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	Eddie Bracken - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But the then 20-year-old Eddie Bracken was by no means new to show business in general or Hollywood in particular.
		As Eddie Bracken's age increased his popularity -- or perhaps that of the genre of film vehicles that was his forte -- decreased, and in 1953 he essentially retired from the screen, moving on to pursue theatrical ventures.
		Eddie won a Tony nomination playing Horace Vandergelder in the Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!" opposite Carol Channing in 1977.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0102787/bio (787 words)

	Eddie Bracken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eddie Bracken (born February 7, 1915; died November 14, 2002) was an American comic actor.
		Based on the popularity of these films, Eddie Bracken was a household name during World War II.
		For his contribution to radio, Eddie Bracken has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street and a second star at 6751 Hollywood Blvd. for his contribution to the television industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Bracken (269 words)

	Guardian \| Eddie Bracken
		The talent of Eddie Bracken, who has died aged 87, for portraying frenzied, bumbling, stuttering drips reached its apotheosis in 1944 in two classic Preston Sturges satires on small-town America, The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek and Hail The Conquering Hero.
		Bracken's panic is a joy to watch, as is his final confession of phoniness.
		Bracken is amusing in Rainbow Island (1944), where his resemblance to a local god saves him from being sacrificed by the natives, among whom is Lamour.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4552979-103684,00.html (733 words)

	Eddie Bracken, Who Acted in Sturges Comedies, Dies at 87
		Bracken, who grew up in Astoria, Queens, began as a child actor in the 1920's, but he did not really come into his own until the early 1940's when he made several light comedies in Hollywood, including "Caught in the Draft" with Bob Hope in 1941 and "Sweater Girl" with June Preisser that same year.
		Bracken continued acting onstage and in the movies and moved into television as well, appearing in several shows, most notably "Masquerade Party" on NBC in the 1950's.
		Bracken was married for 63 years to Connie Nickerson, an actress he met when they were in the same road company.
	www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/brackenobit.html (815 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Eddie Bracken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Comic character actor Eddie Bracken has worked steadily in full-length feature films and on-stage for decades, but was most popular during the '40s when he played leads and co-leads in several sprightly Paramount comedies and light musicals.
		Bracken is best remembered for his work in a pair of frothy, irreverent Preston Sturges comedies: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero (both 1944).
		Bracken's popularity continued through the decade, but by the early-'50s, musicals were on the wane and the style of comedy in which Bracken had been hopelessly typecast was out of style.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/7045/bio.jhtml (353 words)

	bracken on Encyclopedia.com
		Bracken is also a source of tannin and is used for thatching and as bedding for livestock.
		The names bracken and brake are sometimes also applied to other large, coarse ferns and, as general terms, to a thicket of such plants.
		Bracken is classified in the division Polypodiophyta, class Polypodiopsida, order Filicales, family Polypodiaceae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b1/bracken.asp (573 words)

	Eddie Bracken - Overview - MSN Movies
		November 14, 2002 in Montclair, NJ Biography:Comic character actor "Eddie Bracken" has worked steadily in full-length feature films and on-stage for decades, but was most popular during the '40s when he played leads and co-leads in several sprightly Paramount comedies and light musicals.
		Bracken began singing and acting on-stage and in vaudeville as a young child.
		Bracken is best remembered for his work in a pair of frothy, irreverent "Preston Sturges" comedies: "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and...
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=213761&stab=1 (213 words)

	Eddie Bracken Official Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Born in Astoria, Queens, in 1915, American comedic icon Edward Vincent (Eddie) Bracken died on Thursday, November 14, in New Jersey after a decades-long career spanning Hollywood's Golden Age, the advent of television and the Great White Way.
		A child actor in Hal Roach's "Kiddie Troupers" films, Eddie got his big break when director George Abbott cast him in the national tour of "Brother Rat" and on Broadway in "What a Life." During his national tour, Eddie met and married leading lady Constance Nickerson (Bracken), his late wife of 62 years.
		Eddie always said his greatest productions are the five children who survive him -- Judy, Carolyn, Michael, Susan and David ("I did it the hard way," he'd say: "One wife.) - nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
	www.tv-now.com /tonybray/bracken.htm (347 words)

	[Deathwatch] Eddie Bracken, comedian, 87 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bracken suffered complications from recent surgery and died Thursday at Mountainside Hospital, according to his daughter, Judy Bracken Gordon.
		Born and raised in New York, Bracken was best known for his roles in "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "Hail the Conquering Hero," both released in 1944 and directed by Preston Sturges.
		Bracken moved back to New York in the 1950s and earned a Tony nomination for his co-starring role in "Hello, Dolly," with Carol Channing (news).
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-November/000302.html (281 words)

	Eddie Bracken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eddie Bracken (February 7, 1915 - November 14, 2002) was an American comic actor.
		Bracken has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Blvd.
		Bracken has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Blvd. Gedeon Burkhard (born July 3, 1969) is a German film and television actor, famous for his role in the Kommissar Rex series (1998-2001).
	www.ftppro.com /library/Eddie_Bracken (308 words)

