Nickname:	Jackaboy
Known for:	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Mildred Pierce, A Star Is Born
Birth name:	John Elmer Carson
Birthday:	27 October 1910, Carman, Manitoba, Canada
Height:	6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Loved a good discussion about philosophy. Died on the same day as Dick Powell. They died from different forms of cancer. Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 94-95. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387 Grandfather of Seth D. Webster, who is the son of Daniel Frank Webster. Recorded for Design Records in 1957: "Jack Carson Sings Favorite College songs". He later sang for Capitol Records. Had a four-year run on radio with "Everybody Loves Jack" (1943-1947). During WWII, he entertained Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops in the South Pacific. While touring in vaudeville, he met his first wife, dancer Betty Alice Lindy. They later performed together in a song-and-dance act ("Lindy and Carson") for a year on the Orpheum Theatre circuit. They married in 1938 but divorced a year later. Collapsed in August of 1962 while in rehearsal for the play "Critic's Choice." An early diagnosis deemed it a stomach "disorder," but two months later, cancer was discovered while he was undergoing an unrelated operation. During the 1940s, he would often disappear from Hollywood for weeks at a time. Only his wife knew where he went, and she (Kay St. Germain Wells) would tell no one. Years later Carson revealed the secret: he had joined the Clyde Beatty circus as a clown and was traveling with their show. Audiences never knew it was he; "They loved me and my routines," he said,.

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