On having fun researching her father's former wives and girlfriends. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. He joined a traveling carnival, toured in theater troupes and wound up in Hollywood, where he became a reliable B-movie player. - Nestor Pavia Margaret Carol Epple and Lyle Talbot were married for 40 years before Margaret Carol Epple died, leaving behind her partner and 4 children. They had 4 children, Stephen Henderson (73), David (71), Cynthia (69) and Margaret (61). ", 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. - Jack Elam Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer. - Kenne Duncan "What an assortment. On why Lyle Talbot went on the road to act, when production of his regular sitcoms shut down, "He loved to work. In addition, Margaret is among the founding editors of Lingua Franca and she won the 1999 Whiting Writers Award. Before The New Yorker, Magaret spent four years as Contributing Writer for the New York Times magazine from 1999 to 2003. - Guy Wilkerson Margaret had interviews with a number of experts in order to rebuttal the views of the students and their schools to emphasize the importance of the valedictorian title. They are all very successful and he was very proud of them. 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That personal glow illuminates The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Fathers Twentieth Century (Riverhead), Talbots lively biography of her debonair father, actor Lyle Talbot, whose fortunes, Zelig-like, buoyed him along with the evolution of American visual culture until his death in 1996, at the age of 94. husband. 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. Stephen Talbot lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pippa Gordon, a medical social worker. - Bob Kortman The newest Supreme Court Justice isnt just another conservativeshes the product of a Christian legal movement that is intent on remaking America. Is nakedness invisibilitys opposite? 0. He had the good looks of a star but, more importantly, he had a rich baritone voice that the talkies needed. They were married in 1948 and had four children, including. - Terry Frost Lyle Talbot (Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 March 2, 1996) was an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor. We worked together in Mexican Spitfire pictures, Lone Ranger, a commercial and more. 1931 - I. Stanford Jolley Additionally, Talbot along with her brother David Talbot is co-author of By the Light of Burning Dreams. Margarets salary is $81,540 annually. 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. Hes had win after winincluding overturning Roe v. Wadeyet seems more and more aggrieved. - Gerald Mohr We got to live our suburban idyll, his daughter writes, in large part because my father was enacting another one on TV., The youngest child of Lyles last (and 40-year-long) marriage, Talbot acts as a kind of family archaeologist, working from her siblings memories, her fathers scrapbooks, and her own meticulous research. "The Hays Code, which was the morals code that governed movies and what you could show in movies, was actually in effect at that time, but the producers were doing a very good job of ignoring it and really flouting it. ", Lyle Talbot starred as Joe Randolph on the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet throughout the 1950s and '60s. - Richard Devon He was always fond of pointing out that in his over 60 years in show business he seldom went more than a week without working in a play, radio, a movie or a TV show. - DeForest Kelley - Dan Duryea Online version is titled "Trump's state of disunion". Thats when I decided to become an actor. 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). Lyle Talbot as a young actor. - Al Ferguson Talbot has worked as a producer and senior producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting and for ITVS and the PBS series, Independent Lens. Her nephew is filmmaker Joe Talbot. For a man who hated horses, Lyle Talbot sure rode a lot of them. Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century. She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.[10]. Talbot had several brief marriages, to Elaine Melchoir (1930-32), Abigail Adams (1942) and Keven McClure (1946) and a number of romantic entanglements. So the movies from that period are kind of racier and also more cynical in certain ways than a lot of the movies that came after, in the sort of Golden Age of Hollywood, when the code was being enforced. He went from clean-cut detective hero to nightclub-owning crook the next year with The Vigilante (47 Columbia). Stephen Talbot graduated from Harvard High School (now called Harvard-Westlake) in 1966. - Victor Jory But he never felt that way. Eddie Shaw, Do you know something we don't? Lyle Talbot ( Lisle Henderson, February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996) was an American movie, television, stage, voice, radio actor. I did some real dogs, but I believe I gave my best performances in the theatre.. It helped, she used to say, if you really enjoyed looking at