Saturday, April 19, 2014

Q for Anthony Quinn



BORN: April 21, 1915

DIED: June 3, 2001

AGED: 86 yrs from pneumonia. he also had cancer

REAL NAME: Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn

MARRIED: Twice-the first to Katherine De Mille-Cecil B DeMille's dad-how'd you like that guy for a father in law

AFFAIRS: This guy loved to do the hubba, hubba and boasted about it. In fact fathered many kids including one in 1977 and another in 1993.

Passionate actor and a excellent one to boot. A talker of his many conquests he also, apparently when, on his wedding night, he found out his first wife was not a virgin he punched her in the face. A real woman's man wouldn't you say. ASS! I would have given him the spoon.....

OSCARS: Viva Zapata, Lust For Life

FILMS: Blood and Sand, La Strada, Guns of Navarone, Zorba the Greek, Only the Lonely


31 comments:

  1. Wow, he got around! And to have a kid in your late seventies? No thanks.

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    1. Yup he followed the Toney Randall school of having kids when they are too old

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  2. "Do the hubba-hubba." You're hilarious!

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  3. He lived a full life. Might as well. Right? Untethered Realms

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  4. What a fun subject for A-Z. I know about some of these people, but not all of them. It's nice to get a better understanding of, ummmmmm, the many aspects of their personalities :-)
    Liz at Bead Contagion

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  5. What despicable double standards! That shocked me. Ass indeed.

    Anabel at Anabel's Travel Blog

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    1. Yes when I read that I was also shocked but then I saw him in more interviews and I could see it..the ass

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  6. I always thought he was full of himself. Possibly so. I agree, he was quite passionate in his performances. Sometimes I'd come across a movie on the TV and pass it by because I actually get emotionally tired watching him. :-)
    The View from the Top of the Ladder

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    1. hahahahahaa! I like how you put that and true and I think part of this is his belief in himself

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  7. I think I've seen Guns of Navarone and Only The Lonely. Is that the one with John Candy? : )

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    1. Yes it is! I like that movie as it is very sweet and quiet film of John Candy's

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  8. Hmmm. It's a little hard to about him now that I know so much about him. ASS is right!!

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    1. Oops, that was supposed to be admire, not about!!

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    2. Yes but I do appreciate his talent but I do not admire the man

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  9. He made a career out of playing pretty much every ethnicity out there. Spanish, Mexican, Italian, Greek, Egyptian, etc.

    See ya 'round the web. All Things Kevyn

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    1. He did! I wasn't even sure where he came from when I was young until I read more about him

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  10. Here's something else you probably already know. Anthony's son was a fine actor named Francesco Quinn. He was in Platoon, Tonto Woman, and the Old Man and the Sea with his father. He died at 48 from a heart attack.

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  11. Love coming back to your blog and reading all the who, when and what , great job a to z challenger.

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  12. "...on his wedding night, he found out his first wife was not a virgin he punched her in the face..."

    See, after reading a bunch of Mickey Spillane novels, I really hoped that the way he treated women in his books was just a fictionalized misogyny... didn't need confirmation that it was really how people treated women back then.

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    1. Yes...well...he was a bit of an ass and I remember him being interviewed and talking about his prowess as well. Great actor but wouldn't want to know him

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  13. Nasty man. And yet various woman found him attractive.

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    1. Funny isn't it that some nasty men can get so many women...what does that say about the security (or lack thereof) about the women

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  14. Well, I admit I have always like this man as an actor....but not so as a person after learning he punched his bride. Terrible.
    Shells–Tales–Sails

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    1. I know and I read this part in more than one book and heard him speak about his own prowess so I do tend to believe this

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  15. He got around, didn't he?! I think he won the Cecil DeMille award at the Globes...how ironic is that!
    xxx Asha

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    1. he did? I don't remember but I wouldn't doubt it. At least it wasn't the jean Hersholt award:)

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