Tag: My Little Margie
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WILLIAM NEWELL
January 6, 1894 William M. Newell was born in Millville, New Jersey. He is the brother of actress Elsa Newell. During his screen career he amassed more than three hundred appearances on films and television shows. Newell was familiar to fans of the Our Gang short subjects as Alfalfa’s father. His first film was a Warner Brothers…
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GEORGE O’HANLON
November 23, 1912 George Samuel O’Hanlon was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Brothers live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects (1942-1956) and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera’s 1962 prime-time animated television series “The Jetsons” and its 1985 revival. He started working at 16 with his own stage show, but was fired…
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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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“Lucy Hires an English Tutor”
(S2;E13 ~ December 29, 1952) Directed by William Asher. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. Filmed on October 24, 1952 at General Service Studios. It was the 48th episode filmed. Rating: 68.1/91 Synopsis ~ Pregnant Lucy is worried that the gang doesn’t speak proper enough English for the baby, so she arranges for grammar…