Talk:Joseph Kearns

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Just a general note, but the information about Kearns voicing one of the angels in It's a Wonderful Life is dubious, to my mind. The attribution seems to derive only from IMDb and the like. In the actual film, neither of the two speaking angels sound especially like Kearns at all, who had a fairly distinct vocal pattern. Yes, Imdb is a good resource, but far from infallible, especially where uncredited voices is concerned. I'm considering deleting it or rewording it (i.e. "It has been speculated that Kearns is heard in It's a Wonderful Life"). Aleal 21:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

The Whistler
I'm not sure of this, but I believe that Kearns may have also been the first to play "The Whistler".24.57.249.250 (talk) 20:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Inconsistencies in timeline
The main text currently has Kearns's father dying when Kearns was 19, which would have been 1926. And that Kearns and his mother moved to California at that time. But it also has him working for his father for a year "after graduating from college." This means he graduated from college when he was 18 years old or younger. Though not impossible, this is quite implausible.

Then it says he worked at a Salt Lake City radio station in 1930. He was born in Salt Lake City, so did he move to California in 1926 then move back to SLC in 1930? We are told that he then moved to California in 1936.

The more plausible timeline is that the father died in 1936, and which point Kearns and his mother moved to California, and some previous wikipedia editor got the math wrong and said Kearns was 19 at the time, instead of 29. findagrave does show a Joseph Albert Kearns 1875-1936 (that's the father's name, but it isn't the only tombstone by that name). This hypothesis could be verified at ancestry.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:98A:4100:36A0:68E0:FAAA:FCC5:4F6A (talk) 02:05, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Political affiliation
I have removed the reference to Kearns' identification as a Republican. He may well have been one, but the cited source (Motion Picture and Television magazine, November 1952) has been proven false; there is no mention of Kearns' (or anyone's) political affiliations in that issue. See this talk page for more information. Gcjnst (talk) 02:53, 14 September 2023 (UTC)