

He also sold ribbons at the time Doug and Carrie were purchasing their home.

He worked briefly in customer service, stating if a little person walked into his store it was all he could talk about for years. Doug and Carrie occasionally point out this fact, but Arthur always discounts this fact.ĭuring Carrie's young life Arthur held an innumerable number of jobs, including at a crab cannery in Maryland, jobs in sales, a brief stint working for PBS on Sesame Street, and many others. Ironically, his unstable marital life and always unsure job situation led to even less security than Carrie might have had if Arthur remained an actor. He quit his acting career in an attempt to create a more stable life for his daughter. (Interestingly enough, Carrie has no recollection of this incident.) Arthur lost Carrie's birth name of Simone in a poker game and she had to switch names with her cousin Carrie. After a night of passion, the couple found out that Sophia was pregnant, and decided to get married for the sake of the child, Simone (later Carrie). It was during this time that he met his first wife, Sophia, a show dancer. He worked briefly in customer service, stating if a little person walked into his store it was all he could ta.More: http: //booksllc.Sometime after the war, Arthur took up a career as an actor, performing on Broadway and at other venues. During Carrie's young life Arthur held an innumerable number of jobs, including at a crab cannery in Maryland, jobs in sales, a brief stint working for PBS on Sesame Street, and many others. Arthur quit his acting career in an attempt to create a more stable life for his daughter. Sometime after the war, Arthur took up a career as an actor, performing on Broadway and at other venues. At some point during his enlistment, he left a man named Jack Russell for dead. He variously claims to have been in the US Army 33rd Brigade and the 71st Infantry Division (United States). Arthur served in World War II in the Italian theater and in The Battle of the Bulge, and also mentions being in Paris, France. He lived on a farm from the ages of 7 to 10, then again at 43, was a gifted singer as a child, performed jigs for the workers at the Empire State Building, has an estranged half-brother named Skitch, was bald until the age of 12, and lost his virginity to someone named Peppermint Patty. He was born in 1926 to an abusive father (played in one episode by Stiller's own son, Ben Stiller), but nothing is known about his mother. Little is known about Arthur's early life. He lives with his daughter Carrie and her husband, Doug Heffernan. Excerpt: Arthur Eugene Spooner is a fictional character played by Jerry Stiller on the sitcom The King of Queens.
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