Who?
Exactly.
As a Luise Rainer obsessive I recently tried to find out if any of her MGM co-stars were still living, or had she outlived them all. Whilst there's a chance that there may be some of the Ziegfeld girls from The Great Ziegfeld still (high) kicking, the likelihood of tracking them down, especially as most were not credited for the film, was zero to very little. There was, however, one person who made a film at MGM with Luise that may still be alive: Alan Perl.
Alan played Luise's son Georgie in The Toy Wife (1938), MGM's jump onto the Gone With The Wind bandwagon, with Luise as a European-Southern belle stealing the hearts of two beaus and getting herself into hot water with her steadfast sister (played by Barbara O'Neil). The film is charming, but doesn't have the quality of Luise's previous Oscar winners.
This is Alan Perl's only credit. He was only four years old at the time so he would be in his late 70s today. I have been unable to find any further information about him, so....
Whatever happened to Alan Perl?
No comments:
Post a Comment