Actor Robert Morse, Back in the Spotlight
In today's Wall Street Journal, WSJ culture and arts writer Joanne Kaufman writes about the revival of actor Robert Morse, who has been nominated for an Emmy award for his performance in the hit AMC series Mad Men.
Morse, the Tony-winning star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Tru -- the actor is one of the few to have won best-actor trophies for both a play and a musical -- plays an "eccentric ad-agency head" in the acclaimed TV series. He reflects on a life on stage and screen, and remembers his personal ups and downs, in Kaufman's illuminating profile.
From "On 'Mad Men,' He Draws on Firsthand Experience":
Mr. Morse is as much ad hoc adviser and archivist as actor. "I'm the only one in the cast who was around during the period that Mad Men was written about," he said of the series, which is set at the dawn of the 1960s. "I was at those ad agencies doing voice-overs. The other actors will ask, 'Was it really like this?' They'll ask, 'Is there really a Shubert Alley? Where is Madison Avenue?' I tell them Madison Avenue is over to the left and Shubert Alley is over to the right."
Second acts may be rare; Mr. Morse is now on act three, attracting fans too young to know of his Broadway history and reconnecting with senior-citizen fans who knew him when his name was in lights.
Read the full story here. The second season of Mad Men begins July 27 on AMC.
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