My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such as light musical comedy.
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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.Gale Gordon
For comedy to be good, it has to be played straight. And again, the greatest example of this is Lucy Ball. No matter how wild the shows were that we did, no matter how bizarre the situations were, they were never played as if they were funny. They were played like serious incidents of ordinary everyday life. And that's why they are terribly funny and are still considered classic comedies.
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Radio wasn't so bad because you didn't have to memorize the lines. But you did have to do everything because your own character was in your voice-that took a little doing. Most people thought that if you could speak English or read then you could be a radio actor. Well, that wasn't so. You had to put a great deal into your reading to convince somebody who was just listening that a certain character is speaking.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Gale Gordon
My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
Gale Gordon
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