Years later, he graduated to an IBM Selectric.
This he did eight to ten hours a day, with pencil, on legal-sized yellow tablets. Thereafter, despite occasional film and TV offers, Tom gave up acting to write fiction full-time. It became an instant bestseller and was turned into a movie in 1972, which Tom wrote and produced. That experience, along with the Cardinal ordeal, left Tom wary of studio games and weary at waiting around for the phone to ring.Īfter viewing the film Rosemary's Baby (1968), Tom was inspired to write his own horror novel, and in 1971 Alfred Knopf published The Other.
He appeared with Marilyn Monroe in her final film, Something's Got to Give (1962), but the studio fired Monroe after three weeks, and the film was never finished. Nevertheless, Tom was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1963. While filming the title role in The Cardinal (1962), Tom suffered from Otto Preminger's Teutonic directing style and became physically ill. He considered his best role to be in In Harm's Way (1965), which is also regarded as one of the better films about World War II. He was part of the all-star cast in The Longest Day (1962), a film of the World War II generation, credited with saving 20th Century Fox Studios, after the disaster of Cleopatra. He appeared in several horror and science fiction films: I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) and Moon Pilot (1962) and in westerns: Three Violent People (1956) and Winchester '73 (1967). Tom was cast in the title role of the Disney TV series Texas John Slaughter (1958) that made him something of a household name. In 1955, he moved to California to try his hand at the movies, and the next year made his film debut in The Scarlet Hour (1956). He also worked in television at the time, but as a production assistant. He made his Broadway debut in 1952 in the chorus of the musical Wish You Were Here. It was Noel Coward’s partner, Gertrude Lawrence, who encouraged Tom to try acting.
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