Tyrone Power.

Both he and his father Tyrone Power Sr. died while on the job, requiring their roles to be recast and re-shot: his father in The Miracle Man 1932 replaced by Hobart Bosworth and he in Solomon and Sheba 1959 replaced by Yul Brynner.

He was signed by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1936 as an answer to MGM’s big star Robert Taylor.

On November 14 to 16, 2008, an event was held at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of his untimely passing. Four of his films were screened: Love Is News 1937, The Mark of Zorro 1940, The Razor’s Edge 1946 and Nightmare Alley 1947. In attendance were his children Tyrone Power Jr., Romina Power and Taryn Power. Also attending were several actors who worked with him, including Coleen Gray, Piper Laurie, Terry Moore and Jayne Meadows.

He was considered for the role of Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind 1939.

His last complete work was a public-service announcement for television in which he appeared on a motion-picture set in costume about spotting the signs of a heart attack and going to the hospital to have a doctor check it out. The film still exists and has been shown in biographical tributes. Power died of a heart attack while filming Solomon and Sheba 1959 shortly after the public-service spot first aired. Coincidentally, Power’s replacement on his last film, Yul Brynner, also completed a PSA for the American Cancer Society prior to his death. This PSA was broadcast after Brynner’s death: Now that I’m gone, I tell you: Don’t smoke. Whatever you do, just don’t smoke. If I could take back that smoking, we wouldn’t be talking about any cancer. I’m convinced of that.

According to Quigley Publishing Co.’s International Motion Picture Almanac, he is one of the top 100 box-office stars of all time, remarkable because he only had a 19-year career taking three years off for his time in the military. Other actors on the list enjoyed careers from 25 to 50 years.

Charlton Heston wrote in his 1995 autobiography In the Arena that while filming Ben-Hur 1959 he was shocked to learn of Power’s sudden death, especially since the actor was only a decade older than him. He said the incident made him think about his own mortality for the first time.

The novel Quicksilver by Fitzroy Davis chronicles, in fictional form, a tour of Romeo & Juliet with Katharine Cornell that Power was with in the 1930s before going to Hollywood. Others in the cast included, at various times, Orson Welles, Brian Aherne and Basil Rathbone. All the names have been changed but many of the stories in the book did actually happen. When Aherne joined the cast, Welles was demoted, taking over Power’s role, and Power moved into a smaller one. This is included in the book. It was a best-seller, written in 1942 after many of the actors had Hollywood success, and the story goes that Cornell tried to buy up all of the copies. Given that Davis knew these actors’ fates by the time he wrote the book, it’s easier to figure out who was who, though it appears the author did mix various traits among the characters in order to make the actors less recognizable.

He and Basil Rathbone were two of Hollywood’s most accomplished fencing masters but for safety reasons preferred duelling with their fencing instructors for scenes which didn’t include close ups of both stars.

Children: Romina Francesca born 2 October 1951, Taryn born 13 September 1953 and Tyrone William born 22 January 1959 were all born at Cedars Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery now called Hollywood Forever, Hollywood, CA. His tombstone includes the masks of Comedy and Tragedy and the inscription: Good night, sweet prince.

His great-grandfather, Tyrone Power 1795 to 1841, wrote the two-volume Impressions of America: During the Years 1833, 1834, 1835 London: R. Bently, 1836.

In her 1982 autobiography Lana: The Lady, The Legend, The Truth, Lana Turner revealed that she had gotten pregnant by Power in December 1946. When Power’s wife Annabella refused to give him a divorce, Turner was forced to undergo an abortion or face them both losing their respective careers.

He was the first performer to win a Harvard Lampoon Worst Actor Award for The Rains Came 1939 in 1939.

Was the adoptive father of his ex-wife Annabella’s daughter, Ann Power.

