Name 10 Facts About This Actor

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3.   Advised President Eisenhower on his appearances on television, pioneering the idea of an image consultant.  

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Hosted a TV Show (#4)

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5-Samuel Goldwyn, who preferred the well-fleshed in both male and female players, was taken aback by Montgomery's gangling length. At MGM, he was granted artificial contours by studio costumers as a college football player extra. Later, Mother Nature did her bit; yet he never lost the hint of bony jointure.         

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6) Montgomery became an acclaimed film director with his unique approach  of shooting "Lady in the Lake", a noir mystery, from the viewpoint of the protagonist.

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7.  MGM did not want him to play the villain in Night Must Fall and in its trailer warned audiences  of the film's "spurious content."

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Eight) He became an actor out of necessity after his wealthy business mogul father committed suicide, while Montgomery was attending private school in Switzerland.

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9.)  He commanded PT boats near the Panama Canal during WWII.

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10- His early childhood was one of privilege, as his father was president of the New York Rubber Company His father committed suicide in 1922 by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge and the family's fortune was gone.

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EDWARD ARNOLD

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1. Born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider in 1890 to German immigrant parents

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40 minutes ago, nakano said:

10- His early childhood was one of privilege, as his father was president of the New York Rubber Company His father committed suicide in 1922 by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge and the family's fortune was gone.

I really liked what you wrote Because I wrote something very similar at #8.

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2) Edward Arnold was the solid big business Boogeyman of the Frank Capra players.

He played that part in:

You Can't Take It With You

Meet John Doe

&

Mr Smith Goes to Washington

 

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3.)  At one time he seriously considered running for the Senate representing California.

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4) In Come and Get It, he played a logger in love with Frances Farmer; and later, in love with her daughter, also played by Frances Farmer.

 

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5) Right now I'm watching a Tay Garnett movie called "Slightly Honorable" where, you guessed it,

Edward Arnold plays a big city machine boss who masters in corruption and kickbacks, while coldly taunting his wife with his covert mistress.

What a guy!

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6.   His picture appeared in the 1984 movie Gremlins as the late Mr. Deagle, a heartless rich businessman much like the roles Arnold was best known to play.  Director Joe Dante got the family's permission to use Arnold's photograph.

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12 hours ago, Princess of Tap said:

I really liked what you wrote Because I wrote something very similar at #8.

i know but i took it from wiki it was more precise in details that is all!

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7 -His widow-(married in 1951 till his death in 1956 )   remarried  several months after his passing ,she died in early 1958 at 49.Cleo Paris was born in Canada

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8.   Quoted as saying about his weight, "The bigger I got, the better character roles I received."

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9-He had large real estate holdings including a large Citrus ranch with orange groves.He died very rich but his beginnings in life were not easy:In  the February 1936 issue of Motion Picture Magazine and says of this time "My father was a helpless invalid when my mother died and left us--five children. I was seven and there were three younger. At eight, I was selling papers to help support them. At ten, I was working twelve hours a day in a cellar, soldering jimcrack jewelry for three dollars a week. At twelve, I was a bell-hop in an elegant club, running errands all day and half the night till the bones of my feet ... collapsed and had to be imprisoned in casts for six months."

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10.)  In "You Can't Take It with You" he had a rare chance to portray a "nice guy".

Next:   Dennis Morgan

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1.  Married to his wife, Lillian, for 61 years until his death in 1994.

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2.)  With all the volatile male actors on the Warner Bros. lot,  (Flynn, Cagney, Garfield)  he was considered the most reliable  and cooperative of stars.

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8 hours ago, nakano said:

i know but i took it from wiki it was more precise in details that is all!

I know, that's where I took mine from, but I tried to disguise it to make it look a little more original. LOL

That's a joke, son!

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3) Dennis Morgan was noted for his singing, as well as his acting, in the movies.