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Alan Carney
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Alan Carney has performed in vaudeville for years as a comic dialectican. After making his first film, 1941's Convoy , Carney signed a contract at RKO, in choice supporting roles in such films as Mr. Lucky .
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Wally Brown and Alan Carney, RKO's own Abbott and Costello ripoffs, star in the comedy western The Girl Rush. As usual, Brown is cast as fast-talking Jerry Miles and Carney plays slow-witted Mike Strager.
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Hey Alan, Much love to the people who made Who Killed the Electric Car?, because they got a lot of stuff right. It wasn’t any one person, corporation or technicality that killed the EV1. As with all product failures, it was a combination of tons of factors.
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[W]hile expressing gratitude on behalf of Carney youngsters and all the children who have attended performances at the Z, Miss Pina ... acknowledged some fears for the future. "We are very concerned and worried that whoever comes and tries to fill your shoes" will not have the same commitment to children's theater, she said.
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The funniest scenes involve Carney - one where he gets his foot stuck on an ox skull, another where he emits a "silent scream" as he's abducted from his bed, and all of his scenes as a pop-eyed zombie. His makeup is hilarious and maybe the reason these sequences work so well is because Carney is mute - there's no thudding dialogue to deliver and the humor is purely visual. Also, Anne Jeffreys is appropriately sassy as the knife-throwing nightclub chanteuse and it's hard to forget Darby Jones as the main zombie; his uniquely angular body is just as distinctive as Michael Rennie's alien in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). Best of all is that title which is bound to produce smiles of disbelief whenever you mention it to fellow film travelers.
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"The king in the fairy tales always did what was right and good for the people," said Carney Grade 1 teacher June Pina, who with her colleagues organized the tribute by all the school's first- and second-graders. "Hence, from this day forth, we declare you Good King Alan."
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