Talk:John Huston
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[edit] The Misfits
Huston also directed The Misfits (film) with an all-star cast including Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach. Famously, Huston spent long evenings carousing in the Nevada casinos after filming, surrounded by reporters and beautiful women, gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Gable remarked during this time that 'if he kept it up he would soon die of it'. Ironically, and tragically, Gable died three weeks after the end of filming from a massive heart attack while Huston went on to live for twenty-six more years.
I added this bit, admittedly from memory, based on a PBS documentary. It's a great and poignant story. The source was a reporter who was interviewing Gable as he sat eating dinner mid-evening. If you don't like it, or don't think it's true, then say so here, please. Guernseykid 06:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Citizenship
Ireland has no problem with dual or even triple citizenship (Margaret Hassan was an Irish, British and Iraqi citizen), so I've removed the qualification.--Dub8lad1 10:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] John Huston WW2 Documentaries
I'd like to note that John Huston made several documentary films during second world war, while serving in military. Apparently the films were disliked by the military officials for their objectivity and the fact that they emphasized more realistic approach to the war. I found out about this from a documentary called "JOHN HUSTON - WAR STORIES" which consisted of an interview with mr. Huston.
quote from: http://www.yle.fi/d-projekti/arkisto/25tunti/99huston.html
A personal film memoir. The focus in on the outstanding documentary films directed by John Huston during the World War II which were "lost" or "banned". For Report from the Aleutians, nominated for an Oscar in 1943, Huston flew many dangerous bombing missions with his combat camera crews from the island of Adak against the Japanese emplacements. John Huston's second documentary Battle of San Pietro shot in Italy, is startling in it's honesty. A vivid and complete record of brutal combat conditions that faced the 36th Texas Infantry regiment. With "one hundred per cent replacements" they were devastated. Banned for this authentic realism Battle of San Pietro was declared "unfit for Army Personnel to see it would be demoralizing..." In the aftermath of war, Huston directed Let There Be Light. A group portrait of soldiers being treated for what we now call traumatic stress syndrome. The tragic and shocking faces of men emotionally devastated by combat were filmed by John Huston with such veracity that this film remained banned for thirty five years. * Director: Midge McKenzie * Production: Barnsbury Productions, Iso-Britannia, 1998
193.166.68.241 13:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Allegra Huston
Could someone clarify the parentage of the writer Allegra Huston? The John Julius Norwich article says she is the daughter of an extra-marital affair between Norwich and Huston's wife Erica Soma. Can any confirm that? Indisciplined (talk) 19:55, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
