Ralph Edwards

Truth or Consequences, a mix of game show elements with wacky stunts,
was originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards (above) from 1940
to 1957. The popular daily syndicated show was produced by Ralph
Edwards Productions. Sponsors included Duz soap, as well as Ivory
soap, Philip Morris, and Pet Milk. Truth or Consequences made its TV
debut on CBS in 1950.

Action Comics #127 (December 1948), featuring Superman 
appearing on the show with Ralph Edwards.

Bob Hope

The Academy Awards ceremony made appeared on television for the first time 
with 34 million viewers in front of their TV sets. NBC-TV’s broadcast of the 25th 
Annual Academy Awards featured ceremonies held in both Hollywood and New 
York City. Bob Hope hosted the main festivities (above) held at RKO Pantages
Theater in Hollywood, while Conrad Nagel led a smaller ceremony at the NBC
International Theater in Manhattan.

The circus drama “The Greatest Show on Earth,” directed by 71-year-old 
cinema pioneer Cecil B. DeMille, won Best Picture over the heavily favored
“High Noon,” which featured Best Actor winner Gary Cooper.

Ross Simpson

Sandy Kozel

1965

Kurt Vogel Russell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts

Russell has starred in the 1981 action film Escape from New York
and its 1996 sequel Escape from L.A., the horror film The Thing
(1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986). He was nominated for
an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis (1979). In 1994, Kurt
Russell had a starring role in the military science fiction film
Stargate.

He began his film career at age eleven in an unaccredited role
in Elvis Presley‘s 1963 musical “It Happened at the World’s Fair”.

Kurt Russell performing "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter’s 1979 television biographical film, Elvis. Voiced by Ronnie
McDowell. It originally aired on ABC.

1987