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Harry Belafonte
Try To Remember
Try to remember the kind of September
When life was slow and oh
so mellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When grass was green and grain was yellow.
Try to remember the kind of September
When you were a tender and callow fellow.
Try to remember and if you remember
then follow
follow.

Try to remember when life was so tender
When no one wept except the willow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
When dreams were kept beside your pillow.
Try to remember when life was so tender
When love was an ember about to billow.
Try to remember and if you remember
then follow
follow.

Deep in December it's nice to remember
Although you know the snow will follow.
Deep in December it's nice to remember
Without a hurt the heart will hollow.
Deep in December
it's nice to remember
The fire of September that made you mellow.
Deep in December our hearts should remember and follow
follow.

I know that song, edgar, but I did NOT know that Harry sang it. So many people have done that, Texas, and it is lovely.

Speaking of memory....

Tyrone Wells

I remember the cold December
I remember the star crossed sky
I remember how the moon
It came up singing and it found to dreamers hanging on to the night
I remember walking in the ocean
I remember that look in your eye
I remember the way you stood beside me
When the waves were trying to take you with the tide

I will remember you
And hold on tight through the years
To each moment
When we were together
And the time when you were here

I remember laying in the canyon
I remember when the rain came down
I remember the light from the candle that was burning for a long long time

And I will remember you
And hold on tight through the years
To each moment
When we were together
And the time when you were here

Morning sun midnight chill
Sometimes you are with me still
Oh the memories bring you back to me

I will remember you
And hold on tight through the years
To each moment
When we were together
And the time when you were here

ELVIS PRESLEY
Mystery Train

(H. Parker - S. Philips)

Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train got my baby and gone

Train train, comin' 'round, 'round the bend
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
Well it took my baby, but it never will again (no, not again)

Train train, comin' down, down the line
Train train, comin' down the line
Well it's bringin' my baby, 'cause she's mine all, all mine
(She's mine, all, all mine)

Good morning, WA2K folks.

hey, edgar. Thanks for the Mystery Train by Elvis the pelvis. Although it's April and things should be blooming, there's a bit of macabre in the air.

John of Virginia asked me to announce the following obit:

Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Field: Music


Info: He did the "Monster Mash", and it was a graveyard smash!


date of Birth: 02/11/1938
Date of Death: 04/25/2007
Age at Death: 69

Cause of Death:
Cancer

Monster Mash Lyrics

I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise


He did the mash
He did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
He did the mash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash


From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes


They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monster mash


The zombies were having fun
The party had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
Dracula and his son


The scene was rockin', all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, "The Crypt-Kicker Five"


They played the mash
They played the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They played the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
They played the monster mash


Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"


It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in a flash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash


Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you


Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
The monster mash
And do my graveyard smash
Then you can mash
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash

ah well, folks. Guess it doesn't hurt to reverse the polarity once in a while.

I even found lyrics to Danse Macabre by Camile Saint Saens.

Jack Klugman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Jacob Joachim Klugman
Born April 27, 1922 (1922-04-27) (age 85)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Years active 1950-present
Spouse(s) Brett Somers (1954-present, separated 1974-present)
Official site http://www.tonyandme.com
Notable roles Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple
Doctor R. Quincy in Quincy, M.E.
Emmy Awards

Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (1964) for The Defenders (episode "Blacklist")
Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1971) for The Odd Couple
Won: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (1973) for The Odd Couple

Jack Klugman (born Jacob Joachim Klugman on April 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American television and movie actor.

Klugman began acting after serving in the United States Army during World War II. A struggling actor in New York City, Klugman was a roommate of another starving actor, Charles Bronson, before the two went onto bigger and better things. He starred in several classic films including 12 Angry Men (which he says is his favorite), Goodbye, Columbus, and Days of Wine and Roses. He also won an Emmy Award for his work on the television series The Defenders and appeared in four episodes of the acclaimed series The Twilight Zone. Klugman says his greatest thrill was appearing with Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda in a 1954 live television broadcast of The Petrified Forest.

He is best known for his starring roles in two popular television series of the 1970s and early 1980s: The Odd Couple (1970-1975) and Quincy, M.E. (1976-1983). He won two Emmy Awards for The Odd Couple.

In the early 1990s, Klugman lost a vocal cord to cancer, but has continued acting on stage and on television. He survived, though the effect of the cancer on his voice is significant, and he now has a very quiet and rasping voice. Klugman admits that for many years he was a heavy smoker. During the 1990s his television credits included a guest starring role in Diagnosis Murder. His cancer was written into his character, where Klugman played a detective who had terminal cancer and had to solve his last case before he died.

