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Max Showalter
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Played the stage role of Horace Vandergelder in "Hello, Dolly!" more than 3,000 times opposite such luminaries as
Carol Channing
,
Betty Grable
,
Ginger Rogers
, and
Betsy Palmer
.
Was cast as Ward Cleaver in the original
Leave It to Beaver (1957)
pilot. It would be resubmitted later with
Hugh Beaumont
as Ward Cleaver.
Max appears briefly as Harry Guild in
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
where his vaudeville partner, Don Ross, is played by
David Wayne
. In the movie, Showalter and Wayne perform a tune entitled "Hoe that Corn," a song written by Showalter.
He and
Edward Andrews
both appeared in
Elmer Gantry (1960)
in 1960. 24 years later they would appear together again as
Molly Ringwald
's grandfathers in the
John Hughes
teen classic,
Sixteen Candles (1984)
.
Also acted under the name "Casey Adams".
His surviving sister is Ann Philpott of Fresno, California.
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