted as BO, he would have certainly jumped more eyes on him. He has always had this flexible film star charism. But at the same time, it is definitely for the best that Eastwood was not put in a position to keep its screen while harassing Monroe. In his case, the expectation of the luck of a life has incredibly borne fruit. Although Eastwood has never been described in the trailer for “bus stop” as the “new piece of Hollywood man”, he would however have the chance to work with the director of the film Joshua Logan 13 years later after the fact with the famous epic of Western music “paint your wagon” (with blood, I bet). Has “the bus stop” has never received a cultural resurgence because of “simpsons”? I don’t think!
