Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #101
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 6/1/2009 7:57 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 101
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Photo Still Identification            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      5-30 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      "Radio Recall" 25th Anniversary Issu  [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      1937 Radio Question                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      Benny violin surrogates               [ "Laura Leff" <president@[removed] ]
      5-31 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      100 Years ago                         [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      6-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:10:54 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Photo Still Identification

    Anyone have photos of old-time radio stars and cannot identify the cast in
    the photo? Can't name the movie they were photographed for? Here's the
    solution!

    MOVIE STUDIO PRODUCTION CODE LOG
    Features 25,000 Production Codes
    Breakdown of the Production Process
    Spiral Bound and Lays Flat for Easy Use
    How to Use Production Logs

    The book is $40 regular price but I picked up a flyer at the recent Cinevent
    convention that offers a special Cinevent price, $30, special price thru June
    15. Five dollar postage.

    Ed Poole
    Po Box 3181
    Harvey, LA 70059-3181

    This means you can use this book to identify the movie using the numbers
    scratched on the bottom of the photos. If you have a photo of Jack Benny from
    a movie but the publicity still isn't clarified and no one knows truly what
    movie that still is for, this book should help.

    Passing on the info for what it's worth.
    MG

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:11:01 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-30 births/deaths

    May 30th births

    05-30-1888 - James Farley - Crassey Point, NY - d. 6-9-1976
    post master general: "Information Please"
    05-30-1891 - Ben Bernie - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-20-1943
    bandleader: (The Old Maestro) "Ben Bernie Orchestra"; "Musical Mock
    Trial"
    05-30-1892 - Raymond Clapper - LaCygne, KS - d. 2-1-1944
    commentator: (Killed During WWII) "News and Commentary for White Owl
    Cigars"
    05-30-1892 - Russ Brown - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-19-1964
    singer: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "The Joe Penner Show"
    05-30-1896 - Whispering Jack Smith - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-13-1950
    singer: "Whispering Jack Smith"
    05-30-1899 - Ruth Perrott - d. 1-6-1996
    actor: Prudence Rockbottom "Meet Me at Parky's"; Dottie Brainfeeble
    "Vic and Sade"
    05-30-1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner - Chicago, IL - d. 7-9-1979
    actor: Mary "Johnny Presents"
    05-30-1902 - Stepin Fetchit - Key West, FL - d. 11-19-1985
    comedian: "Hollywood Hotel"
    05-30-1904 - Carol Goodner - Katonah, NY - d. 11-29-2001
    actor: "Keep It Dark"; "Advs. of the Red Feather Man"
    05-30-1906 - Norris Goff - Cove, AR - d. 6-7-1978
    actor: Abner Peabody "Lum and Abner"
    05-30-1908 - Mel Blanc - San Francisco, CA - d. 7-10-1989
    actor: Professor Pierre La Blanc "Jack Benny Program"; August Moon
    "Point Sublime"
    05-30-1909 - Benny Goodman - Chicago, IL - d. 6-13-1986
    bandleader: (King of Swing) "Camel Caravan"; "Victor Borge Show"
    05-30-1911 - Douglas Fowley - NYC - d. 5-21-1998
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    05-30-1911 - Louise Campbell - Chicago, IL - d. 11-15-1997
    actress: "The Star Maker"
    05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
    writer: "This Is Your FBI"
    05-30-1912 - Julian Symons - London, England - d. 11-19-1994
    crime writer: "Night Driver to Dover"; "Affection Unlimited"
    05-30-1913 - Julian Blaustein - NYC - d. 6-20-1995
    writer: "Cavalcade of America"
    05-30-1913 - Kalman Bloch - NYC - d. 3-12-2009
    principal clarinetist" Los Angeles Symphony
    05-30-1914 - Bob Sherwood - Indianapolis, IN - d. 1-23-1981
    music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    05-30-1915 - Frank Blair - Yemasse, SC - d. 3-14-1995
    newscaster, announcer: "America Looks Ahead"; "Fulton Lewis, Jr."
    05-30-1917 - Peter Leeds - Bayonne, NJ - d. 11-12-1996
    actor: Eugor "Rogue's Gallery"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Freberg Show"
    05-30-1920 - Franklin J. Schaffner - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-2-1989
    writer, director: "World Security Workshop"; "The March of Time"
    05-30-1921 - Roy Neal - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-15-2003
    actor: "The Lost Continent"
    05-30-1923 - Jimmy Lydon - Harrington Park, NJ
    actor: Jimmy "Young Love"
    05-30-1926 - Christine Jorgenson - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-3-1989
    actor: "Whatever Became [removed]"
    05-30-1927 - Dick Noel - NYC
    announcer, vocalist: "The Breakfast Clug"; "Ray Anthony and His
    Orchestra"
    05-30-1936 - Keir Dullea - Cleveland, OH
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    05-30-1944 - Meredith MacCrea - Houston, TX - d. 7-14-2000
    actor: (Daughter of Gordon and Shelia MacCrea) "Sears Radio Theatre"
    05-30-1961 - Ralph Carter - NYC
    actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

