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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Arthur Lake (actor)
He died of a heart attack in Indian Wells, California on January 9, 1987 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, in the Douras family mausoleum, along with actress Marion Davies and her husband Harold Brown.
Lake's wife Patricia Van Cleeve Lake (1923-1993) was thought to be Davies' niece, until she was revealed to be Davies' and Hearst's illegitimate daughter after Davies died, making Arthur Lake a son-in-law of Davies and William Randolph Hearst.
Arthur Lake's sister Florence Lake was also an actress who became famous as one of the screen wives of comedian Edgar Kennedy.
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 Slog's Log - King Arthur Movie Review
Arthur intends to burn Guinevere to death at the stake - as was done to adulterers at the time - but she is saved by Lancelot at the last moment.
Arthur is the leader of the knights, each having his own special characteristics that make him unique and set him apart from his mates.
Arthur finds Guinevere in this dungeon (she's supposed to be daughter of Leodegan, the king of Camelide) and he eventually returns her to her barbarian tribe, which is led by Merlin (???).Guinevere eventually arranges a meeting with Merlin and Arthur.
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 "The Stars of Hollywood Forever" 1901 - 2006 : Famous Families
Lake was also questioned by police regarding the murders of two Los Angeles women in the 1940s — Georgette Bauerdorf a socialite and oil heiress and Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia), one of the most sensational murders in Los Angeles history.
Lake had previously met both women and as he was related to newspaper magnet William Randolph Hearst, all mention of Lake in the newspapers was quickly dropped.
Lake was married to socialite Patricia Van Cleve, daughter of actress Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (A)
Art (Arthur) Blakey was an American Black jazz drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers band.
King Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon and ruled Britain around the 5th century.
Arthur Bingham Walkley was an English author and journalist.
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 The Probert Encyclopaediat
Alan Alda is an actor and director best known for his portrayal of 'Hawkeye' in the TV series MASH.
She looked as youthful and alluring as ever in the early 70s when she made a Broadway comeback as the star of the musical `Follies.' On the strength of her new popularity, she returned to the screen in 1975 after an absence of 16 years.
She was married from 1944 until her death to actor Craig Stevens.
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 La - Real Names of Famous Folk - Lap
Hedy Lamarr, Actor, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Austria 1913-2000).
Harry Langdon, Actor; Harry Philmore Langdon (Council Bluffs, Iowa 15 June 1884 - 22 December 1944).
Angela Lansbury, Actor; Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE (London 16 October 1925).
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 In Memory of...
Marion was also a Ziegfeld girl but was best known as mistress to newspaper magnet William Randolph Hearst and finally, after her death, the mother of Patricia Lake, actor Arthur Lake’s wife.
Also in the Douras mausoleum are Marion’s husband Horace Brown, her mother Rose, her daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Arthur Lake.
She married actor James Peter Durkin and together they formed the Fealy-Durkin Stock Company, performing plays in various cities.
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 Arthur Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lake was free-lancing when he heard that Columbia Pictures was looking for someone to play "Dagwood Bumstead" in a series of low-budget films to be based on the "Blondie" comic strip.
Lake had become very friendly with the sons of the newspaper tycoon and was a frequent guest at the beach house of Marion Davies, Hearst's mistress.
Arthur Lake had been on the first picture "Blondie" (1938) for about a week when Shirley Deane, the original actress playing the title role was replaced by Penny Singleton.
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 Television Obscurities - Keeping Obscure TV From Fading Away Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Arthur Lake returned to the role of Dagwood Bumstead for the series and was joined by Pamela Britton in the role of Blondie.
Despite an obvious attempt to give Arthur Lake the same look the series suffered from the actor's looking very little like the characters they were portraying.
It didn't help that Arthur Lake, who was 33 when he first played Dagwood, was 52 when he returned to the character of a father of two young children.
www.tvobscurities.com /articles/blondietv.php   (1124 words)

  
 Blondie. Frank R. Strayer. | The Stop Button | Andrew Wickliffe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There are a number of three panel gags in the film--until the last act, most of the film is these gags, actually--and they work well for the most part.
When in the house, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake are less successful together then they are alone.
Lake isn’t particularly good, though he’s a decent physical comedy actor (which is why the scenes with him alone work better) and Singleton ranges in quality too, best when she’s putting up with him, which is the Blondie character’s defining trait.
www.thestopbutton.com /blondie._frank_r._strayer..html   (447 words)

