His career began to suffer, in part because of his limited acting ability. Madison's second starring role paired him with fellow Selznick contract player Shirley Temple in Honeymoon (1947), which was a huge flop. However, Madison's acting was criticized as wooden. The film was a big hit, even though it was overshadowed by The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), another film on a similar theme. RKO gave him a starring role in Till the End of Time, a drama about veterans returning after World War II (1946). When he got out, Selznick assigned his contract to RKO Pictures. He received extensive coverage in the influential fan magazines of the time, including Photoplay where his agent Henry Willson had once worked. Willson was widely known for his stable of good-looking young actors with unusual names that he had bestowed upon them, and he immediately rechristened Moseley as Madison and cast him in a bit part as a sailor in Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944).Īlthough on the screen for only three minutes, the studio received thousands of letters from fans wanting to know more about him. Selznick's newly formed Vanguard Pictures. In 1944, Madison was visiting Hollywood on leave when his boyish good looks and physique caught the eye of Henry Willson, the head of talent at David O. Wayne Moseley was an actor, using the stage name Wayne Mallory. He had three brothers, Wayne, Harold and David, and a sister, Rosemary. He attended Bakersfield College, a junior college, for two years and then worked briefly as a telephone lineman before joining the United States Navy in 1942, during World War II. Madison was born January 19, 1922, in Pumpkin Center, California.
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