Charles Keating (October 22, 1941 – August 9, 2014)
The classically trained Shakespearean actor Charles Keating, who won a
Daytime Emmy in 1996 for the NBC soap opera Another World, died of
cancer Saturday. On the big screen Keating appeared in 1992’s The
Bodyguard and 1990’s Awakenings.
Charles Keating with his Daytime Emmy award
Patrick Duffy is best known for playing the role of J.R.’s brother, Bobby
Ewing on both the CBS series Dallas (1978-1991). He was born in
Townsend, Montana, the son of tavern owners Marie and Terence
Duffy. During high school, Duffy was living in Everett, Washington,
attending Cascade High School. Before fame he taught mime and
and movement classes while working as an interpreter for ballet,
opera and orchestra companies.
"My True Story" debuted on ABC radio and ran for seventeen years. The daily
program was presented in cooperation with "True Story" magazine, the source of
the stories for the radio series. The magazine, first published in 1919. was said to
be one of the earliest in today’s genre of confession magazines and continued on
radio for nearly 19 years.
Don Ameche
Betty and Bob was the first widely popular daytime serial soap opera that began on
the NBC Blue network. It was created by the producer-couple Anne and Frank
Hummert. and ran until 1940. The series originally starred Elizabeth Reller as
Betty and Don Ameche as Bob Drake. The cast underwent a number of changes
during its 8-year run. There were eight different Bob’s and five different Betty’s. It
was sponsored by General Mills. The theme song was “Salute d’Amour".
Fran Carlton
Kitty Keene, Inc. was a radio soap about a female private detective, airing first on
CBS and then on Mutual. Kitty was played by Beverley Younger, Gail Henshaw
and Fran Carlon.
This series ran for four years, ending in 1941. Sponsored by Dreft, the show
was part soap opera part detective mystery with a private "cat eye."
