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“At first, I was sort as a hornet. ‘Don’t these people know they’re insulting me?’ I told myself. Then I got to thinking it over and realized they weren’t to blame. They were simply following the old Hollywood custom of typing a guy and leaving him there to rot.”
Canadian Jack Carson Usually Played Supporting Roles
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Curiously, during the 40s, Carson routinely vanished for weeks at a time. He was hiding all right – behind greasepaint. The Hollywood actor was working as a clown with the traveling Clyde Beatty circus, entertaining crowds who had no idea who he really was.
“An actor,” he told Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper in 1945, “is a man who presumably can act, one who can impersonate any type of person with believability. Guys I’ve known for years at Warners came up to me after Roughly Speaking with, ‘Hey Jack, I caught you last night. Why didn’t you tell me you could act?’
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Jack Carson’s first notable role came alongside Humphrey Bogart in 1937’s Stand-In, a minor backstage romantic comedy about moviemaking. And in Stage Door, he played alongside Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn. Eventually, his characters pursued Rogers in six films, including the Astaire-Rogers vehicle Carefree. But he always lost Ginger to the leading man -- until 1951’s The Groom Wore Spurs, which also featured Carson’s brother, actor Robert Carson, in a small role.
Jack Carson eventually left RKO for Warners, building an impressive list of credits in A-pictures, including The Strawberry Blonde (with James Cagney), Arsenic and Old Lace, and two career high points – key dramatic roles in Mildred Pierce and Roughly Speaking. He owed the latter assignment to director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), who sensed the depth behind Jack Carson’s wise guy eyes. At last, Carson proved he was more than a comic foil.
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Willock and Carson worked their way up from high school gigs to the big time – New York’s Paramount Theatre. But vaudeville was dying and the two wound up at RKO in 1936, where they took bit parts.
Carson and Willock caught a break in 1938, a radio appearance on the Bing Crosby-hosted Kraft Music Hall proved to be a huge career boost. In 1943, Carson began hosting his own radio show, Everybody Loves Jack, which ran for four years.
A pilot, Carson tried to join the U.S. Army Air Corps during the war but was rejected because of his height. And the regular Army turned him down because
Born in Carman, Manitoba in 1910, Carson grew up in Milwaukee. He first tried acting at Carleton College in Minnesota. But in his debut as Hercules, Carson tripped onstage, bringing down much of the set with him. His lifelong pal Dave Willock cracked up and suggested they form a vaudeville act.
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