    May 30th deaths

    02-12-1914 - Tex Beneke - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-30-2000
    tenor sax, singer, bandleader: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra";
    "Sunset Serenade"
    03-01-1905 - Doris Hare - Bargoed, Monmouthshire, Wales - d. 5-30-2000
    actor, host: "Navy Mixture"
    04-03-1894 - Dooley Wilson - Tyler, TX - d. 5-30-1953
    actor: "Theatre of Romance"; "New World A-Coming"; "Jubilee"
    05-10-1911 - Paul Taubman - Winnipeg, Canada - d. 5-30-1994
    organist/pianist: "Perry Mason"; "Mysterious Traveler"; "Family Doctor"
    06-14-1912 - Peggy Ann Wood - Chiswick, England - d. 5-30-1998
    actor: "The Cleverest Man at Oxford"
    07-13-1924 - Patrick Campbell - d. 5-30-2003
    actor: "The Chase"
    08-06-1921 - Ella Raines - Snoqualmie, WA - d. 5-30-1988
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Red Cross Show"
    08-18-1898 - Ken Sisson - Danbury, CT - d. 5-30-1947
    conductor/arranger: "Maxwell House Coffee Time"; "Your Hit Parade"
    09-03-1899 - Ezra Taft Benson - Whitney, ID - d. 5-30-1994
    [removed] secratary of agriculture: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    09-05-1895 - William Hillman - NYC - d. 5-30-1962
    newscaster: Teamed with Raymond Clapper on NBC BLUE, ABC
    11-10-1889 - Claude Rains - London, England - d. 5-30-1967
    actor: "Shakesperian Circle"; "This Is War!"; "Presenting Claude Rains"
    11-13-1917 - Robert Sterling - Newcastle, PA - d. 5-30-2006
    actor: Michael Shayne "Michael Shayne"
    12-03-1897 - George Riley - Rochester, NY - d. 5-30-1972
    comedian: "Furlough Fun"
    12-05-1906 - William Spier - d. 5-30-1973
    producer, director: "Advs. of Sam Spade"; "Suspense"

    Ron

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:11:08 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history

     From Those Were The Days --

    5/31

    1943   A comic strip came to radio, as Archie Andrews was heard on the
    Mutual Broadcasting System for the first time.

    1949   A crowd of 35,000 people paid tribute to radio personality Mary
    Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. McBride was celebrating
    her 15th year in radio.

    6/1

    1936   The Lux Radio Theater moved from New York City to Hollywood.
    Cecil B. DeMille, the program's host on the NBC Blue network, introduced
    Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich in The Legionnaire and the Lady.

    6/2

    1937   The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy was broadcast on NBC for the first time.
    Frank Morgan starred as the absent minded Dr. Tweedy.

    1937   CBS presented the first broadcast of Second Husband. The show
    continued on the air until 1946.

    6/3

    1946   Mutual debuted The Casebook of Gregory Hood, the summer
    replacement for Sherlock Holmes. The mystery series became a regular
    weekly program in the fall of 1946.

    1949 - Dragnet was heard for the first time on NBC.

    6/4

    1944   Leonidas Witherall was first broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting
    System. Witherall was a detective who looked just like William Shakespeare.

    6/6

    1938   Stella Dallas was presented for the first time on the NBC Red
    network. The serial was "the true to life story of mother love and
    sacrifice." Stella Dallas continued to do this and so much more until 1955.

