Edmund Purdom

Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom in The Student Prince

Edmund Purdom, best known for his roles in two 1954 productions, the musical The Student Prince and the period epic The Egyptian, died in Rome on Jan. 1. He was 84.
Despite his two big mid-1950s hits, the super-handsome, English-born Purdom never quite made it to the top. Perhaps the reason for his lack of success in Hollywood had to do with the fact that Purdom left his wife for minor actress Linda Christian, with whom he moved to Italy not too long after they appeared together in another 1954 film, the MGM musical Athena. (Christian was at the time married to Tyrone Power; they divorced in [...]

by Andre Soares | January 4, 2009   
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