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Blind Date (radio Series)
''Blind Date'' is an old-time radio program in the United States. It was broadcast on NBC from July 8, 1943 until January 18, 1946. Origin The program was derived from a similar show, ''G. I. Blind Date'', that was broadcast on KSOO in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. That program was adapted into a summer replacement for the Fanny Brice-Frank Morgan show (''Maxwell House Coffee Time''). General Foods was the sponsor. Format Listeners to ''Blind Date'' heard "a simple, old-fashioned pattern — that of a young man trying to talk himself into the good graces of a girl". Each episode featured six servicemen selected from the studio audience. Those six were grouped into three pairs. A telephone provided the only contact between the two men in a pair and a "glamour girl", (usually a model or an actress) as a partition separated the men from the women. Each man had two minutes to convince the young woman that she should go on a date with him. Each winner received $5 in cash, a corsage to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlene Francis
Arlene Francis (born Arline Francis Kazanjian; October 20, 1907 – May 31, 2001) was an American actress, radio and television talk show host, and game show panelist. She is known for her long-running role as a panelist on the television game show '' What's My Line?'', on which she regularly appeared for 25 years, from 1950 to 1975, on both the network and syndicated versions of the show. Early life Francis was born on October 20, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Leah (née Davis) and Aram Kazanjian. Her Armenian father was studying art in Paris at the age of 16 when he learned that both his parents had died in one of the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman government in Turkey between 1894 and 1896, known as the Hamidian Massacres. He emigrated to the United States and became a portrait photographer, opening his own studio in Boston in the early 20th century. Later in life, Kazanjian painted canvases of dogwoods, "rabbits in flight", and other nature scenes, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
