Boxes, holes, high heels, stocking feet, all sorts of techniques that are always used in film making to get the desired relative height. There’s no doubt they did something during his career. In a cowboy film he’d probably just wear high-heeled boots and his leading lady would take her heels off in a scene where it mattered. After all, he was tall enough to go on amusement park rides.
Isn’t the most important fact about him so far unmentioned ? That he was the father-in-law of Cheryl Ladd ?
I never knew that. Can’t understand why Cheryl Stoppelmoor didn’t stick with her maiden name.
I don’t know why, but the thread title made me think that it was going to be a conversation about Jonas Grumby…
Here’s a full-length photo ofLadd and Veronica Lake. She’s wearing high heels, but remember, she was only 4’11"
I also see Alan Ladd was the father of three children.
Alan, Alana & David Alan.
I guess she thought the pelmoors had been stopped long enough.