<P> In the 1940s, director Preston Sturges cast Bracken in two of his best - loved films, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, opposite Betty Hutton, and Hail the Conquering Hero . Due to the popularity of these films, Eddie Bracken was a household name during World War II . He made numerous radio broadcasts and had his own program, The Eddie Bracken Show . </P> <P> In 1953, Bracken left Hollywood . He appeared on Broadway in Shinbone Alley, Hello, Dolly!, The Odd Couple and Sugar Babies . His last appearance on Broadway was in the musical Dreamtime, directed by David Niles at the Ed Sullivan Theater at the age of 77 . </P> <P> Bracken's extensive television roles between 1952 and 2000 include an episode of The Golden Girls as Rose Nylund's ex-childhood boyfriend from St. Olaf, as well as an episode of Tales from the Darkside playing a stubborn old man who refuses to believe that he has died . After nearly 30 years out of feature films, he returned to perform character roles, including the sympathetic Walley World theme park founder Roy Walley in National Lampoon's Vacation, and Duncan's Toy Chest toy store owner Mr. Duncan in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York . Bracken also had a long career with Papermill Playhouse in New Jersey, starring in dozens of productions in the 1980s--early 2000s . One high point was their production of Show Boat in which he played Cap'n Andy Hawkes . This production was broadcast on PBS in 1990 . He also played a cameo in Patrick Read Johnson's 1994 film, Baby's Day Out, as one of the veterans in the old soldier's home . </P> <P> Bracken has acted in films with two actors who later became U.S. Presidents; these were Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump . Bracken co-starred in The Girl from Jones Beach with Reagan in 1949, thirty - one years before Reagan was elected president, and Bracken and Trump played minor parts in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in 1992, twenty - four years before Trump was elected president . </P>

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