He thought he was all that but he wasn't. The fact he played second fiddle to Ozzie is tellin enough.
Well, how many moves were YOU in, big Mr. Bigshot????
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 28, 2021 3:35 PM |
Looks like he was married 5 times.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 28, 2021 3:36 PM |
His son Stephen played Gilbert Bates on Leave It To Beaver......
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 28, 2021 4:19 PM |
He worked for Ed Wood. That's good enough for me.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 28, 2021 8:16 PM |
Lyle Talbot had as much sex appeal as John Payne.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 28, 2021 8:48 PM |
He had a very long career.
[quote]His son Stephen played Gilbert Bates on Leave It To Beaver......
His other son David founded Salon.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 28, 2021 8:52 PM |
And David Talbot's son wrote and directed "The Last Black Man in San Francisco." So quite a family legacy.
Stephen is a journalist and documentary producer, and worked a lot for "Frontline."
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 28, 2021 8:54 PM |
^ The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a provocative title.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 28, 2021 8:58 PM |
R5 Lyle Talbot had as a little more sex appeal than Joel McCrea.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 28, 2021 9:10 PM |
His sister started TALBOTS.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 28, 2021 9:24 PM |
R11 But Joel McCrea had a different kind of sex appeal.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | January 28, 2021 9:35 PM |
I grew up with Lyle Talbot as Ozzie Nelson's friendly dowdy neighbor so imagine my shock and pleasant surprise re-discovering him one morning on TCM in a great Loretta Young pre-code film directed by Busby Berkeley called SHE HAD TO SAY YES.
Lyle plays Loretta's boss and suitor and he just oozes sex. Kind of a college preppie with an edge appeal if that makes sense. No shirtless scenes so I can't compare his young body to John Payne's or Joel McCrea's but he rocked those 1930s suits and pleated trousers. It really made me wonder why he didn't become more a leading man when he was in his youth.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | January 28, 2021 9:40 PM |
He almost looks like Clark Gable in the first picture.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | January 28, 2021 9:45 PM |
[quote] He thought he was all that
OP, you started this thread but haven't bothered to carry it through.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | February 9, 2021 12:20 AM |
His daughter Margaret Talbot is a writer for the New Yorker, highly regarded too. She wrote a lovely biography of her father.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | February 9, 2021 2:05 AM |