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Gore Vidal
3 October 1925
Gore Vidal played in 3 movies in the Comedy, Music, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller genres.
Gore Vidal got succeed with average imdb rating 7.
In 1960, wrote the script for a TV movie, The Magical Monarch of Mo based on the novel by L. Frank Baum, which was to star Groucho Marx in the title role.
Writes mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box.
Born at 10:00am-EST
Grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore helped create the state of Oklahoma and was first senator elected to represent the state.
Founded U.S. Peace Party with Dr. Benjamin Spock.
His father helped start three different airlines.
Cousin of U.S. ex-Tennessee senator, ex-vice president and unsuccessful presidential candidate Al Gore.
... Shared a stepfather with the late Jacqueline Kennedy when his mother Nina married Jackie's stepfather, Hugh D. Auchincloss.
Won a National Book Award (1993) for his non-fiction collection "United States: Essays, 1952-1992".
Uncle of Burr Steers.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 132, pp. 395-409. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Is uncredited as a screenwriter on Ben-Hur (1959), although producer Sam Zimbalist had promised he and Christopher Fry, who worked on the script independently from Vidal, screen credit. Karl Tunberg, who wrote the original screenplay before many rewrites by Vidal and Fry produced the final shooting script, claimed the credit. Zimbalist died before the movie ended, and thus could not testify at the Writers Guild arbitration hearing. Tunberg won the credit, but failed to win the Oscar. The film had been nominated for 12 Ocars, and won a record 11, a record that has since been tied. The movie's sole loss was for best writing-screenplay based on material from another medium. The loss is usually attributed to the fallout over the credit dispute, which Vidal made widely known.
Was briefly engaged to Joanne Woodward, who broke the engagement to pledge herself to eventual husband Paul Newman. The new couple, who remained friends with Vidal, briefly lived with him in a house in Los Angeles.
Was upset with the choice of Jerry Lewis as the lead in the movie version of Visit to a Small Planet (1960).
Was nominated for Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee The Best Man.
Has diabetes.
In 1976, he accepted the Oscar for best writing-original screenplay on behalf of Frank Pierson, who wasn't present at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Is portrayed by Michael Panes in Infamous (2006).
Uncle of Eric Vidal.
November 2003 - Gore's long-term life partner, Howard Austen, died.
Gore is his mother's maiden surname.
When asked why he was running for governor of California against incumbent governor Jerry Brown, he replied that "the chance to compete against a Zen space cadet is too good to pass up.".
In the early 1970s, a Washington, D.C. television station named the host of their weekly horror movie slot Gore Dival.
Resides in Los Angeles.
In 1936, as a 10-year-old, he appeared in a Path? Newsreel landing his father's light aircraft.
He met his long-term partner Howard Austen in 1950. They were together until Austen's death in November 2003.
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