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Jay Stewart (NASCAR)
Jay Stewart Fix (September 6, 1918 – September 17, 1989), known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. He was probably best known as the announcer on the long running game show ''Let's Make a Deal'', in which he appeared throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Other shows for which he announced regularly include the Reg Grundy productions ''Scrabble'' and ''Sale of the Century'', as well as the Jack Barry-Dan Enright productions ''The Joker's Wild'', ''Tic-Tac-Dough'' and ''Bullseye''. Stewart died of suicide in 1989. Education and early career Born in Summitville, Indiana, Stewart broke into show business as a saxophone player. He attended Butler University and won a 1939 award as one of the outstanding Sigma Chi graduates in the United States. After graduation he landed radio announcing jobs at WBOW in Terre Haute and WLW in Cincinnati. In 1943 Stewart moved to Los Angeles, where he continued his care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summitville, Indiana
Summitville is a town in Van Buren Township, Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Indianapolis–Carmel–Anderson metropolitan statistical area. The population was 989 at the 2020 census. History Summitville was laid out in 1867. It was named for its relatively lofty elevation. The Joseph & Lucinda Thawley House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. Geography Summitville is in northeastern Madison County at (40.337361, -85.642985). It is north-northeast of Alexandria and north of Anderson, the county seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Summitville has a total area of , all land. The headwaters of Mud Creek pass to the west of the town limits, flowing southward to join Pipe Creek, a tributary of the White River, at Alexandria. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 967 people, 378 households, and 268 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 430 housing units at an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Hall Party
''Town Hall Party'' was an American country music program, firstly broadcast on radio and then television The first radio broadcast was in Autumn 1951 by stations KXLA-AM in Pasadena, California and KFI-AM in Los Angeles, California The television series was broadcast over Los Angeles network KTTV. Founding and synopsis Promoter William B. Wagnon, Jr., had been booking such acts as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in ballrooms between Bakersfield and Sacramento for several years when he decided to extend his operations to Los Angeles. Burt "Foreman" Phillips, himself a bandleader had been promoting country and Western barn dance programs at the old Town Hall building, situated at 400 South Long Beach Boulevard in Compton, near Long Beach. Wagnon acquired Phillips' lease and commenced promoting a combined dance-and-show, featuring any and all country & western recording artists working in the area and available on Saturday nights. An estimated 3,000 patrons could be accommodate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Wood
Eugene Edward Wood (October 20, 1925 – May 21, 2004) was an American television personality, known primarily for his work as an announcer on various game shows. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he announced many game shows, primarily Mark Goodson–Bill Todman productions such as ''Family Feud'', ''Classic Concentration'', ''Card Sharks'', ''Password (American game show), Password'', and ''Beat the Clock''. Wood also served a brief stint as a host on this last show, and on another show, ''Anything You Can Do (game show), Anything You Can Do''. After retiring from game shows in 1996, Wood worked as an announcer for the Game Show Network until his retirement in 1998. Early life Wood was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. He majored in speech and theater at Emerson College. Career His early career included stand-up comedy, television commercials, and writing for Bob Keeshan of ''Captain Kangaroo'' fame. This work included a Terrytoons-produced cartoon series, ''The Adventures of Lariat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Olson
John Leonard Olson (May 22, 1910 – October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer. Olson is perhaps best known for his work as an announcer for game shows, particularly the work he did for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. Olson was the longtime announcer for the original '' To Tell the Truth'' and ''What's My Line?'', and spent over a decade as the announcer for both ''Match Game'' and ''The Price Is Right'', working on the latter series at the time of his death. Early career Born in Windom, Minnesota, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, from soda jerk to singer. After 1928, he landed jobs at WIBA in Poynette, Wisconsin and KGDA in Mitchell, South Dakota. Olson joined WTMJ in Milwaukee in early 1933, organizing a five-piece jazz band called The Rhythm Rascals, and became one of the station's most popular personalities. The Rascals eventually made it to Hollywood, and would s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Card Sharks
''Card Sharks'' is an American television game show. It was created by Chester Feldman for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. The game features two contestants who attempt to predict the outcome of survey questions to gain control of a row of oversized playing cards, then determine whether the next card drawn is higher or lower. The title ''Card Sharks'' is a play on the term "card sharp", a person skilled at card games. The concept has been made into a series four separate times since its debut in 1978, and also appeared as part of CBS's '' Gameshow Marathon''. The show originally ran on NBC from 1978 to 1981 with Jim Perry hosting. The show returned and ran from 1986 to 1989 on CBS with Bob Eubanks as host, accompanied by a syndication production with Bill Rafferty. Gene Wood was the announcer in both the 1970s and 1980s. Another syndicated production aired in 2001 with Pat Bullard as host and Gary Kroeger as announcer. A revival hosted by Joel McHale aired on ABC from Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Goodson
