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Article: Film Agent Casey A Chicago Legend
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 26, 1995
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Frank Casey, Chicago's beloved and legendary movie press agent,
is dead, and the city is a poorer place.
For more than 50 years, he represented Warner Bros. in the
Midwest, joking that he had to be persuaded to take the job, "because
I had another offer from Coca-Cola, and they supplied a free
uniform."
He was found dead in his apartment Tuesday.
Casey - which is what everyone called him - was a sandy-haired
leprechaun who enjoyed the legend that he was the stingiest man
alive. That wasn't true, although I did witness him using the
company credit card to place a 5-cent call. That was outside the
old coffee shop in the Drake Hotel, which for years was his
unofficial office. ...