Tom Ewell received a Tony Award for his work in the play and a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film.
17 Facts About Tom Ewell
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Tom Ewell appeared in the film version of the musical State Fair and in a small number of additional ones released between the early 1960s and 1980s.
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Tom Ewell's family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers, but Ewell decided to pursue acting instead.
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Tom Ewell began acting in summer stock in 1928 with Don Ameche before moving to New York City in 1931.
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Tom Ewell made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940, and for several years, he played comic supporting roles.
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Tom Ewell's acting career was interrupted during World War II when he served in the United States Navy.
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Tom Ewell continued acting in summer stock through the 1940s: He starred opposite June Lockhart in Lawrence Riley's biographical play Kin Hubbard in 1951, the story of one of America's greatest humorists and cartoonists, Kin Hubbard.
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Tom Ewell enjoyed other film successes, including The Lieutenant Wore Skirts with Sheree North and The Girl Can't Help It opposite Jayne Mansfield.
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Tom Ewell played Abel Frake in the 1962 version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical State Fair.
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Tom Ewell's final acting performance was in a 1986 episode of Murder, She Wrote.
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From September 1960 to May 1961, Ewell starred in his own television series, in the self-titled The Tom Ewell Show, which lasted for one season.
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In 1970, Tom Ewell played Hoy Valentine in The Men From Shiloh in the episode titled "With Love, Bullets and Valentines".
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Tom Ewell appeared in 36 episodes of the television-cop series, which starred Robert Blake as Detective Tony Baretta, until its end in 1978.
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Tom Ewell co-starred from 1981 to 1982 as the drunken town doctor in the short-lived television series Best of the West.
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Tom Ewell then married Marjorie Sanborn on May 5,1948; they had a son, Taylor.
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Tom Ewell died of undisclosed causes at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital on September 12,1994.
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In 2003, Tom Ewell was inducted into the Owensboro High School Hall of Fame.