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Jack Carson
Jack Carson
	; From the trailer for The Hard Way (1943).;
Born	; John Elmer Carson; ; (1910-10-27)October 27, 1910; ; Carman, Manitoba, Canada;
Died	January 2, 1963(1963-01-02) (aged 52); ; Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.;
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1937–1962
Spouse(s)	; Elizabeth Lindy; (m. 1938; div. 1939); ; Kay St. Germain Wells; (m. 1941; div. 1950); ; ; Lola Albright; (m. 1952; div. 1958); ; Sandra Jolley; (m. 1961);
Children	2

John Elmer "Jack" Carson (October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963) was a Canadian-born, American film actor. Though he was primarily used in supporting roles for comic relief, his work in films such as Mildred Pierce (1945) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) displayed his mastery of "straight" dramatic actor roles as well. He worked for RKO and MGM (cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in Love Crazy, 1941), but most of his memorable work was for Warner Bros. His trademark character was the wisecracking know-it-all, typically and inevitably undone by his own smug cockiness.

Early years

He was born in Carman, Manitoba, Canada to Elmer^[1]^[a]^[b] and Elsa Carson (nee Brunke).^[2] He was the younger brother of actor Robert Carson (1909 - 1979). His father was an executive with an insurance company.^[1] In 1914, the family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which he always thought of as his home town. He attended high school at Hartford School, Milwaukee, and St. John's Military Academy, Delafield, but it was at Carleton College that he acquired a taste for acting. Carson became a U.S. citizen in California in 1949.

Because of his size – 6 ft 2 in (1.9 m) and 220 lb (100 kg) – his first stage appearance (in a collegiate production) was as Hercules. In the midst of a performance, he tripped and took half the set with him. A college friend, Dave Willock, thought it was so funny he persuaded Carson to team with him in a vaudeville act – Willock and Carson – and a new career was born with "a very successful comedy team that played large and small vaudeville theatres everywhere in North America".^[1] This piece of unplanned business would be typical of the sorts of things that tended to happen to Carson in many of his film roles.^{[citation needed]} After the act with Willock broke up, Carson teamed with dancer Betty Alice Lindy for appearances in theaters on the Orpheum Circuit.^[3]

Radio

Radio was another source of employment for the team, starting with a 1938 appearance on the Kraft Music Hall when Bing Crosby hosted the show. In 1942–1943, he was host of The Camel Comedy Caravan,^[4] and in the next season he starred in The New Jack Carson Show, which debuted on CBS June 2, 1943.^[5] Charles Foster wrote about the show in Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood: "It broke audience records regularly during the four years it was on the air. Hollywood's biggest stars ... lined up to do guest spots on the show."^[1]

In 1947–1948, he starred in The Sealtest Village Store".^[4]^:299

Suspense episodes starring Jack Carson:
June 28, 1959 "Analytical Hour" with John Hoyt and Sam Pierce.

Television

From 1950 to 1951, Carson was one of four alternating weekly hosts of the Wednesday evening NBC Television comedy-variety show Four Star Revue. (The others were veterans Jimmy Durante and Ed Wynn, and up-and-coming young Danny Thomas.) The second season was his last with the show, when it was renamed All Star Revue.

Carson also had his own variety program, The Jack Carson Show on NBC (1954–1955)^[6] and was the announcer on the television version of Strike It Rich.^[6]^:1028

Film career

Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of The Dick Powell Show, "Who Killed Julie Greer?". Standing, from left: Ronald Reagan, Nick Adams, Lloyd Bridges, Mickey Rooney, Edgar Bergen, Jack Carson, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Thompson, Dean Jones. Seated, from left, Carolyn Jones and Dick Powell.

