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In the world of Hollywood stardom, there is perhaps no name bigger than Tom Hanks.

The legendary actor, 65, is known for his appearances in a number of blockbusters, including Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump and Cast Away.

His career is still going strong and he continues to be involved in a number of new classic movies each and every year.

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Given Tom’s fame and success, it’s unsurprising that fans still flock to learn behind-the-scenes details of his personal life.

In terms of matters of the heart, Tom has been married twice. His first marriage was to actress Samantha Lewes in 1978, known for appearances in Bosom Buddies and Mr. Success.

Tom and Samantha had two children together, a son called Colin and a daughter called Elizabeth.

The couple divorced in 1987, and Samantha tragically passed away from bone cancer aged 49 in 2002.

Opening up about his first marriage to the Express, Tom said: “A broken marriage meant I was sentencing my own kids to the sort of feelings I had at their age.

“I was just too young and insecure for marriage. I was 23 and my son Colin was already 2 when I married for the first time.

“I was not really ready to take on those responsibilities.”

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In 1981, Tom reportedly met actress Rita Wilson on the set of TV comedy Bosom Buddies. The couple married in 1988 and had two sons, Chester, known as ‘Chet’, and Truman.

Speaking of his marriage to Rita, Tom told Oprah : “When I married Rita, I thought, ‘This is going to require some change on my part.’

“I won’t deny that providence was part of us finding each other, but our relationship isn’t magic — the way it’s shown in movies.

“In real life, our connection is as concrete as me sitting here. Not that marriage doesn’t come close to being hell in a handbasket sometimes.

“But we both know that no matter what, we’ll be with each other — and we’ll get through it.”

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Two of Tom’s sons have also gone on to seek the limelight just like their dad - his son Colin from his first marriage has gone on to forge a successful career as an actor himself.

Colin Hanks, 44, has starred in the likes of King Kong, the Jumanji film series and in a number of TV dramas.

Chet Hanks, 31, has also followed in his dad’s footsteps - the actor has had recurring roles on Empire and Shameless.

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Tim McGraw Is Responsible for Tom Hanks’ ‘1883’ Cameo

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Doing what you love for a living is a piece of cake. Doing what you love with the people you love is the icing on the cake. That was the case for Tim McGraw when his pal — and two-time Oscar winner — Tom Hanks agreed to do a cameo on the Yellowstone prequel in which McGraw stars, 1883.

“It was pretty spectacular for Tom Hanks to show up and do the scene,” McGraw shares with his label, Big Machine Label Group. “We’ve been friends for such a long time. We’re family friends forever. Our kids are friends, Faith and Rita are best friends, and so to ask him to do this scene and he says, ‘Sure, I’ll be there. Tell me when,’ was just so incredible.”

Hanks’ short-lived role was that of Civil War General George Meade, who served in the war alongside James Dutton (McGraw). The country singer says the battleground scene “is one of the most moving scenes in the show,” as the war left his character with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Having a friend and an acting professional there helped McGraw navigate the heavy moment.

“No matter how good of friends you are and how well you know someone, when you’re sitting there in a scene that’s that emotional and you see Tom Hanks walk up in a Union uniform, and look at you and say, ‘Captain.’ And then he just sat beside me and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he goes, ‘I know.’ I just fell apart,” McGraw confesses. “That’s somebody that knows what they’re doin’. He was just really good.”

Hanks’ wife, Rita Wilson, also got in on the 1883 fun. She and Faith Hill share a scene in which a storekeeper named Carolyn (Wilson) offers Margaret Dutton (Hill) some whiskey punch to decompress. The encounter happens during a stop at Doan’s Crossing.

1883 serves as the prequel to Paramount’s hit show, Yellowstone. The series follows the journey of John Dutton’s (Kevin Costner), great-grandparents, James and Margaret Dutton as they travel from Texas to Montana in hopes of a better life.

Stream new episodes of 1883 Sunday nights on Paramount+.

Tom Hanks Movies: The Simple Reason He Started Doing More Serious Dramas

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Today, Tom Hanks is a two-time Academy Award winner and acclaimed actor even for those movies that didn’t win awards. It may be hard for fans of modern Tom Hanks movies to realize that there was a time when Hanks doing drama was considered a risk. Hanks said there was a much simpler reason he was allowed to start taking those risks in the ‘90s.

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Hanks appeared on the Smartless podcast on Nov. 1. When hosts Sean Hayes, Will Arnett, and Jason Bateman asked Hanks about his transition to dramatic roles, Hanks said it was simply a benefit of aging into them.

Hanks told his agent he wanted to make serious Tom Hanks movies

Throughout the ’80s, Hanks was known as a funnyman thanks to movies like Splash, Bachelor Party, Dragnet, and Big. Big had some dramatic moments, and in between he’d also shown range in Nothing in Common and Punchline. A League of Their Own was a turning point before Hanks played a lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia.

