Two years later he received a second nomination playing a deaf mute in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." He won a Tony Award for "Enter Laughing," and for his film debut, in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," he received a best actor Oscar nomination as a Soviet submariner stranded in New England. He joined Second City, a bold new improvisational comedy group in Chicago. And I said, 'What the hell am I doing? Who am I?' I said, 'I gotta get back to acting.' And I quit the next day - and starved for another couple of years." He did it for pocket money, at first, but after their hit, "The Banana Boat Song" (which Arkin co-wrote), he questioned his career choice: "I got to the Olympia Theater in Paris and I was playing the guitar and singing my brains out, and looked down at myself with my black satin pants on and my sports shirt opened to the navel. In the beginning people paid attention to Arkin not for his acting but for his singing, with a folk group called the Tarriers. Arkin went home with an Oscar for best supporting actor.
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Fox Searchlight grabbed the distribution rights for a then-record $10.5 million, and the movie went on to earn more than $100 million at the box office and four Academy Award nominations. "Little Miss Sunshine" was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival. "They thought I was too virile for the part, which is the best turn-down I've ever had in my life," Arkin, then 72, told "Sunday Morning" in 2007.
In the 2006 indie comedy "Little Miss Sunshine," Alan Arkin (March 26, 1934-June 29, 2023) played the irascible, opinionated and heroin-addicted grandfather of a dysfunctional family traveling cross-country to enter their little girl in a kiddie beauty pageant. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. Alan Arkin is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jin Los Angeles.
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