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Don Ameche
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Though his popularity rose and fell during his long career, American actor Don Ameche, born Dominic Amici in Kenosha, WI, was one of Hollywood's most enduring stars. He began his acting career in college, where he had been studying law. He had a natural gift for acting and got his first professional opportunity when he filled in for a missing lead in the stock theater production of Excess Baggage. After that, he forewent his law career and became a full-time theatrical actor. He ... worked briefly in vaudeville beside Texas Guinan. Following that he spent five years as a radio announcer.
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Actor Don Ameche was born Dominic Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin -- a city he hated -- in 1908; and was active in showbiz for 60 years. He died of cancer in 1993.
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For his contribution to radio, Don Ameche has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6313 Hollywood Blvd. and a second star at 6101 Hollywood Blvd. for his contribution to the television industry.
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Mr. Ameche, a veteran radio announcer and younger brother of the actor Don Ameche, died Friday night at Tucson Medical Center. He played the original ''Jack Armstrong,'' the adventurer, globetrotter and do-gooder from 1933 until 1938. He later played more serious roles on other radio programs, including the Woodbury Hollywood Playhouse.
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Synopsis: In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed and disillusioned. Finally, broke and friendlessRead More
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In an America of horses and buggies, gaslights and Morse code, a young Scotsman named Alexander Graham Bell (Don Ameche) comes to Boston to earn a living working with deaf-mutes, while spending his off-hours inventing. When he falls in love with a young woman (Loretta Young) whom he has been asked to teach, she beseeches her wealthy father to back her lover's inventions. Money and love combine in this drama to powerful effect, but it takes much more to produce the invention which made Bell a household name.
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