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Danny Thomas
Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz, (born January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) known professionally as Danny Thomas, was an American comedian, actor, singer, producer, and philanthropist. He created and starred in ''The Danny Thomas Show''. In addition to guest roles on many of the comedy, talk, and musical variety programs of his time, his legacy includes a lifelong dedication to fundraising for charity. Thomas founded the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, a leading center in pediatrics with a focus on Childhood cancer, pediatric cancer. St. Jude has affiliate hospitals in eight other American cities as of early 2020. Already a successful entertainer, Thomas began his film career in 1947, playing opposite child actress Margaret O'Brien in ''The Unfinished Dance'' (1947) and ''Big City (1948 film), Big City'' (1948). He then starred in the long-running television sitcom ''Make Room for Daddy'' (later, ''The Danny Thomas Show'' from the fourth season onwards) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Deerfield, Michigan
Deerfield is a village in Lenawee County, Michigan, Lenawee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 901 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The village is located within Deerfield Township, Lenawee County, Michigan, Deerfield Township. History The first land purchase in the area was by William Kedzie from Delhi, New York, who bought land here in 1824. He became the area's first resident when he moved here two years later. He became the first postmaster of the new community when a post office opened on March 20, 1828. The community was named Kedzie's Grove. It was renamed to Deerfield on August 19, 1837. The name came from the numerous deer in the area, and Deerfield incorporated as a village in 1873. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. The River Raisin flows through the area and forms most of the southern border of the village. Demographics 2010 census As of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Confirmation In The Catholic Church
Confirmation in the Catholic Church is one of the seven Sacraments (Catholic Church), sacraments. It is also one of the three sacraments of initiation into the Catholic Church, the other two being Baptism and First Communion. Description The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: It is evident from its celebration that the effect of the sacrament of Confirmation is the special outpouring of the Holy Spirit as once granted to the apostles on the day of Pentecost ... Recall then that you have received the spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of right judgment and courage, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear in God's presence. Guard what you have received. God the Father has marked you with his sign; Christ the Lord has confirmed you and has placed his pledge, the Spirit, in your hearts. The Catechism of the Catholic Church sees the account in the Acts of the Apostles as a scriptural basis for Confirmation as a sacrament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress. Primarily an actress of the stage, Bankhead also appeared in several films including an award-winning performance in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Lifeboat (1944 film), Lifeboat'' (1944). She also had a brief but successful career on radio and made appearances on television. In all, Bankhead amassed nearly 300 film, stage, television and radio roles during her career. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1981. Bankhead was a member of the List of United States political families (B)#Bankheads and Brockmans, Bankhead and Brockman family, a prominent Alabama political family. Her John H. Bankhead, grandfather and her John H. Bankhead II, uncle were U.S. senators, and William B. Bankhead, her father was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Bankhead supported liberalism in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Big Show (NBC Radio)
''The Big Show'' was an American radio variety program featuring 90 minutes of comic, stage, screen, and music talent. It was aimed at keeping American radio in its classic era and making it robust against the rapidly growing television tide. The show ran from November 5, 1950, to April 20, 1952. Personalities Hosted by stage actress Tallulah Bankhead, ''The Big Show'' began November 5, 1950, on NBC with a stellar line-up of guests: Fred Allen, Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, José Ferrer, Portland Hoffa, Frankie Laine, Russell Knight, Paul Lukas, Ethel Merman, Danny Thomas, and Meredith Willson. To make sure no one missed the launch, NBC ran in Sunday newspapers across the country an illustrated advertisement displaying headshots of Allen, Bankhead, Carson, Durante, and Merman. The premiere opened with this introduction: : Tallulah Bankhead: This is radio, 1950. The greatest stars of our time on one big program. And the most fabulous part about this, dahlings, is that every ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Baby Snooks Show
''The Baby Snooks Show'' was an American radio program starring comedian and ''Ziegfeld Follies'' alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her when she first went on the air. The series began on CBS September 17, 1944, airing on Sunday evenings at 6:30 pm as ''Post Toasties Time'' (for sponsor General Foods). The title soon changed to ''The Baby Snooks Show'', and the series was sometimes called ''Baby Snooks and Daddy''. History In 1904, George McManus began his comic strip, ''The Newlyweds'', about a couple and their child, Baby Snookums. Brice began doing her Baby Snooks character in vaudeville, as she recalled in an interview shortly before her death: "I first did Snooks in 1912 when I was in vaudeville. At the time there was a juvenile actress named Baby Peggy and she was very popular. Her hair was all curled and bleached and she was always in pink or blue. She looked like a strawberry ice cream soda. When I started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fanny Brice
Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedian, Illustrated Songs, illustrated song model, singer, and actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances. She is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series ''The Baby Snooks Show''. Her life story was loosely adapted into the stage musical ''Funny Girl (musical), Funny Girl''. Brice was famously portrayed by Barbra Streisand in both the original Broadway theatre, Broadway production of the musical and its Funny Girl (film), 1968 film adaptation. Early life Fania Borach was born in Manhattan, New York City, United States, the third child of Rose (née Stern; 1867–1941), a History of the Jews in Hungary, Jewish Hungarian woman who immigrated to the U.S. at age 10, and Alsace, Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. The Borachs were Pub#Saloon or lounge, saloon owners and had four children: Phillip, born in 1887; Carrie, bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Frances Langford
Julia Frances Newbern-Langford (April 4, 1913 – July 11, 2005) was an American singer and actress who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and made film and television appearances for over two decades. She was known as the "GI Nightingale", an forces sweetheart, American armed-forces sweetheart, who entertained troops by frequently touring with Bob Hope. Discovery Langford originally trained as an opera, opera singer. While a young girl she required a tonsillectomy that changed her soprano range to a rich contralto. As a result, she was forced to change her vocal approach to a more contemporary big band, popular music style. At age 17, she was singing for local dances. Cigar manufacturer Eli Witt heard her sing at an American Legion party and hired her to sing on a local radio show he sponsored. Actor Dan White (actor), Dan White played an important role in her discovery. White and Langford were schoolmates. Langford first sang in public in an amateur show that White s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Don Ameche
Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935. In the 1950s he worked on Broadway and in television, and was the host of NBC's ''International Showtime'' from 1961 to 1965. Returning to film work in his later years, Ameche enjoyed a fruitful revival of his career, beginning with his role as a villain in ''Trading Places'' (1983). He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''Cocoon (film), Cocoon'' (1985). Early life Don Ameche was born as Dominic Felix Amici on May 31, 1908, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. His father, Felice Amici, was a bartender from Montemonaco, Province of Ascoli Piceno, Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Marche, Italy. His mother, Barbara Etta Hertel, was of Scottish American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Drene Time
''Drene Time'' (aka ''The Drene Show'') was a 30-minute radio variety show starring Don Ameche and singer-actress Frances Langford as co-hosts, airing on NBC's Sunday night schedule (10:00-10:30pm Eastern) in 1946–47. The series was sponsored by Procter & Gamble's Drene Shampoo, and the announcer was Tobe Reed. When the series first began on September 8, 1946, Ameche was its lead. Then on December 15, 1946 the show was overhauled, with Philip Rapp brought in as its writer, and with actors Frances Langford and Danny Thomas added to the main cast. Music was provided by Carmen Dragon and His Orchestra, with production by Carlton Alsop. The December 15th show started with Don explaining the new variety format to Carmen and Frances, after which she sang "Sooner or Later", which was later adapted for the film Dick Tracy (1990). ''Drene Time'' would now usually open with Langford singing a big band-style arrangement. Then Ameche and Langford would slip into comedy, often aided by co-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Bickersons
''The Bickersons'' was a series of radio and television comedy sketches which began in 1946 on NBC radio. The show's married protagonists, portrayed by Don Ameche (later by Lew Parker) and Frances Langford, spent nearly all their time together in a relentless verbal war. Radio origins ''The Bickersons'' was created by Philip Rapp, the one-time Eddie Cantor writer who had also created the Fanny Brice skits (for '' The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air'' and '' Maxwell House Coffee Time'') that grew into radio's '' Baby Snooks''. Several years after the latter established itself as a long-running favorite, Rapp developed and presented John and Blanche Bickerson, first as a 15-minute situational sketch as part of the 1946 half-hour radio program '' Drene Time'', then as a short sketch on ''The Old Gold Show'' and later, on '' The Chase and Sanborn Hour'' (the show that made stars of Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy). ''Drene Time'' was a variety show starring Don Amec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Danny Thomas Jerry Dingle Baby Snooks 1945
Danny is a masculine given name. It is related to and short for the male name Daniel.🖾🖾 People *Danny Altmann, British immunologist *Danny Antonucci, Canadian animator, director, producer, and writer *Danny Baker (born 1957), English journalist, radio and TV presenter *Danny Banda (born c. 1938), Canadian footballer * Danny Barnes (other), multiple people *Danny Bentley, American politician and pharmacologist *Danny Bonaduce (born 1959), American radio/television personality, comedian *Danny Brown (born 1981), American rapper *Danny Joe Brown (1951–2005), American singer, Molly Hatchet *Danny Burawa (born 1988), American baseball player *Danny Carey (born 1961), American drummer, Tool *Danny Chan (1958–1993), Hong Kong singer and actor *Danny Chan (born 1975), Hong Kong actor, martial artist, dance choreographer, and singer *Danny Clark (other), multiple people *Danny Collins (footballer) (born 1980), Welsh footballer *Danny Boy Collins (born 1967), E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
