Mike Gracia

Young Dorothy, 1940s

 
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.

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) 

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

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."

Nat Polen

Vintage 1956 Philco Transitone clock AM radio