Rory Calhoun, 1922-1999

Rory Calhoun and Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return (1954)

Tomorrow (August 8) marks the birth anniversary of Rory Calhoun, an actor who showed up in one western after another in the 1950s. (I entered the wrong date to look up birthdays for a post today, which is why you're getting this a day early. Tomorrow has the Thursday Movie Picks and a movie coming up on TCM for Ava Gardner's day.) Quite a few of those westerns show up on StarzEncore Westerns if you have the Starz Package. The photo above is from one of Calhoun's better-known westerns, River of No Return, which will in fact be on StarzEncore Westners overnight between Thursday and Friday at 12:03 AM, and again later Friday at 8:27 AM.

Before that, however, there are three other Calhoun westerns on the channel -- I thold you he was in a lot of B westerns! Those are Red Sundown at 2:54 AM; The Saga of Hemp Brown at 5:29 AM and Raw Edge at 11:20 AM.



I had forgotten that Calhoun was in How to Marry a Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe. He was in some other early 50s Fox films in a supporting role, such as I'd Climb the Highest Mountain which has been back in the FXM rotation lately, and With a Song in My Heart, which hasn't. Oh, and who could forget Night of the Lepus?