Robert Alda was the father of actors Alan and Antony Alda.
10 Facts About Robert Alda
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Robert Alda appeared in many European films over the next two decades, occasionally returning to the US for film appearances such as The Girl Who Knew Too Much.
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Robert Alda graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York in 1930.
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Robert Alda began his performing career as a singer and dancer in vaudeville after winning a talent contest, and moved on to burlesque.
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Robert Alda is known for portraying George Gershwin in the biographical film Rhapsody in Blue as well as the talent agent in the Douglas Sirk classic Imitation of Life.
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Robert Alda appeared in an episode of The Feather and Father Gang in 1977.
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Robert Alda's first wife, and mother of actor Alan Robert Alda, Joan Browne, was a homemaker and former beauty pageant winner.
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Robert Alda was married to his second wife and mother of Antony, Flora Marino, an Italian actress whom he met in Rome, until his death.
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Robert Alda died on May 3,1986, aged 72, after a long illness following a stroke.
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Robert Alda is buried in the Garden of Ascension lot 9101 Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California.