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JACK HALEY ?The Tin Man?
This is an original/genuine/authentic hand signed cheque by Jack Haley which has been stamped on the front by the SECURITY FIRST NATIONAL BANK ? BEVERLY HILLS and is over 48 years old.
Dated: 24th June 1966
Check No. 193
Payable to ?HOLZ Co.?
Amount Paid $5.46
This item may be collected or posted
Born:
10th August 1898
Died:
6th June 1979
John Joseph "Jack" Haley
was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of Kansas farmworker Hickory and the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.
Haley starred in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. One of his closest friends was Fred Allen, who would frequently mention "Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts" on the air. In the early 1930s, Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York. His wide-eyed, good-natured expression gained him supporting roles in musical feature films, including Poor Little Rich Girl with Shirley Temple, Higher and Higher with Frank Sinatra and the Irving Berlin musical Alexander's Ragtime Band. Both Poor Little Rich Girl and Alexander's Ragtime Band were released by Twentieth Century-Fox.[2][3] Haley was under contract to them and appeared in the Fox films Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Pigskin Parade, marking his first appearance with Judy Garland.
Haley returned to musical comedies in the 1940s. Most of his '40s work was for RKO Radio Pictures. He surrendered the job in 1947 when he refused to appear in a remake of RKO's old story property Seven Keys to Baldpate; Phillip Terry took the role.