His success in radio led to the start of a lucrative film career. During the 1930s, as vaudeville declined from increased competition from radio and the movies, Willock and Carson sought work in Hollywood. Carson initially landed bit roles at RKO Radio Pictures in films such as Bringing Up Baby (1938), starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

An early standout role for Carson was as a mock-drunk undercover G-Man opposite Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama entitled Enemy Agent. This led to contract-player status with Warner Brothers shortly thereafter. While there, he was teamed with Dennis Morgan in a number of films, supposedly to compete with Paramount's popular Bing Crosby - Bob Hope Road to … pictures.^{[citation needed]}

Most of his work at Warner Brothers was limited to light comedy work with Morgan, and later Doris Day (who in her autobiography would credit Carson as one of her early Hollywood mentors). Critics generally agree that Carson's best work was in Mildred Pierce (1945), where he played the perpetually scheming Wally Fay opposite Joan Crawford in the title role.^{[citation needed]} Also in 1945, he played the role of Harold Pierson, the second husband of Louise Randall, played by Rosalind Russell, in Roughly Speaking. Another role which won accolades for him was as publicist Matt Libby in A Star is Born (1954). One of his last film roles was as the older brother "Gooper" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

His TV appearances, extending into the early 1960s, included The Martha Raye Show, The Guy Mitchell Show, and The Polly Bergen Show in 1957; Alcoa Theatre and Bonanza (Season 1, Ep.9: "Mr. Henry Comstock") in 1959; Thriller ("The Big Blackout") in 1960; and The Twilight Zone (Season 2, Ep. 14: "The Whole Truth") in 1961.

His TV pilot, Kentucky Kid, was under consideration as a potential series for NBC, but was not picked up by the network. The proposed series would have had Carson playing a veterinarian widower who raises horses and has an adopted Chinese child.

His brother Robert was also a character actor.

On February 8, 1960, Carson received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the television and radio industry. The television star is located at 1560 Vine Street, the radio star is at 6361 Hollywood Boulevard.^[7]^[8]

In 1983, after his death, Jack Carson was inducted into the Wisconsin Performing Artists Hall of Fame along with his film pal, Dennis Morgan, who was also from Wisconsin.^[9]

Death

In 1962, while rehearsing the Broadway play Critic's Choice, he collapsed and was subsequently diagnosed with stomach cancer. He died in Encino in 1963, aged 52. Carson was entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Personal life

Carson married four times: Elizabeth Lindy (married 1938, divorced 1939), Kay St. Germain (1941–1950), Lola Albright (1952–1958), and Sandra Jolley (1961–1963), former wife of actor Forrest Tucker and daughter of character actor, I. Stanford Jolley. Carson had a romantic relationship between his second and third marriages with Doris Day in 1950–51,^[10] but she left him for Marty Melcher, who would become her third husband.

Selected filmography

As "Gooper," with Judith Anderson as "Big Momma" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

You Only Live Once (1937) (with Henry Fonda) - Attendant in First Gas Station (uncredited)

Too Many Wives (1937) (with Anne Shirley) - Hodges

It Could Happen to You (1937) - Truck Driver (uncredited)

On Again-Off Again (1937) - Cop (uncredited)

Reported Missing (1937) - Logantown Airport Radioman (uncredited)

Music for Madame (1937) - Assistant Director

Stage Door (1937) (with Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball) - Mr. Milbanks

Stand-In (1937) - Tom Potts

A Damsel in Distress (1937) - Bit Role (uncredited)

High Flyers (1937) (with Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, and Lupe Vélez) - Dave Hanlon

Quick Money (1937) - Coach Woodford

She's Got Everything (1937) - Ransome (uncredited)

Crashing Hollywood (1938) - Dickson

Everybody's Doing It (1938) - Detective Lieutenant (uncredited)

Bringing Up Baby (1938) (with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant) - Circus Roustabout (uncredited)

Night Spot (1938) - Shallen

Maid's Night Out (1938) - Rollercoaster Ride Attendant (uncredited)

Condemned Women (1938) - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)

This Marriage Business (1938) - 'Candid' Perry

Go Chase Yourself (1938) - Warren Miles

Law of the Underworld (1938) - Johnny

Vivacious Lady (1938) (with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart) - Charlie - Waiter Captain

The Saint in New York (1938) (with Louis Hayward as Simon Templar) - Red Jenks

Having Wonderful Time (1938) - Emil Beatty

Carefree (1938) (with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers) - Connors

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938) - Football Player Rochet

The Kid from Texas (1939) (with Dennis O'Keefe and Buddy Ebsen) - Stanley Brown

Fifth Avenue Girl (1939) (with Ginger Rogers) - Minnesota - a Sailor (uncredited)

