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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 27
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
2-11 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Cincinnati OTR date correction [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:12:33 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-11 births/deaths
February 11th births
02-11-1882 - John H. Mills - Bellfonte, PA - d. 12-8-1967
singer: (Father of the Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
02-11-1891 - Paul Ash - Saxony, Germany - d. 7-13-1958
orchestra leader: "The Merry Mad Gang Program"
02-11-1901 - Fritz Blocki - d. 5-14-1972
writer: "Chick Carter, Boy Detective"
02-11-1905 - Liebert Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 6-16-1993
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
02-11-1906 - James Jewell - d. 8-5-1975
writer, actor director: "The Lone Ranger"
02-11-1907 - Art Millet - Chicago, IL - d. 4-9-1943
announcer: "American Album of Familiar Music"; "Popeye"
02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
actor: "Les Miserables"; "Mercury Theatre on the Aie"
02-11-1908 - Philip Dunne - NYC - d. 6-2-1992
screenwriter, director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-11-1909 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 2-5-1993
screenwriter, film director: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
02-11-1909 - Max Baer - Omaha, NE - d. 11-21-1959
heavyweight boxing champion, actor: Lucky Smith "Lucky Smith"
02-11-1916 - Walter Brown Newman - NYC - d. 10-14-1993
writer: "Escape"; "Gunsmoke"; "On Stage"; "Robers of the Gazette"
02-11-1917 - Sidney Sheldon - Chicago, IL - d. 1-30-2007
writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-11-1919 - Eva Gabor - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-4-1995
disc jockey: "Little Night Music"
02-11-1920 - Billy Halop - NYC - d. 11-9-76
actor: Bobby Benson "Bobby Benson Adventures"; Dick Kent "Home, Sweet
Home"
02-11-1926 - Leslie Nielsen - Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
actor: "Jive Patrol"
02-11-1928 - Kenneth Johnson - Randolph County, NC
singer: "The Johnson Family Singers"
February 11th deaths
03-07-1906 - Louis Pelletier - NYC - d. 2-11-2000
writer: "The FBI in Peace and War"
03-13-1898 - Henry Hathaway - Sacramento, CA - d. 2-11-1985
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
03-20-1908 - Kermit Murdock - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-11-1981
actor: Rod Buchanan "Whisper Men"
03-28-1925 - Jerry Walter - Illinois - d. 2-11-1979
actor: Gil Perry "Island Adventure"
03-29-1889 - Howard Lindsay - Waterford, NY - d. 2-11-1968
writer, host: "The Ford Theatre"
05-02-1904 - J. Anthony Hughes - NYC - d. 2-11-1970
actor: Bob Drake "Betty and Bob"
05-16-1904 - Ruth Coleman Bilchick - d. 2-11-1989
singer and pianist on radio
05-26-1903 - Austin Armer - d. 2-11-1984
flutist: KTAB Oakland, California
05-28-1906 - Phil Regan - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1996
singer: (The Singing Cop) "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
06-10-1891 - Al Dubin - Zurich, Switzerland - d. 2-11-1945
lyricist: "Mutual-Don Lee Dedicatory Program"
06-16-1903 - Ona Munson - Portland, OR - d. 2-11-1955
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"
07-20-1908 - Jerry Desmonde - Middlesbrough, England - d. 2-11-1967
actor: "Crime Classics"
08-13-1904 - Jonathan Hole - Eldora, IA - d. 2-11-1998
actor: Paul Henderson "Ma Perkins"; Dr. Clifford "Bachelor's Children"
08-21-1927 - Barry Foster - Beeston, England - d. 2-11-2002
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
09-22-1910 - Del Courtney - Oakland, CA - d. 2-11-2006
bandleader: "Kodak Camera Show"
09-27-1920 - William Conrad - Louisville, KY - d. 2-11-1994
actor: Matt Dillon "Gunsmoke"; Louis Dumont "Jason and His Golden
Fleece"
10-10-1899 - Emily Kimbrough - Muncie, IN - d. 2-11-1998
writer: "Information Please"
11-21-1912 - Eleanor Powell - Springfield, MA - d. 2-11-1982
singing tap dancer: "Flying Red Horse Tavern"
11-23-1903 - Victor Jory - Dawson City, AK - d. 2-11-1982
actor: "Matinee Theatre"; "Crisis in War Town"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
11-23-1912 - George O'Hanlon - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-11-1989
actor: Husband "George O'Hanlon Show; Me and Janie"
12-08-1911 - Lee J. Cobb - NYC - d. 2-11-1976
actor: the tailgunner "Roosty of the AAF"; "Citizen of the World";
"Hollywood Startime"
12-25-1888 - David Lawrence - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-11-1973
journalist, commentator: "Our Government"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:17:43 -0500
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Cincinnati OTR date correction
Correction: May 7 and 8, 2010 are the dates of the Cincinnati OTR Convention,
not April.
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