He is the father of two children: Adam and David, both from his marriage to Match Game regular Brett Somers. Klugman and Somers were married in 1953, separated in 1974, but were never divorced. (It was Klugman, who appeared on the first week of the CBS Match Game revival in 1973, who asked the show's production company that Somers do a guest slot on the panel. It lasted nine years.)

Klugman has lived with Peggy Crosby (the ex-wife of Bing Crosby's son, Phillip Crosby) since 1988.

In 2005, Klugman published Tony And Me: A Story of Friendship, a book about his long friendship with his Odd Couple co-star Tony Randall. Klugman said that Randall was the best friend he ever had. He talked of their long working relationship and how good Randall had been to him after his cancer operation.

With the death of Jack Warden on July 19, 2006, he is the only one of the twelve main stars of 12 Angry Men who is still alive.




Thoroughbred horse racing

Klugman's character on the Odd Couple television show was a fan of thoroughbred horse racing. In real life, Klugman is a horse racing fan as well. One of his horses, "Jaklin Klugman" was voted the 1980 California Horse of the Year after winning several races including the 1980 California Derby and Jerome Handicap and finishing third in the Kentucky Derby.


Trivia

Daytime repeat showings of Quincy M.E. brought the show to the attention of an entirely new student audience in the UK, from the late 1990s onward. Such was its popularity that a number of humorous or apocryphal stories began to circulate through email and social contact.[citation needed]
A popular urban legend tells that Klugman suffered a mental breakdown which resulted in tragedy; it alleges that he came to believe he WAS in fact Dr. Quincy and that, under this delusion, he entered an operating theater and began to conduct surgery. Although this story is patently untrue (Klugman's personal life is well documented, with no mention of mental illness; further, no genuine medical professional would have allowed a lead surgeon to continue an operation about which they clearly had no knowledge), its popularity amongst the UK student community persists.[citation needed]

Sandy Dennis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born April 27, 1937
Hastings, Nebraska
Died March 2, 1992

Sandy Dennis (April 27, 1937 - March 2, 1992) was an Academy Award- and Tony-winning American theater and film actress.



Biography

Early life

Dennis was born Sandra Dale Dennis in Hastings, Nebraska to Yvonne and Jack Dennis; she had a brother, Frank. She was a high-school classmate of Dick Cavett and attended the Nebraska Wesleyan University and University of Nebraska. Dennis grew up in Kenesaw and Lincoln, Nebraska, appearing in the Lincoln Community Theater Group and moving to New York City at the age of nineteen.[1]


Career

Dennis made her television debut in 1956 in The Guiding Light and her film debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961). However she was more committed to following a career in the theater. She won consecutive Tony Awards for her performances in A Thousand Clowns and Any Wednesday, and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). She followed this with well-received performances in Up the Down Staircase (1967), The Fox (1967), Sweet November (1968) and The Out-of-Towners (1970).

An advocate of method acting, Dennis was often described as neurotic and mannered in her performances; her signature style included running words together and oddly stopping and starting sentences, suddenly going up and down octaves as she spoke, and fluttering her hands. Walter Kerr famously remarked that she treated sentences as "weak, injured things" that needed to be slowly helped "across the street." Nonetheless, William Goldman, in his book The Season, referred to her as a quintessential "critics' darling" who got rave reviews no matter how unusual her acting and questionable her choice of material.

Her last significant film role was in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982).


Personal life

Dennis lived for many years with jazz great Gerry Mulligan until they split up in 1976. Although Mulligan often referred to Dennis as his second wife, Dennis later revealed that they had never married. She also lived with actor Eric Roberts from 1980 to 1985.

Dennis died from ovarian cancer in Westport, Connecticut, aged 54.

Judy Carne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Judy Carne (born Joyce Botterill on April 27, 1939 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England) is an actress and may be best remembered for her introducing the phrase "Sock it to me!" while a regular on Laugh-In.

Carne moved to the United States in the early 1960s. Her first regular acting role was on a sitcom called Fair Exchange, in which she played an English teenager who goes to the United States to live with an American family whose daughter (played by Lynn Loring) has gone to live in England. That was followed by The Baileys of Balboa (1964) and then she had an assisting role to Pete Duel in Love on a Rooftop (1966).

