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COMEDIAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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         Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982)

Hans Conried was an comedian, character actor and popular voice actor who 
appeared regularly on many radio shows during the 1940s and 1950s, notably 
the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, on which he played a psychiatrist. His 
many television guest appearances included such shows as The Monkees
and I Love Lucy. Conried also was a cast member of The Rocky and Bullwinkle
Show
, voicing the character of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right
shorts. He also hosted Fractured Flickers, a live-action syndicated half-hour
television comedy show .Critics regarded Conried as one of the great comic
character actors. 

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BROADCAST JOURNALIST DEAD AT 93!

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     Myron Leon
"Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012)

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ENTERTAINER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1913

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      Julia Frances Langford
(April 4, 1913 – July 11, 2005)

Frances Langford was a singer and entertainer, popular during the
Golden Age of Radio who also made film appearances over two
decades.

 

Frances Langford appeared as herself along with The Modernaires
in The Glenn Miller Story, 1954

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COMMENTATOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1906

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       John Cameron Swayze
(April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995)

Swayze was a popular news commentator and game show panelist during
the 1950s. He first sought work as an actor,but acting roles in Broadway
theater during 1929 became scarce due to the stock market crash.

Swayze returned to the Midwest and began working for the Kansas City
Journal Post
as a reporter. He soon graduated to radio in 1940 doing
news updates for the local CBS radio affiliate KMBC. He later moved
to Los Angeles and Hollywood where NBC hired him for its western
news division before moving him to its New York news operation
in 1947. 

In 1949 Swayze was chosen to host NBC’s first television newscast,
the fifteen-minute Camel News Caravan where he.read items from
the news wires and periodically interviewed newsmakers.  



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JANE POWELL IS 83 TODAY

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Jane Powell was born Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon. She
began dance lessons at the age of two and appeared on the KGW radio
talent show Stars of Tomorrow at age five.She had attended Beaumont
Grade School and Grant High School in Portland. Powell signed with
Metro-Goldyn-Mayer while still in her teens. She was loaned out to
United Artists where she made her first film in 1944, a musical
comedy titled Song of the Open Road. Powell continues to act
and perform today.

 

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