About Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris by Vernon Gravely
A HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY REVEALED AFTER 60 YEARS!!!
Robert Morris should have been a star. He was producer Bert Leonard’s original choice to ride alongside George Maharis in Route 66; however, as the concept for the series evolved, Morris was out and Martin Milner was in. As Maharis and Milner prepared to drive into the annals of television history, Robert Morris relocated from New York to California to boost his career. What initially appeared to be a good move ended in tragedy. Less than a year after moving out west, Robert Morris died under peculiar circumstances at a “health ranch” in southern California at the age of 25.
Promise Unfulfilled: The Brief Life and Bizarre Death of Actor Robert Morris is the portrait of a young man who put his best foot forward to attain the American Dream — only to have tragedy intervene. Read the story as told by those who knew him best — his friends, family and colleagues, including George Maharis (Route 66), Tony Franke (The Blob), Barbara Lord Warburton, Pamela Saunders (Happy Birthday, Wanda June), Susan Quick, Harvey Grossman, Robert Heide and Michael Lindsay-Hogg (The Beatles’ Let It Be), who also provided the Foreword.
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Author Bio:
Vernon Gravely is a freelance writer and documentary filmmaker based in southwest Illinois. He has worked as a nursing assistant, vitamin store clerk, security guard (that lasted one night), dishwasher, corn detasseler, movie theater usher, movie theater janitor, writing tutor, English instructor, ESL instructor, holistic test scorer, and several other things that he either can’t recall or refuses to divulge due to traumatic experiences associated with the various positions. His interests include film and television (as well as the history of those mediums), boxing, music (especially from the ’50s and ’60s), unsolved mysteries, and World War One aerial warfare. His fiction writing is relegated to screenplays that don’t sell and his nonfiction writing centers on film, television and boxing history and little-known players in those areas.