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...Angeles, another TV performer was charging a sponsor with excessive timidity. J. Carrol Naish, star of Life with Luigi, complained that Sponsor General Foods last week dropped the high-rated (39.7%) show largely because two scripts had offended 1) utility companies and 2) stockbrokers. One show had Luigi pitted against a power company that wanted to cut down a tree in his backyard; the other depicted Luigi as the troublesome owner of one share of stock in a big corporation. Snorted Naish, a Taft Republican: "The idea that I would countenance any subversive ideology on my show is ridiculous...
...head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol Naish as pioneer railroad men, and Zasu Pitts as a fluttery frontier belle...
...woman, a Swede, a Negro, an Indian, a Japanese, a Malayan, a Chinese, a Pole. On Broadway, before he went to Hollywood, he once played a rabbi in the evening while rehearsing in the afternoon as a Greek gangster. On neither stage nor screen has Naish ever played an Irishman...
...Naish entered show business in his teens as a song plugger for Irving Berlin. At 17 he enlisted in World War I, and enjoyed an unruly military career as bombardier, naval orderly and Army machine gunner. After the war he stayed on in Europe, knocking around the Continent as a variety-hall clown and soldier of fortune. The European years fed his talent for mimicry, and left him fluent in five languages and competent in three others. He was on a slow boat to Shanghai when a storm at sea diverted him to Hollywood in 1927. After three years...
Twice nominated for an Academy Award (for an Italian soldier in 1943's Sahara and the Mexican father in 1945's A Medal for Benny), Naish has been under contract to a studio only once, to Paramount in 1938. Since then he has freelanced, turning down half a dozen contract offers and as many chances to get star billing. "I like to go after roles," he says, "and when you're under contract, you've got to do what they want you to do." His next part: in RKO's forthcoming Clash by Night...