![]() ![]() In 1953 he received the Golden Globe for The Member of the Wedding, a role he played on Broadway for 492 performances. His good friend Gram Parsons was so affected by his death that he and Emmylou Harris wrote the song In My Hour of Darkness that included a line about his death. He was on the way to the hospital to visit his wife when he lost control of his van in the rain and he crashed. ![]() On July 6th, days after his final July 1st performance at Elitch Theatre, deWilde's life was cut short when he was killed in an accident on 6th Avenue at Kipling in Lakewood. In June/July of 1972 deWilde appeared at the Historic Elitch Theatre in Butterflies are Free with Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane in the Tarzan series, and mother of Mia Farrow) and Karen Grassle (who would later be known as the mother, Caroline Ingalls, on Little House on the Prairie.) In 1963, deWilde had two hits, appeared in All Fall Down, opposite Warren Beatty and Eva Marie Saint, and in Hud, co-starring with Paul Newman and Elitch Theatre alumna, Patricia Neal. He starred in his own sitcom, Jamie, on ABC and was featured on the cover of Life magazine on March 10, 1952. As the blond-haired, blue-eyed Joey, who idolizes the strange gunman (played by Alan Ladd) in the film Shane (1953), he stole the picture and received an Oscar nomination for his work. He was an acting prodigy - debuted on Broadway at the age of 7 and by time he was 12 he had starred in the blockbuster film, Shane, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In a century of history, one would expect some tragic stories related to the Historic Elitch Theatre, and Brandon deWilde is certainly one of those stories. ![]()
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