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DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine - For the swimming pool sequence in 'He Ran all the Way' (1951)- the final film of John Garfield, a stunt double was hired for him, because he had suffered a heart attack several months before, and swimming underwater was not recommended for the heart. But on the day of filming, Garfield eventually decided to do the underwater swim himself. It took 10 takes for the scene. Shelley Winters, later in her life felt that he was unconsciously hoping for another heart attack while doing the scene due to the intense stress he was under because of the HUAC Hearings.
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Shelley Winters explaining about the making of the Swimming pool scene:
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"James Wong Howe's camera was at the side of the pool above the water. The director had arranged for a stuntman double to do Garfield's swimming. Garfield had had a severe heart attack at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club a few months earlier. I knew that underwater swimming was especially taxing to the heart.
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I rehearsed with the double, but when we came to the actual shooting of the scene, Garfield refused to let the double do it. We had to do the scene about ten times to get the lighting in the water right. It was scary and unnecessary. When John came up out of the water, the camera was on the back of his head and on my face, and all you saw on film was a figure moving through twenty feet of water, then surfacing.
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Back then, I could not understand why John insisted on doing this dangerous shot himself. In retrospect, it seems almost as if he unconsciously wanted another heart attack. I didn't understand the political trouble he was in. I just knew that Warner Brothers, by breaking his contract and casting him adrift, were destroying one of their most valuable properties and breaking his heart."
('Shelley Winters - Shelley II', 1989)
https://x.com/DannyDrinksWine/status/2015805679118754073