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Jack Oakie was born as Lewis Delaney Offield in Sedalia, Missouri. However, he grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma, which is how he obtained his "Oakie" nickname. His adopted first name, Jack, was the name of the first character he played on stage.
He was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. Oakie worked as a runner on Wall Street, New York, and narrowly escaped being killed in the Wall Street bombing of 16 September 1920. While in New York, he also started appearing in amateur theatre as a mimic and a comedian, finally making his professional debut on Broadway in 1923 as a chorus boy in a production of Little Nellie Kelly by George M. Cohan. Oakie worked in various musicals and comedies on Broadway from 1923 to 1927, when he moved to Hollywood to work in movies at the end of the silent film era. Oakie appeared in five silent films during 1927 and 1928. As the age of the "talkies" began, he signed with Paramount Pictures, making his first talking film, The Dummy, in 1929. |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes "I`ve appeared in hundred of movies, but the only one people remember me for is Napaloni in The Great Dictator."
"The pictures I made were called the bread and butter pictures of the studio. They cost nothing and made millions, and supported the prestige productions that cost millions and made nothing."
Trivia Once teamed with fellow vaudevillian Skeets Gallagher in the hopes of being another Laurel and Hardy, but it didn`t pan out. They did perform in six films together. Divorced from actress wife Venita Varden in 1945, she was among the many who perished in a June 17, 1948 plane crash on the Aristes mountain near Wilburton, Pennsylvania, that killed 43 passengers in all. Also included were night club owner Earl Carroll, famous for his Vanities Showgirls, and his leading lady, showgirl Beryl Wallace.
In 1981, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences established the Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film, as an annual event.
Working as a Wall Street clerk, he narrowly escaped death in 1920 after the Treasury Building was bombed by terrorists.
Dubbed "The World`s Oldest Freshman" because he was rather long in the tooth (30 something) for the collegiates he was asked to play, including roles in College Humor (1933), College Rhythm (1934), and Collegiate (1936). In the movie Rise and Shine (1941), the 38-year-old was asked to play an 18-year-old senior.
Once teamed with fellow vaudevillian Skeets Gallagher in the hopes of being another Laurel and Hardy, but it didn`t pan out. They did perform in six films together.
Oakie fought with cameramen for years about screen makeup -- he never wore any and refused to wear makeup under any circumstances.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Whispering Pines section at the top of the hill.
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