Today's star is somone I'm sure 99.9999% of you have never heard of.
Charles Winninger for Blatz Beer
He was sort of an home-grown American version of S. Z. Sakall, i.e. a chubby and lovable presence in a ton of supporting roles. At least half the movies he was in I've never heard of. The only movie I saw him in was Ziegfeld Girl, in which he played Judy Garland's father.
According to IMDB, he appeared 12 times on The Charles Farrell Show, something else I've never heard of. Back in the 1950s there were several TV series headed by old timey stars - Loretta Young, Robert Montgomery, etc. etc. Charles Farrell was one of those.
Farrell might be better remembered as Gale Storm's dad in My Little Margie.
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