Michael Wilding

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Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor.

He is best known for a sequence of films he produced with Anna Neagle, as well as being Elizabeth Taylor's second husband.

Personal life

Wilding was married four times: Kay Young (married August 1937, divorced December 1951, and divorced January 1956); and Margaret Leighton (married from July 1964 to her death in January 1976).

Michael Howard (born January 6, 1953) and Christopher Edward (born February 27, 1955) were two brothers, who were 20 years old. He had a brief romance with actress Marie McDonald, who was affectionately dubbed The Body, in 1957.

He was forced to suspend film appearances due to an illness connected to his lifelong epilepsy.

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Acting career

Wilding appeared in British films including Bitter Sweet (1933), Heads We Go (1933), and Channel Crossing (1933). He was bitten by the acting bug and decided to make it a career. He was said to appear in a Austrian film titled Pastorale.

In 1934, he made his stage debut in The Ringer Repertory Company and his first appearance in Chase the Ace in London. He may have appeared in the films Late Extra (1935), When Knights Were Bold (1936), and Wedding Group (1936). Spread It Abroad and Home and Beauty was two musicals on stage, and he appeared in two musicals, Spread It Abroad and Beauty.

He toured Australia and New Zealand with Fay Compton's stage company from 1937 to 1938. Personal Appearance, Victoria Regina, Tonight at Eight Thirty and George and Margaret were among the performers. When he was in Australia, he shot a prologue to Personal Appearance.

He appeared in the first Gate Revue in England, before returning to England for a new revue, Let's Face It, and a pantomime, Who's Taking Liberty.

He appeared in There Ain't No Justice (1939), Convoy (1940), and Tilly of Bloomsbury (1940). He was a good actor in Sailors Three (1940), and Sailors Don't Care (1940).

Wilding played a prominent role in the Spring Meeting (1941), but he was back to help with parts of The Farmer's Wife (1941). His films grew more popular: Kipps (1941), Cottage to Let (1941), Ships with Wings (1941), In which We Serve (1942), Secret Mission (1942), and Undercover (1943). He appeared on stage for a year at Quiet Weekend. In 1943, he served in Gibraltar with John Gield.

With Dear Octopus (1943), Wilding became a film name. Without Tears (1944), he followed it.

In the Piccadilly Incident (1946), what really made him a star was his appearance opposite Anna Neagle. Herbert Wilcox had wished Rex Harrison or John Mills but had only accepted Wilding reluctantly. However, after the rushes, Wilding and the Rushes penned him to a long-term deal. In 1946, Piccadilly Incident was the second most famous film at the British box office. Wilding was reunited with Neagle and Wilcox in The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947), the biggest hit at the British box office and one of the most-seen British films of all time, after co-starring Sally Gray in Carnival (1946). In An Ideal Husband (1947), Alexander Korda's second film, it was opposite Paulette Goddard, but it failed to recover its huge expense. In Park Lane (1948), another outstanding hit for Wilding, Neagle, and Wilcox. It culminated in the production of Mayfair (1949), which was also extremely popular.

Wilding was now one of Britain's most popular celebrities, despite being voted as such by the readers of Kine Weekly. In two subsequent films directed by his own film production firm Transatlantic Pictures (distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures), director Alfred Hitchcock starred him. Under Capricorn, the first film starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, was shot mainly in London, but there were some retakes and overdubs shot in Hollywood. It was one of Hitchcock's few flops. His second film for Hitchcock was the most popular Stage Fright (released in 1950), he also shot in London with Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman. Wilding appeared in "Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans" in an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode three years ago.

Wilcox starred him in a film without Neagle, Into the Blue (1950), and the public reaction was much less enthusiastic than those that were made together. He placed Anouk Aimée under personal responsibility and announced plans to film a movie together, but no plans were successful.

Wilding was supposed to appear in The Law and the Lady (1951), but it was not a success. He returned to the United Kingdom for The Lady with a Lamp (1951), a history of Florence Nightingale with Neagle and Wilcox. It was a hit in the United Kingdom, but less so than their earlier collaborations.

Derby Day (1952), the last Neagle-Wilding partnership, was also on display. In Trent's Last Case (1952), a minor hit, Wilcox tried Wilding with a new star, Margaret Lockwood. In 1952, British audiences voted him the fourth most popular celebrity at the local box office.

Wilding began a long-term deal with MGM in May 1952. He turned down a role in MGM's Latin Lovers, and the studio put him under suspension.

Wilding's Torch Song (1953) in Hollywood praised Joan Crawford. In their big budget show The Egyptian (1954), which was a box office disappointment, 20th Century Fox loaned him to play a pharaoh.

Prince Charming to Leslie Caron's Cinderella in The Glass Slipper (1955), and Major John André in The Scarlet Coat (1956).

Wilding went from Africa with Taylor to Zarak (1956) for Warwick Films, shortly after which his marriage to Taylor ended. He began appearing on television in the United States, including the title role in NBC's anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show's 1957 episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood."

He appeared in Danger Within (1959), a POW film; The World of Suzie Wong (1960); The World of Enemies (1961); and A Girl Named Tamiko (1962).

The Sweet Ride (1968) and Waterloo (1970) were two of his final appearances.

His last film appearance in a film was in a cameo in Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), which co-starred Margaret Leighton. Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) was his last film appearance.

At the peak of his career, British viewers voted him into the country's most popular celebrities:

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