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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 159
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
10-2 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: Danger Zone-Pat Novak [ Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@rocketmai ]
10-3 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:26:39 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-2 births/deaths
October 2nd births
10-02-1886 - Tony Burger - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-17-1964
actor: "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch"; "Kate Smith"
10-02-1890 - Groucho Marx - NYC - d. 8-19-1977
comedian: "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"; "Blue Ribbon Town"; "You
Bet Your Life"
10-02-1893 - Roy Shield - Waseca, MN - d. 1-9-1962
conductor: "Design for Listening"; "RCA Victor Show"; "Eternal Light"
10-02-1895 - Bud Abbott - Asbury Park, NJ - d. 4-24-1974
comedian: "Abbott and Costello Show"
10-02-1896 - Bob Burns - Van Buren, AR - d. 2-2-1956
comedian: (The Arkansas Traveler) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Bob Burns Show"
10-02-1897 - Jess Kirkpatrick - Illinois - d. 8-9-1976
actor: Harry Henderson "Beulah"
10-02-1898 - Baron Keyes - Greenwood, WI - d. 9-26-1976
writer: "Air Castle"; "The Story Man"
10-02-1900 - Barton Yarborough - Goldthwaite, TX - d. 12-19-1951
actor: Ben Romero "Dragnet"; Doc Long "I Love A Mystery/Adventure"
10-02-1900 - Cecil Roy - St. Paul, MN - d. 1-26-1995
actor: (Girl of a Thousand Voices) Junior Fitz "Ma Perkins"
10-02-1902 - Percy Crawford - Minnedosa, Canada - d. 10-31-1960
evangelist: "Young People's Church of the Air"
10-02-1904 - Godfrey Baseley - Alvechurch, England - d. 2-2-1997
creator: "The Archers"
10-02-1904 - Graham Greene - Berkhampstead, England - d. 4-3-1991
writer: "Lives of Harry Lime"; "Studio One"; "NBC University Theatre"
10-02-1905 - Mary Breckinridge - NYC - d. 12-11-2002
correspondent: "CBS News of Europe"; "World News Today"
10-02-1909 - Alexander Raymond - New Rochelle - d. 9-6-1956
cartoonist: Created Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim
10-02-1911 - Jack Finney - Milwaukee, WI - d. 11-14-1995
writer: "Cloud Nine"
10-02-1914 - Charles Drake - Bayside, NYC - d. 9-10-1994
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
10-02-1915 - Bonnie Kay - Iowa City, IA
actor: "Barton Family"; "Mary Nobel, Backstage Wife"
10-02-1915 - Chubby Wise - Lake City, FL - d. 1-6-1996
musician: "Town and Country Time"
10-02-1919 - Henry (Noel) Bentinck - Exton, England - d. 1-30-1997
BBC talks producer
10-02-1920 - Rosemarie Brancato - d. 6-18-1994
operatic soprano: "Twin Sisters"
10-02-1921 - Edmund Crispin - Chesterham Bois, England - d. 9-15-1978
author: "The Moving Toyshop"
10-02-1921 - Scott Crossfield - Berkely, CA - d. 4-19-2006
test pilot: "Great Moments To Music"
10-02-1928 - George 'Spanky' McFarland - Dallas, TX - d. 6-30-1993
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
10-02-1934 - Peggy Joan Moylan - Sag Harbor, NY - d. xx-xx-2002
singer: (The Moylan Sisters, Angels of the Airwaves) "Moylan Sisters"
10-02-1937 - Jack Wilson - Bally Robert, County Down, Northern Ireland
author: "A Day Like Tomorrow"
October 2nd deaths
02-10-1913 - James Monks - NYC - d. 10-2-1994
actor: Jim Brandon "The Avenger" I. A. Moto "Mr. I. A. Moto"
02-17-1921 - Ken Platt - Lancashire, England - d. 10-2-1998
comedian: "Fanfare"; "Worker's Playtime"; "Hit the Road"
02-26-1906 - Madeleine Carroll - West Bromwich, England - d. 10-2-1987
actor: "The Circle"; "NBC Radio Theatre"; "Stage Door Canteen"
03-01-1904 - Paul Hartman - d. 10-2-1973
actor: "Tony Awards"
03-28-1912 - Frank Lovejoy - The Bronx, NY - d. 10-2-1962
actor: Randy 'Lucky' Stone "Nightbeat"; Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs.
