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Includes Matthau's own insurance quotes about his life and job. "Every actor appears all his life for a component that will incorporate his talents along with his personality.... The Odd Few was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. Everything started happening after that." (Walter Matthau) A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. Walter Matthau is most likely best-remembered for his movies with Jack port Lemmon, but he was obviously an established acting professional in Hollywood by enough time they came out in their first film collectively. Before his films with Lemmon, Matthau most often played shady bad guys in dramatic movies, and his identity in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Public (1957) offers among the best instances. Matthau's major discovery did not occur until 1965, when he starred in the stage production of The Unusual Couple, that was later adapted into the film that could be the duo's most widely known movie together. In several of their films, viewers witness all of the core elements of the Lemmon-Matthau active. Lemmon takes on the direct man to Matthau's shadier, conniving identity, and a sharp contrast exists between the two.