  
 Hollywood Forever Cemetery - part 4: Stars' Graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The large Grecian tomb in the center of the lake belongs to philanthropist William A. Clark Jr., who founded the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and donated the Clark Library on the UCLA campus.
Lake and Singleton also played the same roles, of Blondie and Dagwood, on a radio series from 1939 to 1950.
A young starlet, she was the center of the biggest scandal to ever rock Hollywood.
www.seeing-stars.com /Buried2/HollywoodMemorial4.shtml   (794 words)

  
 Lake (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lakes is a state of Sudan also known as Al Buhayrat
Lake, Isle of Wight on the Isle of Wight, England
There are also several places named Lake City, Lake County, Lake Forest, Lake Township, and Lake Park.
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 Biography Base Letter L
Lake, Ricki - (born 1968), US actress and talk show hostess
Lancaster, Burt - (1913-1994), US actor and acrobat
Laurents, Arthur - (born 1918), playwright, novelist, and director
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 Dead People Server - People Whose Last Names Start With l - Dead, Living and "Resting" Celebrities
Extremely varied career, the musical Gypsy was based on her life, toured frequently with the USO, wonderful player during the '60s on Hollywood Squares, had a son with Otto Preminger.
Reuben in Norma Rae, he won a Tony for playing Roy Cohn in Angels in America, is currently the head of the Acting Department at the Actors Studio, married to Jessica Walter, was married to Linda Lavin.
Comic actor, teamed with Dean Martin in the '50s, tireless fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, survived viral meningitis and cleaned up a long addiction to prescription drugs.
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 Arthur Lake - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Truly a single-note man, American actor Arthur Lake spent most of his adult life portraying only one screen role: Dagwood Bumstead.
Biographies of Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton and photos from the series.
Arthur Lake - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Arthur Lake Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Hollywood Underground - Dearly Departed
April 1, 1946 – Character actor, brother of actor Wallace Beery and father to actor Noah Beery, Jr.
August 5, 2002 - Actor, known for his roles on the soap opera "Passions" and as a lawyer on "Ally McBeal".
September 2, 2000 – Actress and mother to director Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard and wife to actor Rance Howard.
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 Famous Kentuckians - Entertainers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Clyde Julian "Red" Foley (1910-1968) Gospel and country artist; his 1951 "Peace in the Valley" was the first gospel album to sell a million copies.
Arthur Lake (1905-1987) Actor, known for his portrayal of Dagwood Bumstead in the "Blondie" series of films.
Homer Ledford * (1927-) Bluegrass musician with the Cabin Creek Band; internationally-recognized instrument maker, especially known for his dulcimers, one of which is part of the permanent musical instrument collection at the Smithsonian Institution.
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 TIME.com: The Perfect Schnook -- Apr. 17, 1950 -- Page 1
Alan Young decided when he was 14 that he would be an actor and that his specialty would be the role of the likable dolt—a type that show business calls a "schnook" (rhymes with took).
Competing with such notable professional chumps as Dennis Day, Ozzie Nelson and Dagwood (Arthur Lake), Young was only a passable schnook in his 1944-47 radio show, a fair-to-medium specimen in his movie roles (Margie, Chicken Every Sunday, Mr.
Seating himself next to Actor Joseph Kearns, a serious-minded businessman trying to do some paper work, Young quickly drove Kearns to the verge of insanity through a combination of nervousness and nosiness.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,805418,00.html   (713 words)

  
 WOFF - Vintage Radio - Blondie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A hardy cast of radio veterans ably support Lake and Singleton, most notably Hanley Stafford, who played J. Dithers, Dagwood’s tyrannical boss, and Elvia Allman, as Mrs.
Frank Nelson played the role of next-door neighbor Herb Woodley (also played briefly by Hal Peary), and Arthur Q. Bryan and Harry Lang played yet another neighbor, Mr.
Others in the cast included Dix Davis as Alvin Fuddle, as well as Mary Jane Croft, Veola Vonn, Lurene Tuttle, and Hans Conried.
homepage.mac.com /woffradio/classic-Blondie.html   (142 words)

