George Lloyd Murphy
United States Senator from California
In office January 1, 1965–January 3, 1971
Preceded by	Pierre Salinger
Succeeded by	John V. Tunney
Born	July 4, 1902 New Haven, Connecticut
Died	May 3, 1992 Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Julie Johnson
Profession	actor, dancer
Religion	Roman Catholic

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He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, and attended Yale University. He worked as a tool maker for the Ford Motor Company, as a miner, a real estate agent, and a night club dancer. Nickname: Location in Connecticut Coordinates: , NECTA New Haven Region South Central Region Settled 1638 Incorporated (city) 1784 Consolidated 1895 Government  - Type Mayor-board of aldermen  - Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Tool and Die Makers are highly skilled workers in the manufacturing industry. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker after General Motors and Toyota, based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... In the United States and parts of the Commonwealth (including Canada and Australia) as well as in many other countries, a real estate agent is a person who advises and represents others in transactions involving real estate. ... A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to movement used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting. ...

In 1927 he appeared on Broadway, partnering with his wife Julie Johnson as a dance act. When Johnson decided to retire from show business in 1935, Murphy moved the family to Hollywood, appearing in several musicals and comedies until 1952. During World War II he appeared in several patriotic films designed to increase morale in the U.S., including the 1943 movie This Is the Army in which he plays a thinly fictionalized version of Irving Berlin. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Julie Johnson is a 2001 drama film directed and written by Bob Gosse (written with the help of Wendy Hammond). ... ... The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Defence of the fatherland is a commonplace of patriotism: The statue in the courtyard of École polytechnique, Paris, commemorating the students involvement in defending France against the 1814 invasion of the Coalition. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... This Is the Army is a 1943 American motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz. ... Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. ...

He was the president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1944 to 1946. He was a vice president of Desilu Studios and of the Technicolor Corporation. He was director of entertainment for presidential inaugurations in 1952, 1956 and 1960. This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) is the labor union representing over 120,000 film actors in the United States. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... Desilu Productions was a company jointly owned by American actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. ... Logo celebrating Technicolors 90th Anniversary Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc. ... An inauguration is a ceremony of formal investiture whereby an individual assumes an office or position of authority or power. ...

In the 1950s, Murphy entered politics as chairman of the California Republican State Central Committee. In 1964 he was elected to the United States Senate; he defeated Pierre Salinger, who had been appointed several months earlier to serve the remainder of the late Clair Engle's unexpired term. Murphy served from January 1, 1965 to January 3, 1971. In 1968, he served as the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Murphy assumed his seat two days early, when Salinger resigned from the seat in order to allow Murphy to gain an edge in seniority. Murphy was then appointed by Gov. Pat Brown to serve the remaining two days of Salinger's term. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1970, and subsequently moved to Palm Beach, Florida, where he died at the age of 89 from leukemia. The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the... Pierre Salinger. ... Clair Engle (September 21, 1911–July 30, 1964) was an American politician. ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Edmund Gerald Pat Brown Sr. ... Being largely seasonal, downtown Palm Beachs streets are virtually vacant in the summer. ... Leukemia or leukaemia (see spelling differences) is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation (production by multiplication) of blood cells, usually white blood cells (leukocytes). ...

During his Senate term, Murphy suffered from throat cancer, forcing him to have his larynx removed. He was unable to speak above a whisper for the rest of his life. Throat cancer is a common way of referring to some head and neck cancers, usually squamous cell carcinomas. ... The larynx (plural larynges), colloquially known as the voicebox, is an organ in the neck of mammals involved in protection of the trachea and sound production. ...

George Murphy was the subject of a song by satirist Tom Lehrer celebrating his appointment in which Lehrer declared in mock vaudeville style: "Oh, gee it's great, at last we've got a senator who can really sing and dance." Lehrer also alluded sarcastically to an infamous remark Murphy once made during a debate about the bracero program that granted temporary work visas to Mexican migrant farmhands: Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. ... Bracero is a term used in 1942 to describe a Mexican farm laborer brought to the United States. ...

