Married for sixty-five years, Lydia Clarke was first and only love. Charlton Heston and Lydia met at Northwestern University where they were both students taking a theater course. Charlton Heston, a 19-year-old college student who enlisted in the Air Corps, asked Lydia Clarke to marry him before he was sent overseas. Charlton and Lydia were married on March 17, 1944 at Grace Methodist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Lydia and Charlton have two children and three grandchildren:
Fraser Clarke Heston: Born 2/12/1955 in Los Angeles, California. Fraser has worked in the motion picture and television industry as a director, producer, and writer. Fraser was the infant Moses in the 1956 production of The Ten Commandments.
Holly Ann Heston Rochell: Born 8/2/1961, Holly was adopted by Lydia and Charlton .
Lydia and Charlton have lived in their Coldwater Canyon home in the Santa Monica mountains near Beverly Hills, California for most of their married life together.
Video: Charlton Heston and Other Stars at the Academy Awards.
Charlton Heston, was a bigger than life actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is best known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes, El Cid, and Judah Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
My Charlton Heston Halloween movie pick is:
The Awakening (1980). British horror film. It was directed by Mike Newell. It is the third film version of Bram Stoker's 1903 novel The Jewel of Seven Stars, which had previously been adapted for television in 1970 as The Curse of the Mummy, followed by a theatrical adaptation in 1971, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, released through Hammer Films. The film stars Charlton Heston, Susannah York, and Stephanie Zimbalist in an early acting role.
The film begins as archaeologist opens the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen at the exact moment his daughter is born. Many years later, the girl, now a teenager, begins to have many frightening changes in personality. People begin to mysteriously die. Heston soon comes to believe that the spirit of a cruel queen, named Kara, possessed his daughter at the moment of her birth andplans to live through her body.
This film has some beautiful Egyptian location shots. If you like the mysteries of Egypt or mummy movies you may like this film. Yes, it is a little gory at times.
Soylent Green(1973). Science fiction. Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Cotton, Chuck Connors, Leigh Taylor and Dick Van Patten. The film is about the investigation of a brutal murder of a wealthy businessman in a future suffering from pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, poverty, dying oceans and a hot climate. Much of the population survives on processed food rations called "soylent green".
The film, is loosely based on the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison, won the Nebula Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film in 1973.
Soylent Green, is one of my favorite sci-fi and Charlton Heston films. Eddie Robinson performance was very touching as one of the last men who remembers the past. Charlton Heston's and Edward G. Robinson's, on screen chemistry was very believable, as friends who truly loved each other.. One of my favorite scenes, is when they are eating a meal of real food and they savor every bite. The film is very powerful in its possible view of our world in the future.
*Spoiler alert*
In Charlton Heston's crying scene, he really was crying, he was the only person on set who knew Edward G. Robinson was dying of cancer. His death scene was the last day he worked in his life; he died just nine days after shooting wrapped.
Leigh Taylor-Young (born January 25, 1945). Her younger siblings are actress Dey Young and writer/director Lance Young. Taylor-Young got her first big break in 1966, when she was cast as Rachel Welles in the soap opera, Peyton Place. It was on this series that she met Ryan O'Neal, whom she later married. Despite the huge amount of publicity she received while working on Peyton Place, Taylor-Young left the soap opera in 1967 because of her pregnancy, she also wanted to pursue a career in films. Her first film role was the comedy, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas(1968). Where she received a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Female Newcomer. This was followed by her performance with husband Ryan O'Neal in, The Big Bounce(1969).
For the next several years, she performed mostly in high budget films, such as, The Adventurers and The Horsemen. She is best known for her performance as Shirl, the "furniture" girl, in the science fiction, Soylent Green(1973).
