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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 117
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
6-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: Can You Spare 15 Minutes? [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:29:32 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-22 births/deaths
June 22nd births
06-22-1887 - Julian Huxley - London, England - d. 2-14-1975
film director: "Information Please"
06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
bandleader: "Yeast Foam Program"; "Armandes Face Cream Program"
06-22-1901 - Jack Whiting - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-15-1961
singer: "MGM Radio Club"
06-22-1901 - Phil Duey - Macy, IN - d. 4-7-1982
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Leo Reisman Orchestra";
"Happy Bakers"
06-22-1903 - Ben Pollack - Chicago, IL - d. 6-7-1971
bandleader: Bib band remotes - became the Bob Crosby Orchestra
06-22-1903 - Glenhall Taylor - d. 12-28-1997
producer, director: "Blondie"; "Sherlock Holmes"; "Dinah Shore Show";
"Ozzie and Harriett"
06-22-1906 - Billy Wilder - Sucha, Austria-Hungary - d. 3-27-2002
screenwriter, film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
06-22-1907 - Mike Todd - Minneapolis, MN - d. 3-22-1958
film producer: "Closing the New York World's Fair"
06-22-1909 - Milton Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-14-2006
pianist/arranger: "Roger Kilgore, Public Defender"; "Under Arrest"
06-22-1912 - June Carroll - Detroit, MI - d. 5-16-2004
composer: "New Faces of 1948"
06-22-1914 - Lem Davis - Tampa, FL - d. 1-5-2002
saxophonist, clarinetist: "Jubilee"
06-22-1915 - Robert Soderberg - Ohio - d. 4-9-1996
writer: "Junior Miss"
06-22-1916 - John Craven - NYC - d. 11-24-1995
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Star Spangeled Theatre"
06-22-1916 - Johnny Jacobs - Milwaukee, WI - d. 2-8-1982
announcer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Frontier Gentleman";
"Granby's Green Acres"
06-22-1918 - Julian Anthony - d. 6-xx-1984
newscaster: "News of Tomorrow"
06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
06-22-1920 - Paul Frees - Chicago, IL - d. 11-1-1986
actor: Jethro Dumont/Green Lama "Green Lama"; Robert Aladdin "Mr.
Aladdin"
06-22-1922 - Joe Siracuso - Cleveland, OH - d. 9-5-1997
drummer: "The Spike Jones Show"
06-22-1925 - Basil Beardsley - d. 12-3-1991
disk jockey: WJER Dover, Ohio
06-22-1930 - Roy Drusky - Atlanta, GA - d. 9-24-2004
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-22-1932 - Prunella Scales - Sutton Abinger, Surrey, England
actor: Sybil Fawlty "Fawlty Towers"; Sarah France "After Henry"
06-22-1941 - Ed Bradley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-9-2006
newscaster: WBCS New York, New York
06-22-1949 - Meryl Streep - Summit, NJ
actor. "Earplay"
June 22nd deaths
01-09-1908 - Carl Swanson - Utica-Rome, NY - d. 6-22-1994
disk jockey: "Mr. Sunshine"
01-14-1909 - Joseph Losey - La Crosse, WI - d. 6-22-1984
director: "Words at War"
01-26-1899 - Wyllis Cooper - Pekin, IL - d. 6-22-1955
producer, writer, director: "Lights Out"; "Quiet Please"
03-17-1905 - Lisa Sergio - Florence, Italy - d. 6-22-1989
news and music commentator: "Let's Talk it Over"; "One Woman's Opinion"
03-30-1905 - Don Hollenbeck - Lincoln, NE - d. 6-22-1954
news commentator: "CBS Views the Press"; "You Are There"
05-03-1897 - Charlie Lung - England - d. 6-22-1974
actor: Paul Sycamore "You Can't Take It with You"; "Wild Bill Hickok";
"Escape"
05-10-1899 - Fred Astaire - Omaha, NE - d. 6-22-1987
dancer, actor: "Fred Astaire Show"
05-10-1902 - David O. Selznick - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-22-1965
film producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
05-10-1907 - Pee Wee Hunt - Mount Healthy, OH - d. 6-22-1979
composer: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
05-12-1937 - George Carlin - NYC - d. 6-22-2008
comedian : Was an announcer for WEZE Boston, Massachusetts
05-17-1906 - John Cannon - Chicago, IL - d. 6-22-2001
announcer, actor: "City Hospital"; "Jack Armstrong, the All-American
Boy"
05-21-1916 - Dennis Day - The Bronx, NY - d. 6-22-1988
singer, comedian: "Jack Benny Program"; "Day in the Life of Dennis Day"
06-07-1896 - Hope Summers - Mattoon, IL - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Clara "Girl Alone"
06-10-1922 - Judy Garland - Grand Rapids, MN - d. 6-22-1969
singer, actor: Romantic Interest "The Hardy Family"; "Good News of 1938"
08-10-1902 - Venezuela Jones - d. 6-22-1995
actor: Susie Robinson "Our Gal Sunday"
08-24-1909 - Ridley Bell - d. 6-22-1989
newscaster: WGBA Columbus, Ohio
09-11-1889 - Bill Comstock - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Tizzy Lish "Mirth Parade"
10-06-1866 - Dr. Reginald Fessenden - Milton, Canada - d. 6-22-1932
made world's first radio voice broadcast (Decmeber 24, 1906)
10-18-1908 - Rene Garriguenc - d. 6-22-1998
composer: "Rogers of the Gazette"; "Advs. of Sam Spade, Detective"
10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
11-10-1931 - Don Henderson - Leytonstone, East London, England - d.
6-22-1997
actor: "The Wolf and the Woodcutter"
12-09-1927 - Benny Green - Leeds, England - d. 6-22-1998
musician, conversationalist, writer: ""Stop the Week"; "Kaleidoscope"
12-14-1884 - Jane Cowl - Boston, MA - d. 6-22-1950
actor: "Great Plays"; "Brownstone Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-28-1896 - Rose Franken - Gainesville, TX - d. 6-22-1988
writer: "Claudia and David" based on her stories
12-29-1892 - Emory Parnell - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-22-1979
actor: Grouch "Grouch Club"; "Eddie Bracken Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:29:42 -0400
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Can You Spare 15 Minutes?
There were many dozens of 15-minute programs with self-contained episodes
broadcast during the early-to-mid 1930s. THE ORIGINS OF SUPERSTITION is just
one example out of many.
Sincerely,
George Wagner
georgewagner@[removed]
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