	The Official Preston Sturges Site
		His portrayals of small-town American boys unable to particpate in the war (because of their poor health) are both hilarious and heart wrenching.
		Bracken was married for 62 years to the recently deceased Constance Nickerson Bracken with whom he raised five amazing children.
		Bracken said at that time that it would be his last time on stage.
	www.prestonsturges.com /bulletin_bracken.html (191 words)

	Miracle of Morgan\'s Creek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Trudy's savior is would-be boyfriend Norval, played to apoplectic perfection by the rubber-faced Eddie Bracken, who was never better than in this wide-eyed, pratfall-happy performance as the weary but loyal draft reject who stands by his girl.
		Bracken in 1991 when he was in Houston in the Houston Grand Opera production of Babes in Toyland.
		The film is on par with his greatest, such as "Hail the Conquering Hero." Bracken would go on to star "Hail" as well, but his performance here is arguably his best.
	www.abrasive-cutting-tools.com /prod/B0009W5J78/Miracle_of_Morgan's_Creek.html (902 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Screens: Miracle Man: Actor Eddie Bracken on Preston Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eddie Bracken on the cover of Leonard Maltin's Film Fan Monthly, a fanzine the film critic produced as a teenager.
		Bracken can put you on the sets of those pictures, seeing Sturges barking out commands as he rides the camera, hearing Bracken, Hutton, and William Demarest struggle to get through this line or that bit of comic business without bursting into laughter.
		Eddie Bracken will be present at the Austin Film Society screening of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Tuesday, February 22, 7pm, at the Texas Union Theatre, 24th & Guadalupe.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:75951 (4577 words)

	Cinema Crawler :: Hail the Conquering Hero
		Eddie Bracken plays the little guy with a big name (Woodrow LaFayette Pershing Trusmith) & a bigger legacy, that of his father who died a Marine hero.
		Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith, magnificently portrayed by Eddie Bracken, is discharged from the marines because of hay fever, but is too ashamed to return home.
		Bracken's performance is at the heart of either interpretation and it is impossible not to feel sorry for the guy, who never really wanted to go along with this ploy in the first place.
	www.cinemacrawler.com /6301805046/Hail_the_Conquering_Hero.html (1109 words)

	Amazon.com: Miracle of Morgan's Creek: Video: Eddie Bracken,Betty Hutton,Diana Lynn,William Demarest,Porter Hall,Emory ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Trudy's savior is would-be boyfriend Norval, played to apoplectic perfection by the rubber-faced Eddie Bracken, who was never better than in this wide-eyed, pratfall-happy performance as the weary but loyal draft reject who stands by his girl.
		One of my favorite moments is when her father forbids her to go out to the dance with the soldiers; within a moment she goes from utter elation to blank depression, and she walks up the stairs with such disappointment in her spine that she's deeply endearing.
		Eddie Bracken's nervous nerdish comedy has aged less well than Hutton's hyperenthusiasm, perhaps, and the film suffers from its somewhat patronizing vision of smalltown life.
	www.amazon.com /Miracle-Morgans-Creek-Eddie-Bracken/dp/6300215490 (1861 words)

	Eddie Bracken -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Eddie Bracken -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		He had performed in a short film seires called The Kiddie Troupers (one of many (Click link for more info and facts about Our Gang) Our Gang-like series) prior to that, but this film was his big break.
		For his contribution to radio, Eddie Bracken has a star on the (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood Walk of Fame) Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1651 Vine Street and a second star at 6751 Hollywood Blvd. for his contribution to the television industry.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/eddie_bracken.htm (139 words)

	The Scotsman - Obituaries - Eddie Bracken
		AN owl-faced, comedy character actor for more than seven decades, Eddie Bracken made his greatest impression as the nervous, flustered and long-suffering protagonist of two of Preston Sturges’s finest freewheeling wartime comedies - The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek (1944) and Hail The Conquering Hero (1944).
		The comedy giant Preston Sturges made the best use of his gauche gullibility and comic timing, especially in Hail The Conquering Hero, where his character, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith, is rejected for military service on the grounds of chronic hay fever yet winds up feted as a combat veteran, self-effacing hero and potential mayor.
		Bracken’s popularity faded in the postwar years, despite a successful radio series, The Eddie Bracken Show (1945-46) and supporting roles in the Judy Garland musical Summer Stock (1950) and We’re Not Married (1952).
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=1415232002 (695 words)

