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- Birth nameHorace Stanley McCoy
- Horace McCoy was born on April 14, 1897 in Pegram, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Speed Wings (1934), The Lusty Men (1952) and Dangerous Mission (1954). He died on December 16, 1955 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Before the successful film adaptation of his novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), there were two failed attempts to bring the novel into a feature film. The first one, in 1936, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer purchased the rights to the novel as a potential starring vehicle for Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, but the project fell apart due to the sudden death of Jean Harlow in 1937. The second one, in 1950, when Charles Chaplin optioned the rights to the novel with Norman Lloyd as director and planned to cast his son Sydney Chaplin and newcomer Marilyn Monroe in the lead roles, but the project fell apart again because Chaplin's re-entry permit was revoked while promoting Limelight (1952).
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