Max Showalter(1917-2000)
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Born in Kansas, Max Showalter picked up
the "acting bug" as a toddler when mother used to take him to the local
theater where she played the piano for silent movies. He acted in 92
shows at the Pasadena Playhouse between 1935 and
'38, made his Broadway debut under the aegis of
Oscar Hammerstein II
in "Knights of Song" and acted for two years in the cast of
Irving Berlin's traveling musical
"This Is the Army." In addition to his films, TV appearances (over
1000), and stage shows, Showalter was a composer, a songwriter, and
pianist. In his later years he lived in an 18th-century farmhouse in
the Connecticut town he fell in love with while shooting the movie
It Happened to Jane (1959).