  
 Blondie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Actually, 26 episodes were produced of the 1957 version despite the fact that it only ran from January to September of that year.
Dagwood was played by the same actor who had assumed the role in movies and radio over the previous twenty years, 51 year old Arthur Lake.
Having read the Blondie comic strip celebrate its 75th anniversary in printing (as opposed to Blondie and Dagwood's actual wedding anniversary which occurred in the comic pages on February 17,1933), I thought there might be a box set of both Blondie television shows for one to watch and compare.
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 Internet Archive: Details: Girl o' My Dreams
I wonder, is there a film in which Arthur Lake _doesn't_ play his "Dagwood" character?
(Arthur Lake) Dagwood Bumbstead Later in the 40s Blonde Moivies, plays a quick witted pole vaulter, and Sings a Nice Tune as well.
Lieutenants and Arthur Lake (presumably) playing the keys, he does a
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 TIME.com: -- Oct. 16, 1944 -- Page 1
To Arthur Lake, 35, "Dagwood" of the "Blondie" cinema series, and Patricia Van Cleve Lake, 25; a second child, first daughter; in Hollywood.
To David Rubinoff, 47, schmaltz king of the fiddle, now on a concert and bond-selling tour of U.S. schools; and his second wife, Mertice Dean Rubinoff, 30; their first (his second) child, a son; in Wichita Falls, Tex. Name: Ruben.
By Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, ecdysiast and author, whose baby is expected in February (TIME, Aug. 28) : Actor Alexander Kirkland, 40, her second husband, after over two years of marriage; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Reno.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,885801,00.html   (599 words)

  
 Hollywood Forever Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles B. Middleton, actor (Emperor Ming the Merciless)
Christopher Quinn, (1938-1941), child of actor Anthony Quinn who died in a drowning accident
Virginia Rappe, actress, the woman Fatty Arbuckle was accused of killing during a wild party in San Francisco, creating one of Hollywood's first major scandals
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 Amazon.com: Blondie 19: Blondie's Big Moment / TV Show: Video: Penny Singleton,Arthur Lake,Larry Simms,Marjorie Ann ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Actors: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie, Anita Louise
It's the first day back at work for Dagwood (Arthur Lake).
This is the first time we actually get to see Dagwood take a bus to work.
www.amazon.com /Blondie-19-Blondies-Moment-Show/dp/1563716658   (442 words)

  
 Volume 13 -- Lake, Arthur to Lyman, Abe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Actor who made a career out of playing the comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead (from Blondie) on both the screen and on radio.
Lake was the voice of Hook, the sailor who was the rough equivalent of Private Snafu in films produced for the U.S. Navy.
Lorre, Peter Small, bug-eyed Central European actor who first came to prominence in the Fritz Lang film M and later made a career of playing twisted murderers and mad scientist types.
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 Arthur - Movie Information at filmsandtv.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A billionaire alcoholic (Dudley Moore) falls in love with a poor waitress (Liza Minnelli) with a heart of gold and stands to lose a fortune for not marrying the girl his family has planned for him.
The best part of this film, however, is John Gielgud's Oscar-winning performance as Arthur's long-suffering valet.
An Oscar was also awarded for Best Song: "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)." Dudley Moore was nominated for Best Actor.
www.filmsandtv.com /searchmovie.php?q=Arthur   (1790 words)

  
 In The 80s - People Who Died in The Eighties, 1987
Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85
Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66
Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
www.inthe80s.com /deaths/died1987.shtml   (2108 words)

  
 Chicago movie theaters, movie reviews, movie photos, movie news
Look at shots from "The Brave One," more.
The versatile actor tells us why "3:10 to Yuma" and other roles are easy.
See shots of Scarlett Johansson from "Match Point," "The Nanny Diaries" and more.
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 Adele Jergens at Brian's Drive-In Theater
The studio tended to cast her in comedies such as The Corpse Came C.O.D. The Fuller Brush Man (1948); and Beware of Blondie (1950; with Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton).
In 1949, Jergens married actor Glenn Langan, whom she met on the set of Treasure of Monte Cristo.
Beware of Blondie (1950) with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake; the final film in the long-running Blondie series
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 Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau - Actor - Character (Male)
Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau - Actor - Character (Male)
McNeely, Charles H. Lake Charles, LA Renfroe, Jason
Lake Charles, LA If you would like to be included, please click here to register.
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 Arthur Lake (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
His parents were circus acrobats and he became part of their act.
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Arthur Lake (I)
Find where Arthur Lake is credited alongside another name
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