Career Ĭotten earned spending money playing professional football on Sundays, for $25 a quarter. Ĭotten served in the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S.
In 1923, when Cotten was 18, his family arranged for him to receive private lessons at the Hickman School of Expression in Washington, D.C., and underwrote his expenses. : 224 He grew up in the Tidewater region and showed an aptitude for drama and a gift for storytelling. Joseph Cotten was born in 1905 in Petersburg, Virginia, the first of three boys born for Joseph Cheshire Cotten Sr., an assistant postmaster, and Sally Willson Cotten. Harlow Shapley Cotten and Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun (1946) From left: Van Wyck Brooks, Hannah Dorner, Jo Davidson, Jan Kiepura, Cotten, Dorothy Gish, Dr. Members of the Independent Voters Committee of the Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt visit FDR at the White House (October 1944). Early life Joseph Cotten modeled for The American Magazine (September 1931) Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited him as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. One of his final films was Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980). He then gained worldwide fame in three Orson Welles films: Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.Ĭotten went on to become one of the leading Hollywood actors of the 1940s, appearing in films such as Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Gaslight (1944), Love Letters (1945), Duel in the Sun (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948) for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, The Third Man (1949) and Niagara (1953). Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.
(– February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor.
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