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Word: offields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield) was born in Sedalia, Mo. His Scotch mother was a schoolteacher; his Irish father was in the hay business. The family moved to Manhattan and Oakie went to school at De La Salle High, left school to be a telephone clerk for a brokerage house, left brokerage to be a chorus boy in Innocent Eyes. He took funny bit-parts in several revues, then went to Hollywood with a letter of introduction to Wesley Ruggles who cast him for nothing much in Finders Keepers. Critics picked him out, Paramount put him on contract, recently made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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