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- No actor was more immediately recognizable by his voice than Eugene Pallette. It is variously described as gravelly, sounding like a bullfrog or a foghorn, and several octaves below this, that or the other. Physically, he was often called roly-poly, though we’ll go with the more respectful heavyset.
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Jul 8, 2013 · No actor was more immediately recognizable by his voice than Eugene Pallette. It is variously described as gravelly, sounding like a bullfrog or a foghorn, and several octaves below this, that or the other. Physically, he was often called roly-poly, though we’ll go with the more respectful heavyset.
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A roly-poly man wasn’t clinically obese but amiable, and a jowly butterball like S. Z. Sakall could affectionately be nicknamed “Cuddles.” With nary a pratfall, Roscoe Arbuckle serves the hors d’oeuvres, and Alfred Hitchcock makes a momentary cameo as the waiter serving their double martinis.
Oct 7, 2005 · Nigel Horsford wrote: “I know of a roly-poly as a ‘pudding made of a sheet of suet pastry covered with jam etc, formed into a roll and steamed or baked’ (SOED); sometimes referred to a jam roly-poly.
Roly poly Eugene Palette, trying to get the worrisome Edward Everett Horton's mind off his wife. Handing their hats to the hat-check girl, who was the lovely June Haver. (If you blinked you would have missed her).
The Rollicking Life of the Roly-Poly. They go by many names: roly-polies, pill bugs, potato bugs, sow bugs. But whatever you call them, those hard- shelled little critters lurking under logs in the backyard have an impressive repertoire of tricks and rather unexpected origins. By Michael Purdy.
Roly Poly is an American chain of sandwich stores. They first opened their doors in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1996. Roly Poly sandwich shop, Ann Arbor, Michigan. History. The first Roly Poly Sandwich Shop opened in 1997 in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, Georgia.
Basically the Roly Polys were a dance troupe consisiting entirely of overweight middle-aged women who would perform the most amusing dances which, if they had been young and slim, would not have been at all funny.
