Jane Wyatt with Billy Gray

Jane Waddington Wyatt was a actress perhaps best known for her role as
the housewife and mother on the CBS television comedy Father Knows Best
(1954-1960), and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the
television Sci-Fi series Star Trek. Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award winner.

The cast of “Father Knows Best”: clockwise from top left,
Elinor Donahue, Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray and
Lauren Chapin.

A routine called "Doughnut Dunkers"  led to comedian Red Skelton’s first network
radio appearance on The Rudy Vallee Show on August 12, 1937. The program
had a talent show segment and those who were searching for stardom were eager
to be heard on it. The show received enough fan mail after Skelton’s performance
to invite him back two weeks after his initial appearance and again in November of
that year. On October 1, 1938, Skelton replaced  Red Foley as the host of Avalon
Time on NBC. Skelton continued as the show’s host until late 1939, when he went
on to begin his MGM movie career.

Radio show host Rudy Vallee with a young talent constant  

Dustin Lee Hoffman is a actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since
1960. Hoffman began his acting career in the Pasadena Playhouse. He got the
favorable attention of critics for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he
won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Hoffman’s first film break
role was The Graduate in 1967. Other movies that followed included Midnight
Cowboy (1969), All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man both in 1976. He 
has won two Academy Awards, one for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), 
and the other for his performance in Rain Man (1988). He is also received 
five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards’, a Genie 
Award and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman also received the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1999.

Dustin Hoffman with Anne Bancroft in a scene from The Graduate

Hoffman with costar Tom Cruse

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)

Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is a comedian, recording artist, animation
voice actor, puppeteer and a advertising creative director whose career
began in 1944. From 1949 to 1954, he and Daws Butler provided voices
and were the puppeteers for the paramount Television Network series,
Time for Beany, a triple Emmy Award winner (1950, 1951, 1953). Freberg 
also had a weekly radio show on CBS in 1957, The Stan Freberg Show
which ran for only fifteen episodes from July 14 through October 20. Stan
is still active in the entertainment industry.

Freberg’s "Banana Boat (Day-O)" satirized Harry Belafonte’s
popular recording of "Banana Boat Song”, in 1957.

Puppeteer Sten Freberg with from left: Dishonest John (or "D.J.") and Cecil  
(or "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent")