Today is the birthday of Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield, 1903-1978). A Missouri native who spent part of his childhood in Oklahoma, he moved to New York to break into show business around the start of the 1920s. He performed in vaudeviville, then broke into Broadway as a chorus boy in George M. Cohan’s Little [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:01AM on November 12, 2012