Actor Dick Powell was born right here in Mountain View Arkansas in this house. Aside from a sign in the yard, his birthplace ion Main Street s not restored or really noticed. I noticed it, but there might not be all that many people who know who he was. But those of us 'of an age' remember.
I know this post is not about disability problems at all, but I found it interesting and I write this, so I make the rules. May you be able to use this in a trivial contest sometime
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| Dick Powell | |
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Photo taken 1938
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| Born | Richard Ewing Powell November 14, 1904[1] Mountain View, Arkansas, U.S.[1] |
| Died | January 2, 1963 (aged 58)[1] West Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1] |
| Occupation | Actor, singer, producer, director |
| Years active | 1930–63 |
| Spouse(s) | Mildred Maund[1] (1925-27) Joan Blondell (1936-44) (divorced) (1 child)[1] June Allyson (1945-63) (his death) (2 children)[1] |
| Children | Norman S. Powell (Barnes) (b. 1934) Ellen Powell (b. 1938) Dick Powell Jr. (b. 1950) |
Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) was an American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardbitten leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature.
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Powell was born in Mountain View,[2] the seat of Stone County in northern Arkansas. The family moved to Little Rock in 1914, where Powell sang in church choirs and with a local orchestras and started his own band.[3] Powell attended the former Little Rock College, before he started his entertainment career as a singer with the Royal Peacock Band which toured throughout the Midwest. During this time, he married Mildred Maund, a model, but she found being married to an entertainer not to her liking and they soon divorced.[3]Later, he joined the Charlie Davis Orchestra, based in Indianapolis.[3] He recorded a number of records with Davis and on his own, for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s.
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