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===1940β1943=== [[File:The Mark of Zorro (1940 title lobby card).jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3|{{center|Lobby card, 1940}}]] [[File:Tyrone Power Zorro2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Power and [[Basil Rathbone]] in their duelling scene from ''[[The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)|The Mark of Zorro]]'' (1940) (note: the movie was shot in black and white; this is the colorized version)]] In 1940, the direction of Power's career took a dramatic turn when his movie ''[[The Mark of Zorro (1940 film)|The Mark of Zorro]]'' was released. Power played the role of Don Diego Vega/Zorro, a fop by day, a bandit hero by night. The role had been performed by Douglas Fairbanks in the 1920 movie of the same title. The film was a hit, and 20th Century-Fox often cast Power in other swashbucklers in the years that followed. Power was a talented swordsman in real life, and the dueling scene in ''The Mark of Zorro'' is highly regarded. The great Hollywood swordsman, [[Basil Rathbone]], who starred with him in ''The Mark of Zorro'', commented, "Power was the most agile man with a sword I've ever faced before a camera. Tyrone could have fenced [[Errol Flynn]] into a cocked hat."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rathbone |first=Basil |title=In and Out of Character |publisher=Limelight Publishers |year=1962 |isbn= |edition=Ebook |location=Lanham, MD |pages=}}</ref> Power's career was interrupted in 1943 by military service. He reported to the [[United States Marine Corps]] for training in late 1942, but was sent back, at the request of 20th Century-Fox, to complete one more film,{{Citation needed |date=August 2024}} ''[[Crash Dive]]'', a patriotic war movie released in 1943. He was credited in the movie as Tyrone Power, U.S.M.C.R., and the movie served as a recruiting film.{{Citation needed |date=August 2024}}
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