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Wing and a Prayer

Don Ameche

b.5/11/1908 Kenosha, Wisconsin
d.12/02/1993

Father was a bartender  Raised in Marion Iowa and Chicago Illinois  Student Loras College (Iowa) and University of Wisconsin  Radio drama leading man including award winning comedy “The Bickersons”  Academy Award Best Actor “Cocoon” 1985  First cinematic movie “Dante’s Inferno” 1935

Filmography:

Dante’s Inferno, Sins of Man, Ramona, One in a Million, Love Under Fire, In Old Chicago, Three Musketeers, Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Swanee River, Alexander Graham Bell, Moon Over Miami, Girl Trouble, Happy Land Heaven Can Wait Hollywood Cavalcade, Wing and A Prayer, Greenwich Village, It’s in the Bag, Slightly French, Fire One, Boatniks, Trading Places, Won Ton Ton, Cocoon, Corrina Corrina, Coming to America