Everett Sloane (
October 1,
1909 –
August 6,
1965) was an
American television and
film actor,
songwriter, and
theatre director. Sloane is probably best known for his supporting role playing Mr. Bernstein in the cinema classic
Citizen Kane.
Born to a Jewish family in
Manhattan, Sloane attended the
University of Pennsylvania before dropping out in order to join a theater company, but he stopped acting and became a runner on
Wall Street after a number of negative stage reviews. After the
stock market crash in
1929, he decided to return to the theater. Sloane eventually joined
Orson Welles's
Mercury Theatre, and he remained a Mercury actor and acted in Welles's films in roles such as
Citizen Kane's Bernstein in
1941 and
The Lady from Shanghai 's Arthur Bannister in 1948.
Sloane's
Broadway theatre career began with the comedy
Boy Meets Girl in
1945 and ended with
From A to Z, a
revue for which he wrote several songs, in
1960. In-between he acted in plays such as
Native Son (
1941),
A Bell for Adano (
1944), and
Room Service (
1953) and directed the
melodrama The Dancer (
1946).
In the
1940s, Sloane was a frequent guest star on the
radio theatre series
Inner Sanctum Mysteries and was in
The Mysterious Traveler episode
Survival of the fittest with
Kermit Murdock.
Sloane also worked extensively in television; in November 1955 he starred in the
Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "Our Cook's Treasure"; he was the voice of
Dick Tracy in 130 cartoons produced in
1960 and
1961. Beginning in
1964, he provided character voices for the animated TV series
The Adventures of Jonny Quest. He reportedly wrote the unused lyrics to "The Fishin' Hole", the theme song for
The Andy Griffith Show. He starred as the ruthless businessman in both the film and television versions of
Rod Serling's
Patterns.
Sloane committed suicide at 55, reportedly depressed over oncoming blindness by
glaucoma.
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Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or more recently, tv; sometimes called telly, the tube, boob tube, or idiot box in British English) is a widely used telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures
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Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects.
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actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
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A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. That is to say, a songwriter is a lyricist, a composer, or both.
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A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. The director's function is to ensure the quality and completeness of a theatrical product.
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 mystery/drama film released by RKO Pictures and directed by Orson Welles, his first feature film.
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Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195[2] living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.
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University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn[3][4]) is a private, coeducational research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the university, it is America's first university[5] and is the fourth-oldest
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Wall Street is a city street in lower Manhattan in New York City in the United States of America. It runs east from Broadway downhill to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District.
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles in 1937 photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Birth name George Orson Welles
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The Lady from Shanghai is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his then-estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King.
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Broadway theatre[1] is the most well known form of professional theatre to the American general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows.
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From A to Z
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Original Program
Music Various
Lyrics Various
Book Woody Allen
Herbert Farjeon
Nina Warner Hook
Based upon Revue
Productions 1960 Broadway From A to Z
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revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from
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Native Son
Author Richard Wright
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) African American literature, Novel
Publisher Harper Perennial
Publication date 1940
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A Bell for Adano is a 1945 film directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. It is adapted from the novel A Bell for Adano by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945.
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Room service is an accommodation available at many hotels where workers at the hotel bring food and other items to hotel rooms, by request of the guest and usually for extra charge.
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