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FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO

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"Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" debuted on CBS Radio as a action packed half-hour detective series on Friday, February 11, 1949. It featured Charles Russell in the
title role as freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. Through the following
years, several actors played the part – including Edmond O’Brien, John Lund,
and Bob Bailey. It aired until September 30, 1962 with a one year hiatus from
1954-1955. The show was sponsored by Wrigley’s Gum.

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Charles Russell

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Edmond O’Brien

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Bob Bailey

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Mandel Kramer played Johnny Dollar in the
final broadcast.

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“YOU CAN BE SURE…IF IT’S WESTINGHOUSE”

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Consumer advocate and former film and TV actress Betty Furness displaying
a Westinghouse refrigerator during a commercial break in 1956

In 1948 Betty Furness was performing in the CBS television series Studio One which
was broadcast live. She was asked to fill in for a actor to promote Westinghouse products during commercial breaks and impressed the company so much with
her ease and professional delivery that she was offered a contract to promote
their products and subsequently became closely associated with them.

 

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Elizabeth “Betty” Mary Furness

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Furness preparing for a Westinghouse commercial in 1952

 

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CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS 74 TODAY

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Christopher Lloyd, High School yearbook

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Christopher Allen Lloyd played Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the
Future
trilogy (1985 – 1990), He rose to fame in the 1980s as Jim
Ignatowski
in the television series Taxi (ABC, 1978 – 1982 & NBC,
(1982 – 1983).

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Christopher Lloyd as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s Nest,
1975
. His first motion picture role.

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Lloyd in Taxi

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Christopher Lloyd from Back to the Future

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RADIO SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1945

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Barry Fitzgerald

“His Honor The Barber” starring Oscar winner Barry Fitzgerald told the
story of Judge Barnard Fitz, a wise old judge who has his share of both
comical and dramatic cases. The show premiered on NBC radio and ran
only one season till April 9, 1946. The sponsor was Ballantine Ale. It was
written, produced, and directed by Carlton E. Morse. Frank Martin was
the announcer and also provided the music.

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TODAY, ROGER MOORE IS 85

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Sir Roger George Moore is the longest-serving James Bond actor, with twelve 
years in the role beginning in Live and Let Die (1973), followed by The Man
with the Golden Gun
((1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker
(1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), and prior to his
retirement from the role in 1985 with A View to Kill. In 2004, Moore was voted
‘Best Bond’ in an Academy Awards poll and won with 62% of the votes in late
2008.

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