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Charly Gordon (Cliff Robertson) is a grown man with the mind of a child. By day he leads a simple life working as a sweeper in a Boston bakery, where he is often the butt of cruel jokes from his co-workers. At night he attends classes taught by the beautiful and compassionate Alice Kinian (Claire Bloom). Alice is touched by Charly’s eagerness to learn and convinces him to undergo experimental surgery in an effort to cure his mental deficiency.
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Academy Award-winning actor Cliff Robertson will be among the presenters at the first annual "Reel Stuff" Film Festival of Aviation. Hosted by the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the three-day event will be held April 24-26 in Dayton.
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After a brief journalistic career, Cliff Robertson began his acting career on Broadway in the mid fifties. Singled out for his promising work on the stage, the young actor was chosen by Joshua Logan to appear in his first motion picture, Picnic, in the late fifties. Mr. Robertson continued his theatrical work on Broadway between his motion picture career. The late President Kennedy personally chose Mr. Robertson to portray his exploits as a naval Lieutenant in the Warner Brothers production of PT-109. Having starred in over 45 major motion pictures, numerous television programs and Broadway plays, Cliff received the Academy Award as “Best Actor in a leading role” for his starring role in the film Charly. Cliff is an active airplane and glider pilot.
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A few days after the successful telecast, Cliff Robertson began negotiations with the story’s author, Daniel Keyes, to purchase the film rights. Robertson told the press that he had been “always a bridesmaid but never a bride,” referring to the excellent leading roles he had played on television in productions such as Days of Wine and Roses and The Hustler, but had lost out to bigger stars like Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman for the movie versions. By controlling the property, Robertson was determined not to lose out again.
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When Cliff Robertson was toasted by Ralph Edwards on the TV series This is Your Life in 1972, Robertson was standing on the set of Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies. This production was announced as an "upcoming release"-though as it turned out, the film lay on the shef for several years thereafter. Robertson plays a barnstorming stunt flyer of the Roaring Twenties. Accompanying him from job to job is his 11-year-old son, Eric Shea. Despite having a child in tow, Robertson has no trouble scoring with the local lovelies wherever they go. 20th Century-Fox had so little faith in Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies that the company changed many of the names in the production credits: producer "Boris Wilson" was really Robert Fryer, director "Bill Sampson" was actually John Erdman and screenwriter "Chips Rosen" was known to friends and family as Claudia Salte. Only poor Cliff Robertson was denied the opportunity to cloak himself in an alias.
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Guest starring as Uncle Ben Parker in the blockbuster movie Spider Man (2002), Cliff Robertson is widely known for his portrayal of John F. Kennedy in the movie PT109. Cliff Robertson has starred in more than 70 feature films and narrated the acclaimed six-part documentary Medal of Honor. Sponsored by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, this charity gala was chaired by Emily and Dominic DiMaggio and welcomed former Secretary of the Navy Ambassador J. William Middendorf and Medal of Honor recipients Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., USN (Ret) and Captain Thomas G. Kelley, USN (Ret) as Distinguished Guests.
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