And my father was the boyfriend in between Gary Cooper, who she sort of groomed for success, and Bugsy Siegel, the gangster. - James Griffith Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Anthony Comstocks crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. now journalist, David Talbot and child actor Stephen Talbot. Talbot had several brief marriages, to Elaine Melchoir (1930-32), Abigail Adams (1942) and Keven McClure (1946) and a number of romantic entanglements. - George Chesebro, The Stuntmen - Neil Summers He was known for his television role as James Gordon in the Batman serials television series. Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004, writing Profiles and also dispatches and commentary on legal issues, cultural history, social movements, and indie music. However, when his mother became quite ill, they moved back to Nebraska. In the 50s Lyle became a staple on early TV westerns, sometimes representing judges or doctors, but often the outlaw boss. Margaret Talbot, their daughter, is now a New Yorker writer who has written a family history in which she runs through the rise of popular entertainment in America. She was born to her hardworking father and mother in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. ", While Mr. Talbot co-starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," his son Stephen played Beaver Cleaver's friend Gilbert on the television show "Leave It to Beaver.". child. Her second book, co-authored with David Talbot, "By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution," was published in June 2021 by HarperCollins. In the studio, the singer turns sonic nostalgia into something eerie and ironic. - Edward J. Peil Between movies and sitcoms, he played local theaters and summer stock productions all over the country. . Lyles best friend in show business was Walter Reed (left), who sadly told us, He had an amazing career. - Earle Hodgins - Denver Pyle [2] She is also the co-author with her brother David Talbot of a book about political activists in the 1960s, By the Light of Burning Dreams (HarperCollins, 2021). Finally, in 1944, his starring career at WB over, Lyle made his first Western, as a U.S. - Steve Clark As young actors we were hell raisers. Yeah, it did not seem promising at all. - Gerald Mohr An enigma onscreen and off, the actress only magnified her celebrity by suddenly renouncing it. The all-too-human plaintiff of Roe v. Wade captured the messy contradictions hidden by a polarizing debate. - Myron Healey Margaret is the daughter of Lyle Talbot, who was a veteran Warner Bros actor, and Margaret Epple. Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. - John Milford - Archives, Daily Comic Strips She is a woman of average stature. Arthur serves as an editor at Kaiser Health News and he is a proud graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with an AB in development studies in 1981. Courtesy of Margaret Talbot 157.245.14.206 Before that, she served as a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. She was one of the founding editors of Lingua Franca and was a senior fellow at New America. The valedictorian title is a title awarded to the best performing student in the class. Is nakedness invisibilitys opposite? I mean, people really were saying, to her certainly 'What are you thinking? - Wallace Ford Over the next six years Lyle starred in dozens of top flight Warner Bros. filmsThree On a Match, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Life of Jimmy Dolan, College Coach, No More Orchids, Fog Over Frisco, Dragon Murder Case, Oil for the Lamps of China, among others. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. The actor was 46 when he wed Paula Epple, 20, in 1948. view all Immediate Family. And, you know, there were certainly allusions to girlfriends like, I remember once going into the garage and finding a picture of some blond bombshell cupping her breasts, and it said on it, 'Holding my own 'till you get home' and kind of looking at it and thinking, 'Hmm, I wonder what this is about.' [1], Last edited on 30 December 2022, at 22:33, https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyle_Talbot&oldid=8611953. Before that, she served as a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Many of the actors, like Lysle, migrated to Hollywood, however his first film was a 20 minute short with Pat OBrien lensed in New York in 1930, The Nightingale, released by Warner Bros. In 1940-41, he starred on Broadway in "Separate Rooms," and then went on to entertain troops while he was a sergeant in the Army Air Force during World War II. Paula Talbot (born: Margaret Epple), married to Lyle Talbot from 1948 until her death in 1989. Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer. They would be married for over forty years and . ". ", On her mother's ostensibly ill-fated marriage to Lyle Talbot, who, when they met, was a problem drinker nearly three decades her senior, "He suggested that they get married in Tijuana, [and there was] even some doubt about whether the marriage was quite legal because he was trying to save publicity at that point, save her from the publicity. Lyle Talbot ( Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996) was an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor. The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Fathers Twentieth Century, By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. After a screen test in which he inadvertently mocked Warner Bros. production head Darryl Zanuck but impressed director William "Wild Bill" Wellman, Talbot was signed by Warner Bros.-First National. - Morris Ankrum And though he never became a superstar, Lyles picaresque through the entertainment industry continued: he had the dubious honor of being kitsch director Ed Woods favorite actorWood paid Lyle $300 a day, in wrinkled dollar billsand had a recurring role in the original television version of Superman. How a Welsh artist making sharp, mysterious songs found herself in the desert. Talbot is the author of The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Fathers Twentieth Century, a history of twentieth-century entertainment told through the adventures of her actor father, Lyle Talbot. I loved him as a brother, Heaven is lucky to have him.. We respected each others acting. Raised by his grandmother, Lyleas his daughter, a staff writer at The New Yorker, refers to himleft small-town Nebraska around 1918 to join a carnival, working as a hypnotists assistant and launching his own theater company before arriving in Los Angeles in 1932 for a screen test with Warner Brothers. Daughter Cynthia is a doctor in Seattle. - Gregg Barton - Tris Coffin - Lane Bradford Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile, Commando Cody: Sky Marshall of the Universe, Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (20-May-1954), Trader