North"
06-11-1920 - Hazel Scott - Port of Spain, Trinidad - d. 10-2-1981
singer, pianist: "Free World Theatre"; "New World A-Coming"
07-14-1912 - Woody Guthrie - Okemah, OK - d. 10-2-1967
songwriter, singer: "Pursuit of Happiness"
07-18-1909 - Harriet Nelson - Des Moines, IA - d. 10-2-1994
actor: Daisy June "Red Skelton Show"; "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
07-27-1933 - Nick Reynolds - San Diego, CA - d. 10-2-2008
singer: (The Kingston Trio) "Guest Star"; "Guard Session"
09-11-1926 - Lee Richardson - Chicago, IL - d. 10-2-1999
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-13-1910 - Raymond Raikes - London, England - d. 10-2-1998
producer: "Dick Barton"; "The Foundling"; "National Theatre of the Air"
09-14-1922 - Frances Bergen - Birmingham, AL - d. 10-2-2006
actor: (Wife of Edgar, Mother of Candice) "New Edgar Bergen Hour"
09-29-1907 - Gene Autry - Tioga, TX - d. 10-2-1998
singer, actor: "National Barn Dance"; "Melody Ranch"
11-17-1925 - Rock Hudson - Winnetka, IL - d. 10-2-1985
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-16-1913 - Verlye Mills - St. John, KS - d. 10-2-1983
harpist: "The Hour of Charm"; "Your Hit Parade"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:28:06 -0400
From: Brent Pellegrini <brentpl@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Danger Zone-Pat Novak
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I saw a movie from 1951 called Danger Zone that was a direct video clone
of Pat Novak. Guy named O'Brien (Novak) rents boats down on the
San Francisco waterfront. He gets sucked into buying a suitcase at an
auction by a blonde who disappears when he goes back to his seat with the
suitcase. He goes back to his apartment with the suitcase, gets slugged and
knocked out
and wakes up. The suitcase is missing and a detective Travis (Hellman) is
there. The frame is on. So O'Brien drops into a bar to discuss his situation
with the alcoholic, pontificating Professor Shicker (Jocko Madigan). O'Brien
goes to see a musician who was slipped some poison. He dies and then in walks
the detective, Travis. Eventually Shicker calls O'Brien with all the scoop on
all the players just like Jocko Madigan. Snappy dialogue and similes ("the
only thing left in the closet were the moths") a
la Richard Breen but written
by a guy named Herbert Margolis.
The kicker is that O'Brien is played by Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) who
doesn't have the cynical tough guy presence of Jack Webb.
Here's a Wikipedia description of a typical Novak episode which pretty much
matches what I described above.
Typically, a person unknown to Pat asks him to do an unusual or risky job. Pat
reluctantly accepts and finds himself in hot water in the form of an
unexplained dead body. Sultry females are usually involved. Police Inspector
Hellman (played by Raymond Burr) arrives on the scene and pins the murder on
Novak. With only circumstantial evidence to go on, Hellman promises to haul
Novak in the next day for the crime. The rapid, staccato dialogue between Webb
& Burr is typical of hardboiled fiction and is often humorous. Pat uses the
time to try to solve the case. He usually employs the help of his friend Jocko
Madigan (played by Tudor Owen) - a drunken ex-doctor typically found at some
disreputable tavern or bar - to help him solve the case. As Pat asks for his
help, Jocko launches a long-winded philosophical diatribe, full of witty and
funny remarks, until Novak cuts him off.
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:29:01 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-3 births/deaths
October 3rd births
10-03-1873 - Emily Post - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-25-1960
commentator: "Emily Post"; "Right Thing to Do"
10-03-1881 - George Moran - Elwood, KS - d. 8-1-1949
comedian: (Two Black Crows) "Majestic Theatre of the Air"; "Eveready
Hour"
10-03-1882 - Ulderico 'Rico' Marcelli - Rome, Italy - d. 8-17-1962
bandleader: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
10-03-1890 - Henry Hull - Louisville, KY - d. 3-8-1977
actor: Honest Abe "Abraham Lincoln"; Nathan Hale "Roses and Drums"
10-03-1897 - Vincent Sorey - Turin, Italy - d. 3-29-1977
conductor/violinist: Musical director for WOR New York
10-03-1898 - Leo McCarey - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-5-1969
judge: "This Is My Story"
10-03-1898 - Morgan Farley - Mamaroneck, NY - d. 10-11-1988
actor: "Escape"
10-03-1899 - Gertrude Berg - NYC - d. 9-14-1966
actor: Molly Goldberg, "Goldbergs"
10-03-1907 - Paul Nugent - Brooklyn, NY - d. unknown
actor: Paul Strong "Mother O' Mine"; "Just Plain Bill"
10-03-1908 - Johnny Burke - Antioch, CA - d. 2-25-1964
composer: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "The Big Show"
10-03-1910 - Gwen Davenport - Colon, Canal Zone, Panama - d. 3-23-2002
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-03-1911 - Michael Hordern - Berkhamsted, England - d. 5-2-1995
actor: Gandolf "The Lord of the Rings"
10-03-1912 - Gabriel Julian - Newark, NJ - d. 9-29-2002
piano: "Bobby Byrne Orchestra"; arranger: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
10-03-1913 - Mark Houston - Ohio - d. 5-11-1971
announcer: "Queen for a Day"
10-03-1916 - James Alfred "Alf" Wight - Sunderland, England - d.
