9 Golden Age Stars Too Tall For Hollywood's Cameras

9 Golden Age Stars Too Tall For Hollywood's Cameras... Standard cameras were never built for men this size. Crews dug trenches into soundstage floors. Directors rebuilt entire shot lists around one man's shoulders. Getting certain golden age actors onto a movie screen without breaking the composition became a recurring technical crisis, and these nine performers made that problem permanent for three full decades. In this video: Raymond Burr and what mass does to a frame that height alone never could John Wayne and the lifts that complicated his entire mythology Randolph Scott, the master of stillness who retired the moment he found his greatest role Jeff Chandler and the silver hair Hollywood tried to hide before building a career around it Rock Hudson and what Universal spent years constructing around one man's face Forrest Tucker, the most underappreciated large man in golden age television Chuck Connors, the only documented athlete to compete in both the NBA and Major League Baseball Clint Walker, who was briefly pronounced dead on a ski slope and was back on set two months later James Arness, the man the Navy turned away for being too tall, who went on to star in the longest-running prime-time drama in American television history Subscribe for more real stories from Hollywood's golden age. ‪@OldStageYT‬