Wally Boag. The show ran continuously to 1986, and Novis himself starred in the production from its inception until his retirement 9 years later in 1964. Personal life On 4 November 1929, Novis married his first wife, Emma Julietta Burnett, at Long Beach, California. Four years later, they were divorced. In February 1938, Novis married his second wife, Dorothy Bradshaw, a former Ziegfeld girl, at the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. By his second wife, Novis had two daughters, Carol Jean and Leslie Katherine Novis. He died at Norwalk, California on 23 July 1966. Death Novis died of pneumonia in Costa Mesa, California in 1966 at the age of 60. He was survived by his wife, two daughters, two brothers, and a sister. Selected filmography Kathleen Mavourneen (1930) Love In The Rough (1930) Monte Carlo (1930) One Hour With You (1932) The Singing Plumber (1932) The Big Broadcast (1932) We Do Our Part (1935) Cut Out For Love (1937) Bambi (1942) Only voice Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944) Notes External links References 1906 births 1966 deaths English male musical theatre actors English male film actors English tenors 20th-century English male actors 20th-century British male opera singers Pasadena High School (California) alumni British emigrants to the United States Deaths from pneumonia in California