Talk:Hal Holbrook
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[edit] Year of birth
To whomever it may concern:
Please do not delete the section regarding the discrepancy over his year of birth. This is not a hoax or a joke. I have a good source which is referenced. I realize it is really hard to believe the guy is 91, but some people have shaved off as many or more years than he during their lifetimes or until they were caught. For example:
- Jeane Dixon (b. 1904 but claimed 1918 as year of birth successfully her entire professional life)
- Louis Nye (b. 1913 successfully claimed 1922 until death)
- Signe Hasso (b. 1910, successfully claimed 1915 until death)
- Vera-Ellen (b. 1921, successfully claimed 1926 until uncovered decades after death)
- Kay Medford (b. 1914, successfully claimed 1920)
- Jayne Meadows-Allen (b. 1920, successfully claimed for a long time to have been born in 1926)
- Jean Arthur (b. 1900, successfully claimed to have been born in 1905)
- Minnesota Fats - no one is really sure when he was born - he claimed 1913, but...
- Zsa Zsa Gabor (b. 1917) - at one point claimed to have been born in 1928
- Barbara Billingsley (b. 1915) - claimed 1922 until census data proved otherwise
- John McMartin - no one knows when he was born
Sincerely, Veronica Mars fanatic 03:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Year of birth
Maybe the section shouldn't be deleted since there is a discrepancy, but most of the information on Hal Holbrook places a lot of doubt on it. Even a recent (March 2007) AP article on Holbrook (Hal Holbrook honored by Mississippi lawmakers) states his age as 82, not 91.
However, the part about him getting married at age 20 should be removed. Getting married at age 20 was not uncommon in the first half of the 20th century and that should not be added as any evidence that he is 9 years older than he claims to be.
[edit] 20 VERSUS 29
I wholeheartedly agree with the criticism of the marriage claim: It would have been significantly more likely for an American male to get married at age 20 than at age 29 in 1945! Although war service delayed many young men from getting married from early 1942 through mid- to late-1945, Mr. Holbrook would have been nearly 26 years old at the time of Pearl Harbor-- an age by which most American males of the era would have been married and fathers already. When the war ended, of course, marriage was practically an expectation of the young men being discharged in droves from the armed forces, first in Europe, and then the Pacific. As for the overall claim of a 1916 birth for Mr. Holbrook, I find that exceedingly hard to believe!?! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.253.92.220 (talk) 15:29, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
