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Sterling Holloway
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Actor Born: January 14, 1905 in Cedartown, GA Death: November 22, 1992 in San Laguna, CA Biography:Famed for his country-bumpkin features and fruity vocal intonations, American actor "Sterling Holloway" left his native Georgia as a teenager to study acting in New York City. Working through the Theatre Guild, the young Holloway was cast in the first Broadway production of songwriters Rodgers and Hart, Garrick Gaieties. In the 1925 edition of the revue, Holloway introduced the Rodgers-Hart standard "I'll Take Manhattan;" in the 1926 version, the actor introduced another hit, "Mountain Greenery." Hollywood beckoned, and Holloway made a group of silent two-reelers and one feature, the "Wallace Beery" vehicle "Casey at the Bat" (1927), before he was fired by the higher-ups because they deemed his face "too grotesque" for movies. Small wonder that Holloway would insist in later years that he was never satisfied with any of the work Hollywood would throw his way, and longed for the satisfaction of stage... Full Biography
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