	Hail the Conquering Hero
		A Thinking Person's Movie: Weak Eddie Bracken is mistaken for a war hero by his hometown after the Army rejects him.
		Eddie Bracken is perfect in the roll as the reluctant "hero." A real saterical statement about America's hero worship and fun insight into the homefront during WW II.
		The story is wonderful: a young man who is accidentally taken for a war hero and encouraged to run for mayor of his town.
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /6301805046/Hail_the_Conquering_Hero.html (801 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
		Sullen and defiant, Trudy turns to her local admirer, the homely, stuttering 4-F Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken), asking him to pick her up for a night at the movies but drop her off at the dance instead.
		The picture was bolstered by excellent casting, in particular Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken, who had appeared together in two previous films — in this turn, they virtually feed off each other's manic energy.
		And just like those long walks, Morgan's Creek definitely is going somewhere — although the "miracle" itself is saved for the final moments, captured in yet another image of perpetual motion as the perplexed Norval Jones is taken to his wife's hospital room, thrust ever forward by the riotous crush of rowdy celebrants.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/m/miracleofmorganscreek.q.shtml (582 words)

	KET \| American Shorts \| The Ryan Interview
		The 35-minute play, shot entirely on location in Kentucky, stars Hollywood veteran Eddie Bracken and Ashley Judd.
		It turns out that his humanity is what really begins to attach itself to her, and she begins to see the importance in this old man and what may have been missing in her own life—a usable past.
		The program’s documentary segment includes interviews with Miller, Judd, and Bracken about the play’s content and conveys the energy of regional theater with footage from the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL).
	www.ket.org /content/americanshorts/ryan.htm (515 words)

	Broadway Vet Eddie Bracken Dead at 87, Broadway.com Buzz
		Bracken began his vaudeville career before he was 10.
		Last year Bracken celebrated an acting milestone when he completed his 15,000 stage performance during the Paper Mill production of Carousel, in which he played the Starkeeper and Dr. Seldon.
		Bracken was married to actress Constance Nickerson, who toured with him in Never Too Late, Born Yesterday and Don't Drink the Water, for over 60 years.
	www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?CI=21842 (343 words)

	Archy and Mehitabel
		At about the same time they produced a marvelous LP record, "archy and mehitabel: a back-alley opera," that featured the voices of Carol Channing as Mehitabel and Eddie Bracken as Archy, with an additional, spoken-word performance by David Wayne titled "echoes of archy" (Columbia ML 4963).
		Theatre Arts magazine said of the record: "Bracken is every inch a cockroach, and Miss Channing is perfection as the female feline who chose Shinbone Alley over the comforts of domestication." The record can occasionally be found today in used-record stores and online auctions, as can a two-record, 45-rpm version (Columbia A-1107).
		Two years later Darion and Kleinsinger reworked "archy and mehitabel" with the help of a young humor writer who would go on to achieve fame in his own right, Mel Brooks.
	www.donmarquis.com /archy (1883 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Miracle of Morgan S Creek, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We finally added this movie to our collection a few weeks ago and I have to say that I think it is Betty Hutton and Eddie Bracken's best film together.
		Only Hutton could play the part of Trudy the way she did, but I believe that Bracken makes this movie with his great portrayal of Norval with his high blood pressure, all the time insisting that he is as "cool as ice".
		Eddie Bracken, Preston Sturges and William Demarest all should have gotten Oscars -- what the heck, even Betty Hutton should have gotten an Oscar for this!
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6300215490 (973 words)

	Eddie Bracken Current Month TV Schedule
		Starring Eddie Bracken, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Davison, Andrea Marcovicci, Robert Picardo.
		Starring Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake, Henry Travers, Lois Wilson, Florence Bates, Helen Westcott, Paul Harvey.
		Starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Marilyn Erskine, Douglas Fowley, Robert Burton.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/edbrack.html (411 words)

	Video Den @ Rarevideo.com
		Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Bill Edwards, Elizabeth Patterson, Jimmy Conlin, Franklin Pangborn, Jack Norton, Paul Porcasi, Al Bridge
		Eddie Bracken plays the scrawny Woodrow LaFayette Pershing Truesmith, son of a World War I hero, who enlists and is immediately sent home for having chronic hay fever.
		Terrified of ruining his family¿s valiant reputation, he hides in disguise in a shipyard as a worker while pretending to be overseas until he is forcibly returned by six sympathetic Marines who hear his story.
	www.rarevideo.com /moreinfo_full.asp?ID=19217 (363 words)

	eBay - eddie bracken, Autographs-Original, Movie Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Eddie Bracken vhs HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO Ella Raines
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	AP Online: Comedian, Actor Eddie Bracken Dies@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		AP Online: Comedian, Actor Eddie Bracken Dies@ HighBeam Research
		MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) _ Eddie Bracken, a Tony-nominated stage and film comedian who spent more than 70 years in show business, has died.
		His start in showbiz came at age 9, when he appeared in "Kiddie Troupers,...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:69587450&refid=ip_almanac_hf (178 words)

	dOc DVD Review: We're Not Married (1952)
		A healthy and very funny chunk of the segment is devoted to the radio program, which is a nonstop barrage of built-in advertising.
		The irony in their segment is quite delicious and they both play it to the hilt.
		The final segment with Bracken and Gaynor is a little too dependent on slapstick and runs too long, but it's still fairly entertaining.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5880 (1008 words)

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