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5 unusual facts about Alan Young


Ben Blue

Blue made the cover of TV Guide's June 11, 1954 Special Issue along with Alan Young, headlining an edition featuring that season's summer replacement shows.

Connie Hines

Connie Hines (March 24, 1931 – December 18, 2009) was an American actress, best known for playing Alan Young's wife, Carol Post, on the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed.

Edna Skinner

Her character was replaced months after her onscreen husband (Larry Keating) died; according to Alan Young in his Archive of American Television interview, the writers tried to make her a widow on the show, but finally decided to replace her with another married couple, Gordon and Winnie Kirkwood, played by Leon Ames and Florence MacMichael.

Virginia O'Brien

She continued to perform well into the 1990s with both her one-woman show and a production of Show Boat co-starring Alan Young, and also headlined The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies.

Whit Bissell

Thirty-three years later, in 1993 the documentary film Time Machine: The Journey Back, reunited Bissell with Rod Taylor and Alan Young from the original film, he recreated his role as Walter in the opening sequence.


Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

The film stars Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Adele Jergens, Robert Merrill, Minerva Urecal, Martha Stewart (not to be confused with Martha Stewart, television host and home-decorating mogul), and Veda Ann Borg.


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