Robert Cummings

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Charles Clarence Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990) was an American film and television actor best known for his appearances in comedy films like The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), but he also appeared in dramatic films, including two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954).

Cummings received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955.

On February 8, 1960, he was recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries.

The motion picture star is on 6816 Hollywood Boulevard, and the television star is on 1718 Vine Street.

Early life

Cummings was born in Joplin, Missouri, as the son of Dr. Charles Cummings and the late Ruth Annabelle Kraft. His father, a surgeon who was part of the original medical staff of St. John's Hospital in Joplin, and the founder of the Jasper County Tuberculosis Hospital in Webb City, Missouri, was a surgeon. The mother of Cummings was an ordained minister of the Science of Mind.

Cummings was taught to fly by his godfather, aviation pioneer Orville Wright, while attending Joplin High School. On March 3, 1927, his first solo appearance appeared. Cummings offered Joplin residents rides in his airplane for $5 per person during high school.

When the government started authorizing flight instructors, Cummings was issued a flight instructor license No. No. He is the first official flight instructor in the United States, making him the first official flight instructor in the United States.

Cummings attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, for a short time, but his love of flying led him to his transfer to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. He studied aeronautical engineering for a year before he left for financial reasons, with his family having lost a large amount of money in the 1929 stock market crash.

Since being involved in plays at Carnegie Tech, Cummings became interested in acting and decided to pursue it as a career. Since the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City paid its male actors $14 a week, Cummings decided to study there. He only lasted one season, but later said he learned "three main principles of acting." The first – never imagine – and the second – take pride in my work. Trust in God, the third one. And "respect" is a word that is regarded with reverence.

Personal life

Cummings has been married five times and fathered seven children. Emma Myers, a boy from his hometown, was his first marriage. Vivi Janiss, an actress who appeared in Ziegfeld Follies, was his second marriage. Mary Elliott, his third wife, was a former actress and oversaw Cummings' corporate affairs. They divorced in 1968 and had a rough divorce, during which she accused him of bribes against her and use methamphetamines, which she described as wild mood swings. She also said she trusted astronomers and numerologists to make financial decisions with "disastrous" consequences. The family's communal property was valued from $700,000 to $800,000 (equivalent to between $4.9 million and $5.6 million in 2021).

He was married to Gina Fong from 1971 to 1987 and married Martha Burzynski two years later. He died the following year.

He was an avid pilot and had a number of planes named "Spinach." In 1960, he became a firm promoter of natural foods and wrote a book on healthy living, Stay Young and Vital.

Hedda Hopper announced in May 1948 that there had been four lawsuits against Cummings.

A writer of My Hero who had been banned from writing in 1952. Cummings was served with papers concerning the arrest of LA County Sheriff William Conroy in 1952; Cummings assaulted Conroy and was later sued by the sheriff for injuries. Conroy said that the actor stabbed the motor of his car and dragged him along the pavement when he attempted to reach Cummings with a subpoena. Cummings admitted that he was unaware that Conroy was a deputy. Both cases were settled in 1954.

He was charged with fraud in 1972 for implementing a pyramid scheme involving his company, Bob Cummings Inc, which sold vitamins and food supplements.

In 1975, he was arrested for being in possession of a blue box used to defraud the telephone company. He was ruled out of a hearing under double jeopardy law.

Despite his passion for health, Cummings was convicted of being a methamphetamine addict from the mid-1950s to the end of his life. Cummings started getting injections from Max Jacobson, the famous "Dr. Feelgood" in 1954, when he was in New York to appear in the Westinghouse Studio One production of Twelve Angry Men. Rosemary Clooney and José Ferrer, his companions, recommended that the doctor to Cummings, who was complaining of a lack of electricity. Although Jacobson claimed that his injections contained only "vitamins, sheep sperm, and monkey gonads, they did have a significant dose of methamphetamine.

Cummings was reportedly using a mixture formulated by Jacobson, later becoming a client of Jacobson's son Thomas, who was based in Los Angeles and later injecting himself. The changes in Cummings' personalities triggered by the drug's euphoria and subsequent depression damaged his career and culminated in an intervention by his companion, television host Art Linkletter. The intervention was not fruitful, and Cummings' drug use and subsequent career loss played a role in his divorces from his third wife, Mary, and her fourth wife, Gina Fong.

Cummings established his own drug links based in the Bahamas after Jacobson was forced out of work in the 1970s. He was forced to move into homes for indigent older actors in Hollywood after suffering from Parkinson's disease.

