Tag: tv
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LOUIS D. MERRILL
April 1, 1912 Louis Dilman Merrill was born on April 1, 1912 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He performed in “Lux Radio Theater” as a utility supporting player in nearly every broadcast from 1937 to 1939 . He made his screen debut with an uncredited role in 1935′s The Black Room starring Boris Karloff. He made his…
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YOUNG MISS: LUCY & HER KIDS
April 1, 1969 Lucille Ball and her children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. appeared on the cover of the April issue of Young Miss (formerly Calling All Girls) magazine. The magazine was first published in 1934, and was the oldest girls’ magazine in the United States. It got its start as two magazines in…
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EDDIE QUILLAN
March 31, 1907 Eddie Quillan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a family of vaudeville performers. He made his stage debut at the age of seven alongside his parents and siblings in their act titled ‘The Rising Generation’. Mack Sennett Studios signed Quillan to a contract in 1922. He made his screen debut for Sennett…
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TV GUIDE: 20 YEARS LATER
March 31, 1973 This issue not only marks twenty years since Lucille Ball and her son Desi Arnaz Jr. appeared on the first national edition of TV Guide, but it also marks Ball’s twenty third time appearing on the cover. She would eventually do 39 covers. The photographic portrait was done by Sherman Weisburd. Sherman…
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PEGGY REA
March 31, 1921 Margaret ‘Peggy’ Jane Rea was born in Los Angeles in 1921. Before she became an actress, Rea left UCLA to attend business school. She landed a job as a production secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s. After stage appearance as Eunice in A Streetcar Named Desire starring Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn, she made her…
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PETER MARSHALL
March 30, 1926 Peter Marshall was born Ralph Pierre LaCock into a show business family in Huntington, West Virginia. His sister was actress Joanne Dru, who replaced Vivian Vance in Desilu’s “Guestward Ho!” He is perhaps best remembered as the original host of “Hollywood Squares” from 1966 to 1981, but he was also an actor and singer, with more…
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WILL WRIGHT
March 26, 1891 William Henry Wright was born in San Francisco, California. He was one of those familiar character actors who seems to have been born old. He specialized in playing crusty old codgers, rich skinflints, crooked small-town politicians, and the like. Wright worked as a newspaperman before beginning a career in show business. He started…
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STROTHER MARTIN
March 26, 1919 Strother Douglas Martin Jr. was born in Kokomo, Indiana. His mother’s name was Ethel! For a short time, the Martins moved to San Antonio, but soon returned to Indiana. At 17 he won the National Junior Springboard Diving Championship. He served as a swimming instructor in the Navy during World War II. …
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ED BEGLEY SR.
March 25, 1901 Ed Begley was born in 1901 in Hartford, Connecticut. His first success was the 1947 Arthur Miller play All My Sons, followed by Inherit the Wind (1955-57), which ran for 806 performances on Broadway and won Begley the 1956 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He made his screen…
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MAURICE MARSAC
March 23, 1915 Maurice Marsac was born on March 23, 1915 in Croix, Nord, France. He made his screen debut (appropriately) as a French policeman in Paris After Dark (1945), a film that employed many French World War II immigrants. He also appeared in two 1952 Paris-set films: Assignment: Paris and April in Paris. Later…
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