Trivia of Clint Eastwood (31 May 1930)

Trivia of Clint Eastwood (31 May 1930)

*Clint Eastwood debuted on the silver screen through the movie “Revenge of the Creature (1954).” The movie grossed $1.1 million in the box office. It was horrible enough to have its own episode of “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

*During an interview promoting his memoir, But Enough About Me, his longtime friend actor Burt Reynolds said that both he and Clint Eastwood were fired from an acting gig on the same day in the early 1960s.Reynolds explained, "They told him his Adam's apple stuck out too far, he talked too slow, and he had to get that chipped tooth fixed. I then said, 'Why are you firing me?' and they said, 'You can't act!'".

*Eastwood was cast for the role of Rowdy Yates in Rawhide (1959) when he went to visit a friend at CBS and a studio executive noticed him and thought he ‘looked like a cowboy.’But he was not especially happy with his character; Eastwood was almost 30, and his character was too young and cloddish for his comfort. Filming began in Arizona in the summer of 1958.It took just three weeks for Rawhide to reach the top 20 in TV ratings and although it never won an Emmy, it was a major success for several years.

*In late 1963, Eastwood's Rawhide co-star Eric Fleming rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made western called A Fistful of Dollars (1964), filmed in a remote region of Spain by a relatively unknown director, Sergio Leone. Actor Richard Harrison suggested Eastwood to Leone because Harrison knew that Eastwood could play a cowboy convincingly.He signed a contract for $15,000 in wages for eleven weeks' work, with a bonus of a Mercedes-Benz automobile upon completion.

*He wore the same poncho in all three of the "Dollars" Trilogy Movies : A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966).He also reportedly never washed it.

*Has always been allergic to horses, which is why, in his westerns, he is rarely seen in close-up on horseback. When he had to ride horses in films, he would first have to sniff medication into his nose and lungs.

*In 1971, Eastwood made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me.Every time he directs, he insists that his actors wear as little makeup as possible and he likes to print first takes. As a result, his films consistently finish on schedule and on budget.He simply says "okay" instead of "action" and "cut."