- Al Ferguson You had to show them having two single beds. Lyle Talbot was born in 1902, just around the time when movies were getting started. Amid the marketing of unattainable physical ideals, its easy to forget what made fitness fun. She was formerly a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.[10]. Performance & security by Cloudflare. hide caption. - Robert Ryan - L. Q. Jones - Claude Akins - Byron Foulger Talbot has worked as a producer and senior producer for the Center for Investigative Reporting and for ITVS and the PBS series, Independent Lens. Lyle Talbot. - Lyle Bettger - Tom London The two were married until her death in 1989. Margaret is a woman of average stature and is 5 ft 6 in. In the thirties, the government paid unemployed writers, artists, and journalists to produce a series of guidebooks for the country. It was the classic, 'she gave him her money, he gave her the title,' because she came from a very wealthy family. - Kenne Duncan - William Fawcett Talbots social history is just as lustrous, full of riffs on tent shows and dance marathons. - Terry Frost Courtesy of Margaret Talbot By signing up you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. [1] 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). She is happily married to her handsome husband Arthur Allen. - Richard Devon Tracing his heritage is quite intriguing. - Douglas Fowley Moreover, she has a nephew Joe Talbot who serves as a filmmaker in America. We partied hard and worked hard but never let the two get in the way of each other. - Bruce Dern - Archives, Heavies and Characters Margaret Talbot is an American news reporter. ", While Mr. Talbot co-starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," his son Stephen played Beaver Cleaver's friend Gilbert on the television show "Leave It to Beaver.". We respected each others acting. Before that, she served as a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. 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. 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. Lyle Talbot began his career as an itinerant carnival and vaudeville performer before eventually making his way to Hollywood. Before joining The New Yorker, Magaret spent four years from 1999 to 2003 serving for the New York Times magazine as Contributing Writer. JOURNALISTS, USA JOURNALISTS' BIOS 157.245.14.206 - Stephen McNally She also wrote, with her brother David Talbot, By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution, about left-wing activism in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. - Ernie Adams husband. [3] Before becoming a journalist and documentary producer, Talbot was a television child actor in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Im still trying to figure out how he lived so long. hide caption. ". In addition, Margaret is among the founding editors of Lingua Franca and she won the 1999 Whiting Writers Award. - Mort Mills 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. 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. But he never felt that way. Further, Margaret worked as a former Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. - John Cliff - Barton MacLane - Fred Kohler - Al Taylor - Strother Martin And he made other sort of exploitation movies of the late '40 and '50s in kind of his low period before he met my mother and started over again. Paul Sorenson, Ben Welden, William Watson, George Barrows. She was born in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America. I mean, people really were saying, to her certainly 'What are you thinking? Margaret and Arthur are parents to their two children a son and a daughter. In the 1960s and '70s, Mr. Talbot returned to the stage, appearing in San Francisco at the Geary and Curran theaters in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" and "Never Too Late. - Ted de Corsia Finally, in 1944, his starring career at WB over, Lyle made his first Western, as a U.S. All rights reserved. Lyle Talbot was a respected stage actor, a star at Warner Bros. in the 30s, a star and supporting actor in dozens of Westerns and serials, featured in scores of TV shows including Bob Cummings buddy Paul Fonda in Love That Bob, neighbor Joe Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett, he was in the acknowledged worst film ever madePlan Nine From Outer Space and he was the last living actor of the 21 who founded the Screen Actors Guild. He sang, did a little magic and performed in a couple of sketches. - Zon Murray - I. Stanford Jolley For a man who hated horses, Lyle Talbot sure rode a lot of them. 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. - Ted Adams All the essentials: top fashion stories, editors picks, and celebrity style. Magaret earned her masters degree in History from Harvard University. Her first book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century, was published in November 2012 by Riverhead. - Bob Wilke Despite a 26-year age difference, the Talbot-Epple marriage was a true love match and lasted to her death in 1989. By this time his Dad had married Anna Nielsen and theyd gone into show business as actors who toured with traveling repertory companies throughout the Midwest. - James Seay There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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. - Guy Wilkerson He really didnt know how much Id learned from him. Talbot took on a tremendous number of roles, either because he was not discriminating enough, always wanted to keep working, or simply appreciated the money. 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. - Nestor Pavia now journalist, David Talbot and child actor Stephen Talbot. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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. Lyle Talbot as a young actor. About Abortion rights may hinge on acase involving a Mississippi lawandtheerrors of fact and judgment in the states brief are staggering. They were married in 1948 and remained together until her death in 1989. Mr. Talbot was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Nebraska, where he remained until he dropped out of high school to tour the Midwest in tent shows as a hypnotist's assistant and later as a leading man. - Edmund Cobb Margaret Carol Epple and Lyle Talbot were married for 40 years before Margaret Carol Epple died, leaving behind her partner and 4 children. Now in his early 40s, he began to accept a few Western and serial heavy roles, but tried to stay off horses as much as possible. - Page 2 (1950-1979). He learned to act with stock companies throughout the Midwest, where he became a leading man, and even formed his own short-lived company in Memphis, Tennessee, "The Talbot Players," which included his actor father and stepmother, Ed and Anna Henderson.By 1931 he was in Hollywood as the talkies were maturing. - Slim Whitaker Lyles best friend in show business was Walter Reed (left), who sadly told us, He had an amazing career. - Kenneth MacDonald The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. - Earle Hodgins He felt very fortunate, and he wanted to work all the time. - Charles Stevens - Marie Windsor Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Margaret Talbot, their daughter, is now a New Yorker writer who has written a family history in which she runs through the rise of popular entertainment in America. ", 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. I dont think Lyle made a great Lex Luthor. - Denver Pyle Why not? He appeared in "A" pictures in the 1930s in supporting roles, including Three on a Match (1932), 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), and One Night of Love (1934) (with opera star Grace Moore), but his work was mostly in "B" pictures, in which he frequently played leads. His body was falling apart but his mind was sharp right to the last. - Ethan Laidlaw His virtuosity is exemplified by the fact that at various times, he played both Felix and Oscar in productions of The Odd Couple. Graduating to a resident stock company, he worked in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for two years and eventually opened his own stock company, The Talbot Players, in Memphis, Tennessee. Lyle started in 1919 as a teenager touring with a traveling hypnotist. - Charlie King . In the 50s Lyle became a staple on early TV westerns, sometimes representing judges or doctors, but often the outlaw boss. - Paul Sorenson, Ben Welden, William Watson, George Barrows All rights reserved. After a screen test in which he inadvertently mocked Warner Bros. production head Darryl Zanuck but impressed director William "Wild Bill" Wellman, Talbot was signed by Warner Bros.-First National. They were married in 1948 and had four children, including. All became accomplished in their fields of documentary filmmaking, writing, and medicine. - Gerald Mohr It helped, she used to say, if you really enjoyed looking at the person you were married to.. - John Doucette 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. One of his daughters married a Talbot and the Talbots daughter living in Brainard, Nebraska, at 18, married a Scotchman named Henderson. - Glenn Strange A native of Los Angeles, she now lives in Washington, D.C. 2023 Cond Nast. ", Margaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2003. 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. In addition to his children, Mr. Talbot is survived by seven grandchildren. After several brief marriages, Mr. Talbot married Margaret Epple in 1948. 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. We tend to get sentimental about the movies. 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. Some of Margrets colleagues at The New Yorker Include: She receives decent pay as a Staff Writer at The New Yorker. In 1948, he married Margaret Epple, who was quite a bit younger than he was. Her nephew is filmmaker Joe Talbot. With the Depression of the 30s and the advent of talking pictures, repertory work and theatres that supported those actors began to close down. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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. 88 of 194. One of the largest movie theaters in SF to close permanently, 'Zero visibility' conditions: All roads to Tahoe are closed, Report: Matthew McConaughey has a massive Salesforce paycheck, Avalanche slams into Tahoe apartment building amid blizzard, 'Really cool sight': Rare waterspout forms in Northern California, Grapevine closed indefinitely due to heavy snow and ice, Plan to bring bullet train from LA to Vegas is underway, What it looks like inside Coit Towers former apartment, Hundreds of thousands of workers have abandoned downtown SF, A different horse': Bay Area will likely continue to see rain, Popular yet divisive fast food chain coming to this Bay Area town, Tahoe's snowfall totals are on track to break records. Anthony Comstocks crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. Stephen Talbot lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pippa Gordon, a medical social worker. - James Gregory Previously Lyle was married to Marjorie Kramer in 1937 until their divorce. 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. - Ian MacDonald Then he was the star of Chick Carter, Detective at Columbia in 1946. On why Lyle Talbot went on the road to act, when production of his regular sitcoms shut down, "He loved to work. He played him too rationally, Talbot notes in one of the books many moments in which daughter and culture critic wryly merge. For sevenyears, Karina Longworth has deconstructed the industrys myths without losing sight of its magic. She was born to her hardworking father and mother in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Lyle was frequently loaned to other studios during his Warners tenure, most notably for The 13th Guest at Monogram in 32 and Trapped By Television at Columbia in 36. Lyle continued appearing on stage in dinner theatres through the late '80s until his wife of nearly 42 years, Margaret Epple, died in 1989. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. What drives his anger? He was back helping Batman and Robin in 1949 at Columbia as Commissioner Gordon. Talbot was a pro, not a star. So, without feeling disloyal, I did find some of these women very interesting "Now, I should say I'm really glad that none of them were my mother. Wife: Margaret Epple (m. 1948, d. 1989, two daughters, two sons) Daughter: Cynthia (physician) Son: David Talbot (journalist, editor of Salon) Daughter: Margaret (writer, The New Yorker) Son: Stephen Henderson Talbot (documentary producer, b. - John Merton What story did they tell? - Leo Gordon Margarets salary is $81,540 annually. - DeForest Kelley - Archives, Daily Comic Strips Before that, she served as a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. A documentary filmmaker Lives and works in San Francisco. - Lane Bradford In the studio, the singer turns sonic nostalgia into something eerie and ironic. Paula Talbot (born: Margaret Epple), married to Lyle Talbot from 1948 until her death in 1989. Many of the actors, like Lysle, migrated to Hollywood, however his first film was a 20 minute short with Pat OBrien lensed in New York in 1930, The Nightingale, released by Warner Bros. 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.". 1931 The entertainer; movies, magic, and my father's twentieth century by Margaret Talbot available in Hardcover on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. Her second book, co-authored with David Talbot, "By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution," was published in June 2021 by HarperCollins. - Gregg Barton - Chris Alcaide Since 2015, Talbot has been senior producer for documentary shorts at ITVS / Independent Lens (PBS) in San Francisco. 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