Reportedly, 20th Century Fox, with whom he was contracted, was unhappy that he had earned his nomination while on loan to Universal, and this cost him a chance to appear in the film version of the Ernest Hemingway-adapted, "The Sun Also Rises" in 1957.
Unfortunately, his time at the top in movies was short-lived. The juicy part won Stack his first and only Oscar nomination, and crowned him as a bonafide star. Stack played an undercover military agent who infiltrates a gang of American criminals operating in post-war Japan in Samuel Fuller's gritty "House of Bamboo" (1955), and starred as the alcoholic, emotionally stunted heir to an oil empire in Douglas Sirk's overripe melodrama, "Written on the Wind" (1956). Stack played the captain of a doomed air flight who comes unglued under pressure the film was a considerable success and helped cement Stack as a dependable leading man. In 1954, he landed a meaty role in the John Wayne-produced disaster film "The High and the Mighty" (1954). Among his credits in the early '50s were Budd Boetticher's Oscar-nominated drama "The Bullfighter and the Lady" (1951) and "Bwana Devil" (1952), the first color feature filmed in 3-D.
After his return to civilian life, Stack returned to Hollywood and appeared in a variety of films. During his service, he earned numerous medals and commendations, particularly for his skill at sharp-shooting. Stack joined the Navy during World War II, serving as a gunnery officer for over three years. Stack would never get over her death, often commenting on her for documentaries even decades later. "To Be or Not to Be" was released posthumously, while the world - and certainly Stack - mourned her premature passing. Lombard served as a mentor to Stack until her sudden death by plane crash while selling war bonds in January, 1942. Tweaking his nose again at the Third Reich, he also appeared opposite his boyhood crush, comic actress Carole Lombard, in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy classic, "To Be or Not to Be" (1942). Not all of Stack's early films were throwaways - he earned critical praise for his role as a young Nazi Party member in Frank Borzage's "The Mortal Storm" (1940), which led Hitler's regime to ban all MGM product from Germany. Stack became a reliable go-to for Upstanding Young Men in all manner of features, ranging from light comedies to forgettable westerns and war pictures. The film garnered some controversy over its youthful romance plotline, which involved Stack giving Durbin her first on-screen kiss. He broke into the film business opposite popular young actress-singer, Deanna Durbin in "First Love" (1939). After graduation, he found himself at Universal Studios, where producer Joe Pasternak offered him a screen test. He also excelled at skeet shooting, and ranked highly on the national levels in 19. Their influence was clearly felt when Stack attended college at USC, where he took drama courses. Stack's mother, who came from a show business family, was close to various Hollywood leading men (including Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy), and arranged for her son to spend time with these stars, both of whom acted as his "surrogate father." Upon his arrival back in the U.S., Stack's parents remarried, but father Charles - a wealthy real estate investor - passed away when Stack was just nine. Stack's stay on the continent provided him the ability to speak fluent French and Italian in fact, he spoke no English until his return to the United States. His parents divorced when he was a toddler, and his mother Elizabeth took him to Europe, where he stayed until around the age of six.
13, 1919 in Los Angeles, CA, Stack started life as Charles Langford Modini Stack, the second of two boys in his family. Prior to and between those two series, he co-starred in a number of popular films, earned an Academy Award nomination, and even got a few chances to poke fun at his rigid on-screen persona in several comedies and animated series.īorn Jan. That air of moral inflexibility still carried freight almost 30 years later, when he hosted "Unsolved Mysteries" (NBC/CBS, 1987-2002). His iron jaw and terse delivery made him the ideal crime fighter to tackle the worst gangsters of the Jazz Age on "The Untouchables" (ABC, 1959-1963).
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Tall, masculine, and blessed with a matinee idol's baritone voice, Robert Stack certainly looked every inch the movie star, but he actually found his greatest fame on television.
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