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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY
ACTRESS DOROTHY MALONE IS 89 TODAY
Dorothy Malone (Dorothy Eloise Maloney)
Dorothy Malone won a Best Supporting Actress award for her
role in Written on the Wind in 1956. Her film career reached its
peak by the beginning of the 1960s. She achieved later success
with her ABC television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton
Place from 1964 to 1968.
NUMBER-THREE ON THIS DAY IN 1963
Following her 1963 #8 hit "The Nitty Gritty", Shirley Ellis reaches #3
on the Billboard Pop chart and #4 on the R&B chart with a novelty
tune called "The Name Game".
Shirley Ellis (January 19, 1929 – October 5, 2005)
COMEDIAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1880
W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield)
(January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946)
Fields was an early film comedian who obtained fame for his sardonic
wit in such films as The Bank Dick (1940) and My Little Chickadee with
Mae West (1940). Before fame he made a living as a pool player and
a juggler as a teen.
Fields (right) working with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on NBC radio
SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1956
Indictment! was a courtroom drama on CBS radio from 1956 through
1959. The show was based on the case files of former New York City
Assistant District Attorney Eleazer Lipsky, it "presented the step-by-step
and tedious checking that went into a case before an indictment could
be obtained."
Nat Polen (below) played the part of Edward McCormick, ADA. Polen
was better known for his role as Dr. James Craig on ABC-TV’s "One
Life to Live."
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