Handsome 'Hero' Kerwin Mathews
Really Looks Like a 'Giant Killer'
Handsome 'Hero' Kerwin Mathews
Really Looks Like a 'Giant Killer'
Six foot, one inch, 175 pound Kerwin Mathews really looks the part of a storybook hero and has abundant quantities of the necessary talent, charm and agility to shape up today as Hollywood's leading swashbuckling star. Filling the shoes -- or, we should say, the boots of the late Errol Flynn, Mathews currently stars in Edward Small's production "Jack the Giant Killer," opening ........ at the ........ Theatre. Based on the world's most famous folk legend, the movie was filmed in Technicolor and a brand new special effects process called Fantascope. Judi Meredith and Torin Thatcher co-star.
Kerwin's first really important role in Hollywood was the romantic male lead in "Garment Jungle." After that he was handed the title role in "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad." After "Sinbad" came leading roles in "Tarawa Beachhead," "The Last Blitzkrieg" and "Man on a String," in which he co-starred with Ernest Borgnine. "The 3 Worlds of Gulliver" followed and then "Sappho, Venus of Lesbos," still unreleased.
A product of small-town America, Mathews comes from Janesville, Wisconsin, where a cabin stands as an official monument to his great-grandfather, the first settler in the southern part of that state.
(United Artists pressbook , 1962)