Tag: Here’s Lucy
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BOB HASTINGS
April 18, 1925 Robert Francis Hastings was born in Brooklyn, New York. He started out as a boy singer on “National Barn Dance”, “Doug Gray’s Singing Gang” and “Coast to Coast on a Bus”. He also portrayed Jerry on the radio program “The Sea Hound.” Hastings served during World War II in the United States Army Air…
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JOHNNY SILVER
April 16, 1918 Johnny Silver was born John Silverman in East Chicago, Indiana. Silver’s performing arts career started early, singing as a youth, and then expanded to acting. His early career involved performing with actor John Raitt at L.A. City College as well as radio work. He also worked as a burlesque comic. He made his big…
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JOE RUSKIN
April 14, 1924 Joseph Ruskin was born Joseph Richard Schlafman in Haverhill, Massachusetts. After graduating high school in Cleveland, he served in the US Navy and studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University and began acting at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. He continued his theatre work on the west coast, and served as officers in the acting…
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HOWARD KEEL
April 13, 1919 Harold Clifford Keel, known professionally as Howard Keel, was born in Gillespie, Illinois. It was stated that Keel’s birth name was Harold Leek. After his father’s death in 1930, Keel and his mother moved to California, where he graduated from high school at age 17. He worked various odd jobs until settling at Douglas…
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DICK PATTERSON
April 11, 1929 Dick Patterson was born Richard Neal Patterson in Clear Lake, Iowa, in 1929. In 1961, he got his ‘big break’ on Broadway replacing Dick Van Dyke in the original cast of the musical Bye Bye Birdie. His Broadway debut was in the short-lived Vintage ‘60. Next he was seen opposite Ken Berry in The…
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CHUCK CONNORS
April 10, 1921 Chuck Connors was born Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors in Brooklyn, New York. He was one of only 13 athletes in history to have played both Major League Baseball (Brooklyn Dodgers 1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and in the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48). With a 40-year film and television career, he is best…
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PAULA STEWART
April 9, 1933 Paula Stewart was born Dorothy Paula Zürndorfer in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Esther Morris, was an actress. She was signed as understudy to Anne Crowley in a production of Seventeen on Broadway in June 1, 1951. Her third Broadway show was The Most Happy Fella, a show produced partly by Desilu and featured…
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DAVID FROST
April 7, 1939 Sir David Paradine Frost was born in Tenterden, Kent. Throughout his school years he was an avid football and cricket player, and was offered a contract with Nottingham Forest Football Club. Frost studied at Cambridge. He was secretary of the Footlights Drama Society, which included actors such as Peter Cook and John Bird.During this period Frost…
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SUSAN TOLSKY
April 6, 1943 Susan Gaye Tolsky was born on April 6, 1943, in Houston, Texas. She attended Bellaire High School, where she grew fond of acting. When her father advised her not to pursue a career in acting, she enrolled at the University of Texas in Austin to major in nursing. She switched to drama two years later. In her…
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EASTER BUNNIES
Easter Sunday Lucille Ball kept large white Belgian Hares ~ 1938 In this newspaper photo, the rabbits have multiplied! The Rutland (VT) Herald ~ April 2, 1938 “The Abbott and Costello Show” on NBC Radio. Abbott and Costello meet Bugs Bunny, featuring Lucille Ball ~ November 18, 1943 Indoor TV antenna were called rabbit ears for obvious…
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