the person you were married to.. now journalist, David Talbot and child actor Stephen Talbot. In the studio, the singer turns sonic nostalgia into something eerie and ironic. - Rayford Barnes ", "I think the Ed Wood movies would come to mind Plan 9 from Outer Space is one of the movies. - Page 1 (1910-1949) 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. - Frank Ferguson This is not going to last.' - Tris Coffin He grew up in a small town in Nebraska, where after the early death of his mother, he was raised by her mother, Mary Hollywood Talbot, whose name he later bore professionally.Talbot's incredibly long and varied show-business career began right after high school, when he joined a traveling tent show. He co-starred as Ozzie Nelson's friend Joe Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952) and as Robert Cummings' Air Force buddy in The Bob Cummings Show (1955) (also known as "Love that Bob") and made guest appearances on a plethora of TV series, including Leave It to Beaver (1957), The Lone Ranger (1949), Topper (1953), The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950), Perry Mason (1957), Rawhide (1959), Wagon Train (1957), The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), Charlie's Angels (1976), Newhart (1982), The Dukes of Hazzard (1979) and Who's the Boss? - Jack Ingram Lyle Talbot began his career as an itinerant carnival and vaudeville performer before eventually making his way to Hollywood. - John Cason - George Wallace Talbot, along with James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis (ironically all WB contract players), were outspoken in their commitment to change working conditions for actors. Lyle always believed you werent an actor unless you were actingno small parts, only small actors. Private. He grew up in a small town in Nebraska, where after the early death of his mother, he . I first saw Lyle on stage at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood when I was 13. Managed by: Private User Last Updated: December 6, 2016: View Complete Profile. The couple had two daughters and two sons, and were married for more than 40 years. 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). - Marshall Reed The Countess di Frasso was this kind of Hollywood society, you know, dame, grande dame, who, you know, threw a lot of parties, was married to an Italian count. Moreover, in October 2012, she wrote an article and in her book on The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Fathers Twentieth Century about her father actor Lyle Talbot. [So is] Glen or Glenda, which is the story of a cross-dresser, which is actually Ed Woods' personal story, brought to screen in a very surreal way but still there's real heart in it. In 1967 he co-starred in a revival of "South Pacific" at New York's Lincoln Center with Florence Henderson.Lyle Talbot died of natural causes on March 3, 1996, in his home in San Francisco, California, at the age of 94, the last of the SAG founders to shuffle off this mortal coil. Actors would be assigned work usually based on 12-hour days and six-day weeks, and commit themselves to the infamous seven-year exclusive contract that included draconian suspension penalties in the fine print. Lyle Talbot, who appeared in over 150 movies from leads in Warner Bros.' "pre-Code" pictures to countless supporting roles, and later enjoyed a steady TV career as a character actor, was born Lysle Henderson on February 8, 1902, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. . Her brother Stephen Talbot is a public television documentary producer. Margaret Talbot is an American essayist and non-fiction writer. Their longest marriage was 41 years to Margaret Epple (aka Paula Deaven). - Gregg Palmer She also has two brothers Stephen Talbot serves as a public tv documentary producer, David Talbot who is an author, and one sister Cynthia Talbot. Talbot talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the Golden Age of Hollywood, her father's playboy past, and how he found work as an actor. Paul Sorenson, Ben Welden, William Watson, George Barrows. After several brief marriages, Mr. Talbot married Margaret Epple in 1948. Previously Lyle was married to Marjorie Kramer in 1937 until their divorce. The studio gave him a plum part in William A. Wellman's Love Is a Racket (1932) co-staring with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ann Dvorak and the fast-talking Lee Tracy. now journalist, David Talbot and child actor Stephen Talbot. A coal miner, he settled near Pittsburgh later moving to Wyoming. Lyle Talbot 91 of 197 Lyle Talbor's wife and the mother of his four children, Paula Talbot (born: Margaret Epple). Terry Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Brain gain: The underground world of 'neuroenhancing' drugs", "About a boy: Transgender surgery at sixteen", "Gone girl: The extraordinary resilience of Elizabeth Smart", "Home movies: Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur", "Faces of an epidemic: In Montgomery County, Ohio, opioid addiction permeates everyday life", "Dirty politics: Scott Pruitt's E.P.A. They have a son, Dashiell, and