A dashing lead in adventure films and romances, Tyrone Power was one of Hollywood’s most popular actors from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s and the pride of 20th Century Fox, his home studio. Power was, after all, one of the few matinee idols to give MGM’s Clark Gable and Warner Bros.’ Errol Flynn a run for their money as resident sex symbol; someone who could pull in as many female as male moviegoers. His handsome, chiseled features and natural athleticism made him a natural for swashbuckling fare like “The Mark of Zorro” (1940) and “The Black Swan” (1942), but he was well equipped for
