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In 1951 Larry Parks was summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, under threat of being blacklisted in the movie industry, but he begged not to be forced to testify. He eventually did so in tears, only to be blacklisted anyway. Larry Parks eventually gave up the names of his former colleagues and submitted to the HUAC. Following his admission before the committee, Columbia Pictures dropped him, and a romantic comedy he made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was shelved for three years. Parks made only a few more films, but continued to eke out a living acting on the stage and doing occasional television programmes. He last appeared, in a major role, in the John Huston film Freud (1962).
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Larry Parks is the shadow public prosecutor who has succeeded in putting Alan Greenspan on the witness stand. The charge is that his Federal Reserve System is not now, nor has it ever been, run in the interest of labor, seniors, or other citizens and taxpayers. On the contrary, it has been run in order to plunder them — as a result of a conspiracy involving Big Banks and Big Government.
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PECOS, N.M., 1/8/07 -- Larry Parks backs a trailer up to the double doors of a tiny white cinderblock building that sometimes serves as a sheriff’s outpost. He begins unloading everything Pecos Valley Cowboy Church needs to set up for the morning’s service. One item placed on the counter near the entrance collects tithes and prayer requests. It is a memorial and a reminder.
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Larry Parks supplies the body, Al Jolson the voice, in one of Hollywood's best-loved musicals. Follow brash young Asa on his climb up the show biz ladder and into film history as the Jazz Singer. Songs include "Swanee," "April Showers," "Mammy"; with Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest. 130 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Japanese.
From All Movie Guide: Plagued by several severe childhood illnesses, Larry Parks was inspired by the example of his doctors to study medicine at the University of Illinois. But before graduating, Parks had decided to become an actor. He headed for New York, where he ushered at various theaters and movie houses before joining the Group Theater. He signed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1941, appearing in "B"s and bits until selected to play the title role in the big-budget The Jolson Story. Parks was coached in the role by Al Jolson himself, whose singing voice was heard throughout the film (reportedly, this association was a pleasant one until Jolson, incensed that Columbia had not asked him to star in his own biopic, viciously turned on Parks and treated him atrociously). With the exceptions of Jolson Story and its 1949 follow-up, Jolson Sings Again, most of Parks' starring vehicles were easily forgettable.
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Larry Parks was born in Olathe, Kansas, on 13th December, 1914. He moved to Hollywood and during the early 1940s obtained a series of minor roles in movies such as Harmon of Michigan (1941), Harvard, Here I Come (1940), Mystery Ship (1941), Alias Boston Blackie (1942), Atlantic Convoy (1942), Canal Zone (1942), Deerslayer (1943), Stars on Parade (1944) and Counter-Attack (1945).
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