1. Max Showalter served in the US Army during World War II as an entertainer with the Special Services division.
19 Facts About Max Showalter
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Max Showalter soon made his Broadway debut in Knights of Song.
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Max Showalter appeared in the traveling musical This Is the Army for two years and in other notable Broadway productions like Make Mine Manhattan and The Grass Harp.
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Max Showalter performed the role more than 3,000 times opposite Carol Channing, Betty Grable, and Ethel Merman.
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Max Showalter's name was changed by Fox's founder, Darryl F Zanuck, to the more "bankable" Casey Adams.
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Max Showalter made his feature film debut in Always Leave Them Laughing.
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Max Showalter first appeared on live television in the short-lived musical variety series The Swift Show, known as The Lanny Ross Show.
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Max Showalter appeared in Niagara alongside Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten.
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Max Showalter made a cameo as a Life magazine photographer in another Monroe movie, Bus Stop, in 1956.
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Max Showalter was replaced by Hugh Beaumont for the television series.
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Max Showalter was a regular cast member in the short-lived 1980 TV series The Stockard Channing Show.
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Max Showalter made his last onscreen appearance in the John Hughes film Sixteen Candles.
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Max Showalter composed the music for Little Boy Blue, which opened at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California, on September 11,1950.
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Max Showalter wrote the musical Go for Your Gun, which premiered in Manchester, England, in 1963.
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In 1984, Max Showalter retired from acting and moved to an 18th-century farmhouse in Chester, Connecticut, near the area where he acted in the film It Happened to Jane.
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Max Showalter became involved in local musical theatre, including the Ivoryton Playhouse, and went on to produce, direct, write, and narrate the Christmas musical Touch of a Child.
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Max Showalter spent much of his free time painting oil miniatures.
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Max Showalter was a good friend of actress Katharine Hepburn, who lived in nearby Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
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On July 30,2000, Max Showalter died of cancer in Middletown, Connecticut.