According to the genealogy book Debrett Goes to Hollywood by Charles Kidd, Power on his father’s side was distantly related to both Laurence Olivier and author Evelyn Waugh. One of his first cousins was the prominent director Sir Tyrone Guthrie, who founded the Stratford Theatre in Ontario and the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota. Power was also related to the Mori family of Italy who were a prominent family in music. Power’s paternal grandmother was partly descended from the French Huguenots.

Mentioned in three films: Sunset Boulevard 1950 with the line Can you see Ty Power as a shortstop?; All About Eve 1950 with the line What shall I tell Tyrone Power?; and Flags of Our Fathers 2006 when the character of Rene Gagnon is referred to as Tyrone Power because of his good looks.

When he was working on forming a theater company in Europe in the 1950s, he hired author Nora Sayre to read plays. She writes about that time in her book On the Wing, and about Power’s relationship with girlfriend Mai Zetterling and the woman who was to become his third wife, Debbie Minardos.

His name was invoked in an underwear commercial by spokesman Wally Cox who said, in his best Mr. Milquetoast voice: I may look like Wally Cox, but inside I’m Tyrone Power.

He was scheduled to make his film debut playing with his father, Tyrone Power Sr., in The Miracle Man 1932, but the senior Power’s sudden death from a heart attack during filming precluded that.

Played a West Point cadet uncredited in Flirtation Walk 1934. Twenty-one years later he starred in The Long Gray Line 1955, again about West Point, but this time as the legendary enlisted man Martin Marty Maher, whose service to the Academy will never be forgotten.

At age 16 he was an usher at the Orpheum Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In Dreamboat 1952, a large photo of Power is prominently displayed on the wall of the agency Clifton Webb and Anne Francis enter in New York City.

There are yearly memorial services at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on the anniversary of his death, November 15. There is also one for Rudolph Valentino yearly.

He was originally cast in Richard Burton’s role in The Robe 1953.

In 1920, lived at 212 S. Cordova Street, Alhambra, California.

His 1938 Photoplay cover is the first shot in the film Enter Laughing 1967.

His centennial has been celebrated in Chicago, his home town of Cincinnati, in Massillon OH, in Wilmington NC and in Milwaukee, WI. In Hollywood the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences shows one of his films every Tuesday in September. The Tyrone Power Exhibit at the Hollywood Museum features costumes, stills, posters, candid photos, fan magazines and personal items from the actor’s career and life.

Son of Tyrone Power Sr. and Patia Riaume Mrs. Tyrone Power. Adoptive father of Ann Power, father of Romina Power, Taryn Power, and Tyrone William Power IV Tyrone Power Jr..

Was immortalized in the song My Baby Just Cares for Me with the lyrics My baby don’t care for Tyrone Power / She’d rather be with me by the hour as well as Hooray for Hollywood: within half an hour, you’ll look like Tyrone Power.

He gave a commencement speech at the University of Tampa in 1948. He was awarded an honorary degree in the Arts.

Cartoon artist C.C. Beck, on the Marvel Comics website, states that several characters in the Captain Marvel series were based on film stars. The mighty Egyptian magician Ibis the Invincible, who was featured in every issue of Whiz Comics, was based on Tyrone Power as he appeared in The Rains Came 1939.

Friend of Eddy Duchin. Portrayed Duchin in The Eddy Duchin Story 1956 and like Duchin, died at a young age.

Appeared in five Oscar Best Picture nominees: Flirtation Walk 1934, In Old Chicago 1938, Alexander’s Ragtime Band 1938, The Razor’s Edge 1946 and Witness for the Prosecution 1957.

Lead character in the play Filthy Rich, which is a film-noir parody, is named Tyrone Power.

Although he gave his height as six feet, Power was known to wear lifts in films and it is widely believed he was actually 5 feet 10 inches.

Has his own chapter Disillusioned: Tyrone Power in The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger, Alfred J. Knopf Publishers, 2007.

On August 22, 2021, he was honored with a day of his filmography during the Turner Classic Movies Summer Under the Stars.