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He repeated his stage role in the 1952 film version of the musical. Also that year, he recorded a children's album, The Churkendoose, featuring the story of a misfit fowl ("part chicken, turkey, duck, and goose"), which teaches children that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it "all depends on how you look at things".īolger in a publicity photo for The Bell Telephone Hour, 1963īolger's Broadway credits included Life Begins at 8:40 (1934), On Your Toes (1936), By Jupiter (1942), All American (1962) and Where's Charley? (1948), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and in which he introduced "Once in Love with Amy", the song often connected with him. In 1946, he returned to MGM for a featured role in The Harvey Girls. Bolger toured in USO shows in the Pacific Theater during World War II, and appeared in the United Artists wartime film Stage Door Canteen (1943). On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Bolger's performance was interrupted by President Roosevelt's announcement of the news of the attack. He would do tap dance routines, sometimes in a mock-challenge dance with the band's pianist, Al Lerner. In 1941, he was a featured act at the Paramount Theatre in New York, working with the Harry James Band. Post-Oz film career įollowing The Wizard of Oz, Bolger moved to RKO Pictures. Bolger's face was permanently lined by wearing the Scarecrow's makeup.
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The role of the Scarecrow had already been assigned to another dancing, studio-contract player, Buddy Ebsen. However, he was unhappy when he was originally cast as the Tin Woodman in the studio's 1939 feature-film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. He also appeared in the Eleanor Powell vehicle Rosalie (1937), which also starred Eddy and Frank Morgan.īolger's MGM contract stipulated that he would play any part the studio chose. He also appeared in Sweethearts (1938), the first MGM film in Technicolor, starring Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. His best known pre-Oz appearance was The Great Ziegfeld (1936), in which he portrayed himself.
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īolger signed his first cinema contract with MGM in 1936, and although The Wizard of Oz was early in his film career, he appeared in other movies of note.
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In 1932 he was elected to the theater club, The Lambs and performed on opening night at Radio City Music Hall in December 1932. Eventually, his career also encompassed film, television, and nightclub work. His limber body and improvisational dance movements won him many leading roles on Broadway in the 1930s. In 1926, he danced at New York City's legendary Palace Theatre, the premier vaudeville theatre in the United States. He began his career in a vaudeville tap show, creating the act "Sanford & Bolger" with his dance partner. His entertainment aspirations evolved from the vaudeville shows of his youth. After graduating from high school, he worked for a peanut company, as a bank messenger, and for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, before finding his way to vaudeville by gaining a role on Broadway in The Passing Show of 1926. He grew up and attended school in the Codman Square section of Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. His father James was first-generation Irish, and was born in Fall River, Massachusetts his mother "Annie" who had a large Irish family, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Bolger was born at 598 Second St., South Boston, Massachusetts, into a Catholic family of Irish descent, the son of James Edward Bolger and Anne C.