Kirk Douglas "Talks About Becoming An Actor" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@johnhourigan6049]

These 1940s clips are fascinating - thanks for uploading them.

[@TomElvisSmith]

A very early and fascinating video of the Sullivan show!

[@StephanieJeanne]

Kirk sure was a good looking charmer who also was a great actor!! Then he went and had a son who was almost exactly like him! Both great actors in their own respects. 😊💜

[@dariowiter3078]

"Greed is good!" - Michael Douglas. 😉

[@miltonmoore8369]

WHAT AN EBULLIENT PERSONALITY HE HAD. MY FAVORITE FILM OF HIS WAS "PATHS OF GLORY." I SAW IT AT THE "ARCADIA THEATER" ON GREENVILLE AVE. NEAR SWISS AVE. IN DALLAS, TEXAS WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD. MY SECOND FAVORITE IS "SPARTACUS, BUT BEING THE "SPECTACLE," MULTI-STARRED FILM IT WAS, KIRK GOT SOMEWHAT SWALLOWED UP BY IT ALL. "PATHS OF GLORY" WAS ALL HIS. HE LIVED THE LONGEST OF ANY ACTOR, SURVIVING A MAJOR STROKE AT AGE 79 AND DYING AT AGE 103. EVEN MORE AMAZING IN A WAY WAS THAT HIS WIFE WHO OUTLIVED HIM LIVED TO THE AGE OF 102! THAT HAS TO BE A RECORD!

[@Momus2024]

the record is your comment being the longest with all caps....dude show some etiquette@@miltonmoore8369

[@johntate5722]

Yes paths of glory a great film and its one of his v best performances. My other 2 faves are detective story and ace in the hole. Oddly for a WW1 film he doesnt die at the end of paths, whereas in most of his films he did die at the end

[@jillkjv3816]

"I'm Spartacus!" 😊

[@Kw1161]

Thanks great to see a young Kirk Douglas hamming it up with Ed…😂! Have a great day!

[@edufau815]

A truly nice guy in this interview and one of my favorite actors for his energy and charisma. The film being promoted is a good example of that traditional and poisonous aphorism that a woman's worst enemy is another woman. They were different times, but the woman who would embody the ghost character of Addie Ross, an independent and self-confident woman, was already beginning to threaten the American model of the perfect wife. The other film mentioned and Douglas's first role in Hollywood, "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers", a masterpiece, that's called getting off to a good start...

[@AntMan201490]

Toast of The Town 1949; Kirk Douglas(December 9,1916-February 5,2020) luckily Kirk didn’t go on the plane with Mike Todd in March 1958 his wife Ann had a strange feeling about the trip so Kirk and Ann stopped speaking to each other and Kirk heard the news that Mike Todd and three passengers were killed in a plane crash and Ann and Kirk reconciled and said you saved my life😀👍🏿

[@roncaruso931]

1949. A different country then.

[@miltonmoore8369]

WHAT AN EBULLIENT PERSONALITY KIRK DOUGLAS POSSESSED. MY FAVORITE FILM OF HIS IS "PATHS OF GLORY." "SPARTACUS" IS MY SECOND FAVORITE. IT WAS AN EPIC PRODUCTION BUT IN A SPECTACLE LIKE THIS WITH A HOST OF EMMINENT SCREEN CELEBRITIES KIRK KIND OF GOT SWALLOWED UP BY IT ALL, WHEREAS IN "PATHS OF GLORY," THE FILM WAS BASICALLY ALL HIS. HE IS THE LONGEST-LIVED MAJOR ACTOR IN FILM HISTORY, DYING AT AGE 103. HE HAD A DEBILITATING STROKE AT AGE 79. THE PRECISE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH WAS NEVER REVEALED IN A WAY, THE FACT THAT HIS WIDOW LIVED TO THE AGE OF 102 IS REMARKABLE IN ITSELF.

[@Tif91522]

I ❤ this 😁

[@OmayraPacheco-m7n]

Amsterdam, NY. 😮🎉🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂

[@krissmgvlogs]

1949, wow!

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Absolutely 💯 never again

[@CanSahin-fn8yn]

That chin is out of this world man look at the handsomeness

[@manooch]

Interesting, the people with those chins 1:00 are amazing people , always successful. This only alone makes me believe in face reading! RIP what an actor

[@AnniAnniAnni-de8ey]

Kubrick said that never again work with him in a film.

[@Momus2024]

one of the vainest men ever to appear in film...(look for the scene in nearly every movie he made where he takes off his shirt or is seen doing something physically grandiose).......though I believe he was a fine actor who deserved the Oscar for his role as van Gogh....also a profound womanizer which was known by his wife though she never left him considering herself fortunate that he always came home to her....kind of pathetic really...

[@paporodriguez8130]

He had 7 honchos made of wool and sack cloth but he only used them for catfish fishing in Ontario!.