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Robert Cummings
Age: 80 (passed away Dec. 2nd, 1990)
Height: 5' 10"
Birth Place: Joplin, Missouri, USA
Born: Jun. 10th, 1910
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BIOGRAPHY: Effective light comedian of '30s and '40s films and '50s and '60s TV series, Robert Cummings was renowned for his eternally youthful looks (which he attributed to a strict vitamin and health-food diet). He was educated at Carnegie Tech and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Deciding that Broadway producers would be more interested in an upper-crust Englishman than a kid from Joplin, Missouri, Cummings passed himself off as Blade Stanhope Conway, British actor. The ploy was successful. Cummings decided that if it worked on Broadway, it would work in Hollywood, so he journeyed west and assumed the identity of a rich Texan named Bruce Hutchens. The plan worked once more, and he began securing small parts in films. He soon reverted to his real name and became a popular leading man in light comedies, usually playing well-meaning, pleasant but somewhat bumbling young men. He achieved much more success, however, in his own television series in the '50s, "The Bob Cummings Show" (1955) and "My Living Doll" (1964).
TRIVIA:
- Not only was he a health food fanatic, but he often carried a small suitcase with him full of vitamin pills.
- (1928) Graduated from Joplin High School
- Godson of 'Orville Wright' (qv), an old family friend, who also taught him to fly. He piloted his own plane most of his life.
- Chosen by producer 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) as his co-star in _The High and the Mighty (1954)_ (qv), though director 'William A. Wellman' (qv) replaced him with 'Robert Stack' (qv).
- In dramatic films he was billed in the credits as Robert Cummings; in lighter fare, often as Bob Cummings.
- According to an article in Flying Magazine, when the government began licensing flight instructors, Bob received flight instructor certificate number "1", the first instructor to receive a license.
- Interred at Forest Lawn (Glendale), Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Sanctity.
- During WWII, as a pilot, Cummings was once stationed at Oxnard, California.
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