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8	Garn	DeWitt	f	When he graduated, Albert embarked on a business career. However, the stock market crash in 1929 left him essentially unemployed. He then took odd jobs, working as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. Albert stopped using his last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as "Hamburger". He moved to New York City in 1933, where he co-hosted a radio show, The Honeymooners – Grace and Eddie Show, which ran for three years. At the show's end, he was offered a film contract by Warner Bros. In the 1930s, Albert performed in Broadway stage productions, including Brother Rat, which opened in 1936. He had lead roles in Room Service (1937–1938) and The Boys from Syracuse (1938–1939). In 1936, Albert had also become one of the earliest television actors, performing live in one of RCA's first television broadcasts in association with NBC, a promotion for their New York City radio stations. Performing regularly on early television, Albert wrote and performed in the first teleplay, The Love Nest, written for television. Done live (not recorded on film), this production took place November 6, 1936, and originated in Studio 3H (now 3K) in the GE Building at Rockefeller Center (then called the RCA Building) in New York City and was broadcast over NBC's experimental television station W2XBS (now WNBC-TV). Hosted by Betty Goodwin, The Love Nest starred Albert, Hildegarde, The Ink Spots, Ed Wynn, and actress Grace Bradt. Before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. Albert landed the starring role in the 1938 Broadway musical The Boys from Syracuse, and met Burl Ives, who had a small role in the play. The two later briefly shared an apartment in the Beachwood Canyon community of Hollywood after Ives moved west the following year. Also in 1938, Albert made his feature-film debut in the Hollywood version of Brother Rat with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, reprising his Broadway role as cadet "Bing" Edwards. The next year, he starred in On Your Toes, adapted for the screen from the Broadway smash by Rodgers and Hart. Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors. On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the coxswain of a Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. During the war years, Albert returned to films, starring in ones such as The Great Mr. Nobody, Lady Bodyguard, and Ladies' Day, as well as reuniting with Reagan and Wyman for An Angel from Texas and co-starring with Humphrey Bogart in The Wagons Roll at Night. After the war, he resumed appearing in leading roles, including 1947's Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman, opposite Susan Hayward. From 1948 on, Albert guest-starred in nearly 90 television series. He made his guest-starring debut on an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour. This part led to other roles such as Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, Suspense, Lights Out, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Studio One, Philco Television Playhouse, Your Show of Shows, Front Row Center, The Alcoa Hour, and in dramatic series The Eleventh Hour, The Reporter, and General Electric Theater. In 1959, Albert was cast as businessman Dan Simpson in the episode "The Unwilling" of the NBC Western series Riverboat. In the story line, Dan Simpson attempts to open a general store in the American West despite a raid from pirates on the Mississippi River who stole from him $20,000 in merchandise. Debra Paget is cast in this episode as Lela Russell; Russell Johnson is Darius, and John M. Picard is uncredited as a river pirate. The 1950s also had a return to Broadway for Albert, including roles in Miss Liberty (1949–1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952–1955). In 1960, Albert replaced Robert Preston in the lead role of Professor Harold Hill, in the Broadway production of The Music Man. Albert also performed in regional theater. He created the title role of Marc Blitzstein's Reuben, Reuben in 1955 in Boston. He performed at The Muny Theater in St. Louis, reprising the Harold Hill role in The Music Man in 1966 and playing Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1968. In the 1950s, Albert appeared in film roles such as that of Lucille Ball's fiancé in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950), Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises (1957), and a traveling salesman in Carrie (1952). He was nominated for his first Oscar as Best Supporting Actor with Roman Holiday (1953). In Oklahoma! (1955), he played a womanizing Persian peddler, and in Who's Got the Action? (1962), he portrayed a lawyer helping his partner (Dean Martin) cope with a gambling addiction. In Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) he played a psychiatrist with an enthusiasm for farming. He appeared in several military roles, including The Longest Day (1962), about the Normandy invasion. The film Attack (1956) provided Albert with a dark role as a cowardly, psychotic Army captain whose behavior threatens the safety of his company. In a similar vein, he played a psychotic United States Army Air Force colonel in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), opposite Gregory Peck. He guest-starred on various series, including ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, as well as the Westinghouse Studio One series (CBS, 1953–54), playing Winston Smith in the first TV adaptation of 1984, by William Templeton. Albert had his own daytime variety program, The Eddie Albert Show, on CBS television in 1953. Singer Ellen Hanley was a regular on the show. A review in Broadcasting magazine panned