The Escape (1939) - Chet Warren

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (with James Stewart) - Sweeney Farrell - Newsman (uncredited)

Legion of Lost Flyers (1939) (with Richard Arlen and Andy Devine) - Larry Barrigan

Destry Rides Again (1939) (with Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart) - Jack Tyndall

The Honeymoon's Over (1939) - Tom Donroy

City of Chance (1940) - Narration - Prologue (voice, uncredited)

Parole Fixer (1940) (with William Henry) - George Mattison

I Take This Woman (1940) (with Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr) - Joe

Young as You Feel (1940) - Norcross

Shooting High (1940) - Gabby Cross

Enemy Agent (1940) (with Richard Cromwell) - Ralph

Typhoon (1940) (with Dorothy Lamour and Robert Preston) - Mate

Alias the Deacon (1940) - Sullivan

Girl in 313 (1940) - Police Lt. Pat O'Farrell

Queen of the Mob (1940) (with Ralph Bellamy) - FBI Agent Ross Waring

Lucky Partners (1940) (with Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Spring Byington and Harry Davenport) - Freddie

Sandy Gets Her Man (1940) - Policeman Tom Garrity

Love Thy Neighbor (1940) - Policeman

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) (with Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery) - Chuck Benson

The Strawberry Blonde (1941) (with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland) - Hugo Barnstead

Love Crazy (1941) (with William Powell and Myrna Loy) - Ward Willoughby

The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) (with James Cagney and Bette Davis) - Allen Brice

Navy Blues (1941) (with Ann Sheridan) - 'Buttons' Johnson

Blues in the Night (1941) - Leo Powell

The Male Animal (1942) (with Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland) - Joe Ferguson

Larceny, Inc. (1942) (with Edward G. Robinson and Jane Wyman) - Jeff Randolph

Wings for the Eagle (1942) (with Ann Sheridan) - Brad Maple

Gentleman Jim (1942) (with Errol Flynn, Alan Hale, William Frawley and Ward Bond) - Walter Lowrie

The Hard Way (1943) (with Ida Lupino) - Albert Runkel

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) (with Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland) - Himself

Princess O'Rourke (1943) (with Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn) - Dave Campbell

Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944) (with Ann Sheridan) - The Great Georgetti

Make Your Own Bed (1944) (with Jane Wyman and Alan Hale) - Jerry Curtis

The Doughgirls (1944) (with Ann Sheridan and Alexis Smith) - Arthur Halstead

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) (with Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane) - O'Hara

Hollywood Canteen (1944) - Himself

Roughly Speaking (1945) (with Rosalind Russell) - Harold C. Pierson

Mildred Pierce (1945) (with Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth and Eve Arden) - Wally Fay

One More Tomorrow (1946) (with Ann Sheridan and Jane Wyman) - Patrick 'Pat' Regan

Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946) (with Dennis Morgan) - Buzz Williams

The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946) (with Dennis Morgan and Janis Paige) - Jeff Howard

Love and Learn (1947) (with Martha Vickers) - Jingles Collins

April Showers (1948) (with Ann Sothern) - Joe Tyme

Romance on the High Seas (1948) (with Janis Paige, Don DeFore, and Doris Day) - Peter Virgil

Two Guys from Texas (1948) (with Dennis Morgan, Dorothy Malone and Bugs Bunny) - Danny Foster

John Loves Mary (1949) (with Ronald Reagan, Wayne Morris and Edward Arnold) - Fred Taylor

My Dream Is Yours (1949) (with Doris Day and Bugs Bunny) - Doug Blake

It's a Great Feeling (1949) (with Doris Day) - Himself

The Good Humor Man (1950) (with George Reeves and Lola Albright) - Chris Malley - Dr. Monaco

Bright Leaf (1950) (with Gary Cooper and Lauren Bacall) - Chris Malley - Dr. Monaco

Mr. Universe (1951) (with Vince Edwards) - Jeff Clayton

The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) (with Ginger Rogers) - Ben Castle

Dangerous When Wet (1953) (with Esther Williams and Fernando Lamas) - Windy Weebe

Red Garters (1954) (with Rosemary Clooney) - Jason Carberry

A Star Is Born (1954) (with Judy Garland and James Mason) - Matt Libby

Phffft (1954) (with Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, and Kim Novak) - Charlie Nelson

