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LOCAL GIRL IS 68 TODAY

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1965 Senior Year Book from Grant High School

                                               

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Sally Anne Struthers

Emmy Award-winning actress Sally Struthers played the role of
Gloria Stivic on the CBS television series All in the Family, for
which she won two Emmy awards. She later became a speaker
for Save the Children. Sally was born in Portland, Oregon and
attended Grant High School.

2013

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ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1894

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Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974)

Brennan played Grandpa McCoy on The Real McCoys sitcom on ABC from
1957 to 1963. He, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jack Nicholson are the first three
men to win three Oscar Awards.

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SERIES DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1932

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Vic and Sade
rehearsal; from left: Art Van Harvey (Vic), Bernardine Flynn,
(Sade), Paul Rhymer and Bill Idelson.

The sitcom Vic and Sade was created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was aired 
regularly on NBC radio from 1932 to 1944, then intermittently until 1946, and
was briefly adapted to television in 1949 and again in 1957.

During its 14-year run on radio, Vic and Sade became one of the most popular
series of its kind, earning critical and popular success: according to Time, the
program  had 7,000,000 devoted listeners in 1943. For the majority of its span
on the air, Vic and Sade was heard in 15-minute episodes without a continuing
storyline.

The central characters, known as "radio’s home folks", were accountant Victor 
Rodney Gook (Art Van Harvey), his wife Sade (Bernardine Flynn) and their
adopted son Rush (Bill Idelson).

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SHOWS TV DEBUT ON THIS DAY IN 1951

Adapted from radio to television, The Amos ‘n Andy Show was produced
from June 1951 to April 1953 with 78 filmed episodes, sponsored by the
Blatz Brewing Company.

The CBS television series used black actors in the main roles, although
the actors were instructed to keep their voices and speech patterns close 
to those of the radio shows stars Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

Produced at the Hal Roach Studios, the show was among the first to be
filmed with a multi-camera setup, four months before the I Love Lucy
series used the same technique.

The original radio show was popular from the 1920s through the
1950s. It was created, written, and voiced by two white actors, 
Gosden and Correll (above).

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JUNE LOCKHART IS 90 TODAY

Lockhart played the mother on the CBS television series Lassie from 1954 to
1973 and Lost in Space from 1965 to 1968. She made her film debut in A
Christmas Carol
opposite of her actor parents, Gene and Kathleen Arthur
Lockhart, in 1938. June Lockhart originally started in theater.

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