John Boles (actor)

John Boles (actor)

Infobox actor
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name = John Boles


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birthdate = October 28, 1895
location = city-state|Greenville|Texas, U.S.
deathdate = death date and age|1969|02|27|1895|10|28 (heart attack)
deathplace = city-state|San Angelo|Texas, U.S.
occupation = Film actor
spouse = Marielite Dobbs (1917–1969) (his death)

John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was a United States actor.

Biography

Early life

Boles was born in Greenville, Texas, into a middle-class family. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 1917 and married Marielite Dobbs in that same year. Although his parents wanted him to be a doctor, John Boles preferred acting and singing, and he demonstrated talents for them from an early age. During World War I, he was a US spy in Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey.

Career

He started out in Hollywood in the silent movie era, but became a huge star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music. He quickly became well-known for his talents and was selected to play the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical "Little Jesse James". He became an established star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors.

He was hired by MGM to appear in a silent film in 1924. He starred in two more films for that studio before returning to New York and the stage. In 1927, he returned to Hollywood to star in "The Love Of Sunya" (1927) opposite Gloria Swanson, which was a huge success for him. Unfortunately, because the movies were still silent he was unable to show off his singing ability until late in the decade. In 1929, the Warner Brothers hired him to star in their lavish musical operetta "The Desert Song" (1929). This film featured sequences in Technicolor and was a box-office success. Soon after, Radio Pictures (later known as RKO) selected him to play the leading man in their extravagant production (the last portion of the film was photographed in Technicolor) of "Rio Rita", opposite Bebe Daniels. Audiences were enthralled by his beautiful voice, and John Boles suddenly found himself in huge demand. RCA Victor even hired him to make phonograph records of songs that he had sung in his films.

As soon as "Rio Rita" was completed, Boles went back to Warner Brothers as the leading man in an even more extravagant musical entitled "Song of the West" (1930) that was filmed entirely in Technicolor. Shortly after this film, Universal Pictures offered John Boles a contract, which he accepted. He starred in a number of pictures for them, most notably the all-Technicolor musical revue entitled "The King of Jazz" (1930) and a historical operetta entitled "Captain of the Guard" (1930). In 1931, he starred in "One Heavenly Night" (1931), which would prove to be his last major musical. His best-known role today remains his portrayal of Victor Moritz in the 1931 version of "Frankenstein", which is because the film has been so widely available for so many years while the majority of his other films have been unavailable for viewing.

John Boles retired from the screen and stage in 1952.

Death

On February 27, 1969, Boles suffered a stroke and died in San Angelo, Texas. He left behind his wife and two daughters.

External links

*imdb name|0092900|John Boles
*amg name|2:7121|John Boles
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=1222 Photographs of John Boles]


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