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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2011 : Issue 122
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  8-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:00:27 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-2 births/deaths

August 2nd births

08-02-1886 - Cesare Sodero - Naples, Italy - d. 12-16-1947
conductor: Series of condensed operas on WEAF New York
08-02-1890 - Leila Roosevelt - d. 11-4-1973
explorer: (cousin of FDR) "So You Want to Be"
08-02-1892 - Jack L. Warner - London, Ontario, Canada - d. 9-9-1978
film studio owner" "Jack Benny Program"; "Warner Brothers Academy
Award Theatre"
08-02-1892 - John Kieran - The Bronx, NY, New  - d. 12-10-1980
panelist: "Information, Please"
08-02-1892 - Karolyn Wells Bassett - Derby, CT - d. 6-2-1931
was very popular in early radio
08-02-1899 - Charles Bennett - d. 6-15-1995
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Radio City Playhouse"
08-02-1899 - Earle Larimore - Portland, OR - d. 10-22-1947
actor: "Alias Jimmy Valentine"; "Life Can Be Beautiful"
08-02-1900 - Helen Morgan - Danville, IL - d. 10-8-1941
hostess, singer: "Helen Morgan, Songs"; "Broadway Melodies"; "Fred
Allen Show"
08-02-1902 - Guy Repp - d. 11-24-1986
actor: Dr. Abernathy "County Seat"; Benito Mussoline "Our Secret Weapon"
08-02-1903 - Victor McLeod - d. 12-12-1972
writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "Stop or Go"
08-02-1904 - John McClain - Ohio - d. 5-3-1967
writer: "Hollywood Hotel"
08-02-1905 - Myrna Loy - Raidersburg, MT - d. 12-14-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-02-1905 - Ruth Nelson - Saginaw, MI - d. 9-12-1992
actor: "Arch Obler's Plays"; "Columbia Workshop"
08-02-1912 - Ann Dvorak - NYC - d. 12-10-1979 - d. 12-10-1979
actor: "Movietone Radio Theatre"
08-02-1912 - Gwen Plumb - Sydney, Australia - d. 6-4-2002
scripter, actor: "Big Sister"; "Blue Hills"
08-02-1912 - Harry Bailey - Indianapolis, IN
writer: "Cavalcade for Victory"; "Father's Day Program"
08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
Line"
08-02-1914 - Beatrice Straight - Old Westbury, NY - d. 4-7-2001
actor: "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
08-02-1915 - Johnny Long - Newell, NC - d. 10-31-1972
bandleader: "The Teen-Timers Show"; "Judy, Joe, and Johnny"
08-02-1916 - Johnny Coons - d. 7-6-1975
actor: Chuck Ramsey "Captain Midnight"; Clipper "Sky King"; "Vic and
Sade"
08-02-1919 - Nehemiah Persoff - Jerusalem, Palestine
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre
08-02-1921 - Kathryn Bankston - d. 4-10-1987
women's programming: WRBC Athens, Georgia
08-02-1924 - Joe Harnell - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-14-2005
jazz arranger: (Joe Harnell Quartet) "The Navy Swings"
08-02-1942 - Doris Kenner-Jackson - North Carolina - d. 2-4-2000
singer: (Shirelles) "Murray The K: Live from the Brooklyn Fox"
08-02-1943 - Rose Tremain - London, England
author: "The Wisest Fool"

August 2nd deaths

01-14-1911 - David Gothard - Beardstown, IL - d. 8-2-1977
actor: Gil Whitney "Romance of Helen Trent"; Nick Charles "The Thin Man"
01-17-1933 - Shari Lewis - NYC - d. 8-2-1998
ventruloquist: "No School Today"
02-27-1873 - Enrico Caruso - Naples, Italy - d. 8-2-1921
tenor: On 12-13-1910 made experimental broadcast with Lee DeForest
05-27-1921 - Redd Stewart - Ashland City, TN - d. 8-2-2003
lyricist: "Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys"
06-13-1899 - Carlos Chavez - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1978
composer, conductor: "Columbia Workshop"; "Sinfonia India"
08-06-1894 - Jack Kirkwood - Scotland - d. 8-2-1964
actor: Jack Williams "Saunders of the Circle X"; Uncle Jim "Hawthorne
House"
08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
09-06-1930 - Bernard Jaffe - d. 8-2-1993
science writer: "Information, Please"
09-13-1913 - Gretchen Davidson - Chicago, IL - d. 8-2-2002
actor: Carol Kennedy "Carol Kennedy's Romance"
10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey
11-24-1888 - Cathleen Nesbitt - Belfast, Northern Ireland - d. 8-2-1982
actor: "Philco Radio Playhouse"
11-27-1915 - Ralph Bell -NYC - d. 8-2-1998
actor: Travis Rogers "Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator"; Alfred
Drake "This Is Nora Drake"
11-30-1894 - Donald Ogden Stewart - Columbus, OH - d. 8-2-1980
writer: "Information Please"
12-05-1890 - Fritz Lang - Vienna, Austria - d. 8-2-1976
film director: "Bud's Bandwagon"
12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
12-12-1919 - Seymour Korman - d. 8-2-1993
newsman for Mutual
xx-xx-1932 - Juan Lopez Mactezuma - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 8-2-1995
host: "Jazz en la Cultuira"; "Panorama de Jazz"

Ron

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