It was on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968-1973) that Carne soared to stardom. Her most popular routine on the show ended with her saying the phrase "Sock it to me!", at which point she was doused with water or in some other way assaulted. Carne was on the series only for the first two seasons (1968-1969), but she made occasional appearances during the 1969-70 season. Her career faltered after she left the show. Laugh-In producer George Schlatter blamed her for breaking up the Laugh-In "family."

Carne was married to actor Burt Reynolds for two years (1963-1965) and producer Robert Bergman for one (1970-1971).

Carne developed a drug dependency starting with marijuana and eventually became a heroin addict. She lived as a junkie and had a near-fatal automobile accident in 1978 that broke her neck. She was in traction for about three months. On October 22 of the same year, Carne was arrested at London's Gatwick Airport for drug possession and did a stint in an English women's reformatory. Her autobiography, Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside (1984), chronicled her difficulties.

Little Johnny watched his daddy's car pass by the school
>> playground and go into the woods. Curious, he followed the car and saw
>> Daddy and Aunt Jane in a passionate embrace.
>> Little Johnny found this so exciting that he could not
>> contain himself as he ran home and started to tell his mother, "Mommy, I
>> was at the playground and I saw Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt
>> Jane. I went back to look and he was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he
>> helped her take off her shirt. Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants
>> off, then Aunt Jane........"


At this point Mommy cut him off and said, "Johnny, this is
>> such an interesting story, suppose you save the rest of it for supper
>> time. I want to see the look on Daddy's face when you tell it tonight." !
>> At the dinner table, Mommy asked little Johnny to tell his
>> story. Johnny started his story, "I was at the playground an d I saw
>> Daddy's car go into the woods with Aunt Jane. I went back to look and he
>> was giving Aunt Jane a big kiss, then he helped her take off her shirt.
>> Then Aunt Jane helped Daddy take his pants off, then Aunt Jane and Daddy
>> started doing the same thing that Mommy and Uncle Bill used to do when
>> Daddy was in the Army."


Moral: Sometimes you need to listen to the whole story before you interrupt

and now we know the rest of the story, hawkman. Love it, BioBob and thanks once again for the info about the celebs. Found some surprises among your famous folks, buddy, but will once again await our Raggedy to do her "thang"..

Until then, how about a song from Sheena.

Artist: Sheena Easton
Song: For your eyes only


For your eyes only, you can see me through the night
For your eyes only, I never need to hide
You can see so much in me
so much in me that's new
I never felt, until I looked at you

For your eyes only, only for you
You see what what no one else can see
Now I'm breaking free
For your eyes only, only for you
The love I know you need in me
The fantasy you freed in me
Only for you, only for you

For your eyes only, the nights are never cold
You really knew me, that's all I need to know
Maybe I'm an open book
Because I know your mind
But you won't need to read between the lines

For your eyes only, only for you
You see what no one else can see
Now I'm breaking free
For your eyes only, only for you
The passions that collide in me
The wild abandoned side of me
Only for you, for your eyes only

Bobsmythhawk:

My thang:

Ah, there's our Raggedy doin' what she does so beautifully, folks. Thanks, PA.

We're looking at Jack and Sandy and Judy and Sheena. Very disconcerting about Judy and Sandy, however.

Well, here's a song by Vanilla Ice that sorta explains the "thing" bit.



Baby, it's your "THANG"
Do what you wanna do.
Tell ya, Who to sock it to.
I know it's your thing.
You can do what you like,
but if you want some good loving don't take all night.
I knew it from the start you had a real big heart.
Tried to hide what you feel when you shouldn't just chill.
You like bein' served with a silver spoon.
Well, you met the right guy, never serve too soon.
Oh, I like the way you talk when you look in my eye.
I can read between the lines, let's go for a ride.
If you want me to love you, maybe I will.
Believe me woman, it ain't no big deal.
Hon' you need love now, just as bad as I do.
Makes me no difference, now, who you give your thing to.
Ow, it's your thing.
Do what you wanna do.
Oh, baby I can't tell you,
who to sock it to.
It's your thing,
do what you wanna do.
Now, girl I can't tell you, who to sock it to, hey!
It's your thing.
Ah, do what you wanna do, do.
Baby I can't tell you who to sock it to.
It's your thing.
Do what you wanna do, do.
Now, girl I can't tell you
Who to sock it to.
Have no time to run your life.
I know you wanna, do, do what's right.
Oh, give your love girl to 'ever you choose.
How can you lose, uh, with the stuff you use.
Oh, it's your thing.
Do what you wanna do, do.
Girl I can't tell you, who to sock it to.
It's your thing, yeah,
do what you wanna do.
Oh, baby I can't tell you
who to sock it to.
It's your, who

Tonight will be fine

Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past.
We swore to each other that our love would surely last.
You kept right on loving, I went on a fast,
now I am too thin and your love is too vast.