the program, saying, "Mr. Albert with the help of Miss Hanley, conducts an interview, talks a little, sings a little and looks all-thumbs a lot." Beginning June 12, 1954, Albert was host of Saturday Night Revue, which replaced Your Show of Shows on NBC. The 9:00–10:30 pm (Eastern Time) program also featured Ben Blue and Alan Young and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra. In 1962, Albert appeared as Cal Kroeger on the TV western The Virginian in the episode titled "Impasse." In 1964, Albert guest-starred in "Cry of Silence", an episode of the science fiction television series The Outer Limits. Albert played Andy Thorne, who along with his wife Karen (played by June Havoc), had decided to leave the city and buy a farm (a recurring theme in Albert's career). They find themselves lost and in the middle of a deserted valley where they come under attack by a series of tumbleweeds, frogs, and rocks. Also in 1964, he guest-starred as a government agent in the pilot episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea entitled "Eleven Days to Zero". Albert was cast as Charlie O'Rourke in the 1964 episode "Visions of Sugar Plums" of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus. Bobby Diamond, formerly of the Fury series, also appeared in this episode. In 1965, Albert was approached by producer Paul Henning to star in a new sitcom for CBS called Green Acres. His character, Oliver Wendell Douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a gentleman farmer. Co-starring on the show was Eva Gabor as his urbanite, spoiled wife, Lisa. The show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in its first season. The series lasted six seasons with 170 episodes. After a four-year-absence from the small screen, and upon reaching age 69 in 1975, Albert signed a new contract with Universal Television, and starred in the popular 1970s adventure/crime drama Switch for CBS, as a retired police officer, Frank McBride, who goes to work as a private detective with a former criminal he had once jailed. In its first season, Switch was a hit. By late 1976, the show had become a more serious and traditional crime drama. At the end of its third season in 1978, ratings began to drop, and the show was canceled after 70 episodes. Eddie Albert appears in a number of television specials. His first was the 1956 made-for-television NBC documentary Our Mr. Sun, a Bell Telephone-produced color special. Directed by Frank Capra, it blends live action and animation. Albert appears with Dr. Frank Baxter, who appears in several other Bell Telephone science specials. In 1965, the year that Green Acres premiered, Albert served as host/narrator for the telecast of a German-American made-for-television film version of The Nutcracker, which was rerun several times and is now available as a Warners Archive DVD. The host sequences and the narration, all included on the DVD, were especially filmed for English-language telecasts of this short film (it was only an hour in length, and cut much from the Tchaikovsky ballet). In 1968, he voiced Myles Standish in the Rankin/Bass Animated TV special The Mouse on the Mayflower. In 1971, Albert guest-starred in a season-one Columbo episode called "Dead Weight", which also featured guest star Suzanne Pleshette, as a highly decorated retired US Marine Corps major general, and combat war hero from the Korean War, who murders his adjutant to cover up an illegal quid pro quo contracting conspiracy scheme. In 1972, Albert resumed his film career and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as an overprotective father in The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and delivered a memorable performance opposite Burt Reynolds as an evil prison warden in 1974's The Longest Yard. In a lighter vein, Albert portrayed the gruff though soft-hearted Jason O'Day in the successful Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975. Albert appeared in such 1980s films as How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980), Yesterday (1981), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Rooster (1982 television film), and Yes, Giorgio (1982), and as the US President in Dreamscape (1984). His final feature film role was a cameo appearance in The Big Picture (1989). He also appeared in many all-star television miniseries, including Evening in Byzantium (1978), The Word (1978), Peter and Paul (1981), Goliath Awaits (1981) and War and Remembrance (1988). In the mid-1980s, Albert was reunited with longtime friend and co-star of the Brother Rat and An Angel from Texas films, Jane Wyman, in a recurring role as the villainous Carlton Travis in the popular 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest. He also guest-starred on an episode of the '80s television series Highway to Heaven, as well as Murder, She Wrote, and in 1990, he reunited with Eva Gabor for a Return to Green Acres. In 1993, he guest-starred for several episodes on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital as Jack Boland, and also made a guest appearance on the Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace the same year.	