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Brian Donlevy, Walter Abel, Albert Dekker, and Robert Preston in Wake Island (1942)
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Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston in Affäre Macomber (1947)
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Robert Preston and Loretta Young in The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
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Ellen Drew and Robert Preston in Night Plane from Chungking (1943)
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Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Harold Huber, G.P. Huntley, etc.
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Robert Preston in The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Before starring in the musical "The Music Man", he had not only never appeared in a musical before, he had never sung a note professionally before.
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Robert Preston in The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 708-709. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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Robert Preston in The DuPont Show of the Month (1957)
Cousin of Emmerson Denney, Producer/Personal Manager.
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Sandra Church, Abigail Kellogg, Jo Anna March, etc.
The name of his character in Mame, "Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside" is taken from the names of four Civil War generals - Pierre Goustave Toutant Beauregard, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, George Pickett (Confederates), and Ambrose Burnside (Union).
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Larry Hagman, Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, etc.
Frequently played a "heavy" in his early film roles.
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Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, etc.
During the early 1950s he and his wife Catherine and 16 of their friends maintained an informal acting group called :Eighteen Actors". They were film actors trying to gain theatrical experience with their actress wives. Included were Charles Lane, Dana Andrews, Moroni Olsen, Addison Richards, Victor Jory and Don Porter. Their productions ran four consecutive weekends in a small state-donated building near the Rose Bowl.
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Mary Carlisle and Robert Preston in Illegal Traffic (1938)
Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Wake Island (1942), The Music Man (1962) and How the West Was Won (1962).
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Alan Ladd, William Demarest, and Robert Preston in Der Todesverächter (1948)
Was a lifelong Republican.
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William Bendix, Don Castle, Robert Preston, and Philip Van Zandt in Wake Island (1942)
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Jill Clayburgh and Robert Preston in Zwei ausgebuffte Profis (1977)
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Burt Reynolds and Robert Preston in Zwei ausgebuffte Profis (1977)
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Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, and Robert Preston in Die Narbenhand (1942)
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Nils Asther, Ellen Drew, and Robert Preston in The Night of January 16th (1941)
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