2-23-1995
author: James Herriot Books
10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
10-03-1923 - Von Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-12-2012
jazz saxophonist: "Jazz America"
10-03-1924 - Joe Allison - McKinney, TX - d. 8-2-2002
songwriter: Began his career as a radio disk jockey
October 3rd deaths
01-23-1892 - Eleanor Nash - d. 10-3-1969
beauty and style consultant (Sister of Ogden Nash): "Ask Eleanor Nash"
01-23-1919 - Millard Lampell - d. 10-3-1997
co-founder of the Almanac Singers: "Treasury Star Parade"
02-24-1914 - Zachary Scott - Austin, TX - d. 10-3-1965
actor: "Suspense"; "Encore Theatre"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-14-1891 - Dr. Dolphe Martin - Poland - d. 10-3-1974
conductor: "Tydol Jubilee (Music on the Air)
05-17-1903 - Artie Auerbach - NYC - d. 10-3-1957
actor: Mr. Kitzel "Jack Benny Program"
05-19-1919 - Louisa Vass - Greenville, SC - d. 10-3-2000
singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phoenix Program"
05-26-1915 - Vernon Alley - d. 10-3-2004
musician, disk jockey: San Francisco area
06-04-1917 - Charles Collingwood - Three Rivers, MI - d. 10-3-1985
newscaster: CBS News UN Correspondent/White House Correspondent
06-05-1897 - Woods O. Dreyfus - Wisconsin - d. 10-3-1965
singer, announcer, program director WISN Milwaukee, WI
06-13-1911 - Maurice Copeland - Rector, AR - d. 10-3-1985
actor: Augustus Pendelton "Ma Perkins"; "Curtain Time"; "Hall of
Fantasy"
06-27-1920 - Betty Bryant - Bristol, England - d. 10-3-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-30-1893 - Virginia Beberus - Mercer, ME - d. 10-3-1964
composer/author: conducted a radio program
07-06-1927 - Janet Leigh - Merced, CA - d. 10-3-2004
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players" - Radio Debut
07-17-1914 - Eleanor Steber - Wheeling, WV - d. 10-3-1990
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "[removed] Fox Trappers"
07-24-1911 - Dudley McCarthy - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-3-1987
auther of radio plays
08-27-1900 - Gene Burdette - Chicago, IL - d. 10-3-1968
producer, director: "Luck of the Irish"
09-13-1903 - Dave Binder - London, England - d. 10-3-1992
formed "Jingle Jem Co," to produce radio jingles
09-17-1928 - Roddy McDowall - London, England - d. 10-3-1998
panelist: "Keep Up with the Kids"
09-20-1896 - Si Wills - Pennsylvania - d. 10-3-1977
writer: (Husband of Joan Davis) "Joan Davis Time"
09-25-1929 - Ronnie Barker - Bedford, England - d. 10-3-2005
comedian: "The Floggits"
10-07-1910 - Wayne Ackley - d. 10-3-1988
newscaster: Des Moines, Iowa
11-02-1915 - Kay Armen - Chicago, IL - d. 10-3-2011
singer: "Stop the Music!"; "Pet Milk Show"; "Bob Crosby Show"
11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
11-30-1913 - John K. M. McCaffrey - Moscow, ID - d. 10-3-1983
newscaster: "Author Meets the Critics"; "What Makes You Tick?"
12-22-1891 - Mc Kay Morris - Fort Sam Houston, TX - d. 10-3-1955
actor: Abe Lincoln "The Abe Lincoln Story"; Gregory Ivanoff "Ma Perkins"
Ron
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