- Tom London And though he never became a superstar, Lyles picaresque through the entertainment industry continued: he had the dubious honor of being kitsch director Ed Woods favorite actorWood paid Lyle $300 a day, in wrinkled dollar billsand had a recurring role in the original television version of Superman. - L. Q. Jones Lyle Talbot starred as Joe Randolph on the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet throughout the 1950s and '60s. - Nestor Pavia - Harry Lauter ", "I think the Ed Wood movies would come to mind Plan 9 from Outer Space is one of the movies. Over the next six years Lyle starred in dozens of top flight Warner Bros. filmsThree On a Match, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Life of Jimmy Dolan, College Coach, No More Orchids, Fog Over Frisco, Dragon Murder Case, Oil for the Lamps of China, among others. He also appeared in several television shows, including "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," where he played Ozzie Nelson's friend Joe Randolph for 11 years and the "Bob Cummings Show.". Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer. So when the agent called in our house, that was a big, big deal, you know. I dont think Lyle made a great Lex Luthor. He grew up in a small town in Nebraska, where after the early death of his mother, he was raised by her mother, Mary Hollywood Talbot, whose name he later bore professionally.Talbot's incredibly long and varied show-business career began right after high school, when he joined a traveling tent show. Mr. Talbot worked with a variety of actors and directors, including the famously quirky director Ed Wood. 28-Feb-1949) TELEVISION The Beverly Hillbillies Col. Blake (1962-67) - George Macready On having fun researching her father's former wives and girlfriends. You have no idea what it was like to be young and beautiful in the thirties in Hollywood. Apart from writing, she is the author of The Entertainer published in 2012 and co-author By the Light of Burning Dreams along with her brother David Talbot. - Don Harvey He appeared in "A" pictures in the 1930s in supporting roles, including Three on a Match (1932), 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), and One Night of Love (1934) (with opera star Grace Moore), but his work was mostly in "B" pictures, in which he frequently played leads. We respected each others acting. Starting out as a magician-hypnotist's assistant, he worked his way up to magician before quitting the carny's life for that of the stock theater. - Denver Pyle Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Close. Arthur serves as an editor at Kaiser Health News and he is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with an AB in development studies in 1981. - J. Farrell MacDonald Between movies and sitcoms, he played local theaters and summer stock productions all over the country. - Ted de Corsia Lyle Talbot, who appeared in over 150 movies from leads in Warner Bros.' "pre-Code" pictures to countless supporting roles, and later enjoyed a steady TV career as a character actor, was born Lysle Henderson on February 8, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Everyone was sleeping with everyone., Lyles Warner Brothers contract wasnt renewed, possibly because of his association with the fledgling Screen Actors Guildhe was one of its original 21 membersor perhaps because of his carousing. At Home in Hollywood: Margaret Talbot's Memoir Recalls the Rambunctious Life and Times of Her Father, Actor Lyle Talbot "Stories were the soft golden net that enmeshed us. At odds with his father, his grandmother Talbot legally adopted Lysle, changing his name to Talbot. Although he thoroughly enjoyed the work, acting was practiced as an assembly line operation at the time. Lyle continued appearing on stage in dinner theatres through the late 80s until his wife of nearly 42 years, Margaret Epple, died in 1989. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. A coal miner, he settled near Pittsburgh later moving to Wyoming. - Steve Brodie Lyle sold his house of many years in Studio City when Margaret died and moved to an apartment in the heart of San Francisco to be near his children. [3], She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 1940-41, he starred on Broadway in "Separate Rooms," and then went on to entertain troops while he was a sergeant in the Army Air Force during World War II. That personal glow illuminates The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Fathers Twentieth Century (Riverhead), Talbots lively biography of her debonair father, actor Lyle Talbot, whose fortunes, Zelig-like, buoyed him along with the evolution of American visual culture until his death in 1996, at the age of 94. - Bud Geary Terry So, you know, I think in acting and in Hollywood, the hierarchy is so visible and the rewards at the top are so amazing, you know, that if you become a big star, that people who don't maybe become bitter. In the early 1950s he appeared in several of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s most notorious films, including the infamous transvestite tear-jerker Glen or Glenda (1953) and the famously inept Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957). He felt very fortunate, and he wanted to work all the time. Private. Margret's Photo In the 1960s and '70s, Mr. Talbot returned to the stage, appearing in San Francisco at the Geary and Curran theaters in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" and "Never Too Late. - Warner Richmond What drives his anger? Mr. Talbot co-founded the Screen Actors Guild and appeared in more than 150 movies, such as "20,000 Years in Sing Sing" with Spencer Tracy, "Our Little Girl" with Shirley Temple, and "Go West Young Man" with Mae West. That marriage took. [1] She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012). ", On the Hays Code, which was adopted in 1930 but not enforced until 1934, intended to regulate Hollywood film production. - Wallace Ford Margaret Talbot is a famous American journalist. In the studio, the singer turns sonic nostalgia into something eerie and ironic. Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century. 0. - Forrest Taylor In the thirties, the government paid unemployed writers, artists, and journalists to produce a series of guidebooks for the country. - Earle Hodgins Stephen Talbot lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pippa Gordon, a medical social worker. Lyle Talbot began his career as an itinerant carnival and vaudeville performer before eventually making his way to Hollywood. The studio gave him a plum part in William A. Wellman's Love Is a Racket (1932) co-staring with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak and the fast-talking Lee Tracy. Lyle Talbot was married to Elaine Melchior for 0 years, Marguerite Ethel Cramer for 3 years, Abigail Adams for 0 years, Keven McClure for 1 year, and Margaret Epple (aka Paula Deaven) for 41 years. - Byron Foulger - Walter Burke When I tried on my new school clothes my mom had bought me and modeled them for hima family traditionhed say, Oh, thats a very smart outfit. - Scott Marlowe So the movies from that period are kind of racier and also more cynical in certain ways than a lot of the movies that came after, in the sort of Golden Age of Hollywood, when the code was being enforced. - William Fawcett The Countess di Frasso was this kind of Hollywood society, you know, dame, grande dame, who, you know, threw a lot of parties, was married to an Italian count. child. - Morgan Woodward "I think that, you know, when you had to work around some of these provisions, you had to suggest burning desire, you had to suggest that people were having an extramarital affair, you had to suggest certain kinds of violence without showing certain acts [which] were explicitly forbidden. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. - Bob Wilke Moreover, she has a nephew Joe Talbot who serves as a filmmaker in America. - Fred Kohler - Harry Woods The valedictorian title is a title awarded to the best performing student in the class. Margarets salary is $81,540 annually. [1] She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012). Lyle Talbot (February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996) was an American actor on stage and screen, best known for his long career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his frequent appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. - Myron Healey - Guy Wilkerson The actor was 46 when he wed Paula Epple, 20, in 1948. In 1948, he married for the fifth time, to Actress and singer Paula (ne Margaret) Epple. - Trevor Bardette - John Cliff My father's. Her second book, co-authored with David Talbot, "By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution," was published in June 2021 by HarperCollins. In addition, Margaret is among the founding editors of Lingua Franca and she won the 1999 Whiting Writers Award. He grew up in a small town in Nebraska, where after the early death of his mother, he . Despite a 26-year age difference, the Talbot-Epple marriage was a true love match and lasted to her death in 1989. She also has two brothers Stephen Talbot serves as a public tv documentary producer, David Talbot who is an author, and one sister Cynthia Talbot. Margaret Talbot is a non-fiction writer, who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003, and before that was a contributing writer at The New York Times magazine, executive editor of The New Republic, and a founding editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. Steve's youngest sister, Margaret Talbot, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has written a family memoir and a biography of their father, actor Lyle Talbot, entitled, "The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century" (2012). hide caption. [1], Last edited on 30 December 2022, at 22:33, https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyle_Talbot&oldid=8611953. She was 20, and he was a 46-year-old actor with a drinking Problem. - Gregg Barton - Riley Hill - Lee Marvin Edition", "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Talbot&oldid=1136099064, This page was last edited on 28 January 2023, at 18:58. Traveling shows came through these small towns in Nebraska, and, just like you would imagine, like the circus coming to town, they caught a lot of kids' imaginations, and my father was one of them. - Archives, Daily Comic Strips She is a woman of average stature. Courtesy of Margaret Talbot And, you know, there were certainly allusions to girlfriends like, I remember once going into the garage and finding a picture of some blond bombshell cupping her breasts, and it said on it, 'Holding my own 'till you get home' and kind of looking at it and thinking, 'Hmm, I wonder what this is about.' Click to reveal - Donald Curtis - Barton MacLane My fathers stories, writes. Ad Choices, Stories were the soft golden net that enmeshed us. Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles and also dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music. 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