However, on land the suit was unbearably hot, so the actor would have to be hosed down or sit in water. By the way, the fictional Ocean Harbor setting was actually the Marineland Aquarium in Florida. Lori Nelson was briefly engaged to Burt Reynolds in 1960, was married to composer Johnny Mann from 1961-1971, and is now happily remarried. Born to a family of 12 children and of modest means, he nevertheless made a good living in acting, and was never out of work because of his versatility. His two children still receive small royalty checks when his movies are shown.
Browning still resides in Florida.
He was under contract with Universal, but was stuck in very small roles. Like fellow actors Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Cotten, Alland first started performing in Orson Welles' Mercury Theater troupe in New York, also serving as assistant to the prodigious director, who was then only is his early twenties. Alland played one of the parts in the infamous 1938 Halloween radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds , directed and portrayed by Orson Welles so realistically that most listeners became panic-stricken, believing that there actually was a Martian invasion. That production landed Welles a film contract with RKO Studios.