Is the story of George Carlina true, who saved the future actress Nancy Allen from crocodiles?

For several years, a photograph of a child standing in front of a flock of dangerous reptiles has been distributed over the network. The picture is accompanied by a story that the future stand-up comedian saved the girl from crocodiles, and she later became the screen of the screen. We checked how correct this description is.

In viral publications, it is claimed that the picture was taken in 1956 at the New York zoo. While the parents of Little Nancy were distracted, she accidentally fell into the terrarium to crocodiles. Then, for the fence, the young man in military uniform jumped, who saved the girl from a possible attack of reptiles. The Savior was the future comedian, actor and writer George Karlin, who visited the zoo during the dismissal from the service in the Navy. And Nancy Allen, who had played in Robokop, was saved by the girl. Until the end of their life, the artists maintained a relationship. Nancy encouraged Karllin in his struggle with drug addiction, and at the funeral of her savior in 2008 she put a wreath on his grave with the inscription "From a little girl - too stupid to be afraid of crocodiles."

This story is found on entertaining sites (Fishki.net, "Picabu") And in social networks ("VKontakte","Zen" X). On Facebook, individual posts scored 2600 And 1300 Reposts at the time of writing this analysis.

Let us consider in more detail the details of this story.

In 1956, Karlin really He served In the army - however, not in the fleet, but in aviation. Allen that year Filled Six years. The girl in a viral photo looks about twice as young.

Karlin in his speeches ridiculed religious conservatism and called The territory of the cemeteries "suitable place for the construction of cheap housing." According to will comedian who died in 2008, his ashes was dispersed Above the sea, so there is no grave of Karllin, where Allen could put a wreath. No evidence that the comedian and the actress were in principle familiar, it was not possible to find it “verified”.

A photograph around which the narrative is being built. detect On the website of the public library of Los Angeles. It does not indicate when the picture was taken and who was captured on it, but the location was called: the California Alligator Fermat in Lincoln Haits. Such a farm is really It worked In this area of ​​Los Angeles in 1907-1953. For a small fee, anyone could not only look at hundreds of reptiles, but also ride them, compete with them and observe their chickens. The guests of the farm were both adults and children.

Together with the signature of Karllin and Allen in the New York Zoo, this photograph spreads mainly in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. “Verified” discovered a few English -language publications, but they were also posted either in Russian resources, or Russian -speaking Users.

One of the largest waves of the spread of this story fell on September 2019, when it was posted on the site Fishki.net. The source was indicated publication, which appeared shortly before that on the blog "Story for one stop" in "Zen". This page from 23,000 subscribers is conducted by a teacher of history and social studies, and a writer is part -time Vladimir Sedinkin From the mound. In a conversation with “verified”, he said that he wrote this story to participate in the fake plots contest (it was held by a literary site, whose name was difficult to recall). Under the terms of the competition, each writer chose an old photo from the proposed list and composed his text on its basis.

The remark that this story in a truncated form appeared until 2019 (the entry can be found in publications October 2016, and a short option without celebrities mention in posts 2017 And 2018 Years), Sedinkin replied that he also exhibited it on the first, now remote page “Story for one stop” in “Zen” (the service has been fully operating since June 2017. - Approx. Ed.), As well as on the Kanobu entertainment website. The writer admitted that until 2019 the full version of the story could not get widespread on the Internet. At the same time, Sedinkin notes that he always puts under his works the Tag “Story” or “Baika”, but this does not interfere with the diverging in all seriousness. This does not upset the author - he believes that good, positive stories are always needed by people.

Thus, the bike about Karlina, who saved the future actress Allen from crocodiles in the New York Zoo, was composed by the Russian author in the second half of the 2010s and is based on a photograph taken on a alligator farm in California.

Photo on the cover: Los Angeles Public Library

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