When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??

When Baum had been touring New York State in the title role, the actor playing the ghost fell through the floorboards, and the rural audience thought it was part of the show and demanded that the actor repeat the fall, because they thought it was funny.

When he thought an actor, director, or a movie studio had done something shoddy, he spoke up about it and was willing to be quoted.

When Jesus does appear in the film ( on the Mount, speaking the Beatitudes ), he is played straight ( by actor Kenneth Colley ) and portrayed with respect.

* When We Were in Our Teens ( 1910, actor )

When Atlanta reneged, the American Football League awarded an expansion team franchise to lawyer Joseph Robbie and actor Danny Thomas for $ 7. 5 million.

When the leading actor is the subject of the POV it is known as the subjective viewpoint.

When Leone directed Once Upon a Time in America, he commented that Robert De Niro was a real actor, unlike Eastwood.

When used by an actor, musician, radio disc jockey, model or other performer a pseudonym is called a stage name, or, occasionally, a professional name, or screen name.

When he returned to New York that spring, he met and fell in love with Frank Phillip Merlo ( 1922 – 1963 ), an occasional actor of Sicilian heritage who had served in the U. S. Navy in World War II.

When the character returned for the 1968 film Inspector Clouseau, he was portrayed by American actor Alan Arkin ; Edwards was not involved in this production.

When his career took him to London in 1954 after his provincial apprenticeship, his agent informed him that there was already a Michael Scott performing as an actor in London and that he had to come up with a new name immediately.

* When Briton Maurice Micklewhite first became an actor, he adopted the stage name " Michael Scott ".

He went on to play the organist in When We Are Married and by his third role, the chauffeur Charles in Miranda, Barker realised he wanted to be a comic actor.

When President Ronald Reagan was an actor during the 1940s, he had his mother sign his name to much of his fan mail.

When Washington won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Movie in 2000, as he noted: " No African-American has won best actor in the Golden Globes since Sidney Poitier, until I did ".

When Crowe read the scene where Wigand finds out that the 60 Minutes interview he did will not be aired, he captured the essence of Wigand so well that Mann knew he had found the perfect actor for the role.

When McQueen appeared in a two-part television presentation entitled The Defenders, Hollywood manager Hilly Elkins ( who managed McQueen's first wife, Neile ) took note of him and decided that B-movies would be a good place for the young actor to make his mark.

When everyone thought the man wasn't coming, they went to bed for the night only to have the actor walk in a few minutes later.

When Columbia was preparing a screen biography of Al Jolson, many big-name stars were considered for the title role, including James Cagney and Danny Thomas ( both of whom turned it down ), but resident contractee Larry Parks was reportedly the first actor to be interviewed.

Whitman was a supporting actor in When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ), All American ( 1953 ), Brigadoon ( 1954 ), Silver Lode ( 1954 ), Ten North Frederick ( 1958 ), The Decks Ran Red ( 1958 ) starring Dorothy Dandridge, on whose face Whitman planted Hollywood's first interrracial kiss, These Thousand Hills ( 1959 ), and The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ).

When it was made, Don O ' Kelly was a TV actor.

When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When the hay wagon had gone, and an interval passed, a huckster's cart might turn the corner.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.