{"id":11696,"date":"2010-11-26T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2011-06-19T23:19:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T03:19:46","slug":"s-z-sakall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=11696","title":{"rendered":"S.Z. Sakall: Call Him &#8220;Cuddles&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12896\" title=\"SAKALL, S.Z.1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Suppose for a moment you were an actor. What would you do if, in the opening credits of what&#8217;s arguably the biggest film you&#8217;ll ever\u00a0be in, the studio misspelled your name? Would you get flustered and sputter to yourself in a moment of comical bluster? If so, then you&#8217;ve\u00a0matched the typical on-screen reaction to such anxieties by the person that incident actually happened to. I&#8217;m speaking of Hungarian-born character actor\u00a0and <a title=\"Casablanca\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D12797&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Casablanca<\/a> waiter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=S%2E+Z%2E+Sakall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">S.Z.\u00a0Sakall<\/a>,\u00a0whose\u00a0teddy bear physique, jowly face and &#8220;Mittle European&#8221; accent made him an audience favorite and earned him the nickname &#8220;Cuddles&#8221;&#8230;a name that he wasn&#8217;t thrilled with, but tolerated with his trademark exasperation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Born Ger\u00f6 Jen\u00f6 in 1883, by his late teens he was a writer for vaudeville shows in Budapest and was going by the <em>nom de plume <\/em>Sz\u00f6ke Szak\u00e1ll,which means &#8220;blonde beard&#8221; and referred to the facial hair he\u00a0sported so as\u00a0to look older.\u00a0It was under this name that Sakall\u00a0shifted from writing to performing, and by the\u00a0early 1930s he was a stage and screen veteran in Vienna and Berlin as well as his native Hungary. Sakall&#8217;s specialty was musical\/comedies, and one of his best-known roles&#8211;as the heroine&#8217;s father in the 1931 German film Her Majesty Love&#8211;would be played in a U.S. version that same year by W.C. Fields. At this time he also headed his own production company. The rise of the Nazis in the &#8217;30s meant a move back\u00a0to Hungary, where Sakall continued to act until\u00a0the start of World War II, when he and his wife Anne were once again forced to flee, ultimately settling in America (all three of his sisters, and other family members, later perished in concentration camps).<\/p>\n<p>Sakall made his Hollywood debut in 1940,\u00a0as a stage producer ready to hire teenager <a title=\"Deanna Durbin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Deanna+Durbin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deanna Durbin<\/a> for a new play instead of her mother, veteran actress Kay Francis, in It&#8217;s a Date. Later that year he re-teamed with Durbin, playing a baker in Spring Parade, and was\u00a0Olivia De Havilland&#8217;s long-suffering music teacher in My Love Came Back.\u00a0Two classic comedic roles came\u00a0in 1941, as tycoon Charles Coburn&#8217;s butler in The Devil and Miss Jones and as one of the seven professors playing Cupid for\u00a0lexicographer <a title=\"Gary Cooper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Gary+Cooper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gary Cooper<\/a> and showgirl <a title=\"Barbara Stanwyck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Barbara+Stanwyck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barbara Stanwyck<\/a> in the Howard Hawks comedy <a title=\"Ball of Fire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D12440&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ball of Fire<\/a>. Signed by Warner Bros. in 1942, he was cast as a potential backer for showman George M. Cohan (James Cagney)\u00a0with some very particular\u00a0rules about how\u00a0his money is to be spent\u00a0(&#8220;Before\u00a0I put $10,000 into a show, it must have songs, dances, and a lot of girls. Women, women!&#8221;) in <a title=\"Yankee Doodle Dandy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D44857&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yankee Doodle Dandy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sakall\u00a0then followed that film&#8217;s director, fellow Hungarian \u00e9migr\u00e9 <a title=\"Michael Curtiz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Michael+Curtiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Curtiz<\/a>, across the Warner lot for Casablanca.\u00a0While he\u00a0initially turned down the role&#8211;and despite\u00a0being listed in that film&#8217;s credits as &#8220;S.K. Sakall&#8221;&#8211;the actor created a lasting impression on the Oscar-winning drama&#8217;s audience with his portrayal of Carl, a former math professor who was now\u00a0the head waiter and bookkeeper for <a title=\"Humphrey Bogart \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Humphrey+Bogart+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Humphrey Bogart&#8217;s <\/a>Cafe Americain in the Moroccan title city.