[Dixielandjazz] Arthur Pryor

[David Richoux]

Bill,

Thanks! Vanessa Woods told me she might include my research and  
question in her website blog, but she worked faster than I thought! I  
had found the other Pryor website  during my research - but Google is  
not always friendly to this sort of digging...
Her main website is http://www.tnpryors.com

Roger Pryor is the slick one on the right:
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/westerns/richardarlen/richardarlen14.jpg

"poor man's Clark Gable" according to
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0699430/bio
but he did also play the trombone!

Dave Richoux

On Nov 18, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:

> Dear Dave,
> The following is the result of more internet searching.
> All of which you probably have.
> The first one is interesting.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
>
> http://tennesseepryors.wordpress.com/
> http://arthurpryor.com/
> http://www.parlorsongs.com/insearch/coonsongs/coonsongs.php
>
> Biography: Roger Pryor
> Slick, devilishly handsome leading man Roger Pryor was the son of  
> prominent composer/bandleader Arthur Pryor. The younger Pryor made  
> his stage bow as a teenager with Connecticut's Myskle-Harder Stock  
> Company. His first Broadway appearance was in the 1925 production  
> The Back Slapper. While appearing on-stage at night, Pryor faced the  
> cameras at a New York movie studio by day in his film debut, the  
> 1933 musical Moonlight and Pretzels. This led to long-term contracts  
> at such studios as Universal and Columbia, where Pryor starred in B- 
> pictures and played supporting roles. During his busiest Hollywood  
> years, Pryor embarked upon a six-year marriage to actress Ann  
> Sothern. Never in the upper echelons of screen stardom, Pryor was  
> better served on radio, where for several seasons he hosted Gulf  
> Oil's "Screen Guild Theatre"; he also upheld the family tradition by  
> leading a dance band. Roger Pryor retired from show business in 1947  
> to enjoy a profitable second career as an ad executive. ~ Hal  
> Erickson, All Movie Guide
>