Monthly Archives: November 2015
November 14: Happy Birthday Dick Powell!
Some actors are stamped with a certain role and are never able to move beyond it. It is called type casting, and Hollywood, which has always been more commercial than artistic, revels in the practice. Why not? Once they have … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Moorehead, david niven, Dick Powell, Susan Hayward, the conquerer
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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Debut on The Royal Gelatin Hour
The first thing to keep in mind is that Rudy Vallee was not enthusiastic about having a ventriloquist act on his program. On the August 6, 1936, episode of The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour, he stated on the air “…ventriloquism hardly … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie McCarthy, debut, Edgar Bergen, Rudy Vallee, ventrilloquists
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