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Burl Ives was born in Hunt City, Illinois, USA on June 14, 1909. Ives married Helen Peck Ehrlich (1945-1971) and had a child with her, and after the separation, he married Dorothy Koster Paul (1971-1995) and she remained with him until his death. Burl is best know for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), True Romance (1993), and The Big Country (1958). Ives was a singer from an early age. He learned to play the banjo, and played football until he became a coach, while studying at the Teachers College at the University of Illinois in 1927, but he left it in 1930. He worked in cinema as a singer-narrator for several works and managed to release dozens of musical and lyrical albums. Ives retired on his 80th birthday and died on April 14, 1995 in Anna Courts, Washington, USA from complications of oral cancer.
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