“Look,” said David-he was now getting a little bit irritated-“even if you were Gregory Peck, I’d still have to get a top woman co-star.” “Oh, no, I could carry the picture myself,” Cornel is reported to have said. “But I’d have to get you a top woman star and-” “It isn’t so much the cost of the story,” interrupted the producer. “Can’t you see,” Cornel concluded enthusiastically, “it would be terrific!” Selznick shook his head and said, “Maybe-but I can’t afford it.” And Cornel was trying to sell Selznick the idea of buying his “Lord Byron” story with Cornel of course to star as the romantic poet. His black eyes were shining, his black hair was tossing His voice was irresistible. Cornel was at the top of his persuasive form. Take for example an incident at a recent party. He’s still fighting that old world that didn’t understand or appreciate him. Consequently, instead of being happy with his good fortune he’s still defensive about Hollywood and producers. His life went into high speed so fast following “A Song to Remember” that he had no time to shift gears. But they are not, I dare say, nearly as unhappy and confused as Cornel himself. Those who remain Cornel’s friends-personal or professional-are unhappy and confused about him. This makes for headlines and confusion and an inaccurate picture of a man suffering from a severe case of chip on the shoulder. It all adds up to this: Items that make spectacular reading are given prominence, while news more favorable to Cornel, but less dramatic, is not played up in the same way. You read, too, that Cornel refused to appear in “Walls of Jericho.” And a few editions later it’s announced-but much less conspicuously-that he has curtailed his New York holiday to report at the studio for this very role. However, before you have time to digest this news, coming as it does on top of their public declarations of devotion, they have left for Hawaii and a reconciliation honeymoon. You read that he and Pat Knight Wilde have separated. Items, some blind, others using his name, paint his difficult temperament. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended hisĬareer in near-cameos in minor adventure films.What has happened to Cornel Wilde? That there is something wrong is all too evident. Tour-de-force adventure drama that brought him real acclaim as aĭirector. Several of his ventures into film noir in this period,īoth his own and other directors', are quite interesting Led him to form his own production company with the goal of directing In the 1950s his star dimmed a little, and aside from an Spent the balance of the 1940s in romantic, and often swashbuckling, He playedĪ few minor roles before leaping to fame and an Oscar nomination as Production of "Romeo and Juliet" that Hollywood spotted him. It was not until he was hired in the dual capacities of fencing Stage, he appeared in the Broadway hit "Having a Wonderful Time", but Shortening his name to Cornel Wilde for the Though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on Thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, Shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde Olympic fencing team, he quit the team just prior to theġ936 Berlin Olympics in order to take a role in a play. Received a scholarship for medical school, but turned it down in favor He spent much of his youth traveling in Europe,ĭeveloping a continental flair as well as an affinity for languages. His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the nameĬornelius Louis Wilde. In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family.
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