“The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century” by Margaret Talbot

You’ll find an entry on Lyle Talbot (1902-1996) in some movie encyclopedias, but not in others. In the early 1930s, he was under contract to Warner Bros., often playing “weak-willed malefactors.” His co-stars included Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard and Mae West, but he wasn’t charismatic enough to build a picture around, and the studio eventually let him go. He ended up making something like …

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“The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father’s Twentieth Century” by Margaret Talbot