Guilty Pleasures: Blowing Wild

1953 Adventure

From Warner Bros

Directed by Hugo Fregonese

Starring

Gary Cooper

Barbara Stanwyck

Ruth Roman

Anthony Quinn

Ward Bond

Ian MacDonald

Juan Garcia Garza

From the 1950s: The Barefoot Contessa

1954 Drama

From United Artists

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring

Humphrey Bogart

Ava Gardner

Edmond O'Brien

Rossano Brazzi

Marius Goring

Valentina Cortese

Elizabeth Sellars

Warren Stevens

Mari Aldon

Stuart Whitman

Hunky and handsome and possessing a honey-coated speaking voice, Stuart Whitman was tucked in with Stephen Boyd, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Bradford Dillman and a few others at 20th Century Fox in the late fifties, early 1960s.  The studio was hoping one or more of them would turn into a Tyrone Power from the 40s or at least a Robert Wagner from the 50s but it was not to be.