| | Actor Buddy Ebsen Dies at 95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | LOS ANGELES -- Buddy Ebsen, the lanky vaudeville and Broadway dancer who gained fame as a Hollywood actor in "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Barnaby Jones" and Disney's "Davy Crockett" movies, died Sunday at Torrance Memorial Medical Center. |
 | | After the team appeared as featured dancers in "Broadway Melody of 1936," Vilma left the act and Ebsen became a "single," co-starring in scores of movie musicals. |
 | | An allergy to aluminum paint cost Ebsen the chance to become one of the most enduring characters in the history of movie musicals in "The Wizard of Oz." He was cast as the Tin Man, but had to leave the project after less than two weeks of filming because the makeup made him sick. |
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