In Life, Audie Murphy Did Not Get the Happy Hollywood Ending
The wild and tragic life of Audie Murphy, the war hero who became a movie star
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He’d killed 100 men in battle by age 21. Then came the spiritual meat-grinder of Hollywood.
About a year before Audie Murphy died, he told his life story to a reporter from San Antonio. The interview became a profile titled “A Different Kind of Hell.”
Murphy was in rough shape. Heavyset and bloated. Sad, with bursts of hope that bordered on mania. Washed up and broke, recently divorced, he spilled his guts to the interviewer. He spared no one, least of all himself.
Later in life, Murphy admitted, ‘The only thing I’ve ever found I was any good at was war, which is a terrible thing.’
“I had one hang-up as an actor,” said Murphy. “I had no talent. I didn’t hide that. I told directors that. They knew. I didn’t have to tell them. They protected me. I made the same movie 20 times. It was easy. But it wasn’t any good. I never got to be any good. No one helped me. No one cared if I got any good or not. They used me until I was used up.”
Audie Murphy began life with nothing.
His childhood was bleak, as one of 11 children on a dirt farm in Texas. His father abandoned them; then his mother died when he was 16. He only achieved a fifth-grade education.
Then Pearl Harbor was attacked, plunging America into…
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