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Merry Christmas George Bailey
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ID # 52631
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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New Carrollton, MD |
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Non-union
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n/a
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Release Date |
08-27-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
09-25-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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| Market(s) |
Baltimore, MD |
Mary Christmas George Bailey
theater
Synopsis: George is the hard working owner of a small savings bank that helps the citizens of Bedford Falls build their houses and their families. Under pressure from the sleazy big banker, Mr. Potter, George & Uncle Billy try to keep things afloat. But when Uncle Billy (who could be more perfect than Jerry Van Dyke in this role?) misplaces $8,000 just as the bank examiner comes to audit the books, George, who is already feeling the heat from too many responsibilities, blows his cool and wishes he had never existed. Guided by Clarence the Angel, George is shown how life would be without him. And it isn't a good life for those who have been a part of George's mundane existence. "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives," Clarence observes. George is given the precious gift of perspective and realizes that he has made a profound difference for so many beloved people.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Male/Female 18-65
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Klugman told AP Radio in 1993: "We are so apparently different, but in our approach to work, how we feel about acting, we're so close
"It's on all the time," he said
The show was based on a TV movie in which Sidney was gay; in the TV show, the character's sexual orientation was implied, but never specified
He said funerals should be planned as a celebration of life â€â€? and "a touch of humor doesn't hurt a bit "
Kurtz recalled Randall's sense of humor as being "outrageous "
"He was the funniest man in movies and on television, and nothing was as much fun as working with him," the 80-year-old actress said from Carmel, Calif
"Tony had such a beautiful spirit and so much youth and vigor," Heather Randall said on "Larry King Live
He attended Northwestern University before heading to New York at 19, where he made his stage debut in 1941 in "The Circle of Chalk
Broadway's marquee lights were being dimmed in his honor Tuesday night "
After Army service during World War II from 1942-46, he returned to New York, where he appeared on radio and early television He always made us better for having worked with him "Whenever we needed a big laugh, we would bring in Tony His wife, Heather Harlan Randall â€â€? who had made him a father for the first time at age 77 â€â€? was by his side
Randall, who had been hospitalized since December when he developed pneumonia after heart bypass surgery, died in his sleep Monday night at NYU Medical Center I'm not afraid to ask him anything and he's not afraid to ask me anything
Day remembered him Tuesday as being "so brilliant, funny, sweet and dear, that it was as if God had given him everything Being gay "was unacceptable on network television "
He also was socially active, lobbying against smoking in public places, marching in Washington against apartheid in the '80s, and helping raise money for AIDS research in the '90s "
Randall's other famous television persona was as a fixture on late-night talk shows, appearing on Letterman's "Late Night" and "Late Show" more than 100 times I haven't heard anyone have a life like that," he said last year
From 1981-83, he played the title role in the sitcom "Love, Sidney," as a single, middle-aged commercial artist helping a female friend care for her young daughter "People on the street say, `Hello, Felix' to me, except for those who say, `Hello, Oscar At the awards ceremony he quipped: "I'm so happy I won "I used to watch him with my dad so this is a loss for me personally as well as for all of us here Now if I only had a job "
"Tony Randall was a great man, a great talent and a great influence on my life," said Garry Marshall, who produced "The Odd Couple" series
After Randall's death, Klugman canceled the remaining Milwaukee performances of "An Evening With Jack Klugman," his one-man show scheduled to run through Sunday, and flew to New York '"
"The Odd Couple" ran from 1970-75, but Randall won an Emmy only after it had been canceled "
In 1993, when Conan O'Brien took over the time slot at NBC that Letterman had vacated for a new show at CBS, Randall was a guest on O'Brien's debut episode
He was married to his college sweetheart, Florence Randall, for 54 years until she died of cancer in 1992 "
He was best-known, though, for playing fastidious photographer Felix Unger opposite Klugman's Oscar Madison on "The Odd Couple," the sitcom based on Neil Simon's play and movie He met her through his National Actors Theatre, where she was an intern; then-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani performed the ceremony "
The show's charm sprang from Felix's chemistry and conflict with Oscar, the sloppy sportswriter he's forced to share an apartment with after both men get divorced I think that's unique
In 1995, Randall married Heather Harlan, who was 50 years his junior I loved him very much and miss him already "
After "The Odd Couple," Randall had two short-lived sitcoms, one of which was "The Tony Randall Show," in which he played a stuffy Philadelphia judge, from 1976-78
"It's amazing Butterfly " Randall played the fussbudget pal in Hudson-Day movies such as 1959's "Pillow Talk" and 1961's "Lover Come Back "
In an effort to bring classic theater back to Broadway, Randall founded and was artistic director of the nonprofit National Actors Theatre in 1991, using $1 million of his own money and $2 million from corporations and foundations "
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Eds: AP Drama Writer Michael Kuchwara in New York and AP Broadcast Entertainment Editor Michael Weinfeld in Washington contributed to this report "
In September, during a speech to the National Funeral Directors Association, Randall joked about how he envisioned his own ceremony: President Bush and Vice President Cheney would show up to pay their respects, but they'd be turned away because his family knows he didn't like them
"People have to remember this was 1981? '82? '83?" said Swoosie Kurtz, his "Love, Sidney" co-star "
"Tony Randall's passion for live theatre was unmatched," Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, said in a statement The company's first production was a revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," starring Martin Sheen and Michael York, which hadn't been staged on Broadway in 40 years
"I was lucky enough to know Tony as an actor and friend," Letterman said Tuesday He told the dirtiest jokes, the filthiest jokes, which you would not expect from Felix He also had more appearances than any other actor on Carson's "The Tonight Show," according to his publicist, Gary Springer 26, 1920, Randall was drawn as a teenager to roadshows that came through his hometown of Tulsa, Okla "He was a vociferous advocate for the proposition that serious plays are the lifeblood of our culture "
The couple had two children: 7-year-old Julia Laurette and 5-year-old Jefferson Salvini He got his start in movies in 1957
Born Leonard Rosenberg on Feb
The dedicated theater advocate entered the hospital after starring in a revival of Luigi Pirandello's play "Right You Are," the 20th production of the National Actors Theatre, which Randall founded Randall told AP Radio that he couldn't believe he'd become a father for the first time in his 70s Randall also appeared in the Tony Award-winning staging of "M
"I'm so glad that his last few years with his wife and children were so happy
"A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize," Klugman said Tuesday night on CNN's "Larry King Live 'Odd Couple' Star Tony Randall Dies at 84
May 18, 10:03 PM EST
Tony Randall, who served as a fussy foil for Rock Hudson and Doris Day, David Letterman and Johnny Carson and, most famously, Jack Klugman on "The Odd Couple," has died at 84 after a long illness
Subsequent performances included "Night Must Fall," "The Gin Game" and "The Sunshine Boys," which reunited Randall with Klugman, in 1998 "The most amazing, wonderful things in my life have happened since I was 70 "
Last year, Randall told AP Radio that, thanks to reruns, it was no surprise most people knew him as Felix Unger "He taught me how to write, he taught my sister, Penny, how to act, and he taught millions of people how to laugh We will miss him very much
"A lot of people didn't give me much of a chance of making it in this business and he was incredibly supportive and he gave me a pep talk," O'Brien said during the show he taped Tuesday
