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Robert Paige
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Acting
Birthday
1911-12-02,Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Robert Paige (born John Arthur Page December 2, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana, died Dec 21,1987) was a TV star and Universal Pictures leading man who made 65 films in his lifetime and was the only actor ever allowed to sing on film with Deanna Durbin (in 1944's Can't Help Singing). He was a graduate of West Point and was related to Admiral David Beatty, hero of the World War I Battle of Jutland. Paige began his screen career in 1934. His handsome features and assured speaking voice earned him prominent roles in motion pictures, such as Cain and Mabel with Clark Gable and Marion Davies. In 1936, to avoid confusion with another rising leading man, John Payne, Paige briefly adopted the screen name "David Carlyle." He worked primarily for Warner Brothers and Republic Pictures during this period. In 1938 he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures, which changed his screen name to Robert Paige. Columbia cast him in "B" features and starred him in one serial, Flying G-Men. When the Columbia contract lapsed, Paige moved to Paramount Pictures and finally found a home in 1941 at Universal Pictures. Robert Paige quickly became one of Universal's reliable stars, playing romantic leads. He is prominent in many of Universal's comedies and musicals, including those of Abbott and Costello, Olsen and Johnson, Gloria Jean, and Hugh Herbert. He had a good singing voice and a flair for comedy, and the studio capitalized on these talents. Beginning in 1943 Universal gave Paige important roles in its biggest productions, but by then he was so established as a B-picture lead that he never quite graduated to mega-stardom. Paige, along with other contract players, left Universal after a corporate shakeup in 1946. He became an independent film producer in 1947 and entered the new field of television. He was the last permanent host of NBC's variety series The Colgate Comedy Hour, and won an Emmy in 1955 for "Best Male Personality" (a category that no longer exists). In the 1960s he became a TV newscaster in Los Angeles. Paige continued to work in occasional films through 1963; his last two films were The Marriage-Go-Round (1961) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963). From 1966 to 1970 Paige was a newscaster and political correspondent for ABC News in Los Angeles. He left the news desk to become Deputy Supervisor of Los Angeles under Baxter Ward, and then moved into the public relations field. He retired in the late 1970s. Robert Paige died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm in 1987.

Filmography

5.84

Son of Dracula
1943-11-05

5.9

Bye Bye Birdie
1963-04-04

6.2

Split Second
1953-05-02

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

5.5

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953-04-06

5.6

Blonde Ice
1948-07-24

5.4

The Flame
1947-11-24

6

Flying G-Men
1939-01-28

Can't Help Singing

5.1

Can't Help Singing
1944-12-25

7.1

Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25

San Antonio Rose

7

San Antonio Rose
1941-06-20

6.2

Smart Blonde
1937-01-02

Get Hep to Love

4

Get Hep to Love
1942-10-02

The Monster and the Girl

5.8

The Monster and the Girl
1941-02-28

The Marriage-Go-Round

4.8

The Marriage-Go-Round
1961-01-06

Jail House Blues

0

Jail House Blues
1942-02-01

5

Golden Gloves
1940-08-02

5.8

Shady Lady
1945-09-07

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

10

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01

The Many Faces of Dracula

5

The Many Faces of Dracula
2000-01-01

Rhythm in the Clouds

5

Rhythm in the Clouds
1937-06-21

Who Killed Gail Preston?

6

Who Killed Gail Preston?
1938-02-24

6.3

Cain and Mabel
1936-09-26

2.2

Mister Big
1943-05-28

6.2

Tangier
1946-06-06

Meet the Boy Friend

6

Meet the Boy Friend
1937-07-12

4.8

Fired Wife
1943-09-04

Dancing on a Dime

5

Dancing on a Dime
1940-11-01

Women Without Names

4.8

Women Without Names
1940-03-14

3.5

How's About It
1943-01-01

There's Always a Woman

5.8

There's Always a Woman
1938-04-20

The Red Stallion

0

The Red Stallion
1947-08-16

I Stand Accused

0

I Stand Accused
1938-10-29

The Green Promise

6.6

The Green Promise
1949-03-22

6

Rose Bowl
1936-11-30

0

Melody for Two
1937-05-01

Homicide Bureau

6

Homicide Bureau
1939-01-05

Her Primitive Man

6

Her Primitive Man
1944-05-29

7.8

First Love
1939-11-10

0

Parole Fixer
1940-02-02

The Lady Objects

5.2

The Lady Objects
1938-10-12

The Cherokee Strip

6

The Cherokee Strip
1937-05-15

Frontier Badmen

0

Frontier Badmen
1943-08-05

6.3

Once a Doctor
1937-01-23

Emergency Squad

5

Emergency Squad
1940-01-05

What's Cookin'?

5.5

What's Cookin'?
1942-02-20

When G-Men Step In

6

When G-Men Step In
1938-03-16

6

Talent Scout
1937-07-24

The Last Warning

7

The Last Warning
1938-12-07

0

Melody Lane
1941-12-09

0

Almost Married
1942-05-22

6

Hi'ya, Chum
1943-02-25

7

Hi, Buddy
1943-02-26

Pardon My Sarong

6.521

Pardon My Sarong
1942-08-07

0

Get Going
1943-06-21

0

Highway Patrol
1938-06-27

Don't Get Personal

3

Don't Get Personal
1942-01-02

Keep 'Em Slugging

5.5

Keep 'Em Slugging
1943-03-01

0

The Main Event
1938-06-22

You're Telling Me

0

You're Telling Me
1942-05-03

Cowboy in Manhattan

0

Cowboy in Manhattan
1943-05-21

5

Crazy House
1943-10-08

Opened by Mistake

0

Opened by Mistake
1940-05-10

Death of a Champion

0

Death of a Champion
1939-08-24

It Happened to Jane

6.1

It Happened to Jane
1959-05-24

The Colgate Comedy Hour

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10

The Millionaire

5

The Millionaire
1955-01-19

Lux Video Theatre

5.5

Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02

Cavalcade of America

3.5

Cavalcade of America
1952-10-01

The Colgate Comedy Hour

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

6.2

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960-09-19

Four Star Playhouse

5.7

Four Star Playhouse
1952-09-25

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

6.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05