Lee Marvin

...for walking, mules were made to pack, I never saw a sight that didn't look better looking back. I was born under a wandering star' as Lee Marvin used to sing. Badly. And I must admit that I owe it all, or at least some of it, to True Slant,...

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...acceptable to cast Germans as merciless, scar-faced U-boat captains, or as generic villains if they were going to be killed by Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson, but that is passe: U-boat captains are now doomed, troubled souls vainly struggling...

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...s security settings are preventing some features from appearing. See instructions for fixing the problem. Dear David Inman: I know Lee Marvin and James Coburn were brothers. And John Cusack and Joan Cusack are sister and brother. I also...

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Aside from director Lang's long available **** The Big Heat, which boasts Gloria Grahame's unforgettable 1953 revenge on Lee Marvin, all are new to DVD. My favorite of the rest is probably 1952's The Sniper, whose premise is almost...

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...added a new word, ''palimony'', to the English language. In 1970, after she had lived with the actor Lee Marvin for six years, he threw her out and she took him to court, seeking $US1.8 million in property division. Legal history was made...

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Published: 5:28PM GMT 04 Nov 2009 Michelle Triola with Lee Marvin in 1966 after he received an Oscar for best actor for the film 'Cat Ballou' Photo: GETTY Paul Manz Oct 28, aged 90. American church organist and composer whose organ and...

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...relationships without marriage had no place in the law, the case broke legal ground. But Michelle Marvin never received any of Lee Marvin's fortune. A judge rejected Marvin's community-property request but granted her $104,000 for...

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Michelle Triola Marvin, 75, the former live-in girlfriend of Lee Marvin whose lawsuit against the actor established the legal concept of palimony, died Oct. 30 at the Malibu home she shared with actor Dick Van Dyke, her companion of more...

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...Dick Van Dyke, her companion of three decades, said a family friend, Bob Palmer. Michelle Marvin, who legally changed her surname to Lee Marvin's even though they never married, made legal history in 1976 when the California Supreme Court...

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...wasn't bitter, though she was forever associated with it. "She just shrugged it off," Palmer said. "If Lee Marvin's name came up, she said he was a great guy." He died in 1987. Her relationship with Van Dyke began in the late 1970s, and...

In this article: Michelle Triola Marvin, Dick Van Dyke, Los Angeles, Surgery, Lung cancer, Marvin Mitchelson, and Ship of Fools