Comedian Orson Bean in 1959. “I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in 2014. I could feel the blood draining out of my face,” Bean told THR. Orson Bean, left, during an interview with host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson on May 2, 1991. Jessie Clemens, right, casts a skeptical glance at Ebeneezer Scrooge, played by Orson Bean, in a scene from “A Christmas Carol” at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 08, 2020 15:22 UTC