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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 166
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
8-31 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:42:23 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-31 births/deaths
August 31st births
08-31-1883 - Erma Miranda - d. 12-xx-1964
choir director: Beloit College Choir, WBBW Norfold, Virginia
08-31-1886 - L. Wolfe Gilbert - Odessa, Russia - d. 7-12-1970
pianist: WEAF New York City
08-31-1897 - Fredric March - Racine, WI - d. 4-14-1975
actor: "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
08-31-1897 - Sidney Ellstrom - Chicago, IL - d. 7-29-1968
actor: "Captain Midnight"; "Flying Patrol"; "Lights Out"
08-31-1898 - Jack Ward - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-26-1973
organist: "Gangbusters"; "Magnificent Montague"
08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-6-1975
commentator: "News and Commentary"
08-31-1900 - Larry Elliott - Washington, [removed] - d. 7-27-1957
announcer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "American Melody Hour"; "Barry
Cameron"
08-31-1903 - Arthur Godfrey - NYC - d. 3-16-1983
emcee: (The Old Redhead) "Arthur Godfrey Time"; "Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts"
08-31-1905 - Dory Schary - Newark, NJ - d. 7-7-1980
writer: "America Calling"; "The Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
08-31-1906 - Ruth Weston - Boston, MA - d. 11-5-1955
actor: Maude Kellogg "Life Can Be Beautiful"
08-31-1907 - Gus Hawkins - Shreveport, LA - d. 11-10-2007
congressman: Democratic response to Reagan's radio address
08-31-1907 - Winifred Cecil - Staten Island, NY - d. 9-13-1985
singer: "Show Boat"
08-31-1908 - William Saroyan - Fresno, CA - d. 5-18-1981
writer: "Columbia Workshop"; "The Free Company"; "Biography in Sound"
08-31-1911 - Walter Paterson - Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia - d. 9-1-1942
actor: Reggie York "I Love A Mystery"; Nicholas Lacy "One Man's Family"
08-31-1912 - Ramon Vinay - Chillan, Chile - d. 1-4-1996
tenor: "A Critic's Toscanini"
08-31-1914 - Richard Basehart - Zanesville, OH - d. 9-17-1984
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Preview"
08-31-1916 - Daniel Schoor - NYC
correspondent, commentator: "Edward R. Murrow and the News"
08-31-1917 - Burleigh Robbins Downey, Jr. - d. 3-1-2000
news director: "You are the Jury"
08-31-1918 - Alan Jay Lerner - NYC - d. 6-14-1986
writer: "Victor Borge"; "Raleigh Room"; "Philco Hall of Fame"
08-31-1922 - John Hanson - Ontario, Canada - d. 12-4-1998
singer, actor: "Children's Hour"; "Songs from the Shows"; "Variety
Bandbox"
08-31-1932 - Roy Castle - Scholes, England - d. 9-2-1994
actor: "Castles on the Air"
August 31st deaths
01-22-1906 - Guy Savage - d. 8-31-1981
announcer: "Play Broadcast"
02-01-1895 - John Ford - Cape Elizabeth, ME - d. 8-31-1973
director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
02-25-1895 - George Schuyler - Providence, RI - d. 8-31-1977
host: "The Negro World"
03-19-1890 - Gayne Whitman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1958
actor, announcer: Frank Chandler "Chandu the Magician"; "Cavalcade of
America"
03-28-1913 - Lucille Fletcher - NYC - d. 8-31-2000
dramatist: "Columbia Workshop"; "Suspense"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
03-29-1908 - Dennis O'Keefe - Fort Madison, IA - d. 8-31-1968
actor: Treasure Agent Larsen "T-Man"
03-30-1916 - Will Hare - Elkins, WV - d. 8-31-1997
actor: "Words at War"; "New World A' Coming"; "Mysterious Traveler"
04-16-1933 - Ike Pappas - NYC - d. 8-31-2008
newscaster: "World News Roundup"; "CBS News"
04-20-1908 - Lionel Hampton - Louisville, KY - d. 8-31-2002
vibraphone artist: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"; "Lionel Hampton and
His Orchestra"
04-28-1908 - Michael Fitzmaurice - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1967
actor: Clark Kent/Superman "Advs. of Superman"; Dick Grosvenor "Stella
Dallas"
05-08-1914 - Carmen Matthews - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-31-1995
actor: "There Is No Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-29-1900 - Buell Kazee - Burton's Fork, KY - d. 8-31-1976
banjo-playing, singing Baptist minister: "Renfro Valley Barn Dance"
09-18-1908 - Blair Walliser - Chicago, IL - d. 8-31-1996
writer, director: "Romance of Helen Trent"; "Backstage Wife"
10-27-1901 - David Stone - Savannah, GA - d. 8-31-1995
announcer: "Grand Ole Opry"
xx-xx-1893 - Oscar Bradley - London, England - d. 8-31-1948
orchestra leader: "The Phil Baker Show"; "Gulf Screen Guild Theatre"
xx-xx-xxxx - Elizabeth Baldwin Hazelton - d. 8-31-1995
writer: "Grand Central Station"; "Death Valley Days"
Ron
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