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- Birth nameClarence Oliver
- Larry Oliver was born on October 5, 1879 in Carthage, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Comment l'esprit vient aux femmes (1950) and Born Yesterday (1956). He died on January 20, 1973 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- When the young English actor Laurence Olivier went to Hollywood in the early 1930s, studio executives wanted him to change his name to "Larry Oliver." Olivier said that later on in his highly successful career, he would muse with his friends about what might have become of him, what kind of career he would have had, if he had changed his name to "Larry Oliver" as that name connoted a different type of actor. The American actor with that name appeared six times on Broadway between 1930 and 1965, most notably in Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday." The "real" Larry Oliver repeated his Broadway performance as the politician Norval Hedges in the 1950 movie version of the play, his only movie appearance. (A senator on Broadway, Larry Oliver's character had been demoted to a Congressman for the film, but he was again bumped up to the Senate in the 1956 "Hallmark Hall of Fame" teleplay.)
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