One of Hollywood's pre-eminent male stars of all time (eclipsed, perhaps, only by King Clark Gable and arguably by Gary Cooper or Spencer Tracy), and the cinema's quintessential tough guy. Was also an accomplished if rather stiff hoofer and easily played light comedy. Ending three decades on the screen, retired to his farm in Stanfordville, New York (some 77 miles/124 km. north of his New York City birthplace), after starring in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961). Emerged from retirement ...[Read Story]