Talk:Anthony Mann

Bundesmann / Bundsmann?
Then name is spelt differently in the article. Which one is right? - Camster (talk) 09:47, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

heads-up about interesting childhood in nudist cult
Anthony Mann was raised in a San Diego-area nudist cult. I thought everybody knew this story. I suppose that if it wasn't true, it still could be mentioned as a story that everybody knows, even though it isn't true. I think I first came across this in Peter Ustinov’s often hilarious anecdotes that are extra with the Spartacus DVD. IMDB puts it this way:

'Some mystery appears to surround his origins..Mann's close friend Peter Ustinov, who admired him greatly, told a television interviewer that Mann had once told him that he had grown up in a strange religious sect in a mountain community and had spent most of his childhood walking around naked.'

Come to think of it, Peter Ustinov is perhaps known as a great raconteur and wit. Yet I think that Anthony Mann's parents did work at the Theosophical Society in Point Loma --  Lomaland. There was an idea of establishing a utopian enclave and cultural Mecca for promoting the Theosophical doctrine. I picture an atypical upbringing of intensive cultural indoctrination maybe? Lomaland is, I think, known for the nation's first Greek open-air canyon theater. Perhaps, then, we picture a veritable Shangri-La environment for a growing child. I think we're talking of a stunning landscape, beautiful gardens and palm trees, yucca plants, fields of chrysanthemums, a grove of eucalyptus trees, a spectacular backrop of the Pacific Ocean. Picture something functioning as a self-contained community -- orchards, vegetable gardens. And picture the parents as intellectual followers of the Theosophical Institute -- deeply involved with this. This commune, or whathaveyou. Unconventional childhood. Cultivated, intellectual parents. Thorough cultural education, maybe? Maybe juxtapose the point that Anthony Mann dropped out of high school. Of course we need references for this, I'm just riffing about something that might be interesting to actually pursue here..DanLanglois (talk) 07:40, 29 November 2017 (UTC)