I learned Alan Young's name when I started watching
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lee_eisenberg — 9 years ago(May 21, 2016 08:23 AM)
I learned Alan Young's name when I started watching
Mister Ed
on TVLand reruns. I later learned that Young also voiced Scrooge McDuck on
DuckTales
and did a number of voices elsewhere. The only movie in which I've seen him was the 1960 version of
The Time Machine
.
What caught my eye whenda0 I started watching
Mister Ed
was that Wilbur's wife Carol was a hottie. Admittedly, this was the era before TV depicted anything smacking of sex, but you'd think that Wilbur would've wanted to spend all his time with his hot wife and wouldn't care about a horse.
Once online I found a photo of Alan Young and his co-star Connie Hines at an even signing autographs together. I understand that they also starred in a stage production of
Love Letters
, about a correspondence between two people, and that Hines wrote a chapter of Young's book about
Mister Ed
.
Well, there are no surviving cast member from the show. We can now imagine that Wilbur and Carol finally get to have sex.
RIP -
scorpiomensan — 9 years ago(May 21, 2016 07:10 PM)
Keep in mind that when actress
Zsa Zsa Gabor
was a guest on that show, she opined,
"Me & this horse are both blondes!"
The horse was the only one who was a
"NATURAL"
blond.
Wilbur Post
liked natural blondes, I guess. -
film_flam_man — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 12:07 PM)
Wilbur being distracted from his lovely wife may seem odd, but it's consistent with some of the earlier roles played by Alan Young. In his radio show from the 1940s, Alan's character was pretty clueless when it came to women, and drew quite a few laughs from the audience when his girlfriend was in an amorous or matrimonial mood and he wasn't getting it.