My favorite Hollywood/Burbank story is how Lee Marvin fucked with Ronald Reagan a lot during the filming of The Killers (1964).
ETA: If you can find the DVD, there’s a good extra on the disc where Clu Gulager talks about a few production stories.
Probably the most prominent conservative Republican Lee Marvin ever worked with was Ronald Reagan. Granted, Reagan was not nearly as extreme as Donald Trump. However, he was a former actor/personality who cashed in on that popularity for a political career that ended him up in the White House.
What was Marvin’s opinion of Reagan, whom he worked with several times? Career-long agent Meyer Mishkin: ” You know, funny thing with him and working actors, was that he got along with working actors, as far as I know. But once, in the early days, he was doing a show with Reagan, G.E. Theate r , or something like that. I said to him, ‘What do you think of Ronald Reagan?’ He said, ‘He’s a jerk.’
