USS Independence Found

[wdolson]

Lee Marvin was part of a huge lawsuit when I was a kid. His long term SO sued him for a chunk of his wealth when they broke up. That's all I knew him from for a long time.

From what I read, he got hit in the sciatic nerve on Saipan and it bothered him the rest of his life. The injury was severe enough he got a medical discharge.

Bill

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

ORIGINAL: danlongman

I thinks the one that Lee Marvin did with Toshiro Mufune was Hell In The Pacific.
I am too lazy right now to practice google-fu. I like Lee Marvin in Raintree County.

wasnt he a real marine ?

To the end.

[wegman58]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

Lee Marvin was part of a huge lawsuit when I was a kid. His long term SO sued him for a chunk of his wealth when they broke up. That's all I knew him from for a long time.

From what I read, he got hit in the sciatic nerve on Saipan and it bothered him the rest of his life. The injury was severe enough he got a medical discharge.

Bill

Was that the Palimony suit? Where some judge came up with the idea you don't have to get married to collect alimony?

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

No, Midway. He played Halsey in that. Stuck in bed with dermatitis or something.

John Wayne was not in Midway. You are talking about Robert Mitchum.

Long story short, I grew up using The Duke as my role model. Could be worse [;)]

<edit> oops, someone already seems to have caught that

[Numdydar]

ORIGINAL: wegman58

ORIGINAL: wdolson

Lee Marvin was part of a huge lawsuit when I was a kid. His long term SO sued him for a chunk of his wealth when they broke up. That's all I knew him from for a long time.

From what I read, he got hit in the sciatic nerve on Saipan and it bothered him the rest of his life. The injury was severe enough he got a medical discharge.

Bill

Was that the Palimony suit? Where some judge came up with the idea you don't have to get married to collect alimony?

Look up 'Common Law' marriages [:)]

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

No, Midway. He played Halsey in that. Stuck in bed with dermatitis or something.

That was Robert Mitchum.

Sorry, came late, already been corrected twice.

[geofflambert]

I swear I can see JW in that film, I now know otherwise. I saw that at least 10 times. Sheeesh.

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I swear I can see JW in that film, I now know otherwise. I saw that at least 10 times. Sheeesh.

I saw him, once, in Ridgeway while he was making True Grit. A block away & there was no mistaking the man [8D]

[Knucles2]

Actually it was Robert Mitchum who played Halsey in Midway. The Duke played Rockwell Torey in In Harms Way.



Edit: Crap, missed the past three corrections

[jamesjohns]

Check out "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Stars Wayne, Lee Marvin and Woody Strode Excellent movie plays to all the 3 of their abilities

Lee Marvin, says a tremendous amount about him and his character, and what the impact of the war was on him, that he select a simple headstone that says PFC US Marine Corp

[jamesjohns]

Lee Marvin did a training film for the Marine Corp, in it sounds like he made 3 landings in WWII.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvgabBoWKPM

[barkhorn45]

Marvin was also with Wayne in "The Comancheroes"and"Donavon's Reef"
I liked"They were Expendable".