This is literally one of my favorite things he’s ever worn.
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"After each days shooting, we’re tired. We just want to go home, have dinner, and relax before going to bed. We’re usually asleep by nine o'clock, because we have to be in make-up at the crack of dawn. Lenny has a trick he sometimes pulls. He calls Bill and me at about eight-thirty and reminds us to go beddy-bye."- DeForest Kelley on Filming Star Trek [x] (via startrekspeare)
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even MORE reasons to love deforest kelley:
• he didn’t know his first name (jackson) until he got drafted and saw it on his papers
• he played sports (football and baseball) in high school and very well
• he was the only kid on the team to show up in a sweater and tie for the team photo
• he sang in the choir at his father’s church as a boy
• once de had to drop off his friend’s little boy at the nanny’s house, and the boy cried when he left him so he asked never to do it again because he felt so bad for leaving him that he cried too
• he used to tease his girl friends about needing to leave. he would stroll through the bathroom, shaving, saying “weeeahve gotta hurrayyy gihrls” and was so pleased when they giggled at him
• when he was little, he regularly flattered his French teacher by saying “my, you look pretty today!”
• the day he left for long beach from decatur, ga, the newspaper published a small blurb about him and misspelled his name, saying “dr. forest kelley left thursday for california to visit his uncle herman casey in long beach”
• when he would eat out with his friends at the local diner, he forgot to pay attention to them because he would stare at his own face in the mirrors along the wall. he liked to see how different lightings or times of day had an effect on his features
• de and his best friend joe used to make fun of each other when they slipped into their respective accents (de, southern, and joe, new york)
• he once worked as an elevator jockey at a hotel and slept in the cellar
• he and his best friend stole his mom’s car and she found them smoking cigarettes and hanging out in a parking lot
• he trespassed into a movie set and ran into robert taylor, who encouraged him to move stuff around with the crew so people would think he worked there
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"He is a classic film actor, a classic film actor. He is a guy whom you never see do a dishonest moment. He is very spare, very sparse in his choices, not flamboyant or theatrical… He is very real. He isn’t performing, he “behaves” in front of the camera… and I think the best tradition of film actors… I love him, he is a very talented and dear friend."-
Leonard Nimoy about DeForest Kelley (source)
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also more re: shattering stereotypes abt deforest kelley
back when he lived in long beach (1938-1940s) he was a ladies’ man, and he knew it about himself too. he would take careful care of his appearance, and anytime he passed a mirror he would always preen in it. when he began at the long beach cinema club, he immediately became the ladies’ favorite. keep in mind that back then he would sleep/live on the beach, which had him extremely tanned and the sun bleached his hair to a golden brown. he was the definition of a pretty boy lmao… also he used his charm for his own good too he was broke af back then so he’d bat his eyelashes at restaurant owners and get free meals lol
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Bill what is that is that a unitard? I hope it is I hope it is not a shirt.
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