A few words on familiar character actor Jed Prouty (Clarence Gordon Prouty, 1879-1956). A Boston native, Prouty broke into vaudeville and stock theatre as a teenager. There is a Jed Prouty Inn in Maine, founded in 1820. It's likely that the actor was a relative of the original Prouty, or fancied himself one, and copped […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:29AM on April 6, 2019