Ricky Nelson

...story. As a Los Angeles Wrecking Crew session guitarist, he contributed to hits by such acts as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Merle Haggard, Nat King Cole, Ricky Nelson, Jan & Dean, The Righteous Brothers and The Beach Boys. In...

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...Edition" ($40). Directed by Howard Hawks, it is one of the most watchable westerns ever thanks to an easy chemistry between Wayne and cast mates Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Walter Brennan and Angie Dickinson. It doesn't exactly scream...

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Over a wide range of genres, Howard Hawks's films are memorable for their musical performances (think of Lauren Bacall and Hoagy Carmichael in "To Have and Have Not" and Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson in the Western "Rio Bravo"). In...

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...Ricky Nelson role. Hawks again named the Nelson/Caan character after a state (in this case, Mississippi) and in a wry, humorous twist on the original film, Hawks made him inept with firearms, but skilled with a knife. The second remake,...

In this article: Rio Bravo, John Carpenter, John Wayne, Howard Hawks, Walter Brennan, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Dean Martin

...epic "Rio Bravo," with frequent collaborator John Wayne, Angie Dickinson as the typical no-nonsense "Hawksian woman," Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson. "It's because of 'Land of the Pharaohs' that 'Rio Bravo' is so good," Bogdanovich...

In this article: Howard Hawks, Peter Bogdanovich, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Paula Prentiss, Rio Bravo, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Land of the Pharaohs, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rock Hudson

...co-starred Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan. When Hawks sold his personal contract with her to a major studio without her knowledge, she was understandably unhappy. Dickinson nonetheless became one of the more prominent...

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...scenes seemingly painted on celluloid. While Nelson found occasion to sing a duet about rifles and ponies with Martin in Rio Bravo, thankfully there isn't so much as a hum from Mitchum or Caan here. El Dorado is also aided by the addition...

In this article: El Dorado, John Wayne, Howard Hawks, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Rio Bravo, Dean Martin, Harold Rosson, and Leigh Brackett

...Desi & Billy all might have made the national pop charts on their own, but it certainly didn't hurt their chances that Ricky's father, Ozzie Nelson, was a former bandleader and producer of the family television show, that Jerry Lewis and Frank...

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...supposed to be in character here. We're not meant to see Dude and Colorado, we're meant to see Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson, and bask in the effervescent glow emanating from their collective star power. "When you've got some talent, your...

In this article: Rio Bravo, Quentin Tarantino, Howard Hawks, Dean Martin, John T. Chance, Elvis Presley, Walter Brennan, and Jackson Browne