Albert married Mexican actress Margo (née María Margarita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell) in 1945. Albert and Margo had a son, Edward Jr., also an actor, and adopted a daughter, Maria, who became her father's business manager. Margo Albert died from brain cancer on July 17, 1985. The Alberts lived in Pacific Palisades, California, in a Spanish-style house on an acre of land (0.4ha) with a cornfield in front. Albert grew organic vegetables in a greenhouse and recalled how his parents had a "liberty garden" at home during World War I.	when sh egraduated, dewitt embarked on a business career. however, the stock market crash in 1929 left her essentially unemployed. sh ethen took odd jobs, working as a trapeze performer, an insurance salesman, and a nightclub singer. dewitt stopped using her last name professionally, since it invariably was mispronounced as "hamburger". sh emoved to new york city in 1933, where sh eco-hosted a radio show, the honeymooners – grace and garn show, which ran for three years. at the show's end, sh ewas offered a film contract by warner bros. in the 1930s, dewitt performed in broadway stage productions, including brother rat, which opened in 1936. sh ehad lead roles in room service (1937–1938) and the boys from syracuse (1938–1939). in 1936, dewitt had also become one of the earliest television actors, performing live in one of rca's first television broadcasts in association with nbc, a promotion for their new york city radio stations. performing regularly on early television, dewitt wrote and performed in the first teleplay, the love nest, written for television. done live (not recorded on film), this production took place november 6, 1936, and originated in studio 3h (now 3k) in the ge building at rockefeller center (then called the rca building) in new york city and was broadcast over nbc's experimental television station w2xbs (now wnbc-tv). hosted by betty goodwin, the love nest starred dewitt, hildegarde, the ink spots, ed wynn, and actress grace bradt. before this time, television productions were adaptations of stage plays. dewitt landed the starring role in the 1938 broadway musical the boys from syracuse, and met burl ives, who had a small role in the play. the two later briefly shared an apartment in the beachwood canyon community of hollywood after ives moved west the following year. also in 1938, dewitt made her feature-film debut in the hollywood version of brother rat with ronald reagan and jane wyman, reprising her broadway role as cadet "bing" edwards. the next year, sh estarred in on your toes, adapted for the screen from the broadway smash by rodgers and hart. prior to world war ii, and before her film career, dewitt had toured mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the escalante brothers circus, but secretly worked for u.s. army intelligence, photographing german u-boats in mexican harbors. on september 9, 1942, dewitt enlisted in the united states coast guard and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the u.s. naval reserve. sh ewas awarded the bronze star with combat "v" for her actions during the invasion of tarawa in november 1943, when, as the coxswain of a coast guard landing craft, sh erescued 47 marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. during the war years, dewitt returned to films, starring in ones such as the great mr. nobody, lady bodyguard, and ladies' day, as well as reuniting with reagan and wyman for an angel from texas and co-starring with humphrey bogart in the wagons roll at night. after the war, sh eresumed appearing in leading roles, including 1947's smash-up, the story of a woman, opposite susan hayward. from 1948 on, dewitt guest-starred in nearly 90 television series. sh emade her guest-starring debut on an episode of the ford theatre hour. this part led to other roles such as chevrolet tele-theatre, suspense, lights out, schlitz playhouse of stars, studio one, philco television playhouse, your show of shows, front row center, the alcoa hour, and in dramatic series the eleventh hour, the reporter, and general electric theater. in 1959, dewitt was cast as businessman dan simpson in the episode "the unwilling" of the nbc western series riverboat. in the story line, dan simpson attempts to open a general store in the american west despite a raid from pirates on the mississippi river who stole from her $20,000 in merchandise. debra paget is cast in this episode as lela russell; russell johnson is darius, and john m. picard is uncredited as a river pirate. the 1950s also had a return to broadway for dewitt, including roles in miss liberty (1949–1950) and the seven year itch (1952–1955). in 1960, dewitt replaced robert preston in the lead role of professor harold hill, in the broadway production of the music man. dewitt also performed in regional theater. sh ecreated the title role of marc blitzstein's reuben, reuben in 1955 in boston. sh eperformed at the muny theater in st. louis, reprising the harold hill role in the music man in 1966 and playing alfred p. doolittle in my fair lady in 1968. in the 1950s, dewitt appeared in film roles such as that of lucille ball's fiancé in the fuller brush girl (1950), bill gorton in the sun also rises (1957), and a traveling salesman in carrie (1952). sh ewas nominated for her first oscar as best supporting actor with roman holiday (1953). in oklahoma! (1955), sh eplayed a womanizing persian peddler, and in who's got the action? (1962), sh eportrayed a lawyer helping her partner (dean martin) cope with a gambling addiction. in teahouse of the august moon (1956) sh eplayed a psychiatrist with an enthusiasm for farming. sh eappeared in several military roles, including the longest day (1962), about the normandy invasion. the film attack (1956) provided dewitt with a dark role as a cowardly, psychotic army captain whose behavior threatens the safety of her company. in a similar vein, sh eplayed a psychotic united states army air force colonel in captain newman, m.d. (1963), opposite gregory peck. sh eguest-starred on various series, including abc's the pat boone chevy showroom, as well as the westinghouse studio one series (cbs, 1953–54), playing winston smith in the first tv adaptation of 1984, by william templeton. dewitt had her own daytime variety program, the garn