But I know from your eyes
and I know from your smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.

I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
the windows are small and the walls almost bare,
there's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.

But I know from your eyes
and I know from your smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.

Oh, sometimes I see her undressing for me,
she's the soft naked lady love meant her to be
and she's moving her body so brave and so free.
If I've got to remember that's a fine memory.

And I know from her eyes
and I know from her smile
that tonight will be fine,
will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
for a while.


Leonard Cohen

Lord have mercy, edgar. Leonard is one interesting guy; he's Jewish and talks about Jesus. Don't you love it, Texas?

Here's one, folks, that I have never heard before by James Taylor.

Woh, James, go.


Talkin' 'bout jumping jim
Talkin' 'bout a mud slide slim
Don't you know that a fish got to swim
Don't a goose got to fly high
Little dog got to die
And i'm goin' home
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know

Talkin' 'bout a life on the street
Gonna think about an itch in my feet
Can't you hand me down them highway shoes
Lord knows i'm talkin' 'bout the walkin' blues
I got the rockin' pneumonia blues
And i'm headed home, bye-bye
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know

Listen here now, don't you come 'round
Talkin' bout over yonder

Bound to wake up the walkin' man in me
And i'm bound to wanderin'
Hey now, talkin' all about 'spooning into bone
Looking just like sherlock holmes
Looking for a needle in a haystack
Seein' and eatin' lots of fatback
Talkin' 'bout a railroad track
And i'm going home, goodbye
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know
Woh, don't you know

You oughta know
You oughta know
You oughta know
You oughta know like a fish in the stream
Oughta know like a leaf on the tree
Oughta know like a boat in the sea.

The Dance - Garth Brooks

Lookin' back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could've missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Holdin' you, I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey, who's to say you know I might have chanced it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Yes, my life is better left to chance
I could've missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance

Ah, Garth Brooks, Texas. Love the line, "I could've missed the pain, but I'd of had to miss the dance."

Incidentally, folks. who is this guy with Tony?

A clue, perhaps?


"That's How It Goes"

That's how it goes
When you feel so sad you feel so low
Life seems so bad I know, I know
That's how it goes

That's how it goes
You may think it's funny
but it always shows,
Try to hide it honey, oh no, it shows.
That's how it goes

Some people say,
Everything's gonna be okay,
Just give it a while,
You'll find you're back
Back in style

But I don't know life will get better
I am sure they know,
Sooner or later it shows, I know
That's how it goes

It's funny to see how easy life can be
Just sit back and smile
You'll find that life is worthwhile
That's how it goes
When you're on top the whole world knows
Wouldn't want to stop it, oh no, it shows
That's how it goes

Good morning, WA2K folks.

That young man pointing a finger at Tony Bennett is Michael Buble.

Learned several things by looking through our forums. First, I didn't know that I knew it, but Nova Scotia literally means "New Scotland". The other thing that I found is that there is a fellow named John Legend who is a vocalist

Here he is, performing live at Albert Hall in London.




Each Day Gets Better


Where do we go, who knows?
But each day gets better
I just can't let her go, oh no
Each kiss gets sweeter
I just can't leave her, no

I'll write a song
I thought about it for far too long
But I've never had someone to sing about
Until I met her, now each day gets better
Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody else understands me like she
Now that I know what true love means
I just hope she stays with me

Where do we go, who knows?
But each day gets better
I just can't let her go, oh no
Each kiss gets sweeter
I just can't leave her, no

She wants to breathe
She wants to be where the grass is green
She wants to know how love's supposed to be
She wants it better, I want to let her know
She belongs right here with me
She's heard it all but I'll make her see
<a>Song Lyrics</a>
I'll make her fall, make her believe
I'll promise her that I'll never leave

Where do we go, who knows?
But each day gets better
I just can't let her go, oh no
Each kiss gets sweeter
I just can't leave her, no

I just had to write a song about her
Tell her I don't want to live without her
Tell her I would build my world around her
Deeper and deeper, sweeter and sweeter
I'll never leave her alone

Where do we go, who knows?
But each day gets better
I just can't let her go, oh no
Each kiss gets sweeter
I just can't leave her, no

