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In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise(tm), brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest Kelley came of age in Depression-era Georgia. He was raised on the sawdust trail, a preacher's kid steeped in his father's literal faith and judgment. But De's natural artistic gifts called him to a different way, and a visit to California at seventeen showed a bright new world. Theater and radio defined his early career -- but it was a World War II training film he made while serving in the Army Air Corps that led to his first Paramount Studios contract. After years of struggle, his lean, weathered look became well known in notable westerns and television programs such as You Are There and Bonanza. But his work on several pilots for writer-producer Gene Roddenberry changed his destiny and the course of cultural history. This thoroughly researched actor's life is about hard work and luck, loyalty and love. It is a journey that takes us all...from sawdust to stardust.… (meer)
Terry Lee Rioux’s From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy tells the story of DeForest Kelley in beautiful detail, covering the actor’s early years under the Paramount studio system through his work in Westerns on both TV and film and finally his rise to international stardom through Star Trek. Rioux describes Kelley’s essential gentleness and humility, revealing how he built a quiet network of personal friendships and rose above the pettiness in Hollywood through his love of a quiet life. Rioux concludes of Kelley and Gene Roddenberry, “Gene’s message was clear: You are better than you think you are. DeForest’s message was also clear: You are more beloved than you think you are. Gene lived and fought so that when the future arrives, there will be humans in it. DeForest lived and endured so that when the future arrives, it will be humane” (pg. 330). Rioux thoroughly researched her subject, drawing upon personal archives from the Kelleys and their friends, interviews, as well as previously-published or recorded interviews. From Sawdust to Stardust is a beautiful contribution to the collection of Star Trek biographies. ( )
Although I really enjoyed learning more about DeForest Kelley, this book was actually kind of hard to get through. The author has an obvious, and almost overwhelming, "love" for Kelley that really comes through in his writing. The book is really more about Kelley (well, the Kelleys really) than it is about events that happen in Kelley's life. It's about what kind of person he was. He must have been incredibly wonderful because every page of this book presents another person or another story that proves it.
It's not a bad book but a little too worshipful for my taste. ( )
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From Sawdust to Stardust, or How I Got from Hell and Damnation to Star Trek and the Federation -Deforest Kelley, 1999
The Actor's Prayer Oh God, here in my dressing room with the door shut, I am alone with Thee... Can not an actor be God's man? Convention classes me and my fellows among the loose and thoughtless. So Thou art my secret. I triumph inwardly to find Thy presence and taste the mystic joy of Thy friendship. While the world suspects not, Thou teachest me subtle ways to resist despair, to master my passions, to heal unworthy weakness; the rare medicine of Thy presence is for me, too, as well as for the cloistered monk or meditating scholar. Teach me to be great among the many who are content to be called great. Let me be an unusual person because of what simplicity of heart and lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee. -Dr. Frank Crane, The Kelly Home Archive
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For Carolyn, Anne, Bette, Aileen, Kris, Tony, Don, Phil, H.H., R.W., J.S., Katherine, Kelley, Samantha, Callie, Amy, Myrtle, and the real Captain Kirk, with love.
For De: Real love stories never have endings. -Carolyn M. Kelley, 2003
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Reverend Ernest David Kelley begain his ministry to the congregation of Conyers, Georgia, on January 12, 1930.
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In the forty-year history of Star Trek®, none of the television show's actors are more beloved than DeForest Kelley. His portrayal of Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the southern physician aboard the Starship Enterprise(tm), brought an unaffected humanity to the groundbreaking space frontier series. Jackson DeForest Kelley came of age in Depression-era Georgia. He was raised on the sawdust trail, a preacher's kid steeped in his father's literal faith and judgment. But De's natural artistic gifts called him to a different way, and a visit to California at seventeen showed a bright new world. Theater and radio defined his early career -- but it was a World War II training film he made while serving in the Army Air Corps that led to his first Paramount Studios contract. After years of struggle, his lean, weathered look became well known in notable westerns and television programs such as You Are There and Bonanza. But his work on several pilots for writer-producer Gene Roddenberry changed his destiny and the course of cultural history. This thoroughly researched actor's life is about hard work and luck, loyalty and love. It is a journey that takes us all...from sawdust to stardust.
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