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“Look, I’m not big on this kind of stuff but there was one time I was sitting around with my crack showbiz expert who works for CAA,” Hanks said on Smartless. “And he said to me, ‘What do you want to do?’ And I said, ‘I want to play grownups, I want to play people who’ve been through bitter compromise.’ I was in my mid 30s by that point.”

Fortunately, the industry was ready for grown-up Tom Hanks

Hanks credited Nothing in Common and Punchline as stepping stones. He noticeably omitted the misfire The Bonfire of the Vanities. However, he said the real turning point was nearing 40 by the time he made Philadelphia. After that, he played Forrest Gump from college age to middle age, and then played astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 and a World War II Captain in Saving Private Ryan.

50 years ago. 1. Send men to the moon. 2. Return them safely to the Earth. Not easy. Apollo 13. Hanx pic.twitter.com/oyGVo8gD2V — Tom Hanks (@tomhanks) April 13, 2020

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“You have to get older,” Hanks said. “Garry Marshall gave me a great role with Jackie Gleason in a movie called Nothing in Common. David Seltzer wrote and directed with Sally Field Punchline and then Big came along.”

The early Tom Hanks movies were for young Hanks

Hanks doesn’t look down on early Tom Hanks movies. He just recognizes that he outgrew them. You can only play a bachelor settling down for so long, or a college grad fleeing to the Peace Corps in Volunteers.

“There’s a movie that you make when you’re 27 and in your early 30s, I made a number of them,” Hanks said. “I turned 27 the day we wrapped the motion picture Splash. It was the last day of shooting, we were in the Bahamas. We had a cake that was actually for the wrap. Hey, let’s celebrate the last day of shooting with a cake. Someone with a tube of toothpaste added in icing on the cake ‘Happy Birthday Tom’ because they found out it was my birthday.”

Famous People: Watch For Movie Star Tom Hanks in Cape May This Year

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Rumor has it….

Stop me if you heard this before: A celebrity - a big movie star - has apparently recently purchased a home in Cape May.

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We mentioned on our Cat Country Morning Show a Tom Hanks connection to the Wildwood and Cape May area (we’ll get to that in a second) and immediately we received messages that Tom Hanks has bought a home in Cape May.

We stress that this is just a rumor at this point and we cannot confirm that fact. As a matter of fact, we haven’t heard any rumors about the movie star ever being spotted in South Jersey.

Hanks, of course, is one of the biggest movie stars of our generation - he’s won Oscars for Best Actor for “Forrest Gump” and “Philadelphia”, and has been nominated for his performances in “Big”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “Castaway” and more.

Now, here’s the thing that makes us wonder if we’ll be seeing Tom stroll along the streets of Cape May or the Wildwood Boardwalk this summer: His wife, Rita Wilson, has just been announced as being a performer at this summer’s Barefoot Country Music Fest in Wildwood!

That’s a move that NO ONE saw coming! We know Rita was an actress, but a country singer? Apparently so!

We checked - here she is on a song with the legendary Vince Gill:

Crazy, right?

By the way, you can lock into your tickets for the Barefoot Country Music Fest in Wildwood right here.

So, the Tom Hanks on Cape May County watch begins now. Let us know if you see him!

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The bedrooms have been decorated to pay tribute to McEntire, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash.

With recent additions over the last few years, the space is now set to become a resort and spa that’s “the ideal setting for nationally recognized corporate events, retreats, charity galas, weddings, concerts and ticketed events.”

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The house features a library, a vaulted ceiling and lovely amenities throughout, but while it’s very nice, it’s certainly not the kind of home you’d picture for a budding country superstar. Underwood wound up being a huge success right out of the gate with her debut album, Some Hearts, and she sold the home in Franklin for $372,500 in 2007, when she purchased the Brentwood mansion that she would later share with her husband, Mike Fisher.

Elvis movie: ‘This is Tom Hanks as you’ve never seen before’ as ‘scoundrel’ Colonel Parker

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Tom Hanks is famous for playing guys as nice as he is in real life, but that’s all about to change with the Elvis Presley biopic. Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann is hard at work on editing the Warner Bros movie, which stars Austin Butler as The King and the Forrest Gump legend as his manager Colonel Tom Parker. The businessman was a Machiavellian overseer of his only client’s career; a Dutch-born illegal immigrant with a background in carnival work.

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The Colonel helped shoot Elvis to global stardom as not only a rock and roll singer but also as a Hollywood movie star.

However, he arguably held The King back in his later years, with a view of if it ain’t broke what’s there to fix?

Many of Elvis’ movies may have been profitable at the box office and in the record store with their soundtracks, but they were often repetitive and weak musical rom-coms.

Towards the end of his life, The King had opportunities to reboot his Hollywood career in Oscar-winning classics like John Wayne’s True Grit and Barbra Streisand’s A Star Is Born, but Parker was stubborn and uncompromising so negotiation fell through.