She's fifteen and he's barely drivin' a car
She's got his ring and he's got the keys to her heart
It's just matter of time
They'll spread their wings and fly

Like two sparrows in a hurricane
Tryin' to find their way
With a head full of dreams
And faith that can move anything
They've heard it's all uphill
But all they know is how they feel
The world says they'll never make it
Love says they will

There's a baby cryin' and one more on the way
There's a wolf at the door
With a big stack of bills they can't pay
The clouds are dark and the wind is high
But they can see the other side

Like two sparrows in a hurricane
Tryin' to find their way
With a head full of dreams
And faith that can move anything
They've heard it's all uphill
But all they know is how they feel
The world says they'll never make it
Love says they will

She's eighty-three and he's barely drivin' a car
She's got his ring and he's got the key to her heart
It's just a matter of time
They'll spread their wings and fly

Like two sparrows in a hurricane
Tryin' to find their way
With a head full of dreams
And faith that can move anything
They've heard it's all uphill
But all they know is how they feel
The world says they'll never make it
But love says they will

Two Sparrows in a Hurricane
Tanya Tucker

A couple of connections, edgar. One, when the wolf comes in the door, love flies out the window. Another, your sparrows in a hurricane made me recall this weather report.

Storms, winds cause damage in 4 states By TOM COYNE, Associated Press Writer




LAPORTE, Ind. - Storms packing winds strong enough to toss a police cruiser over a 3-foot-high fence spawned apparent tornadoes that leveled houses and downed power lines in several states.



The storms buffeted parts of Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois and Ohio on Thursday. Tornadoes apparently touched down in Tennessee and Illinois, officials in those states said.

In New Tazewell, Tenn., at least seven people were injured by debris. At least three mobile homes and two houses were destroyed, and trees and power lines were leveled.

A tornado touched down about 10 miles west of Crossville, Tenn., damaging trees, buildings and peeling off the roof of an unoccupied trailer, authorities said. No injuries were reported there.

Authorities said they expected emergency crews would find more damaged homes and buildings on Friday.

Scary, no?

Tornado song by Clandestine


I will gladly go where I have never travelled,
I will gladly go where I have never been.
And he rumbles and he purrs,
And his eyes are large and slow,
And she tosses in his arms,
And she tries to keep control
The tornado inside her refuses to slow,
And he pinions the bird and says, "I will not let go."
And the lovely shall be choosers, shall they?
Voices thunder from the sky
And it all becomes too much
when the lovely make the quiet cry.
I will gladly go where I have never travelled,
I will gladly go where I have never been.

Lionel Barrymore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Lionel Herbert Blythe
Born April 28, 1878
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died November 15, 1954 (aged 76)
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Academy Awards

Best Actor
1931 A Free Soul

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - November 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California) was an American actor of stage, radio and film.



Biography

He was the elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore. His parents were Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew.

He started his stage career in the early 1900s. In 1907, after spending many years in Paris, he came back to Broadway, where he established his reputation as dramatic actor. He proved his talent in many plays as Peter Ibbetson (1917), The Copperhead (1918) and The Jest (1919).

In 1924 he left Broadway for Hollywood. In 1931 he won an Oscar for his role of an alcoholic lawyer in A Free Soul (1931), after having been nominated in 1930 for best director for Madame X. Although he could play many types of characters, such as the evil Rasputin in the 1932 Rasputin and the Empress (in which he co-starred with John and Ethel Barrymore), he was, during the 1930s and 1940s, stereotyped as grouchy, but usually sweet, elderly men in such films as The Mysterious Island (1929), Grand Hotel (1932, with John), Dinner at Eight (1933, the film also featured John, but they had no scenes together), Captains Courageous (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Duel in the Sun (1946), and Key Largo (1948). Perhaps his best known role was as Mr. Potter, the miserly banker in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). The role was obviously based on Ebenezer Scrooge, whom Barrymore had been playing on radio annually since 1934.

He played the irascible Doctor Gillespie in a series of Doctor Kildare movies in the 1930s and 1940s, and the title role in the 1940s radio series Mayor of the Town. After breaking his hip twice, he was confined to a wheelchair, but still acted. This is why he played Dr. Gillespie in a wheelchair, and why he was unable to play Scrooge in the 1938 MGM film version of A Christmas Carol.

Barrymore died on November 15, 1954 from a heart attack, and is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street.

He is the great-uncle of actress Drew Barrymore.