Tag: Ann Sothern Show
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RIP PAT CARROLL
1927-2022 Patricia Ann Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was an actress and comedian best known for voicing Ursula in The Little Mermaid as well as having a long acting career on stage and screen. Her first brush with Lucille Ball was through appearing in an episode of the Desilu sitcom “The Ann Sothern Show” titled…
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MARY TREEN
March 27, 1907 Mary Treen was born Mary Louise Summers in St. Louis, Missouri. She was raised in California and attended a convent school where she was in the school plays. During her career, Treen was seen in over 40 films. Among her film roles were Tilly, the secretary of the Building and Loan, in It’s a…
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FRANK WILCOX
March 13, 1907 Frank Reppy Wilcox was born in De Soto, Missouri, although he was raised primarily in Atchison, Kansas. He attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, for a year, where he was a fraternity brother of newsman John Cameron Swayze. He graduated in 1933 from St. Benedict’s College in Atchison. Wilcox came to California in…
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KATHLEEN FREEMAN
February 17, 1919 Kathleen Freeman was born in Chicago. She began her career as a child, dancing in her parents’ vaudeville act. After studying music at UCLA she went into acting full-time, working on the stage, and finally entering films in 1948. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers,…
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LYLE TALBOT
February 8, 1902 Lyle Talbot was born Lysle Francis Henderson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, although he was raised in Brainard, Nebraska. He left home at 17, and began his career as a magician’s assistant. He went to Hollywood in 1931 and became a contract player at Warners. “You have no idea what it was like to be…
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GLADYS HURLBUT
December 9, 1898 Gladys Hurlbut was an actress born in Dresden, a city in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York, although some sources report that she was born in Norwich, Connecticut. She began her acting career on Broadway in 1920 and appeared in seven plays through 1949. As a playwright, she wrote three…
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RETA SHAW
September 13, 1912 Reta M. Shaw was born in South Paris, Maine, on September 13, 1912. Her father was an orchestra leader. Shaw’s younger sister was actress Marguerite Shaw. The daughter and granddaughter of women who believed in spiritualism, Shaw reportedly once told a newspaper interviewer that she had been “brought up on a ouija board." She…
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SID MELTON
May 22, 1917 – November 2, 2011 Sid Melton (born Sidney Meltzer) played the roles of incompetent carpenter Alf Monroe in the CBS sitcom “Green Acres” and Uncle Charlie Halper, proprietor of the Copa Club, on “The Danny Thomas Show” and its spin-offs. He appeared in about 140 film and television projects in a career that…
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