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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1908
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana)
(October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)
Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She
made her film debut at age twelve in The Perfect Crime (1921). In October
1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation,
and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the
successful drama Marriage in Transit.
The successful career of Carole Lombard ended at age 33 when she died
in an airplane crash.
TODAY IN HISTORY
TV SERIES PREMIERED ON THIS DAY IN 1957
Original television run on CBS/NBC: October 4, 1957 – June 20, 1963
Leave It to Beaver is one of the first primetime sitcom series written from a child’s
point of view. The show received two Emmy nominations in 1958 for Best New
Program Series of the Year and Best Teleplay Writing—Half Hour or Less. The
series placed on Time’s "The 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time" list.Bravo ranked
Beaver 74th on their list of the 100 greatest TV characters.
VARIETY SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1957
Original television run on ABC: October 3, 1957 to June 23, 1960
The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom is a half-hour variety show that starred the
young singer Pat Boone who at 23 was still attending Columbia University in
New York City when the program began production. Boone, the No. 10 all-
time vocalist in sales, was at the time the youngest person to host his own
network variety program until ABC’s The Donny & Marie Show, with two
hosts, broke the record in 1976.
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