#ManCrushMonday #MemorableSupportingActtors Harry Carey

A man with many talents than just acting, Harry Carey was born January 16, 1878 in The Bronx. He graduated New York University in law, although never taking his bar exams instead writing what became the stage play "Montana." Eventually it found its way onto the stage and Carey slid into his third role in "Montana" as actor having produced it since its inception. Immediately he tried for another stage play "The Heart of Alaska" which flopped. Looking for better work, Carey joined Biograph Company. 

When D.W. Griffith moved Biograph from New York to Hollywood, he brought Carey with him and his career skyrocketed and specifically in Western films. He is best known playing the President of the Senate in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) and "Red River" (1948). From an underwhelming stint in the Broadway play "Heavenly Express," Carey's stage career launched into hyper drive until Garson Kanin insisted he could have no one else in the 1940 film version of "They Knew What They Wanted." Carey came back to Hollywood in bigger demand than before. He died in 1947 from coronary thrombosis possibly brought on a black widow spider bite. 

Cool Link to Check Out
12 Oct 1941, Page 48 - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle at Newspapers.com