Tag: Li’l Abner
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RIP PETER PALMER
1931-2021 Peter Palmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is best remembered for his role as Abner Yokum in the 1956 Broadway production and 1959 film adaptation of the musical comedy LI’L ABNER. He won a 1956 Theatre World Award for the role. On stage, he starred opposite Edie Adams (later Mrs. Ernie Kovacs) as…
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EDIE ADAMS
April 16, 1927 Edie Adams was born Edith Elizabeth Enke in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Her family moved around before settling in Tenafly, New Jersey, where she attended Tenafly High School. Ada Enke taught her daughter singing and piano. Adams’s grandmother, a seamstress, taught her how to sew. She earned a vocal degree from Juilliard and then graduated from Columbia…
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LIZ LEARNS TO DRIVE
November 13, 1948 “Liz Learns To Drive” (aka “Liz’s Driving License” and “Liz Learns to Drive”) is episode #16 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on November 13, 1948. Synopsis ~ George teaches Liz to drive and she immediately gets in an accident. Through a communications mix-up, George thinks Liz has intentionally run over…
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“Lucy in the Swiss Alps”
(S5;E21 ~ March 26, 1956) Directed by James V. Kern. Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf. Filmed February 23, 1956 at Ren-Mar Studios. Rating: 43.9/62 Synopsis ~ After a mistake in booking, the Ricardos and Mertzes go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps and get stranded in a cabin…