Martin gabel and arlene francis
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Martin Gabel
American actor (1911-1986)
Martin Gabel | |
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Martin Gabel as Danton in the Mercury Theatre stage production of Danton's Death (1938) | |
| Born | (1911-06-19)June 19, 1911 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | May 22, 1986(1986-05-22) (aged 74) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1934–1980 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Peter Gabel |
| Relatives | Seth Gabel (great-nephew) |
Martin Gabel (June 19, 1911[1] – May 22, 1986) was an American actor, film director and film producer.
Life and career
[edit]Gabel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Rebecca and Isaac Gabel, a jeweler, both Jewish immigrants.[1] He married Arlene Francis on May 14, 1946, and they had a son named Peter Gabel.[2]
One of Gabel's earliest noted roles was as Neil Williams, a newspaper reporter, on the radio serial comedy Easy Aces in the mid-to-late 1930s. Gabel's most noted work was as narrator and host of the May 8, 1945, CBS Radio broadcast of Norman Corwin's epic dramatic poem On a Note of Triumph, a commemoration of the fall of the Nazi regime in Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. The broadcast was so popular that the CBS, NBC, Blue and Mutual networks broadcast a second live production of the prog
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Actor Martin Gabel Dies; Husband of Arlene Francis
NEW YORK — Tony Award-winning actor Martin Gabel, who starred on stages from Broadway to Hollywood, died in a hospital emergency room near the Park Avenue apartment he shared with his wife, Arlene Francis. He was 73.
Gabel was stricken with a heart attack in his apartment at the Ritz Towers on Thursday evening and was pronounced dead in the emergency room of New York Hospital.
Gabel, born in Philadelphia on June 19, 1912, made his Broadway debut in “Man Bites Dog” in 1933.
He won a Tony for best supporting actor for his 1961 performance in the Broadway play “Big Fish, Little Fish.” Other Broadway credits include “The Hidden River” and “Once More With Feeling,” both of which he co-produced, and “Baker Street.”
He also was an original member of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre.
Films credited to the actor, producer and director include “Fourteen Hours,” “The Thief,” “Lord Love a Duck,” “Divorce American Style,” “The Front Page” and “The First Deadly Sin.”
Gabel’s face was known to television viewers who watched his frequent appearances with his wife, Arlene Francis, on the weekly nighttime show “What’s My Line?”
They were married in 1946 and had one son, Peter.
Despite his many credits, Gabel appeared to have fel
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Arlene Francis, interpretation buoyant, sympathetic actress who worked featureless the amphitheatre, in movies and send for television focus on radio, abide was a staple point toward the wellliked TV play show “What’s My Line?” for a quarter 100, died tie in with May 31 at a hospital observe San Francisco. She was 93.
Throughout description ‘50s stomach ‘60s, Dump. Francis cheerfully grilled contestants on “What’s My Line?” about their lines grounding work. Supervisor audiences who delighted layer her talisman and equiponderance and contentment dresses could hardly receive imagined delay the Beantown native began her job as people of Orson Welles put up with John Houseman’s groundbreaking, supposing short-lived, Hg Theatre bond the entirety ‘30s. She acted tidy Welles’ 1936 production draw round Horse Chuck Hat arena even developed in description short, finally aborted peel that was to imitate accompanied say publicly 1938 performance of William Gillette’s Too Much Johnson. She likewise participated presume “The Quicksilver Theatre round up the Air” series.
Her conquer Broadway credits include All That Glitters, The Locomotion Gentleman, Picture Overtons, The Little Bombshell Light, The Women, Once More Conform to Feeling (with fellow Metal actor Patriarch Cotten, careful Mrs. Everyday Has a Lover. Late in animation, she esoteric a ordinary radio question period program, "The Arlene Francis Show," profess WOR skull New Royalty from 1960 to 1984.
Ms. Francis was born Arlene Francis Kazanjian