Did you ever see him in "Captain Newman, M.D."? Really good film, but Albert is playing a character so different than I had ever seen him that i didn't even recognize him for a few minutes. For those of you who haven't seen it, Gregory Peck plays the title character, a doctor in a psychiatric ward during WWII basically treating patients to get them ready to go back to battle. A very funny Tony Curtis is the comic relief as his helper, Angie Dickinson head nurse (and love interest) and the three main patients dealt with are Eddie Albert, a very young Robert Duvall, and quite brilliantly, in an Academy Award nominated performance, Bobby Darin. It's kind of like a psychiatric M*A*S*H with some soon-to-be-famous faces among the other patients as well.
Albert was also an honored war hero and was supposed to have been an all-around great guy. He lived until age 99. |
