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In real life, Natalie Schafer was the millionaire. Both Backus and Schafer had very interesting careers.

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Jim Backus was born in Cleveland in February of He was one of those stars who seemed to excel in everything: radio, Broadway, animation, big-screen movies, and television series. In an interesting aside, Margaret Hamilton who would go on to have a full career including the Wicked Witch of the West at the Wizard of Oz , was one of his grade school teachers.

His father was a mechanical engineer. I could not find exact proof of this but several articles mention he was expelled from the Kentucky Military Institute for riding a horse in the mess hall. He later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Art. In he married Betty Kean; they divorced in He also showed up regularly on The Jack Benny Program.

He began his big-screen cinema career in and would go on to appear in almost movies, including Here Come the Nelsons , Pat and Mike , and Rebel Without a Cause seen above. During the s, he began auditioning for roles on television. He would go on to appear on 18 different series during that decade, including I Married Joan, on which he starred with Joan Davis.

On the show, Backus played a respected judge and Davis was his scatterbrained wife. The show was very popular and lasted three seasons. His television career continued to be demanding in the s.