Mousie Garner Dick Hakins Jack Wolf Jack Egan—SIGNED PHOTO

Description: SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO Paul "Mousie" Garner (1909 – 2004) was a musician, comedian, and actor. He was one of the last active stars from vaudeville, and has been referred to as its "Grand Old Man." In addition to big-time vaudeville, Mousie Garner appeared on Broadway and in major national touring companies; in short subjects, feature films and documentaries; on network television, cable and radio shows; and in nightclubs, auditoriums and concert halls.Mousie Garner made his stage debut as a child in 1913, singing, dancing and imitating Al Jolson in a family musical-comedy act developed by his father. While still a child, Garner was entertaining soldiers during World War I. By the time he was a teenager in the 1920s, he had already decided upon a career on the vaudeville stage. The Three StoogesStage star Ted Healy created and worked with the original three stooges : Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard (and later, Curly Howard). When Howard, Fine, and Howard chose to work on their own, officially, first in 1930, and later in 1934, as "The Three Stooges", Healy promptly hired an alternate new three stooges — Mousie Garner his cousin, Jack Wolf (father of Warner Wolf), and Richard "Dick" Hakins (1903-1980) — for the interims, working with them between 1931 and 1936. Most prominently, they stooged for Healy in the 1931 Broadway show, The Gangs All Here. Mousie Garner continued playing on stage and on screen with Dick Hakins, and either his cousin Jack Wolf or Wolf's replacement, Sammy Wolfe, in a musical comedy trio known as The Gentlemaniacs (aka: Garner, Wolf {or Wolfe} and Hakins) throughout the '30s. And with comedy star Jack Egan (1904-1982) as their straight man, the group even toured internationally; playing England in the fall of 1933. The Gentlemaniacs performed in several feature films and short subjects including After the Show (1929), Swing It, Professor (1937), The Hit Parade (1937), Murder with Reservations (1938) and Radio and Relatives (1940). Entertaining the WW II troopsServing in the U.S. Army during World War II, Garner was shipped overseas and he achieved the rank of technical sergeant before completing his term. He participated in the Allied forces' North African campaign, and was injured twice on duty. He received several commendations and after recovering from his wartime injuries, Garner joined the U.S.O. to star in Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson's "Sons O' Fun", the touring version of "Hellzapoppin'". The show was staged for servicemen throughout Europe during the Allies' postwar occupation. Garner's service in the U.S.O. would continue throughout both the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, as he continued to entertain the troops throughout the 1950s and '60s. With the dissolution of the Gentlemaniacs, Garner almost became one of the Three Stooges on two occasions.According to Garner's autobiography, when Shemp Howard died suddenly in November 1955, Moe Howard and Larry Fine wanted Garner to join them in 1956, but Garner was then under contract to Spike Jones as a musical comedian with Jones's band, the City Slickers. Despite Moe Howard pleading his case to Jones personally, Jones would not release Garner; Joe Besser would eventually replace Shemp in 1956. (Moe's posthumous autobiography has Joe DeRita as the protagonist instead of Garner and Harold Minsky instead of Jones). After Besser quit the act in 1958, Larry suggested Garner again as a potential replacement and he and Moe would later rehearse with Garner. However, based on his tryout performance, Moe later remarked that Garner was "completely unacceptable" for the act. Joe DeRita would instead become the "third stooge" in October 1958. Nevertheless, in the early 1970s, DeRita, with Moe's blessing, would invite Garner and Frank Mitchell to join the "New Three Stooges" act, filling in for the ailing Larry and Moe, respectively. While living in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s, Garner continued to work as a comic with the U.S.O., as a touring solo and ensemble stage comedian and as a television performer. TelevisionGarner appeared on The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Jack Benny Program, Cavalcade of Stars, The Jackie Gleason Show, The NBC Comedy Hour, and Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall throughout the 1950s.By the 1960s, Garner was a popular character actor on such television programs as Maverick, Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond, Lock Up, Surfside 6, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, 77 Sunset Strip, Wendy and Me, The Munsters, Petticoat Junction, No Time For Sergeants, Mister Roberts, Honey West, Mr. Terrific, I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart, and Julia. Throughout the 1970s, Garner continued to appear on television variety shows like The Red Skelton Show and The Bobby Vinton Show. In the 1980s, Garner continued to find roles on such television programs as CHiPs, Brothers, and Emmy Award winning Amazing Stories.In 1964, Garner guested in the film For Those Who Think Young and also played a bit in Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1972. That same year, Garner appeared in the made-for-TV movie Goodnight, My Love which was followed by his appearance in Frasier, the Sensuous Lion (1973) and American Raspberry (1977). In 1980, Garner appeared in the made-for-TV movie The Dream Merchants as well as Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980). In 1981, Garner was featured in the Richard Benjamin film Saturday the 14th and would go on to play bit parts in Rhinestone (1984) and Avenging Angel (1985). Garner also played Billy Crystal's Uncle Lou in Billy Crystal: A Comic's Line (1984) and a zany cameraman in David Lee Roth's "Just a Gigolo" (1985) music video. In 1985, Garner played a bit part in the film Stoogemania. In 1988, Garner appeared with Sid Caesar, Danny Thomas and Milton Berle in the made-for-TV film Side By Side. In 1994 he appeared in the film George Lucas’s Radioland Murders as an homage to his work with Spike Jones and His City Slickers. He also appeared as Uncle Smackers, a character in The Onion Movie, a feature film produced by David Zucker, renowned for Airplane! and the Naked Gun series, which was released in 2008. Garner enjoyed a successful 75-year career as a comedian and show business professional. DeathAfter suffering from kidney problems, Garner died on August 8, 2004, at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, California, just over a week after his 95th birthday. Garner was interred with his family at the Bnai Israel Cemetery in Oxon Hill, Maryland. He was the last major celebrity associated with Ted Healy and the Three Stooges to die. MOUSIE GARNERPARTIAL FILMOGRAPHY1934Operator 13 with Ted Healy and Curly Howard 1937Swing It, Professorwith The Gentlemaniacs1937The Hit ParadeMemberwith The Gentlemaniacs1959The Rookie 1964For Those Who Think Young1972Last of the Red Hot Lovers1973Frasier, the Sensuous Lion1977American Raspberry1980Cheech & Chong's Next Movie1981Saturday the 14th1984Rhinestone1985Avenging Angel1985Stoogemania1994Radioland Murders2008The Onion Movie 2008. Smackers(final film) JACK EGAN FILMOGRAPHY Macdonald Carey, Eduardo Ciannelli, J. 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(1939)James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)Linda Hayes Kent Taylor in Sued for Libel (1939)Randolph Scott, Ralph Bellamy, Coast Guard (1939)Oliver Hardy Harry LangdonZenobia (1939)Max Wagner Money to Loan (1939)Ralph Bellamy Fay Wray Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)Wendy Barrie Edmund Lowe Newsboys' Home (1938)Jack Haley, Adolphe Menjou, Jack OakieThanks for Everything (1938)Marion Martin, Maxie Rosenbloom, and Charles Ruggles His Exciting Night (1938)Patsy Kelly, Fredric March, Alan MowbrayThere Goes My Heart (1938)Gloria Stuart Lanny Ross The Lady Objects (1938)Ralph ByrdDick Tracy Returns (1938)Maureen O'Sullivan, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan The Crowd Roars (1938)Sally Eilers, Paul KellyNurse from Brooklyn (1938)Ralph Bellamy, William Gargan, lBarbara Read The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)Rita Hayworth Don Terry Who Killed Gail Preston? 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