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This owl-faced comic actor enjoyed his first featured film role in the RKO production Too Many Girls (1940), in which he reprised the role of "JoJo Jordan" that he had played in the Broadway stage version of that musical. (Into the pantheon of pop-music standards came one that Bracken had introduced in "Too Many Girls", the melancholy "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"). But the then 20-year-old Eddie Bracken was by no means new to show business in general or Hollywood in particular. He had played in vaudeville and performed in nightclubs by the time he was 9, and had just later appeared on screen in four of the Hal Roach "Our Gang" comedy two-reeler film shorts. It was on account of his appearances in musicals and comedies as a shy, giggling, clumsy, stammering, sentimental, self-effacing, would-be hero that Bracken achieved popularity, not to say star status, among movie audiences of the 1940s. The director Preston Sturges served up those attributes of Eddie Bracken particularly well in two of Sturges's more memorable comedies. As "Norval Jones" in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943) (filmed in 1942; released 1944), Bracken portrays a man whose destiny others have foisted upon him. A certain "Trudy Kockenlocker" (played by Betty Hutton), having attended a party for military servicemen, later finds herself to be pregnant but has no recollection of who the father might be. So she persuades the always-befuddled Norval to take credit for the child and marry her. Somehow, Norval emerges a true hero in the end, but you'll have to see the film to discover why. As Norval Jones was physically unfit for military service, so also was "Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith", with Eddie Bracken in the role, in Preston Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (1944). Solely on the basis of his father's reputation as a World War I U.S. Marine hero, a group of saloon-hopping World War II-era U.S. Marines, led by a crusty senior-level sergeant (played to a tee by William Demarest), elevate the physical reject Truesmith into a modern, combat-decorated veteran, and then usher him into an election campaign for Truesmith's hometown mayoralty. The complications, including a love interest (in the person of actress Ella Raines, are by now well under way. As Eddie Bracken's age increased his popularity -- or perhaps that of the genre of film vehicles that was his forte -- decreased, and in 1953 he essentially retired from the screen, moving on to pursue theatrical ventures. But he would return to Hollywood eventually, and we have been fortunate to see him in character roles in theatrical and TV films through the 80's and 90's.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Manohar Singh was born in 1938 in India. He was an actor, known for New Delhi Times (1986), Dilli Ka Thug (1958) and 1942: A Love Story (1994). He died on 14 November 2002 in Delhi, India.- Jacqueline May was born on 29 September 1932 in New York, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Traffic Court (1957), Schlitz Playhouse (1951) and Medic (1954). She was married to Paul Sorensen. She died on 14 November 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Andre Cailloux immigrated to Canada in 1952 and was immediately drawn into the newborn television scene in Quebec. He created many series for children in television and played many characters into these series. His best known character was Grand-Père Cailloux, an old storyteller who enlighted the imagination of generations of children. His brother Michel created "Bobino", a TV series for children which ran on CBC French network for more than twenty-five years.- Stunts
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
Nate Long was born on 6 April 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Truck Turner (1974), Darktown Strutters (1975) and Mr. Billion (1977). He died on 14 November 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Charles Dupuis was born on 10 June 1918 in Marcinelle, Hainault, Belgium. Charles was a producer, known for Les aventures des Schtroumpfs (1965). Charles died on 14 November 2002 in Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
- Giulia Pittaluga was born on 24 November 1929 in Novara, Italy. She was an actress, known for Lauta mancia (1957), Vestire gli ignudi (1954) and Camilla (1954). She died on 14 November 2002 in Magliano Sabina, Italy.
- Art Department
- Production Designer
Zbigniew Wladyka was born on 16 July 1935 in Uscie Zielone, Tarnopolskie, Poland [now Ustia-Zelene, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a production designer, known for Stawka wieksza niz zycie (1968), Skorpion, panna i lucznik (1973) and Balon (1967). He died on 14 November 2002 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.- Václav Beránek was born on 24 March 1927 in Príbram, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Love Between the Raindrops (1980), Paragraf 224 (1980) and Láska na druhý pohled (1981). He died on 14 November 2002 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Elena Nikolaidi was born on 15 June 1909 in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. She was an actress, known for Festival (1960), The Voice of Firestone (1949) and Elena Nikolaidi (1958). She died on 14 November 2002 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- Jimmy Hester was born on 13 December 1944 in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Number One (1969), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He died on 14 November 2002 in Davenport, Iowa, USA.
- Additional Crew
Paul N. Gray was born on 8 October 1916 in Leavenworth, Kansas, USA. He is known for Men of the Fighting Lady (1954) and We, the People (1948). He died on 14 November 2002 in Escondido, California, USA.