    1944   CBS radio saluted America's war doctors with The Doctor Fights,
    presented for the first time this day.

    Joe

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:11:18 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  "Radio Recall" 25th Anniversary Issue

    The June issue of "Radio Recall," celebrating the 25th anniversary of
    the Metro Washington OTR Club, will soon be emailed to subscribers
    who chose the PDF version while its hard copy equivalent will be
    mailed after our 25th Anniversary Luncheon on June 13th. It contains
    a detailed report from our roving gal-reporter, Melanie Aultman,
    covering both the Cincinnati Convention and the SPERDVAC one in LA.

    Most of the issue (expanded to 16 pages for this issue only) is
    dedicated to the first quarter-century of MWOTRC. Reading these
    articles, you'll find the answers to several tricky questions,
    including:  1) Why and when was MWOTRC spotlighted on C-SPAN?  2) Who
    is the first woman and African-American to hold the presidency of an
    OTR club in the [removed]  3) What radio programs did MWOTRC re-create
    for their featured appearance at the Smithsonian's Air & Space
    Museum?  4) How and when did MWOTRC acquire a member in Turkey? 5)
    If Gracie Allen had married comedian Fred Allen instead of George
    Burns, then divorced him, and next married sportscaster Mel Allen,
    would she be called Gracie Allen Allen Allen?

    To subscribe to "Radio Recall" go to our club web site
    <[removed]> and download an application. While you're there,
    give a gander at the articles from prior issues that are posted
    there. We'd love to have you join us and membership is only fifteen
    bucks a year for folks over 60 or those who live more than 50 miles
    from the nation's capital. It's a great stimulus [removed]

    Jack French
    Editor

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:12:26 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1937 Radio Question

    I just listened to a radio broadcast from the summer of 1937 and a crime
    fighter actually arranged for a wire tap on the phone lines for the suspected
    criminals to learn their activities. I know today the police cannot post a
    tap on a phone line without a warrant but I was wondering what the police
    procedures were in the summer of 1937. Was that illegal at that time?

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:12:47 -0400
    From: "Laura Leff" <president@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Benny violin surrogates

    Joe Postove asked:

>     During the radio run of Jack Benny, was it Jack actually playing the
>     violin
>     when called for in the script, or was it a band member?

    Certainly sometimes Jack played the violin himself, as in the episode where
    he played "The Bee".  I also thought that Jack probably always played his
    own violin, until I got an E-mail a couple years ago from the nephew of Hy
    Shertzer, violinist in the Benny Goodman Orchestra, saying that he subbed
    for Jack's violin playing when the Goodman Orchestra appeared on Jack's
    program.

    --Laura Leff
    President, IJBFC
    [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:14:47 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  5-31 births/deaths

    May 31st births

    05-31-1819 - Walt Whitman - Long Island, NY - d. 3-26-1892
    writer: "Against the Storm"
    05-31-1879 - Frances Alda - Christchurch, New Zealand - d. 9-18-1952
    soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"
    05-31-1893 - Albert Mitchell - Elsberry, MO - d. 10-4-1954
    host: "Answer Man"
    05-31-1894 - Fred Allen - Cambridge, MA - d. 3-17-1956
    comedian: "Linit Bath Club"; "Town Hall Tonight"; "Fred Allen Show"
    05-31-1898 - Norman Vincent Peale - Bowersville, OH - d. 12-24-1993
    preacher: "Art of Living"
    05-31-1900 - Hugh Studebaker - Ridgeville, IN - d. 5-6-1978
    actor: Ichabod Mudd "Captain Midnight"; Silly Watson "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    05-31-1901 - Alfredo Antonini - Alessandra, Italy - d. 11-3-1983
    conductor: "La Rosa Concerts"; "Treasure Hour of Song"
    05-31-1901 - Joe Kelly - Crawfordsville, IN - d. 5-26-1959
    emcee, quizmaster: "National Barn Dance"; "Quiz Kids"
    05-31-1903 - Abo Hosiosky - Latvia - d. 2-xx-1976
    NBC news in partnership with Alex Dreier
    05-31-1903 - Blanche Stewart - Pennsylvania - d. 7-25-1952
    actor: Brenda "Bob Hope Show"
    05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
    newsman: (Father of Garrick) "Comments by Clifton Utley"
    05-31-1904 - Jeanne Juvelier - NYC - d. 1-25-1981
    actor: Madame Babette "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"
    05-31-1905 - Jeff Sparks - NYC - d. 9-30-1981
    announcer: "Ben Bernie and all the Lads"; "Death Valley Days"
    05-31-1908 - Don Ameche - Kenosha, WI - d. 12-6-1993
    actor, singer: John Bickerson "Bickersons"; Captain Hughes "Jack
    Armstrong"
    05-31-1908 - Jack Costello - Sauk Centre, MN - d. 9-xx-1983
    announcer: "Stella Dallas"; "Words at War"
    05-31-1912 - Henry M. Jackson - Everett, WA - d. 9-1-1983
    [removed] senator washington: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    05-31-1918 - Bill Harrington- Indianapolis, IN
    singer, songwriter: "Your Hit Parade"
    05-31-1920 - Jeanne Wilson - London, England - d. 12-xx-1996
    author, actor: "No Medicine for Murder"
    05-31-1921 - Alida Valli - Pola, Istria, Italy - d. 4-22-2006
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood"
    05-31-1921 - Howard Reig - NYC - d. 11-10-2008
    newscaster, announcer: "The Music Builders"; "The Falcon"
    05-31-1925 - Bob Aro - d. 5-25-1996
    disk jockey: WHLB Virginia, Minnesota
    05-31-1931 - Barbara Whiting - Los Angeles, CA - d. 6-9-2004
    actor: Judy Graves "Junior Miss"; Mildred "Meet Corliss Archer"
    05-31-1938 - Johnny Paycheck - Greenfield, OH - d. 2-18-2003
    country singer: "Country Sessions"

