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#ClintEastwood turned 93 yesterday; a đ§”on Spaghetti Westerns, Clint's role in 'Per un Pugno di Dollari' (A Fistful of Dollars) and the subversive after-effects of the film that re-defined the Western. #ClintEastwood93today 
In the summer of 1964, a TV actor who starred in a prime time Western serial was looking for distraction in films. The show was 'Rawhide', and its star Clint Eastwood, who played the impulsive, sometimes hot-tempered, but generally sweet-natured 'Rowdy Yates' felt heâd stagnated.
So, at 34, Eastwood decided upon a risky gamble: take a leap into the unknown by imposing trust in an obscure Italian director named Sergio Leone and travel to Rome to do an obscure âEuropean Westernâ called 'Per un Pugno di Dollari.'
#BornthisDay July 9, 1927 #actress & #StyleIcon Susan Cabot. Star of mainly #westerns such as Gunsmoke with Audie Murphy, also remembered for sci fi Wasp Woman & Machine Gun Kelly with Charles Bronson. Tragic story later in life...
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#vintagefashion #1950s
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#vintagefashion #1950s
Susan Cabot in Roger Corman's Machine Gun Kelly. After her acting career, she restored and sold on vintage vehicles herself.
Susan Cabot in Gunsmoke 1953, and Ride Clear of Diablo 1954 with Audie Murphy. Though westerns, the wardrobe fab in both - Rosemary Odell.
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Throwback to the time it was revealed that Clint Eastwood directed a movie based on a book written by a secret leader of the KKK.
Asa Earl Carter âformed a paramilitary unit of about 100 men known as âthe Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacyâ and âwas arrested in 1957 in connection with a Klan shootingâ link.gale.com/apps/doc/BOSYDâŠ
In 1956, his group attacked Nat King Cole on stage in Birmingham, Alabama during a concert and castrated a random black man as a âwarning to âuppityâ Alabama Blacks.â timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1âŠ