\u00a0One of his\u00a0more memorable lines&#8211;and one that cuts close to\u00a0events in the actor&#8217;s real life&#8211;came when French police prefect Claude Rains instructs him to give visiting Nazi\u00a0officer Conrad Veidt\u00a0&#8221; a good table, one close to the ladies,&#8221; and Sakall replies &#8220;I have already given him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13007\" title=\"S.Z. Sakall: Call Him &quot;Cuddles&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.21-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.21-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SAKALL-S.Z.21.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By the mid- &#8217;40s\u00a0Sakall, whose screen billings often called\u00a0him &#8220;S.Z. &#8216;Cuddles&#8217; Sakall,&#8221; had become a familiar and welcome\u00a0face to moviegoers, with his stock-in-trade performances as\u00a0lovable relatives, put-upon shop owners, and other\u00a0avuncular types\u00a0livening up such pictures as Shine on Harvest Moon, Wonder Man with Danny Kaye,\u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"Errol Flynn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Errol+Flynn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Errol Flynn<\/a> western <a title=\"San Antonio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D20056&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">San Antonio<\/a>,\u00a0 and <a title=\"Romance on the High Seas \" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D52712&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Romance on the High Seas <\/a>and <a title=\"My Dream Is Yours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D52710&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">My Dream Is Yours<\/a> with <a title=\"Doris Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Doris+Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doris Day<\/a>. He was\u00a0reunited with Stanwyck in the 1945 holiday favorite <a title=\"Christmas in Connecticut\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D67300&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christmas in Connecticut<\/a>. Playing her restaurateur pal Felix, who makes the dishes that\u00a0&#8220;cooking whiz&#8221; Barbara passes off as her own, Sakall is a delight to watch and listen to, as he assures Barbara\u00a0&#8220;everything hunky dunky&#8221; and instructs her on the fine art of making pancakes while saying,\u00a0 &#8220;I show you how to flip-flop the flop-flips.&#8221; Sakall also supplied laughs as the proprietor of the music shop where <a title=\"Judy Garland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Judy+Garland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Judy Garland<\/a> and <a title=\"Van Johnson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_actor.asp?search=Van+Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Van Johnson<\/a>&#8211;unaware they are each other&#8217;s romantic pen pals&#8211;work, in 1949&#8217;s <a title=\"In\u00a0the Good Old Summertime\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D61049&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In\u00a0the Good Old Summertime<\/a>. A\u00a0rare leading role (he was third-billed behind June Haver and Mark Stevens) came later that year, when he portrayed operatic composer-turned-Tin Pan Alley songsmith Fred Fisher in the 1949 musical Oh, You Beautiful Doll.<\/p>\n<p>1950 saw Sakall playing an uncle once again, this time offering niece Day the\u00a0$25,000 she needs to realize her Broadway dream&#8211;but only if she can go for 24 hours with answering &#8220;no&#8221; to every question she&#8217;s asked&#8211;in <a title=\"Tea for Two\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D80348&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tea for Two<\/a>, a reworking of the stage play No, No Nanette. The following year he was a Hungarian immigrant who must overcome his Old World prejudices when his daughter (Janet Leigh) falls for a man (Gene Kelly) of Greek ancestry in the anthology film <a title=\"It\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/product.asp?sku=D01669&amp;loc=buzzsearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It&#8217;s a Big Country<\/a>. His final film role would come as the innkeeper in the 1954 MGM musical The Student Prince, as a heart attack ended Sakall&#8217;s &#8220;hunky dunky&#8221; life in February of 1955, 10 days after his 71st birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suppose for a moment you were an actor. What would you do if, in the opening credits of what&#8217;s arguably the biggest film you&#8217;ll ever\u00a0be in, the studio misspelled your name? 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