    May 31st deaths

    01-29-1917 - Lloyd Perryman - Ruth, AR - d. 5-31-1977
    singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
    02-04-1908 - Manny Klein - NYC - d. 5-31-1994
    trumpet: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    02-25-1904 - Adelle Davis - Lizton, IN - d. 5-31-1974
    nutritionist, author: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
    03-01-1923 - Andrew Faulds - Tanzania, East Africa - d. 5-31-2000
    actor: Jet Morgan "Journey Into Space"
    03-01-1929 - Eddie Jones - New Jersey - d. 5-31-1997
    jazz bassist in the Count Basie band
    04-01-1920 - Art Lund - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 5-31-1990
    singer, actor: "Benny Goodman and His Orchestra"; "Land's Best Bands";
    "Jubilee"
    04-13-1912  - Roy Winsor - Chicago, IL - d. 5-31-1987
    director, writer: "Vic and Sade"; "Sky King"
    04-20-1923 - Tito Puente - NYC - d. 5-31-2000
    percussionist, bandleader: "Manhattan Melodies"
    05-03-1898 - John Roy - d. 5-31-1985
    actor: Roy Calvert "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    05-11-1930 - Stanley Elkin - NYC - d. 5-31-1995
    writer: "Earplay"
    06-02-1908 - Ben Grauer - Staten Island, NY - d. 5-31-1977
    announcer, emcee: "Walter Winchell"; "Information, Please"; "Boston
    Symphony"
    06-24-1895 - Jack Dempsey - Manassa, CO - d. 5-31-1983
    boxing champion: "Ben Bernie Show"; "Kemtone Hour"; "Saturday Night
    Bandwagon"
    07-29-1900 - Owen Lattimore - Washington, DC - d. 5-31-1989
    consultant: "Pacific Story"
    08-03-1907 - Adrienne Ames - Fort Worth, TX - d. 5-31-1947
    film star: WHN New York, New York
    08-04-1936 - Elsbery Hobbs - Manhattan, NY - d. 5-31-1996
    singer: (The Drifters) "Grand Ole Opry"; "Camel Rock and Roll Party"
    08-05-1905 - Wilbur Evans - Philadelphia, PA - d. 5-31-1987
    singer:"Vicks Open House"; "Stars from the Blue"
    10-20-1907 - Arlene Francis - Boston, MA - d. 5-31-2001
    panelist, actor: "What's My Line"; Ann Scotland,"The Affairs of Ann
    Scotland"
    12-23-1922 - Scott Vincent - d. 5-31-1979
    announcer: "The Jimmy Dean Show"
    12-30-1899 - Michael Raffetto - Placerville, CA - d. 5-31-1990
    actor: Paul Barbour "One Man's Family"; Jack Packard "I Love A Mystery/
    Adventure"

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:52:23 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  100 Years ago