Ain't Misbehavin' (1955) (with Rory Calhoun) - Hal North

The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) (with Van Johnson and Joseph Cotten) - Hal Breckinridge

Magnificent Roughnecks (1956) (with Mickey Rooney) - Bix Decker

The Tattered Dress (1957) (with Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Gail Russell) - Sheriff Nick Hoak

The Tarnished Angels (1957) (with Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone) - Jiggs

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (with Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives) - Gooper Pollitt

Rally Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) (with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, and Joan Collins) - Capt. Hoxie

The Bramble Bush (1960) (with Richard Burton) - Bert Mosley

The Big Bankroll (1961) (with David Janssen) - Timothy W. 'Big Tim' O'Brien

Sammy the Way Out Seal (1962, episode of anthology TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color) (with Robert Culp and Billy Mumy) - Harold Sylvester (final appearance)

Radio appearances

Year	Program	Episode/source
1940	The Lux Radio Theatre	His Girl Friday
1943-1947	The Jack Carson Show
1946	Suspense	Easy Money^[11]
1946^[12]	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show	Guest Jack Carson

Notes

^ Find a Grave gives his father's name as Elmer Llewellyn Carson

^ The "Jack Carson" section in the book Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood gives the father's name as "Edward L. Carson".

References

^ ^a^b^c^d Foster, Charles (2003). Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Dundurn. pp. 59–77. ISBN 9781550024647. Retrieved 22 June 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ Jack Carson at Find a Grave

^ "Jack Carson". Classic Images. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

^ ^a^b Terrace, Vincent (1999). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7864-4513-4.

^ "Air Ya Listenin?". The Mason City Globe-Gazette. Iowa, Mason City. June 2, 1943. p. 2. Retrieved May 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

^ ^a^b Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 520. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.

^ "Jack Carson | Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com. Retrieved 2016-06-26.

^ "Jack Carson". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-06-26.

^ "Hall of Fame a gala premiere". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Let's Go section, Page 2. Retrieved 2014-12-29.

^ Day, Doris; Hotchner, A.E. (Oct 1976) [1975]. Doris Day: Her Own Story (Bantam mass market paperback) (6th printing ed.). New York: William Morrow. p. 108. ISBN 0-553-02888-X.

^ "Jack Carson Is Suspense Star". Harrisburg Telegraph. November 2, 1946. p. 19. Retrieved September 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

^ "Listen to and download the Burns and Allen Radio Programs, The Jack Carson Acting Contest, Courtesy of Jimbo Berkey". free-classic-radio-shows.com.

External links

Jack Carson on IMDb

Jack Carson at the TCM Movie Database

Jack Carson at the Internet Broadway Database

Jack Carson at Find a Grave

[2] Find a Grave gives his father's name as Elmer Llewellyn Carson

[3] The "Jack Carson" section in the book Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood gives the father's name as "Edward L. Carson".

[otp-1] Foster, Charles (2003). Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Dundurn. pp. 59–77. ISBN 9781550024647. Retrieved 22 June 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

[F.A.G.-4] Jack Carson at Find a Grave

[ci-5] "Jack Carson". Classic Images. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.

[rp-6] Terrace, Vincent (1999). Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7864-4513-4.

[7] "Air Ya Listenin?". The Mason City Globe-Gazette. Iowa, Mason City. June 2, 1943. p. 2. Retrieved May 5, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

[etvs-8] Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 520. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.

[9] "Jack Carson | Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com. Retrieved 2016-06-26.

[10] "Jack Carson". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-06-26.

[11] "Hall of Fame a gala premiere". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Let's Go section, Page 2. Retrieved 2014-12-29.

[day-12] Day, Doris; Hotchner, A.E. (Oct 1976) [1975]. Doris Day: Her Own Story (Bantam mass market paperback) (6th printing ed.). New York: William Morrow. p. 108. ISBN 0-553-02888-X.

[13] "Jack Carson Is Suspense Star". Harrisburg Telegraph. November 2, 1946. p. 19. Retrieved September 28, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[14] "Listen to and download the Burns and Allen Radio Programs, The Jack Carson Acting Contest, Courtesy of Jimbo Berkey". free-classic-radio-shows.com.

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