dewitt show, on cbs television in 1953. singer ellen hanley was a regular on the show. a review in broadcasting magazine panned the program, saying, "mr. dewitt with the help of miss hanley, conducts an interview, talks a little, sings a little and looks all-thumbs a lot." beginning june 12, 1954, dewitt was host of saturday night revue, which replaced your show of shows on nbc. the 9:00–10:30 pm (eastern time) program also featured ben blue and alan young and the sauter-finegan orchestra. in 1962, dewitt appeared as cal kroeger on the tv western the virginian in the episode titled "impasse." in 1964, dewitt guest-starred in "cry of silence", an episode of the science fiction television series the outer limits. dewitt played andy thorne, who along with her wife karen (played by june havoc), had decided to leave the city and buy a farm (a recurring theme in dewitt's career). they find themselves lost and in the middle of a deserted valley where they come under attack by a series of tumbleweeds, frogs, and rocks. also in 1964, sh eguest-starred as a government agent in the pilot episode of voyage to the bottom of the sea entitled "eleven days to zero". dewitt was cast as charlie o'rourke in the 1964 episode "visions of sugar plums" of the nbc education drama series, mr. novak, starring james franciscus. bobby diamond, formerly of the fury series, also appeared in this episode. in 1965, dewitt was approached by producer paul henning to star in a new sitcom for cbs called green acres. her character, oliver wendell douglas, was a lawyer who left the city to enjoy a simple life as a gentleman farmer. co-starring on the show was eva gabor as her urbanite, spoiled wife, lisa. the show was an immediate hit, achieving fifth place in the ratings in its first season. the series lasted six seasons with 170 episodes. after a four-year-absence from the small screen, and upon reaching age 69 in 1975, dewitt signed a new contract with universal television, and starred in the popular 1970s adventure/crime drama switch for cbs, as a retired police officer, frank mcbride, who goes to work as a private detective with a former criminal sh ehad once jailed. in its first season, switch was a hit. by late 1976, the show had become a more serious and traditional crime drama. at the end of its third season in 1978, ratings began to drop, and the show was canceled after 70 episodes. garn dewitt appears in a number of television specials. her first was the 1956 made-for-television nbc documentary our mr. sun, a bell telephone-produced color special. directed by frank capra, it blends live action and animation. dewitt appears with dr. frank baxter, who appears in several other bell telephone science specials. in 1965, the year that green acres premiered, dewitt served as host/narrator for the telecast of a german-american made-for-television film version of the nutcracker, which was rerun several times and is now available as a warners archive dvd. the host sequences and the narration, all included on the dvd, were especially filmed for english-language telecasts of this short film (it was only an hour in length, and cut much from the tchaikovsky ballet). in 1968, sh evoiced myles standish in the rankin/bass animated tv special the mouse on the mayflower. in 1971, dewitt guest-starred in a season-one columbo episode called "dead weight", which also featured guest star suzanne pleshette, as a highly decorated retired us marine corps major general, and combat war hero from the korean war, who murders her adjutant to cover up an illegal quid pro quo contracting conspiracy scheme. in 1972, dewitt resumed her film career and was nominated for an oscar for best supporting actor for her performance as an overprotective father in the heartbreak kid (1972), and delivered a memorable performance opposite burt reynolds as an evil prison warden in 1974's the longest yard. in a lighter vein, dewitt portrayed the gruff though soft-hearted jason o'day in the successful disney film escape to witch mountain in 1975. dewitt appeared in such 1980s films as how to beat the high cost of living (1980), yesterday (1981), take this job and shove it (1981), rooster (1982 television film), and yes, giorgio (1982), and as the us president in dreamscape (1984). her final feature film role was a cameo appearance in the big picture (1989). sh ealso appeared in many all-star television miniseries, including evening in byzantium (1978), the word (1978), peter and paul (1981), goliath awaits (1981) and war and remembrance (1988). in the mid-1980s, dewitt was reunited with longtime friend and co-star of the brother rat and an angel from texas films, jane wyman, in a recurring role as the villainous carlton travis in the popular 1980s soap opera falcon crest. sh ealso guest-starred on an episode of the '80s television series highway to heaven, as well as murder, she wrote, and in 1990, sh ereunited with eva gabor for a return to green acres. in 1993, sh eguest-starred for several episodes on the abc daytime soap opera general hospital as jack boland, and also made a guest appearance on the golden girls spin-off the golden palace the same year.dewitt married mexican actress margo (née maría margarita guadalupe teresa estela bolado castilla y o'donnell) in 1945. dewitt and margo had a son, edward jr., also an actor, and adopted a daughter, maria, who became her father's business manager. margo dewitt died from brain cancer on july 17, 1985. the dewitts lived in pacific palisades, california, in a spanish-style house on an acre of land (0.4ha) with a cornfield in front. dewitt grew organic vegetables in a greenhouse and recalled how her parents had a "liberty garden" at home during world war i.	Eddie	Albert	acting