a daughter, Caitlin. They were married in 1948 and remained together until her death in 1989. Previously Lyle was married to Marjorie Kramer in 1937 until their divorce. - John Milford Certainly not the wives. A singer and actress, she gave up her career to raise their four children, but frequently appeared with her husband in summer stock. - Mort Mills Anthony Comstocks crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. - Earle Hodgins Born in Hollywood and raised in Studio City, California, Stephen Talbot is the son of Lyle Talbot, a film and TV actor, and Paula Talbot (born Margaret Epple). He also appeared in several television shows, including "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," where he played Ozzie Nelson's friend Joe Randolph for 11 years and the "Bob Cummings Show.". Courtesy of Margaret Talbot Lyles grandfather, Mr. Hollywood, immigrated to America with his family from Ireland. And, in fact, it lasted until she died. An Interview With Lyle Talbot was born in 1902, just around the time when movies were getting started. - Forrest Taylor Under contract to Warner Bros., Lyle was offered the singing cowboy role that made Dick Foran famous in 1935 but, because of his dislike and fear of horses, he begged off. A native of Los Angeles, she now lives in Washington, D.C. 2023 Cond Nast. Yeah, it did not seem promising at all. 28-Feb-1949) TELEVISION The Beverly Hillbillies Col. Blake (1962-67) Wife of Lyle Talbot Mother of Private . The Magnum photographer looks back on capturing an inconceivable event.. 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. - Dick Alexander - Edmund Cobb Lyle Talbot (February 8, 1902 - March 2, 1996) was an American actor on stage and screen, best known for his long career in film from 1931 to 1960 and for his frequent appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s. The article was published on June 6, 2005, in the print edition at the New Yorker. [2] She has been serving as a Staff Writer at The New Yorker in Washington since 2004. - Lane Bradford - Ethan Laidlaw This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. He would later tell his son, Salon.com founder David Talbot, You kids think you invented free love in the sixties. Lance Iverson Show More Show Less 2 of 5 The Entertainer, by Margaret Talbot Riverhead Books Show More Show Less. Margarets estimated net worth is $980,700. 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. Lyle made his first serial (of nine) in 1944 as an agent for a foreign power in the swamplands of Louisiana for Universals Mystery of the Riverboat. - Bruce Dern So, you know, I think in acting and in Hollywood, the hierarchy is so visible and the rewards at the top are so amazing, you know, that if you become a big star, that people who don't maybe become bitter. Between movies and sitcoms, he played local theaters and summer stock productions all over the country. The all-too-human plaintiff of Roe v. Wade captured the messy contradictions hidden by a polarizing debate. She was one of the founding editors of Lingua Franca and was a senior fellow at New America. - Myron Healey - Stephen McNally Lyle continued appearing on stage in dinner theatres through the late 80s until his wife of nearly 42 years, Margaret Epple, died in 1989. Mr. Talbot worked with a variety of actors and directors, including the famously quirky director Ed Wood. - Budd Buster [1], Last edited on 30 December 2022, at 22:33, https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyle_Talbot&oldid=8611953. He felt very fortunate, and he wanted to work all the time. . How? "I think that, you know, when you had to work around some of these provisions, you had to suggest burning desire, you had to suggest that people were having an extramarital affair, you had to suggest certain kinds of violence without showing certain acts [which] were explicitly forbidden. - Mari Blanchard Her first book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century, was published in November 2012 by Riverhead. - Tom London - Hank Patterson Talbot is the subject of a new book by his daughter, Margaret Talbot, entitled "The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century" (Riverhead, Nov. 2012). Marshal, supporting Eddie Dew in Trail to Gunsight at Universal. Online version is titled "The Supreme Court and the future of Roe v. Wade". Margaret Carol Epple and Lyle Talbot were married for 40 years before Margaret Carol Epple died, leaving behind her partner and 4 children. - Donald Curtis I worked a lot because I liked working. Lyle started in 1919 as a teenager touring with a traveling hypnotist. [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). hide caption. view all Margaret Epple's . In addition to his children, Mr. Talbot is survived by seven grandchildren. We tend to get sentimental about the movies. We respected each others acting. Abortion rights may hinge on acase involving a Mississippi lawandtheerrors of fact and judgment in the states brief are staggering. Margaret is a woman of average stature and is 5 ft 6 in. 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