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In the 1940s he sold his 55-foot yacht, Santana, to lifelong sailing enthusiast Humphrey Bogart. The vessel subsequently achieved celebrity status as "Bogie's Boat" owing to his numerous seafaring expeditions, and Bogart even named his production company, Santana Productions, after it.

His estate was reportedly valued at $10,000,000 at the time of his death.

He was a vocalist with Charlie Davis's orchestra before entering film.

He was yet another casualty of the 1956 film The Conqueror (1956), which was filmed near a nuclear test site in Utah. Many of the people involved with the film, including Powell, who directed, eventually died of cancer, either caused or exacerbated by working on it. Others included actors John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ted de Corsia, and Agnes Moorehead. However, in a 2001 interview with Larry King Powell's widow June Allyson said he died of lung cancer caused by chain-smoking cigarettes.

In The Day of the Locust (1975), Powell was portrayed by his son Richard Powell.

Interred at Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs, California.

In the 1930s , Dick Powell was the juvenile lead in the Warner backstage musicals opposite such rising stars as Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell. After his career in musicals, he was cast in private-eye roles and became a producer and director for both TV and movies.

Appears in three Best-Picture Oscar nominees: 42nd Street (1933), Flirtation Walk (1934) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

He was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for motion pictures at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard, for television at 6745 Hollywood Boulevard, and for radio at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

As of early 2007, his birthplace in the small town of Mountain View, Arkansas, still stands on the north side of Main Street. It's a modest, circa-1895 house (in a sad state of neglect) with a wraparound porch with a small historical marker and a badly weathered display out in front that details his 1936 engagement to Joan Blondell, his marriage to June Allyson, and, more recently, the death of his brother.

In December 2018, he was honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month.

Father of Ellen Powell from his marriage to Joan Blondell. He adopted Joan's son, Norman S. Powell, in February 1938.

His daughter Pamela Powell was adopted during his marriage to June Allyson.

Died on the same day as Jack Carson. They had different forms of cancer.

Was teamed with Ruby Keeler in seven films at Warner Brothers: 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934), Flirtation Walk (1934), Shipmates Forever (1935) and Colleen (1936).

His parents were Ewing and Sallie Rowena Thompson Powell.

Dick Powell, Jack Carson. Charles Laughton and Thomas Mitchell all died within 3 weeks.

Father of Richard Powell from his marriage to June Allyson.

He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Footlight Parade (1933) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952).

Featured in "Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 2003).

His brother Luther Powell was born October 30, 1906, and died August 15, 1996. His brother Howard Smith Powell was born October 13, 1899, and died in January, 1986.