Should Americans pick crops?
George says no;
'Cuz no one but a Mexican would stoop so low.
And after all, even in Egypt, the Pharaohs
Had to import—Hebrew braceros.

Murphy had stated that Mexicans were genetically suited to farm labor; because they were "built lower to the ground", it was supposedly "easier for them to stoop". Oddly, some years earlier, in 1949, Murphy himself had starred next to Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban in the film Border Incident, which cast the exploitation of the braceros in a deservedly negative light. Ricardo Montalban (born November 25, 1920 in Mexico City) is a television and film actor. ... Border Incident movie poster featuring Ricardo Montalban Border Incident is a 1949 black-and-white film directed by Anthony Mann. ...

Murphy's move from the screen to politics paved the way for the successful transitions of actors such as Ronald Reagan and later Arnold Schwarzenegger. Indeed, Reagan's nascent rise was also pondered by an incredulous Lehrer, in the opening lines of the same 1965 song: Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the fortieth President of the United States (1981 – 1989) and the thirty-third Governor of California (1967 – 1975). ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): ) (born on July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and an American politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ...

Hollywood's often tried to mix
Show business with politics.
From Helen Gahagan
To. . . Ronald Reagan ? Helen Gahagan in the 1920s Helen Gahagan (25 November 1900 - 28 June 1980) was a United States actress and (under the name Helen Gahagan Douglas) a politician of Scottish descent. ...

This connection is also referred to by folk singer Phil Ochs on the track "Ringing of Revolution", when Ochs describes a fictional film based on that song, and Murphy is played by Reagan. Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940–April 9, 1976) was a U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer), songwriter, musician and recording artist who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. ...

Not surprisingly, Ronald Reagan once famously referred to George Murphy as "...my John the Baptist" (in a political sense). For the hip-hop producer with the same name, see John the Baptist (producer). ...

Films

• Walk East on Beacon (1952)
• Talk About a Stranger (1952)
• Border G-Man (1950)
• Border Incident (1949)
• Battleground (1949)
• Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
• The Arnelo Affair (1947)
• Cynthia (1947)
• Up Goes Maisie (1946)
• Having a Wonderful Crime (1945)
• Show Business (1944)
• Step Lively (1944)
• Broadway Rhythm (1944)
• Bataan (1943)
• This Is the Army (1943)
• For Me and My Gal (1942)
• The Navy Comes Through (1942)
• The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
• A Girl, A Guy and A Gob (1941)
• Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)
• Ringside Maisie (1941)
• A Girl, a Guy and a Gob (1940)
• Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
• Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
• Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
• Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
• Letter of Introduction (1938)
• Little Miss Broadway (1938)
• Everybody Sing/Little Nellie Kelly (1938)
• Hold That Co-ed (1938)
• Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
• Top of the Town (1937)
• The Women Men Marry (1937)
• London by Night (1937)
• You're a Sweetheart (1937)
• Kid Millions (1934)
• The Eddie Cantor Giftset Collection (1930)

Border Incident movie poster featuring Ricardo Montalban Border Incident is a 1949 black-and-white film directed by Anthony Mann. ... Battleground is a 1949 war film which tells the story of a squad of the 101st Airborne Division trying to cope during the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne, Belgium. ... Show Business is a 1944 movie musical film starring Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, and Constance Moore. ... Broadway Rhythm is an MGM Technicolor musical film released in 1944. ... Bataan is a 1943 war film about the defense of the Bataan peninsula that was produced by MGM, directed by Tay Garnett and stars Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Desi Arnez, and Lloyd Nolan. ... This Is the Army is a 1943 American motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz. ... For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American Musical directed by Busby Berkeley. ... Look up Tom, Dick and Harry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell dance to Begin the Beguine in Broadway Melody of 1940. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 musical film, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Roy Del Ruth. ... Plot details Spoiler warning: The story features Eddie, a kid from Brooklyn, who suddently inherits $77 million dollars from his lost father, an archeologist that had looted Egypt of its treaures. ...

External links

• Find-A-Grave profile for George Murphy
• George Murphy at the Internet Movie Database