Cat Ballou

Later, she testified that Marvin -- who won an Academy Award for best actor in "Cat Ballou" and starred in "The Dirty Dozen" during their relationship -- had asked her to give up her career and told her that he would take care of her. In...

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...for them in Malibu. Later, she testified that Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for best actor in "Cat Ballou" during their relationship, had asked her to give up her career and that he would take care of her. In May 1970 she legally...

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...Not Very Nice He s a Good Guy, but He s Not Very Nice Published: January 9, 2009 WELL before he won an Oscar for "Cat Ballou" (1965) or made revenge an almost abstract art in John Boorman's "Point Blank" (1967), Lee Marvin logged...

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...Kid Shelleen and hired killer Tim "Silvernose" Strawn in this 1965 comedy-western. Jane Fonda co-stars, with Nat King Cole singing the movie's theme song. 1 p.m., TCM Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Stick around for this charm-oozing...

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...mostly villains, soldiers and other hardboiled characters, but after winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual roles in Cat Ballou, he landed more heroic and sympathetic leading roles. Marvin was born in New York City, the son of...

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...to a horse someplace out in the valley". In the film's beginning, the Columbia Pictures "Torch Lady" did a quick-change into a cartoon Cat Ballou, who drew and fired her sixguns into the air. Kid Shelleen mistakenly sings "Happy Birthday...

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...''Cat Ballou and, excluding a 15 year hiatus, has appeared in films ever since. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She announced her retirement from acting in 1991, but returned to film in 2005...

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