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NATHANIEL CARL See also:GOODWIN (1857– )
, See also:American actor, was See also:born in See also:Boston on the 25th of See also:July 1857
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While clerk in a large See also:shop he studied for the See also:stage, and made his first See also:appearance in 1893 in Boston in See also:Stuart See also:Robson's See also:company as the newsboy in See also:Joseph See also:Bradford's See also:Law
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He made an immediate success by his imitations of popular actors
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A See also:hit in the See also:burlesque See also:Black-eyed Susan led to his taking See also:part in See also:Rice and See also:Goodwin's Evangeline company
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It was at this See also:time that he married Eliza Weathersby (d
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1887), an See also:English actress with whom he played in B
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Woollf's Hobbies
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It was not until 1889, however, that Nat Goodwin's See also:talent as a comedian of the "legitimate" type began to be recognized
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From that time he appeared in a number of plays designed to display his drily humorous method, such as See also:Brander See also:Matthews' and See also:George H
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Jessop's A See also:Gold Mine, See also: Esmond's When we were Twenty-one, &c . Till 1903 he was associated in his performanceswith his third wife, the actress Max'See also:ine See also:Elliott (b . 1873), whom he married in 1898; this See also:marriage was dissolved in 1908 . |
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