    People born 100 years ago in June

    06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
    singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
    06-02-1909 - June MacCloy - Sturgis, MI - d. 5-5-2005
    vocalist: "Griff Williams and Jimmy Walsh and Their Orchestra"
    06-02-1909 - Martin Ashe - Bradford, IL - d. 4-15-1991
    actor: "Grand Central Station"
    06-07-1909 - Jessica Tandy - London, England - d. 9-11-1994
    actor: Liz Marriott "Marriage"; Mildred Rogers "Of Human Bondage"
    06-08-1909 - Leland Frederick Cooley - Oakland, CA - d. 10-27-1998
    writer, emcee: "Andre Kostelanetz Program"; "The Shadow"
    06-10-1909 - Larry LeSueur - NYC - d. 2-5-2003
    CBS news correspondent: "This Week in Europe"; "The World Today"
    06-12-1909 - Archie Bleyer - Corona, NY - d. 3-20-1989
    conductor: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"
    06-13-1909 - Anna Sosenko - NYC - d. 6-9-2000
    friend and agent to Hildegard
    06-14-1909 - Burl Ives - Hunt Township, IL - d. 4-14-1995
    singer: "Columbia County Journal"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
    06-15-1909 - Joe DeSantis - NYC - d. 8-30-1989
    actor: Jim Scott "Under Arrest"; "This Is Nora Drake"
    06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
    clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "Here's to Veterans"
    06-19-1909 - Maurice Zimm - Waterloo, IA - d. 11-17-2005
    writer: "The Man Who Sang"
    06-20-1909 - Errol Flynn - Hobart, Tasmania - d. 10-14-1959
    actor: Christopher Casanova "Modern Adventures of Casanova"; "Lux
    Radio Theatre"
    06-21-1909 - Ted Sherdeman - d. 8-22-1987
    producer, director, writer: "Latitude Zero"; "Sad Sack"; "Sears Radio
    Theatre"
    06-22-1909 - Milton Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-14-2006
    pianist/arranger: "Roger Kilgore, Public Defender"; "Under Arrest"
    06-24-1909 - Milton Katims - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-27-2006
    violist, conductor: "NBC Symphony"; "Eternal Light"
    06-28-1909 - Eric Ambler - London, England - d. 10-22-1998
    author: "Escape"; "Hour of Mystery"
    06-29-1909 - Oscar Argumedo - d. 8-16-1986
    disk jockey: KCOR San Antonio, Texas

    Ron

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    Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:52:29 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-1 births/deaths

