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Paul Carr as Arthur Werbel
(1934-2006)

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"Captain Newman M.D."
Released on December 23, 1963

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At age eleven , Michael Callan, known as Mickey to his close friends, was singing around the house. One day he asked his mother if he sounded like Frank Sinatra. She replied, "No, not really" and offered him singing lessons.

The singing lessons didn't make Mickey sound like Sinatra but they did lead unexpected leaps in his future career. Included with his vocal training sessions were free dance lessons which he stuck with long after his voice had changed.

By age 15, Mickey was hoofing his way into local nightclubs. Two years later, he seemed to be following in the footsteps of his matinee idol, Gene Kelly, as he hoofed his way into the Royal Theatre in New York. He beat out 300 other kids to become the "swing boy" (even though he performed 27 times in seven months) for "The Boyfriend", starring 18-year old Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut.

 From "The Boyfriend",  Mickey and his dance partner, Grace Genteel, glided their way to the "Ed Sullivan Show" and "Chance of a Lifetime". Then, at the ripe old age of 21, he auditioned for legendary director/choreographer Jerome Robbins for the part which would become the chance of Mickey's lifetime - the part of "Riff" in the original Broadway production of "Westside Story", Playing the leader of the Jets lead to meeting with talent agent led to meeting with talent, Joyce Selznick (who had discovered Tony Curtis and James Darren) and a seven year contact with Columbia's leading man, Michael Callan, a name which stood out on movie theatre marquees.

Now nearly forty years after he came to Hollywood for his debut "They Came To Cordura" with Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, Michael's career is still going strong. He has starred in nearly thirty feature films and guest starred in more than 20 television shows and movies of the week.

Michael has not only cobbled in such films as "Pepe" and "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" but has also flexed his comedic muscles in such cult classics as the whimsical British comedy, "You Must Be Joking" and the satire "Cat Ballou" with Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin. He has also dazzled in such dramas as "The Victors" and "Lepke" with Tony Curtis and mesmerized audiences in the sci-fi adventure, Mysterious Island. In the late sixties, Michael even starred in his own top twenty television series "Occasional Wife".

In the eighties, Michael starred in "Double Exposure" and took a behind the scenes role as the film's producer. In recent years, Michael has also produced the hilarious hit musical "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah!" and has starred in films "The Last Road" and Leprechaun 3." He has also guest starred in Viper, The Adventures of Super Boy and E.R. For the past few years, Michael has returned to his theatre roots as he has toured Europe and the United States with international and regional groups performing "Killjoy, Love Letters, and Allen Ackborn's "Absurd Person Singular." 

Michael resides in California so he can be close to his two daughters, Dawn and Rebecca. He plays tennis, jogs , and plays an occasional game of backgammon with close friends. He's still surprised and a little overwhelmed by the fact that old friends and fans still know him as Mickey.

BIOGRAPHY - DEBORAH WALLEY

Deborah Walley was chosen Photoplay Magazine's Most Popular Actress in 1961, the year her Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) movie was released. Never entirely happy that she had been typecast as a "Gidget," she did nonetheless appreciate that her performances and the persona she rendered had made a lasting and very favorable impression on the movie-going public. Telling of her versatility, she was performing in an off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" when she learned that she had gotten the part in the Gidget film. Though best known for her Gidget roles, they did not define her, nor did they stymie her creative artistry. After moving to Sedona, Arizona, in the 1970s to raise her children, Walley co-founded two children's theater companies there: Pied Piper Productions and the Sedona Children's Theatre. These were vehicles through which she brought live theater to inner-city schools throughout the West Coast and Arizona. They were also opportunities for her to share with children her skills as an actress by teaching acting classes for children. It was also in Arizona that she developed a fascination for native-American culture and folklore and helped found the Swiftwind Theater Company, writing scripts and coaching local native Americans in acting. She was also instrumental in securing positions for native Americans with film crews. A notable contribution of hers can be seen in the production of the 1990 Legend of 'Seeks-To-Hunt-Great' (1989) starring Michael Horse. The film garnered several awards, including the National Cine Golden Eagle, the American Indian Film Festival's Best Short Subject Award, the Oklahoma Tribal Council Award for Best Fiction Film and the 1991 Algrave (Portugal) International Video Festival's Best of Festival Award. In addition, she was artistic director of the Charles W. Raison Theater at the Sedona Arts Center, acting in and producing many plays. Not limiting herself to these endeavors, she also wrote scripts for her own production companies, for other educational children's films and for Disney Animation, often performing voice-overs for cartoons. Her versatility, however, was not restricted to stage and screen; early in life, she also showed promise on the ice. She was born in Bridgeport, Conn., the daughter of Ice Capades star skaters and choreographers Nathan and Edith Walley and, from age 3, toured with her parents. Contrary to her father's wishes that she train as a skater, she applied her talents elsewhere, studying acting at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she made her stage debut in a summer stock production of "Charley's Aunt" when she was 14. Television beckoned after that and Walley found roles in toothpaste commercials, a spot on The Dave Garroway Show and guest roles in numerous series. Her most notable foray into TV is perhaps the role of Eve Arden's daughter Suzie on the 1967-69 "The Mothers-In-Law" (1967).

Actor, singer and dancer Michael Callan started life out as Martin Harris Calinieff in Philadelphiaon November 22, 1935. A dark-haired charmer, he was taking voice and dance lessons by age 11 with the intentions of becoming the next Gene Kelly. He had the dark, smirking, surly good looks and confident swagger that fit in with the James Dean50s rebel-like era. He began his professional career as a comic and dancer in Philly night clubs while billing himself as Mickey Calin. Eventually he entertained at such hot spots as the Copacabana and in Las Vegasshowrooms. His move to New York was a wise choice. Given a dancing part in his first Broadway show "The Boyfriend" (1954) starring Julie Andrews, he followed it with another musical, "Catch a Star" (1955). This in turn led to his biggest break of all, the role of Riff in the original New York production of "West Side Story" (1957). While the show made virtual theater stars out of its leads Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert, Michael, on the other hand, attracted the interest of Columbia Pictures. His film career began engagingly enough -- not as a singer or dancer, but as a dramatic leading man. Columbia placed him in two fairly strong films in the hopes of promoting and developing his obvious teen-idol promise. The first film was a western soap opera in support of Gary Cooperand Rita Hayworth. In They Came to Cordura (1959), Michael co-starred in this alongside another male dreamboat, Tab Hunter. His second film was a "B"-level starring role in The Flying Fontaines (1959), in which he plays a circus Romeo whose caddish cavortings under the "big top" accelerate the melodramatic story line. This role pretty much set the tone for what more or less would become his screen image -- a notorious womanizer and charming though sometimes spineless opportunist. His lovely co-star in the picture, Evy Norlund, whose only film this was, was a formerly-crowned Miss Denmark (1958) who abruptly gave up her young aspirations when she married singer James Darren and raise a big family.

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