Selected Carleton Carpenter film and TV show credits:
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Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (born July 10, 1926 in Bennington, Vermont) is a movie, TV and stage actor, a magician, author and songwriter. Before signing to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Carpenter was a magician and an actor on Broadway, beginning with David Merrick's first production Bright Boy in 1944, followed by co-starring appearances in Three to Make Ready with Ray Bolger, John Murray Anderson's Almanac and Hotel Paradiso with Bert Lahr and Angela Lansbury. He was featured in the racial film Lost Boundaries and then signed with MGM, where he had roles in Summer Stock with Judy Garland, Father of the Bride with Spencer Tracy, Vengeance Valley with Burt Lancaster, The Whistle at Eaton Falls with Lloyd Bridges, and the war dramas Take The High Ground and Up Periscope. He was teamed with Debbie Reynolds in the musicals Three Little Words and Two Weeks With Love, which featured their million-selling recordings of "Aba Daba Honeymoon" and "Row, Row, Row." His starring roles included Fearless Fagan with Janet Leigh and Sky Full of Moon with Jan Sterling. He composed such songs as "Christmas Eve," which was recorded by Billy Eckstine, "Cabin in the Woods" and "Ev'ry Other Day," which he recorded for MGM Records. In 1943 he authored the words and melody of a song titled "Can we forget." He also guest-starred on numerous radio and TV shows. Along with Eva Marie Saint, he was one of the featured players on the very early television program "Campus Hoopla" which was produced by NBC (over its WNBT NYC outlet) and aired from 1946 - 1947.