danjw Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Jane Wyatt it is. Saw her in a Betty Grable/Dan Dailey film "My Blue Heaven." Intrigued, I liked her look and style. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 Thread is open Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAirey Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 {font:sans-serif}{size:13px}I was raised in Brooklyn. {font} My hobby for painting and drawing began when I was a boy when I would copy masterpieces at the Metropolitain Museum of Art. However, I also had a good sense of comedy and opted for the theatre over my artistic talent. I s{font:sans-serif}{size:13px}poke 4 languages{font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px} at home which helped me reach out to audiences of many ethnicities in New York. I became{font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px} an American {font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px}stage and screen actor, best known for my portrayal of comic characters. {font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px} I was blacklisted {font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px}during the 1950s, and my testimony before the HUAC{font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px} was well-publicized. I won both a Tony and an Obie Award. {font}{font:sans-serif}{size:13px} Who am I? {font} Link to post Share on other sites
thestick Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Are you Lionel Stander? Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAirey Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Nope. I was also known for ad libbing my lines--easy for me to do with my sense of humour, but this proved difficult for some of my fellow actors to follow. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 You sound like Zero Mostel to me? Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAirey Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 {font:Times New Roman} {font}{color:black}lavender takes it again!! It is amazing, though, the similarities between Zero Mostel and Lionel Stander. His real name was Samuel Mostel. His parents told him that he would only ever amount to "Gournisht," which is Yiddish for "zero" or "nothing." He later adopted this as his stage name, and the rest is history. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Thanks. This actor's initial interest was pre-med. He graduated from Stanford. The acting bug bit. He was never the leading man, but a versatile actor. He played in noirs, the heavy in dramas and was very adept at comedy. In a TV sit-com he was the other half of a married couple who were best friends of another couple. His character on the show always came across as being cheap.Who was this guy? Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Tall and balding. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 One example of a film this guy was in was a musical. He's an employee of a rich man who's in love with a younger woman. Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 In one of the most famous crime drama films, he launders money. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Richard Deacon? Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 NO. Other than being tall and bald, what does Richard Deacon have to do with the clues I've posted? "Trader" Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 sitcom friend Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 How about Fred Clark? Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Richard Deacon was not 1/2 of the married couple friend of the the other couple on a sit com. However Fred Clark is more like it. Burns and Allen, he was Harry Morton, married to Blanche and George and Gracie's married friends. *Daddy Long Legs* was the musical and *White Heat* is the crime film. Your thread, finance. Link to post Share on other sites
DownGoesFrazier Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Thread is open...Didn't Richard Deacon satisfy your sitcom clue on "Leave it to Beaver"? (as Fred Rutherford) Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 delete Thread is Open. Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 By happy coincidence, verbatum from an autobiography that arrived from Amazon yesterday. Do you know me? "I was onstage shortly before I was born. My mother was playing a part in (title) on Broadway. "But, (name)," the producer said to her, "the audience just can't accept a prostitute who's seven months pregnent." So we were fired." ??? (97,741) Edited by: flashback42 on Mar 20, 2012 6:20 AM Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Filling in the blanks in the opening quote. (title) = Many Mansions (name) = Paula Wouldn't have helped me. May help someone else. Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 The actress / auto-biographer quoted -- She and her parents were deeply involved in the live theater community, with some film experience on occasion. In film, not the headline, "bankable" stars, but solid, respectable members of the profession. The family were also involved in training and coaching other actors. Edited by: flashback42 on Mar 22, 2012 5:59 AM Link to post Share on other sites
mudskipper Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Susan Strasberg Link to post Share on other sites
flashback42 Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 ...With the opening passage of her autobio, Bittersweet. mudskipper's thread. Link to post Share on other sites
mudskipper Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 The son of a bar owner, I started my acting career as a child and went on to Broadway and Hollywood silent films. I served prison for a manslaughter conviction, having been in a fight which killed my future wife's husband. After about two years, I was paroled and went back to Hollywood where I became a fairly successful character actor. Who am I ? Link to post Share on other sites
lavenderblue19 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Paul Kelly, and what interesting info about this guy. Link to post Share on other sites
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