Tag: December Bride
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RAY KELLOGG
November 12, 1919 Ray Kellogg was born on November 12, 1919. He was a big, burly character actor who appeared in more than 130 TV and film projects from 1942 to 1972. From 1942 to 1954 he appeared uncredited in seven feature films. He made his television debut in a November 1954 episode of “I Love…
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HY AVERBACK
October 21, 1920 Hyman Jack Averback was an accomplished Producer / Director and Actor who was born in Minneapolis and moved to California with his family when he was 9. He graduated from the Edward Clark Academy Theater in 1938 and eventually got a job announcing at KMPC Beverly Hills before World War II. As part of…
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FRITZ FELD
October 15, 1900 Fritz Feld was born Fritz Feilchenfeld in Berlin, Germany, in 1900. He eventually appeared in over 140 films in 72 years, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a ‘pop’ sound to indicated both his superiority and his annoyance. The first…
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KATHRYN CARD
October 4, 1892 Kathryn Card was born as Catherine Sheehan in (or near) Butte, Montana, on October 4, 1892. She had a brother George and sisters Mary and Anna. She did radio roles in the late 1930s and films in the 1940s but is most famous for playing Mrs. McGillicuddy, Lucy Ricardo’s absent-minded mother on “I…
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PAUL HARVEY
September 10, 1882 Paul Harvey was born as Roy Paul Harvey on September 10, 1882 in Sandwich, Illinois. He starred on Broadway in The Awful Truth (1922, above left with Bruce McRae and Ina Claire) and repeated his role in the film in in 1929, which is now presumed lost, although it was remade twice (without…
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IRVING BACON
September 6, 1893 Irving Bacon was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, as Irving Von Peters. He was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, mostly as bewildered small-town blue collar workers. His film debut came in 1923 with a small role in a silent film of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie starring Blanche Sweet. He appeared…
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BYRON FOULGER
August 27, 1899 Byron Kay Foulger was born in Ogden, Utah. He attended the University of Utah and started acting through in community theatre. He made his Broadway debut in March 1920 in a production of Medea featuring Moroni Olsen (the Judge in “The Courtroom”), and performed in four more productions with Olsen on the ‘Great…
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PARLEY BAER
August 5, 1904 Parley Baer was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He studied drama at the University of Utah. Early in his career, Baer was a circus ringmaster and publicist before entering military service in World War II. In the 1950s, he had a job training wild animals at Jungleland and was a docent at the…
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