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Macdonald Carey

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Actor 1913–1994 On stage 1941–1954

Edward Macdonald Carey (March 15, 1913 – March 21, 1994) was an American actor. He first made his career starring in various B-movies from the 1940s through the 1960s, (with a few A-picture exceptions like Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt), and was known in many Hollywood circles as "King of the Bs". Beginning in 1965, he portrayed patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives. For almost three decades, he was the show's central cast member, winning two Daytime Emmy Awards.

On stage 2 productions, 13 years

1941 Lady in the Dark Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Hassard Short, Moss Hart 467 perf.
1954 Anniversary Waltz Broadhurst Theatre · Original · directed by Moss Hart 611 perf.

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In the literature8 passages

  • Similarly, Hart captures the complexity of Liza’s relationship with her obnoxious advertising manager, Charley Johnson (MacDonald Carey). In the Glamour Dream Johnson plays the marine who paints Liza’s portrait for the two-cent stamp, not as Liza sees herself in the dream but as others see her in real life. Already in the first dream he h…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Original cast (1941) : Gertrude Lawrence, MacDonald Carey, Donald Randolph, Maurice Abravenal (conductor). AEI 1146. Contents: “Oh, Fabulous One,” “One Life to Live,” “Girl of the Moment,” “It Looks Like Liza,” “The Saga of Jenny,” “My Ship,” and dialogue from act I, scenes 1, 2, 4, and 5. Lawrence’s “My Ship” (February 23, 1941) appears…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Cast: Gertrude Lawrence, Victor Mature, Danny Kaye, Macdonald Carey, Bert Lytell, Evelyn Wyckoff, Margaret Dale, Ron Fieldebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • It was around this time that Irving Goldman, the paint salesman I’d met on the opening night of Camelot , the man who resembled Macdonald Carey, contacted me to say he wanted to meet Lawrence. We chatted, and he regaled me with stories about J. J. and other Shubert people. The stories sounded true—he seemed to know them well—so I arranged…ebooks/Schoenfeld, Gerald/Mr. Broadway_ The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars - Gerald Schoenfeld.txt
  • MacDonald Carey also took a film. Their loss was serious enough, but it was Danny Kaye’s defection that caused the most Hart-burn ...theatre-pdfs/Gertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley.txt
  • Macdonald Carey and Gertrude Lawrence in Lady in the Dark. New York, Alvin Theatre, 1941. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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