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"[Fame] has complicated my entire life a little, but not enormously. I had developed to figure out how to be a general population person, but fame has given me a great deal of control over my career, which I usually would not have had. Also, chances to utilize some extraordinary women and men." (Charlton Heston) "Charlton Heston was seen by the globe as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, wide-ranging shoulder blades and resonating voice, and, of course, for the assignments he played. No one could require a fuller life than his. No man would have given more to his family, to his profession also to his country." (An official statement made by Heston's family after his death.) A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential results, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to accelerate on the lives of America's most significant women and men in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. Charlton Heston got one of the longest and most critically acclaimed occupations of any man in Hollywood through the second half of the 20th century, receiving an Academy Award for Best Acting professional and appearing in a few of Hollywood's most cherished classics, including The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Ten Commandments (1956), Touch of Bad (1958), Ben-Hur, (1959), El Cid (1961), The Agony and the Ecstasy, and Entire world of the Apes (1968). Given so many popular and memorable assignments, Heston became known over the nation for playing strong, moral men who were not simply fatherly role models, but who were also voices of power and forces once and for all.