    June 1st births

    06-01-1870 - Frank Cooley - Natchez, MS - d. 7-6-1941
    actor: Reverend McArthur/Fred Thompson "One Man's Family"
    06-01-1878 - John Masefield - Ledbury, England - d. 5-12-1967
    writer: "Against the Storm"
    06-01-1887 - Clive Brook - London, England - d. 11-17-1974
    actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
    06-01-1888 - Louis Mason - Danville, KY - d. 11-12-1959
    actor: Clem Betts "Moonshine and Honeysuckle"
    06-01-1890 - Frank Morgan - NYC - d. 9-18-1949
    actor: Thaddeus Q. Tweedy "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"
    06-01-1898 - Edward "Cookie" Fairchild - NYC - d. 2-20-1975
    conductor: "Johnny Presents Ginny Simms"; "Eddie Cantor Show"
    06-01-1898 - Molly Picon - NYC - d. 4-5-1992
    actor: "I Give You My Life"; "Molly Picon's Parade"
    06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
    music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-01-1901 - John Van Druten - London, England - d. 12-19-1957
    writer: "Radio Guild"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Theatre Guild On the
    Air"
    06-01-1905 - Robert Newton - Shaftesbury, England - d. 3-25-1956
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    06-01-1908 - Percy Edwards - Suffolk, England - d. 6-7-1996
    animal impersonator: a chicken "Ray's a Laugh"; a dog "Life of Bliss"
    06-01-1909 - Ray Heatherton - Jersey City, NJ - d. 8-15-1997
    singer, host: "Old Gold Hour"; "Musical Cruise with Spearmint Crew"
    06-01-1911 - Erik Rolf - Chicago, IL - d. 5-28-1957
    actor: Hans Simon "Joyce Jordan, [removed]"; Thor Nielsen "Prairie Folks"
    06-01-1915 - John Randolph - NYC - d. 2-24-2004
    actor: "New World A' Coming"; "A Date with Judy"
    06-01-1915 - Johnny Bond - Enville, OK - d. 6-12-1978
    singer, comedian: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    06-01-1917 - Donald Dame - Titusville, PA - d. 1-21-1952
    singer: "Music for an Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
    06-01-1917 - Maggi McNellis - Chicago, IL - d. 5-24-1989
    hostess: "Maggi's Private Wire"; "Leave It to the Girls"
    06-01-1917 - Norb Beckers - d. 4-17-1996
    disk jockey: WDSG Dyersburg, Tennessee
    06-01-1919 - Kathleen Norris - Newark, OH - d. 6-15-2005
    writer, announcer: "By Kathleen Norris"; "Bright Horizon"
    06-01-1920 - Elaine Kent - NYC
    actor: Jo March "Little Women"; Iris Houston "Lora Lawton"
    06-01-1920 - Robert Clarke - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-11-2005
    actor: "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; "Cavalcade of America"
    06-01-1921 - Nelson Riddle - Oradell, NJ - d. 10-7-1985
    composer, conductor: "On a Sunday Afternoon"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
    06-01-1922 - Joan Caulfield - East Orange, NJ - d. 6-18-1991
    actor: "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"
    06-01-1922 - Joan Copeland - NYC
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Faces Of Love"; "CBS Radio Mystery
    Theatre"
    06-01-1925 - Richard Erdman - Enid, OK
    actor: "Empire of the Air"; "We Hold These Truths"
    06-01-1926 - Andy Griffith - Mount Airy, NC
    host comedy night: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    06-01-1926 - Marilyn Monroe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-5-1962
    actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-01-1930 - Edward Woodward - Croydon, Surrey, England
    actor: "Price of Fear"
    06-01-1934 - Pat Boone - Jacksonville, FL
    singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Special Delivery: Vietnam"
    06-01-1940 - Rene Auberjonois - New York, NY
    actor: "Empire of the Air"

    June 1st deaths

    01-01-1897 - Walter Greaza - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-1-1973
    actor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"
    01-10-1911 - Don Lowe - Hartford, CT - d. 6-1-1991
    announcer, emcee: "David Harding, Counterspy"; "The Fat Man"
    01-17-1919 - Dallas Townsend - NYC - d. 6-1-1995
    newscaster: "CBS World News Roundup"; "World Tonight"
    02-15-1883 - Sax Rohmer - London, England - d. 6-1-1959
    writer: "Fu Manchu detective novels
    04-01-1922 - William Manchester - Attleboro, MA - d. 6-1-2004
    author, historian: "Meet the Press"; "Biography in Sound"
    04-03-1893 - Leslie Howard - London, England - d. 6-1-1943
    actor: "Leslie Howard Theatre"; "Streamlined Shakespeare"
    04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
    singer, actor: "Court of Human Relations"; "For Men Only"; "Gulden
    Melodies"
    04-18-1918 - Page Gilman - San Francisco, CA - d. 6-1-2006
    actor: Jack Barbour "One Man's Family"; "Memory Lane"
    06-27-1880 - Helen Keller - Tuscumbia, AL - d. 6-1-1968
    deaf and blind lecturer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Meet the Press"
    07-06-1894 - Shelly Lee Alley - Alleyton, Texas - d. 6-1-1964
    songwriter, musician, vocalist: WFAA Dallas, Texas
    08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England - d. 6-1-1985
    actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of
    America"
    09-05-1897 - Arthur Nielsen - Chicago, IL - d. 6-1-1980
    Founder of the Nielsen Ratings
    09-20-1919 - Francis Heflin - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 6-1-1994
    actor: (Sister of Van Heflin) "Aunt Jenny"; "Big Sister"
    10-11-1902 - Leon Belasco - Odessa, Ukraine, Russia - d. 6-1-1988
    actor: Pagan Zeldschmidt "A Man Called X)
    10-23-1896 - Nathan Abas - d. 6-1-1980
    orchestra director, violinist: "Northern California Symphony Orchestra"
    12-09-1915 - Bob Emerick - Tacoma, WA - d. 6-1-1973
    announcer: "Two Thousand Plus"; "Mr. Feathers"; "Special Agent"

    Ron

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