Jack Albertson Papers, ca. 1959-ca. 1980

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Jack Albertson Papers, ca. 1959-ca. 1980

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Jack Albertson had a successful career on the stage, television and motion pictures. The collection consists of scripts, joke files, and printed ephemera related mostly to his work on television and in motion pictures.

18 boxes (9 linear ft);; 7 shoe boxes (3 linear ft)

University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections.

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Albertson, Jack, 1910-1981

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Jack Albertson was born in Malden, MA, 1910; he started his show business career as a vaudeville dancer and became straight man to such comics as Milton Berle, Bert Lahr and Bert Wheeler; early in his career he formed a partnership with Phil Silvers; convinced he would never become a great dancer, he concentrated on comedy and found notoriety when he stepped in for Eddie Foy in a Broadway revival of The Red Mill (1946); his film credits include Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)' Lover Come Back (19...