Talk:Eddie Albert

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Contents 1 Eddie's birthdate 2 Promoter of natural gardening, vegetarianism, organic food? 3 Note on categorization 4 Editing needed

[edit] Eddie's birthdate

The news stories say he was born in 1906 but his mother moved the date to 1908 because she wasn't married. So rather than start an edit flip-flop, can we just discuss the issue here and then do it? Does anyone have any better information? Thanks. Spalding 11:35, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

I put the date and age to 1906 and 99 as per the second external link on the article page as well as every other media article I have read. Spalding 21:52, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Promoter of natural gardening, vegetarianism, organic food?

The article should include information on Eddie Albert's work as a natural gardner, and a promoter of vegetarianism and organic food. I'll try to find some references. JesseW 20:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Note on categorization

I came to this article, in the process of checking articles categorized as American male singers, to see that individual articles were also categorized with a style per American singers by style. In reading the text of the Eddie Albert article, from checking his bio on IMDB, and from my own memories of his career during the 1960s and 1970s, although the article states that he was a nightclub singer during his early career, I don't believe he is widely known, professionally, as a singer. Some questions to ask - did he ever make any recordings as a singer? did his film and television career involve singing? (not counting the Green Acres theme song? :) So, for now, understanding him to be someone who earned his living as a singer at some point early in his career, before he was widely known, but not noted for contributions to vocal music, I have removed the singer categorization from the article. If I am mistaken, please feel free to add it back in, with, also, the appropriate American singer by style categorization. Respectfully, LiniShu 14:08, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I discovered myself that I was mistaken. When I looked at this earlier, I was focused on "nightclub singer", and I completely skimmed over the mention on IMDB of his role in Broadway musicals, such as The Boys from Syracuse, and The Music Man. The mention of Music Man, however, did register somewhere in my subconscious, so to speak, and some time later, it occurred to me, wait a minute, didn't it say that he was in musicals? So, I checked again, and he was indeed. So I am correcting my earlier edit, adding Category:American musical theatre actors to the article, and adding mention of his Broadway role to the article. I am sorry and embarrassed about my earlier mistake; usually I try to be more careful than that. LiniShu 04:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Editing needed

I don't want to point fingers but some people seem to feel that the quality of an article is improved by adding to its quantity. I believe the consensus is otherwise. This article needs some heavy editing to eliminate the bad writing, remove the redundancies, clear out the NPOV, and generally tighten up the whole article. MK2 03:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The last few sentences of the last paragraph of the section on "Green Acres" is really in need of some tidying up. It doesn't make much sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.105.13.53 (talk • contribs) (22:44, 2 February 2007

Most of the nonsense in the Green Acres section was put in there by Gcollinsii on 21 January 2007. This contributor evidently has a track record of bad edits and adding superfluous information to articles. I reverted the entire section to the last edit by Susanlesch on 19 January 2007. —Quicksilver^{T @} 09:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)