Steve Cochran Sexy

Eureka! It’s Eureka native Steve Cochran who performed on stage (Without Love), on film (Wonder Man) and on TV (Route 66) from the 1940s to the ’60s. Often cast as gangsters, the arresting performer popped up in the Boston Blackie flicks Booked on Suspicion and Blackie’s Rendezvous in 1945. In addition to film noirs, the dark-haired hottie sizzled in Westerns, musical comedies, and dramas such as William Wyler’s Oscar-winning pic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Through the years, Steve co-starred with Groucho Marx in Copacabana (1947); Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo in The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) and A Song is Born (1948); James Cagney in Raoul Walsh’s crime classic White Heat (1949); Joan Crawford in The Damned Don’t Cry (1950); Ginger Rogers in Storm Warning (1951); Burt Lancaster in Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951); Rock Hudson in Back to God’s Country (1953); Alida Valli in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il Grido (1957); Lili St. Cyr in Roger Corman’s I Mobster (1958); Mamie Van Doren in The Beat Generation (1959); Maureen O’Hara in Sam Peckinpah’s The Deadly Companions (1961); Merle Oberon in Richard Rush’s Of Love and Desire (1963); and Paul Hubschmid in Mozambique (1964) which includes views of Steve’s hairy chest and slinky Speedo! Off screen, Cochran was a well-known womanizer. He died from an acute lung infection after setting off in his yacht with a cute female crew. The seaman was dead for a week before the boat was found drifting in the Pacific Ocean. Now, that’s a grand exit!