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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2009 : Issue 18
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      RE: Benny and Rodney Dangerfield      [ booksteve@[removed] ]
      Nary a drop to drink                  [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      1-23 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:51:00 -0500
    From: booksteve@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Benny and Rodney Dangerfield
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    Wikipedia states"He (Jacob Cohen) took the name Rodney Dangerfield, which had
    been used as the comical name of a faux cowboy star by Jack Benny on his
    radio program at least as early as the December 12, 1941 broadcast and later
    as a pseudonym by Ricky Nelson on the TV program The Adventures of Ozzie and
    Harriet."

    There are also gay comedy albums by a "Rodney Dangerfield" from the early
    sixties that are NOT the same guy. It's my understanding that the name was a
    show business pseudonym along the lines of "George Spelvin" for an actor who
    wants to remain anonymous or "Alan Smithee" for a director who didn't want to
    be associated with a project.

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:17:42 -0500
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Nary a drop to drink

>     My question is: Did characters in OTR soap operas seem to have bars
>     in all their houses, and did they imbibe, while smoking, like I remember
>     from early TV soaps?

    Answer:  No.  An occasional sot on Stella Dallas, whom the audience
    immediately deduced was a rapscallion with evil intents.  You also wondered
    if Skip Nelson, rebellious teenage son of Carolyn Nelson (The Right to
    Happiness) might not be into the joy juice, but it was never spelled out as
    such.  Little evidence of social drinking or overimbibing in the daytime
    dramas; the puritanical dictates kept it out of "polite" society.  Can you,
    for instance, see Ma Perkins dispensing her wise counsel to a troubled
    Rushville Center with a glass of white zinfadel in her hand?  Hardly.  She
    would have been turned off in millions of homes and Oxydol's market share
    would have hit the floor.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:17:57 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  1-23 births/deaths

    January 23rd births

    01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
    "Bringing Up Father" based on his comic strip
    01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
    beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
    01-23-1893 - Franklin Pangborn - Newark, NJ - d. 7-20-1958
    actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
    01-23-1894 - Clara Acuff Adams - d. 12-31-1950
    soprano: KOA Denver, Colorado
    01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA - d. 3-2-1987
    actor: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
    01-23-1899 - Jospeh Nathan Kane - NYC - d. 9-22-2002
    writer: "Break the Bank"
    01-23-1899 - Margaret Carreau - Bedford, PA - d. 4-4-1997
    accompanist to John Charles Thomas
    01-23-1907 - Dan Duryea - White Plains, NY - d. 6-7-1968
    actor: Lou Dana "Man from Homicide"
    01-23-1910 - Django Reinhardt - Belgium - d. 5-16-1953
    jazz artist: "Djanjo Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club France"
    01-23-1910 - Dorothy Arbuckle - Eldred, IL - d. 11-14-1982
    radio journalist
    01-23-1913 - Max Smith - Des Moines, IA - d. 7-23-1999
    singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
    01-23-1919 - Ernie Kovacs - Trenton, NJ - d. 1-12-1962
    announcer, panelist: Monitor, "Where Have You Been?"
    01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
    co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
    01-23-1920 - Jack Coleman - Denver, CO - d. 6-6-1985
    singer: (Avon Comedy Four) "Old Fashioned Revival Hour"
    01-23-1923 - Florence Halop - Jamaica Estates, NY - d. 7-15-1986
    actor: Hotbreath Houlihan "Jimmy Durante Show"; Miss Duffy "Duffy's
    Tavern"
    01-23-1925 - Bernice Wirsbitzke - Milwaukee, WI - d. 9-14-2006
    singer: "Heinie and the Grenadiers"
    01-23-1926 - Lyn Osborn - Wichita Falls, TX - d. 8-30-1958
    actor: Cadet Happy "Space Patrol"
    01-23-1933 - Chita Rivera - Washington, [removed]
    singer: "WOR Diamond Jubilee"

    January 23rd deaths

    01-16-1916 - Norval Taborn - d. 1-23-1990
    singer: (The Vagabonds) "The Breakfast Club"
    01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
    commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
    01-28-1937 - Ken Hill - Birmingham, England - d. 1-23-1995
    writer: "Night Season"
    02-06-1888 - Hugh Aspinwall - d. 1-23-1981
    tenor, chief announcer: WHT Chicago, Illinois
    02-09-1911 - Harry Kramer - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-23-1996
    announcer: "Alfred Antonini Orchestra"; "Mike and Buff's Mailbag"
    03-26-1907 - Phil Rapp - d. 1-23-1996
    creator, writer, director: "The Bickersons"; "Baby Snooks"; "Old Gold
    Time"
    03-28-1924 - Freddie Bartholomew - London, England - d. 1-23-1992
    guest: "Anchors Aweigh"
    04-08-1919 - Virginia O'Brien - Los Angles, CA - d. 1-23-2001
    actor: "Blue Ribbon Town"
    04-09-1898 - Paul Robeson - Princeton, NJ - d. 1-23-1976
    singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
    04-13-1918 - Brad Ansley - d. 1-23-1992
    sportscaster: WIOD Miami Florida
    05-20-1925 - Vic Ames - Malden, MA - d. 1-23-1978
    singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
    05-29-1932 - Rosalyn Borden - Hartford, CT - d. 1-23-2003
    singer: (Borden Twins) "The Kiddies Hour"
    05-30-1914 - Bob Sherwood - Indianapolis, IN - d. 1-23-1981
    music: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
    07-07-1899 - George Cukor - NYC - d. 1-23-1983
    film director: "Marilyn Monroe: Fame is Fickle"; "Hollywood Calling"
    07-25-1918 - Louanne Hogan - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-23-2006
    singer: "One Night Stand"
    08-12-1919 - Peter Luke - St. Albans, England - d. 1-23-1995
    writer: "The Other Side of the Hill"
    08-17-1921 - Wayne Raney - Wolf Bayou, AR - d. 1-23-1993
    country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
    09-11-1908 - Ray Beals - Missouri - d. 1-23-1983
    newscaster: KVGB Great Bend, Kansas
    09-16-1893 - Alexander Korda - Pusztaturpaszto, Hungary - d. 1-23-1956
    director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    09-16-1902 - Philip Reep - d. 1-23-1985
    singer: (Elm City Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
    09-29-1919 - Arthur Bernard - Gary, IN - d. 1-23-2001
    producer: "Turning Point"
    10-16-1920 - Gus Wayne - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-23-1998
    actor: Little Johnny for Phillip Morris
    10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA - d. 1-23-2005
    announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
    11-01-1933 - Art Stamper - nr. Hindman, Knott County, KY - d. 1-23-2005
    bluegrass fiddler: Performed with Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe's
    Bluegrass Boys
    11-04-1896 - Ian Wolfe - Canton, IL - d. 1-23-1992
    actor: "Suspense"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Escape"
    11-12-1903 - Jack Oakie - Sedalia, MO - d. 1-23-1978
    comedian: "Jack Oakie's College"
    12-18-1915 - Bill Zuckert - NYC - d. 1-23-1997
    actor: Detective. Lieutenant. Parker "Crime and Peter Chambers"
    12-25-1886 - Kid Ory - LaPlace. LA - d. 1-23-1973
    dixieland jazz trombonist: "This is Jazz";"Radio Almanac"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    12-28-1929 - Brian Redhead - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - d. 1-23-1994
    presenter: "Today"; "A World in Edgeways"; "From Plato to Nato"

    Ron

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