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Jeff Chandler

Why is he so underrated?

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by Anonymousreply 32July 6, 2025 5:31 AM

Who said he was underrated?

by Anonymousreply 1July 5, 2025 4:51 PM

[quote]Why is he so underrated?

polka dots

by Anonymousreply 2July 5, 2025 4:52 PM

Christ, his whole damn Wikipedia entry is in that preview image.

by Anonymousreply 3July 5, 2025 4:56 PM

Who dat?

by Anonymousreply 4July 5, 2025 4:58 PM

Could've been the whole cross dressing thing.

by Anonymousreply 5July 5, 2025 4:58 PM

Actor and SINGER?

by Anonymousreply 6July 5, 2025 5:00 PM

[quote]Could've been the whole cross dressing thing.

Which we never would have known about without Esther's lack of discretion.

by Anonymousreply 7July 5, 2025 5:03 PM

Esther Williams was a cunt.

by Anonymousreply 8July 5, 2025 5:04 PM

[quote]Actor and SINGER?

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by Anonymousreply 9July 5, 2025 5:12 PM

Esther Williams was not a CUNT...that is mean!!

Esther Williams was an adulterous Jezebel-Harlot WHORE OF BABYLON!!

Jeff Chandler was Gorgeous-would have loved to have him in bed.

by Anonymousreply 10July 5, 2025 5:18 PM

R9 He looks so sweaty in that clip.

by Anonymousreply 11July 5, 2025 5:20 PM

I loved Broken Arrow a kid but I suppose now since he (as Cochise) and Debra Paget weren't native Americans we're not allowed to enjoy it any more. One of the first pro-Indian westerns.

by Anonymousreply 12July 5, 2025 5:23 PM

He was a handsome guy, but he had the most nonexistent ass ever.

by Anonymousreply 13July 5, 2025 6:42 PM

[quote]he had the most nonexistent ass ever.

The polka dots were meant to distract from that.

by Anonymousreply 14July 5, 2025 7:13 PM

Jeff Chandler was Universal Pictures' top leading man for a time, but he soon complained about being overworked, refused parts, and was put on suspension. A few of these rejected parts went to George Nader, but George just wasn't connecting with movie audiences.

Meanwhile, waiting in the wings was young Rock Hudson, who was being groomed at Universal as their next leading man. Eventually, Hudson's popularity would eclipse Chandler's, and Chandler was released from his Universal contract in 1959.

by Anonymousreply 15July 5, 2025 7:15 PM

Is jane Russell trying to hide his butt with her purse in this shot?

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by Anonymousreply 16July 5, 2025 7:19 PM

(Click to enlarge.)

by Anonymousreply 17July 5, 2025 7:19 PM

His song Duke Of Earl was not overrated.

by Anonymousreply 18July 5, 2025 7:19 PM

He was hot as fuck.

But he was also the textbook definition of AGP. He told Esther Williams, after she’d found him in her lingerie IIRC, that he envisioned the two of them as two women having sex.

He’s the precursor to today’s trans-identified men harassing lesbians on dating apps.

by Anonymousreply 19July 5, 2025 7:20 PM

Robert Rockwell was the hotter Mr. Boynton.

by Anonymousreply 20July 5, 2025 7:44 PM

He wasn’t a great actor but I liked watching him. Esther’s memoir made me dislike her somewhat. She was dickmatized by Fernando Lamas and abandoned her kids for him.

by Anonymousreply 21July 5, 2025 8:53 PM

I don't believe a lot of Esther's claims. She was a delightful raconteuse, but likely stretched truths for titillation and profit.

by Anonymousreply 22July 5, 2025 9:12 PM

Next time OP just post a fucking picture, for Christ sake.

by Anonymousreply 23July 5, 2025 9:16 PM

I don’t know why anybody would freely admit giving up her kids . For titillation or otherwise.

by Anonymousreply 24July 6, 2025 3:45 AM

[quote]I don’t know why anybody would freely admit giving up her kids .

Well, that's one man's opinion.

by Anonymousreply 25July 6, 2025 3:47 AM

Jeanne Eagels

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by Anonymousreply 26July 6, 2025 3:54 AM

Jeff did get an Oscar nomination for Broken Arrow and he played Cochise in two more movies. But other than Broken Arrow (starring James Stewart), his movie career was not distinguished, even if Jeff was good. Universal didn't make a lot of great movies in the '50s (or ever)...too bad he never made one of those Universal Ross Hunter-Douglas Sirk movies. But wasn't Universal more interested in promoting Rock Hudson?

by Anonymousreply 27July 6, 2025 4:05 AM

R27 Oh, wait, I think he did make a Ross Hunter (tho it's not a Sirk) movie--with June Allyson. Stranger in My Arms.

No wonder I forgot that one, it's boring.

by Anonymousreply 28July 6, 2025 4:30 AM

Chandler was handsome and muscular, with a deep mellow voice, and a hairy chest, which he frequently had to shave for roles. But Universal kept casting him in bland pictures, westerns or romances. One of his better efforts is “The Jayhawkers” (1959), in which he’s a commander of a vigilante force of former Confederates, which is infiltrated by Union spy Fess Parker. The two develop an intense connection, where the term “brother “ is exchanged. There’s a female in there somewhere, but the emphasis is on the two men.

by Anonymousreply 29July 6, 2025 5:03 AM

I like a western he did with Maureen O'Hara, War Arrow.

They also did some hokey picture called Flame of Araby.

by Anonymousreply 30July 6, 2025 5:08 AM

Return to Peyton Place

by Anonymousreply 31July 6, 2025 5:13 AM

Was he gay friendly?

by Anonymousreply 32July 6, 2025 5:31 AM
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