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B.S. Pully

Nacimiento : 1910-05-14, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Muerte : 1972-01-06

Historia

B.S. Pully, (born Murray Lerman, May 14, 1910 – January 6, 1972) was a New York nightclub comedian and stage actor who created the role of Big Jule in the musical Guys and Dolls. He was noted for his blue humor and thick, gravelly voice. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Pully began his career on the Borscht Belt and achieved fame originating the Big Jule role in the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, appearing in more than 1,000 performances. He also played the role in the 1955 film version. Other notable film roles include the gruff Christmas tree vendor in 1945's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Joe the Bartender in 1945's Nob Hill. Pully died of a heart attack in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA, at age 61. He was buried in Cedar Park Cemetery, Emerson, New Jersey.

Perfil

Películas

Myra Breckinridge

Tex

Myron Breckinridge vuela a Copenhague para someterse a una operación de cambio de sexo, convirtiéndose en la bella Myra. De vuelta a América, Myra acude a la escuela de interpretación de su tío Buck Loner, donde se hace pasar por su propia viuda y afirma que fue voluntad de Myron que ella recibiera la mitad de la escuela, es decir, 500.000 dólares; cuando Loner se niega, ella pide que le den un trabajo de profesora allí para mantenerse. Buck accede a regañadientes, al tiempo que inicia una investigación sobre la veracidad de las afirmaciones de Myra.

The Love God?

J. Charles Twilight

Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.

Ellos y ellas

Big Jule

Adaptación de un musical de Broadway basado en un cuento de Damon Runyon, gran maestro de la literatura picaresca americana. Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), organizador de las partidas más selectas de dados de Nueva York, apuesta mil dólares con uno de los jugadores (Marlon Brando) a que no es capaz de enamorar a una joven puritana que pertenece al Ejército de Salvación (Jean Simmons).

Main Street to Broadway

Self (uncredited)

In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.

Taxi

Amchy (uncredited)

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.

Within These Walls

Harry Bowser

Michael Howland, a stern hanging judge, is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There Michael imposes a strict regime of discipline on the inmates. He is similarly rigid and harsh with his own two children Tommie and Anne. However, his son Tommie Howland eventually ends up incarcerated in his father's prison.

Nob Hill

Joe the Bartender

El propietario de un local de San Francisco intenta subir en la escala social. Inicia un romance con una chica bien situada que puede ayudarle a introducirse en la alta sociedad.

Don Juan Quilligan

Ed Mossrock

When a an overly romantic barge captain marries two women, each reminding him of his mother, he finds himself resorting to prison to escape them.

Lazos humanos

Christmas Tree Vendor

Crónica de una humilde familia de inmigrantes irlandeses que viven en el barrio neoyorquino de Brooklyn a comienzos del siglo XX. El padre es un hombre amable, pero con problemas de alcoholismo; la madre una mujer luchadora, y la hija pequeña es una brillante muchacha que sueña con salir del barrio para emprender una nueva vida.

Greenwich Village

Brophy

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.