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- <text id=94TT0211>
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- Feb. 21, 1994: Died:Joseph Cotton
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 21, 1994 The Star-Crossed Olympics
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 23
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- <p> DIED. JOSEPH COTTEN, 88, tall, elegant, popular and critically
- acclaimed leading man of stage and screen classics; in Los Angeles.
- Underwriting his career at first by selling vacuum cleaners,
- paints, newspaper ads, and even playing some professional football,
- Cotten got his first big break when he joined Orson Welles'
- Federal Theater and Mercury Theater in the 1930s. His Broadway
- debut in The Philadelphia Story (1939) and his Hollywood premiere
- in Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) propelled him to 40 years of
- stardom. Among his many films: Shadow of a Doubt, Gaslight,
- Duel in the Sun, The Farmer's Daughter, The Third Man and Touch
- of Evil.
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