There were seven children in Cummings. In the early 1980s, Tony Cummings' son appeared as Rick Halloway in the NBC daytime serial Another World.

Cummings was a Republican Party supporter.

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Early acting career

Cummings started looking for jobs in 1930, but he couldn't find any, prompting him to join a theatre company. Realizing that "three quarters of Broadway plays were from England" and that English accents and actors were in demand, Cummings decided to cash in an insurance policy and buy a round-trip ticket there.

When his bike broke down in Harrogate, he was riding his motorcycle through the countryside, picking up the accent and learning about the country. He devised a scheme while waiting for repairs. He invented the word "Blade Stanhope Conway" and bribed a local theatre's janitor to put on the marquee: "Blade Stanhope Conway in Candida" on the marquee. He had a picture of himself in front of the marquee and had 80 prints printed. He outfitted himself with a new wardrobe, penned a letter introducing Harrogate Repertory Theatre's actor-author-director "Blade" and sent it off to 80 New York theatrical agents and producers in London.

As a result, when Cummings returned to New York, he was able to schedule many meetings.

Charles Hopkings, one of the producers to whom he sent letters, was cast in a John Galsworthy production as the Hon. Reggie Fanning has been a member of the British Independence Department. Henry Hull was also in the cast. The production lasted from October to November 1931, with Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times naming "Conway" as one of the cast's "best bits of acting."

After studying song and dance by correspondence course in November 1932, "Conway" replaced Edwin Styles in the Broadway revue Earl Carroll's Vanities.

Margaret Kies, an old drama school classmate, was encouraged to use a similar trick later in life – she became Margaret Lindsay, the "British" Margaret Lindsay. He later revealed that pretending to be Conway ended up his first marriage to a Joplin teen. "She couldn't abide me."

He appeared in the Laurel and Hardy comedy film Sons of the Desert (1933) and in the musical short Seasoned Greetings (1933).

Cummings decided to change his course after one study states, "suddenly the bottom fell out of the John Bull market"; literally overnight, demand moved from Londoners to lassoers."

Cummings changed his name to "Bryce Hutchens" in 1934. He appeared under this name in 1934's Ziegfeld Follies, which ran from January to June in 1934. He performed "I Like the Likes of You" with Vivi Janiss, a Nebraska native, with whom he performed "I Like the Likes of You." After the Broadway performance, Cummings and Janiss went on tour, and they married shortly after the tour ended.

Later career

Cummings appeared in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Promise Her Anything (1966), and the reimagining of Stagecoach (1966) (playing the bank embezzler).

Cummings was the lead in Five Golden Dragons (1967) for producer Harry Alan Towers and later in Gidget Grows Up (1969).

He appeared in another Broadway play, The Wayward Stork, which had a short run in early 1966. According to a New York Times article, Cummings "is not in top form." He sounded a little hoarse and possibly strained. He is usually regarded as a very sociable [sic] breezy farceur."

He appeared on Theatre of Stars ("Blind Man's Bluff"), as well as The Flying Nun ("Speak the Speech," Green Acres ("You Can Teach"), "Lucy and Her Genuine Twimby"), and numerous episodes of Love, American Style.

Cummings' last lead roles on film came in two television films, The Great American Beauty Contest (1973) and Partners in Crime (1973).

Cummings toured the United States for more than ten years as a performer in dinner theaters and short stints in plays while living in an Airstream travel trailer during the 1970s.

In the written introduction to Robert Landau and James Phillippi's book Airstream in 1984, he related to those experiences.

Cummings appeared on Three Days (1978), as Elliott Smith, the father of Fred Grandy's Gopher on ABC's The Love Boat.

On The Wonderful World of Disney, Cummings hosted the 15th anniversary celebration of Walt Disney World in 1986.

"I wouldn't mind living until I'm 110 years old," he said in 1987. I still swim, do calisthenics, and keep fit. Except for a hernia surgery at one time, I've never been in hospital. People are chastised for taking so many vitamins. They are surprised when I tell them that they take 50 liver pills a day, but the thing does work, whether they laugh or not. "I'm retired, I live on a pension" and "if I have a problem, I seek expert assistance," says the author.

In 1990, Robert Cummings' last public appearance was on the Magical World of Disney's episode "The Disneyland 35th Anniversary Special" on Disney's "The Magical World of Disney."

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