Tom of the China Seas (11-Jan-1954), Son of Geronimo: Apache Avenger (6-Nov-1952), Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (17-Sep-1942), Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile. - Archives, Heavies and Characters I mean, sometimes he made fun of himself because he was in some terrible things, you know a lot of turkeys. Lyle sold his house of many years in Studio City when Margaret died and moved to an apartment in the heart of San Francisco to be near his children. They had 4 children, Stephen Henderson (73), David (71), Cynthia (69) and Margaret (61). They were married in 1948 and remained together until her death in 1989. Like, I had no idea he'd been married a total of five times. Margret is 5 ft 6 in tall (Approx 1.71 m). Lyle Talbot began his career as an itinerant carnival and vaudeville performer before eventually making his way to Hollywood. Steve's youngest sister, Margaret Talbot, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has written a family memoir and a biography of their father, actor Lyle Talbot, entitled, "The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century" (2012). Margaret Talbot is a non-fiction writer, who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2003, and before that was a contributing writer at The New York Times magazine, executive editor of The New Republic, and a founding editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Then came his tour-de-force as bald mad professor Lex Luthor in Atom Man Vs. Superman (50 Columbia). . - Bud Geary - Frank Ellis is giving even ostentatious polluters a reprieve", "BY THE LIGHT OF BURNING DREAMS | Kirkus Reviews", http://www.tnr.com/search/apachesolr_search/margaret%20talbot, "DoubleX Gabfest, the "Which Lie Is Worse?" - George Wallace - William Mims - Dennis Moore Your IP: - George Macready We worked together in Mexican Spitfire pictures, Lone Ranger, a commercial and more. - Frank Ferguson - Rayford Barnes He felt very fortunate, and he wanted to work all the time. Lyle Florenz Talbot (born Lisle Henderson, also credited Lysle Talbot; February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996) was an American stage, screen and television actor.His career in films spanned three decades, from 1931 to 1960, and he performed on a wide variety of television series from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Lyle never thought about quitting acting, even when he was using a walker in his 90s he would have considered a role. At one event, riled-up conservatives got so out of hand that the board chair halted the proceedings while the police cleared the room. She is also the daughter of the veteran Warner Bros. actor Lyle Talbot, whom she profiled in an October 2012 The New Yorker article and in her book The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century (Riverhead Books, 2012). Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer. Despite a 26-year age difference, the Talbot-Epple marriage was a true love match and lasted to her death in 1989. They moved to Pittsburgh where Lysle was born. Other lesser roles followed for Sam Katzman at Columbia as well as spy leader Borent in Republics Trader Tom of the China Seas (54). - Jan Merlin After several days illness, at 94, the legendary Lyle Talbot died March 3, 1996, at his San Francisco apartment. now journalist, David Talbot and child actor Stephen Talbot. Courtesy of Margaret Talbot He finally gave up drinking altogether after Talbots mother, Paula, 26 years his junior, put her foot down. - Kenne Duncan - Harry Lauter She was born in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America. Edition", "The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Talbot&oldid=1136099064, This page was last edited on 28 January 2023, at 18:58. - Chris Alcaide - John Dehner You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. With the Depression of the 30s and the advent of talking pictures, repertory work and theatres that supported those actors began to close down. Margaret and Arthur are parents to their two children a son and a daughter. Shes especially fascinated by the preHays Code films of the early thirties in which her father got his start, and she laments the end of the unsanitized, tartly written, freewheeling female buddy comediesthink Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrellwhile allowing that many directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, did their best work within the Codes confines, as they were compelled to deal in displacement, ambiguity, and suggestion., Of all the characters Lyle inhabitedhe acted in more than 300 films and TV showsit was the role of father that he thrived upon most. - Dan Duryea - Page 1 (1910-1949) It was the classic, 'she gave him her money, he gave her the title,' because she came from a very wealthy family. JOURNALISTS, USA JOURNALISTS' BIOS Lyle Talbot 88 of 194. Among his notable roles on television was his portrayal of Ozzie Nelson's friend . The artists newly released recordings often sound like those your big sister made, sitting cross-legged on her canopy bed, before she ran off to Haight-Ashbury. - Slim Whitaker Although he thoroughly enjoyed the work, acting was practiced as an assembly line operation at the time. Talbot took on a tremendous number of roles, either because he was not discriminating enough, always wanted to keep working, or simply appreciated the money. Margaret is a woman of average stature and is 5 ft 6 in. That marriage took. Lyle Talbot was married to Elaine Melchior for 0 years, Marguerite Ethel Cramer for 3 years, Abigail Adams for 0 years, Keven McClure for 1 year, and Margaret Epple (aka Paula Deaven) for 41 years. Traveling shows came through these small towns in Nebraska, and, just like you would imagine, like the circus coming to town, they caught a lot of kids' imaginations, and my father was one of them. For pioneers of the field, it was a gateway to the male-dominated world of science; for those it purported to help, it could be yet another domestic trap. On why Lyle Talbot went on the road to act, when production of his regular sitcoms shut down, "He loved to work. - Ethan Laidlaw By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. - Dick Curtis He then made a test at Warner Bros. and was signed to a seven year contract, which is when the s was dropped from his first name. Online version is titled "Is the Supreme Courts fate in Elena Kagans hands?". A singer and actress, she gave up her career to raise their four children, but frequently appeared with her husband in summer stock. - Glenn Strange - Forrest Taylor Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2003. Previously, she was a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and, from 1995 to 1999, the executive editor of The New Republic. 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