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Sergeant Murphy é um filme de comédia estadunidense dirigido por B. Reeves Eason e estrelado por Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr. e William B. Davidson. O filme foi lançado pela Warner Bros. em 1º de janeiro de 1938.
- Sy Bartlett
- Ronald Reagan
Sergeant Murphy: Directed by B. Reeves Eason. With Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr.. A horse is offered for sale to the cavalry but is rejected as unfit for service. A cavalry private buys the horse, and trains it to be a champion racer.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- B. Reeves Eason
- 1938-01-01
Sergeant Murphy is a 1938 American comedy film directed by B. Reeves Eason and written by Sy Bartlett and William Jacobs. The film stars Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr. and William B. Davidson. The film was released by Warner Bros. on January 1, 1938.
In his third film, Sergeant Murphy (1938), Ronald Reagan got to draw on his expertise as a member of the U.S. Cavalry Reserve to play a farm boy who follows his beloved horse into the Army then goes through a series of trials to try to win him back when the military decides to sell the eponymous steed.
- Early Life
- World War II Service
- Texas Army National Guard
- Film Career
- Personal Life
- Death and Commemorations
- Songwriting
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Murphy was born on 20 June 1925, in Kingston, a small rural community in Hunt County in northeastern Texas.[ALM 1] He was the seventh of twelve children born to Emmett Berry Murphy (1887–1976) and his wife Josie Bell Murphy (née Killian; 1891–1941). The Murphys were sharecroppers, of English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and German descent. Althou...
Enlistment and basic training
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he attempted to enlist in the U.S. military, but the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps all turned him down for being underweight and underage. After his sister provided an affidavit that falsified his birth date by a year, he was accepted by the U.S. Army on 30 June 1942.[ALM 1][ALM 3] According to his biographer David A. Smith, Murphy acknowledged his birth date was falsified at his enlistment in a 1950 interview with the Austin Statesma...
Mediterranean Theater
Murphy was shipped to Casablanca in French Morocco on 20 February 1943. He was assigned to Company B, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, which trained under the command of Major General Lucian Truscott. After the 13 May surrender of the Axis forces in French Tunisia, the division was put in charge of the prisoners. He participated as a platoon messenger with his division at Arzew in Algeria in rigorous training for the Allied assault landings in Sicily.Murphy was pr...
European Theater
During the first wave of the Allied invasion of southern France, Murphy received the Distinguished Service Cross for action taken on 15 August 1944. After landing on Yellow Beach near Ramatuelle, Murphy's platoon was making its way through a vineyard when the men were attacked by German soldiers. He retrieved a machine gun that had been detached from the squad and returned fire at the German soldiers, killing two and wounding one.Two Germans exited a house about 100 yards (91 m) away and appe...
At the end of World War II, the 36th Infantry Division reverted to state control as part of the Texas Army National Guard, and Murphy's friends, Major General H. Miller Ainsworth and Brigadier General Carl L. Phinney, were the 36th's commander and deputy commander respectively. After the 25 June 1950 commencement of the Korean War, Murphy began a s...
During an acting career spanning from 1948 to 1969, Murphy made more than 40 feature films and one television series.[ALM 6] When actor and producer James Cagney saw the 16 July 1945 issue of Life magazine depicting Murphy as the "most decorated soldier", he brought him to Hollywood. Cagney and his brother William signed him as a contract player fo...
Murphy married actress Wanda Hendrix in 1949. Their divorce became final two years later in 1951. Four days later, he married former airline stewardess Pamela Opal Lee Archer, with whom he had two sons: Terry Michaeland James Shannon. Murphy bred quarter horses at the Audie Murphy Ranch in what is now Menifee, California, and the Murphy Ranch in Pi...
On 28 May 1971, Murphy was killed when the private plane in which he was a passenger crashed into the side of a mountain 14 nautical miles (16 mi; 26 km) northwest of Roanoke, Virginia, in conditions of rain, clouds, fog, and zero visibility.[ALM 2]The pilot and four other passengers were also killed. The aircraft was a twin-engine Aero Commander 6...
David McClure, his collaborator on the book To Hell and Back, discovered Murphy's talent for poetry during their work on the memoir when he found discarded verses in Murphy's Hollywood apartment. One of those poems, "The Crosses Grow on Anzio", appears in To Hell and Back attributed to a soldier named Kerrigan. Only two others survived, "Alone and ...
Audie Murphy at IMDbImage of Audie Murphy with unidentified man during screen test in Los Angeles, California, 1946. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles...- Actor, songwriter, rancher
- 1942–45 (U.S. Army), 1950–66 (Texas Army National Guard), 1966–69 (U.S. Army Reserves)
Sergeant Murphy é um filme de comédia estadunidense dirigido por B. Reeves Eason e estrelado por Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Ben Hendricks Jr. e William B. Davidson. O filme foi lançado pela Warner Bros. em 1º de janeiro de 1938.
Sergeant Murphy is to whom Busytown turns to if there's a problem. He is a brave and helpful policeman. He will save anyone in danger, solve any misunderstanding, and undo any spectacular Busytown traffic-jam!
