Trivia: Famed for his ratchety voice and cold-fish stare, William Demarest was an "old pro" even when he was a young pro. He began his stage career at age 13, holding down a variety of colorful jobs (including professional boxer) during the off-season. After years in carnivals and as a vaudeville headliner, Demarest starred in such Broadway long-runners as Earl Carroll's Sketch Book. He was signed with Warner Bros. pictures in 1926, where he was briefly paired with Clyde Cook as a "Mutt and Jeff"-style comedy team. Demarest's late-silent and early-talkie roles varied in size, becoming more consistently substantial in the late 1930s. His specialty during this period was a bone-crushing pratfall, a physical feat he was able to perform into his 60s. While at Paramount in the 1940s, Demarest was a special favorite of writer/director Preston Sturges, who cast Demarest in virtually all his films: The Great McGinty (1940); Christmas in July (1940); The Lady Eve (1941); Sullivan's Travels (1942); The Palm Beach Story (1942); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), wherein Demarest was at his bombastic best as Officer Kockenlocker; and The Great Moment (1944). For his role as Al Jolson's fictional mentor Steve Martin in The Jolson Story (1946), Demarest was Oscar-nominated (the actor had, incidentally, appeared with Jolie in 1927's The Jazz Singer). Demarest continued appearing in films until 1975, whenever his increasingly heavy TV schedule would allow. Many Demarest fans assumed that his role as Uncle Charlie in My Three Sons (66-72) was his first regular TV work: in truth, Demarest had previously starred in the short-lived 1960 sitcom Love and Marriage.

Trivia: Beverly Lunsford was a highly gifted ingenue whose early career encompassed the stage as well as television and movies. Among Lunsford's earliest professional credits was the 1957 Broadway production of The Rope Dancers, starring Siobhan McKenna and Art Carney, in which she appeared when she was 12. Her television career began earlier, and Lunsford's big-screen work started soon after. She appeared in anthology dramas, and on television series such as National Velvet, Leave It to Beaver, and, later, My Three Sons, in guest roles and supporting parts, and also essayed the role of Amy Ames Britton Kincaid on The Secret Storm. The peak of Lunsford's movie career came in 1961 when she played a starring role in Roger Corman's topical drama The Intruder, which dealt with race relations in the south in the wake of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. Alas, that movie never got the exposure it deserved, and Lunsford next turned up in Herbert L. Strock's notoriously bad horror movie The Crawling Hand (1963). She retired from the screen after the 1960s, though she apparently appeared at some public celebrity-oriented events later on.