Mark Leo Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an American television producer who specialized in game shows, most frequently with his business partner Bill Todman, with whom he created Goodson-Todman Productions. Early life and early career Goodson was born in Sacramento, California, on January 14, 1915. *a "Born Jan. 14, 1915 in Sacramento, CA." — ¶ 1. His parents, Abraham Ellis (1875–1954) and Fannie Goodson (1887–1986), emigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. As a child, Goodson acted in amateur theater with the Plaza Stock Company. The family later moved to Hayward, California. Originally intending to become a lawyer, Goodson attended the University of California, Berkeley. He financed his education through scholarships and by working at the Lincoln Fish Market. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1937 with a degree in economics. That year, he began his broadcasting career in San Francisco, working as a disc jockey at radio station KJBS (now KFAX). In 1939 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie O'Donnell
Charles John O'Donnell (August 12, 1932 – November 1, 2010) was an American radio and television announcer, primarily known for his work on game shows. Among them, he was best known for ''Wheel of Fortune'', where he worked from 1975 to 1980, and again from 1989 until his death.Biography wheeloffortune.com; accessed August 16, 2017. Early career O'Donnell was a Philadelphia native. He began his career as a teenager at in . In 1956, he worked as program director at |
Private Lessons (1981 Film)
''Private Lessons'' is a 1981 American sex comedy film starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley Jr. The screenplay was written by Dan Greenburg, who wrote the original source novel, ''Philly''. Greenburg appears as the manager of a motel in the film. ''Private Lessons'' was one of Kristel's few major American film appearances; she was better known to European audiences for her ''Emmanuelle'' films which had only limited distribution in the United States. In early 2006, a 25th anniversary DVD release was issued in North America. Plot Philip "Philly" Fillmore ( Eric Brown) is an adventurous 15-year-old high school student and the son of a rich businessman in Albuquerque, who has left town on an extended trip during summer break, leaving the young man in the passing care of Nicole Mallow (Sylvia Kristel), a sexy French housekeeper and Lester Lewis (Howard Hesseman), the family's chauffeur. The following day, Nicole approaches Philly while he is rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Enright
Daniel Enright (né Ehrenreich; August 30, 1917 – May 22, 1992) was an American television producer, primarily of game shows. Enright worked with Jack Barry from the 1940s until Barry's death in 1984. They were partners in creating programs for radio and television. Their company was called Barry & Enright Productions. Enright (original surname Ehrenreich), who grew up in British Palestine and New York City, met up with Barry as the latter was working in stand-up comedy. After a stint at WOR radio, the two developed several early TV shows, including the seminal "interactive" show ''Winky Dink and You'', as well as ''Juvenile Jury'' and ''Life Begins at Eighty'', and ''Wisdom of the Ages''. The duo produced network game shows in the 1950s, including '' Back That Fact'', ''You're On Your Own'', ''Tic-Tac-Dough'', '' Twenty-One'', ''Concentration'' and '' Dough Re Mi''. Quiz show scandal Capitalizing on the success of the 1950s big-money quiz ''The $64,000 Question'' on CBS, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Barry (television Personality)
Jack Barry (born Jack Barasch; March 20, 1918 – May 2, 1984) was an American game show host, television personality and executive who made a name for himself in the game show field. Barry served as host of several game shows in his career, many of which he developed along with Dan Enright as part of their joint operation Barry & Enright Productions. Barry's reputation became tarnished due to his involvement in the 1950s quiz show scandals and the ensuing fallout affected his career for over a decade. Early life and career Barry was born and raised in Lindenhurst, New York, on Long Island. His family was Jewish. He graduated from Lindenhurst Senior High School and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, in Philadelphia. In the 1940s, he began hosting programs on radio, including AM 710 WOR (AM), WOR. Through his radio work, he met his eventual business partner Dan Enright. After the scandal In the fall of 1961, Barry m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Mangum
Jonathan Mangum (born January 16, 1971) is an American actor and comedian. He was a cast member of the variety show ''The Wayne Brady Show'' and is the announcer for the game show ''Let's Make a Deal''. Early life Mangum was born in Charleston, South Carolina and grew up in Mobile, Alabama. After high school, he moved to Orlando and graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in psychology. While in Orlando, Mangum started his comedy career at the SAK Comedy Lab alongside Wayne Brady, whom he would later collaborate with in ''Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza'', ''The Wayne Brady Show'' and ''Let's Make a Deal''. He moved to Los Angeles in 1995 to pursue a career in comedy. Career Comedy Mangum guest-starred in several episodes as the owner of a web-based start-up company on ''The Drew Carey Show''. He has toured with Drew Carey's Improv All-Stars, establishing himself as an improv comedian and was also a regular cast member on ''Drew Carey's Green Screen Show''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monty Hall
Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin; August 25, 1921 – September 30, 2017) was a Canadian radio and television show host who moved to the United States in 1955 to pursue a career in broadcasting. After working as a radio newsreader and sportscaster, Hall returned to television in the U.S., this time in game shows. Starting in 1963, he was best known as the game show host and producer of ''Let's Make a Deal.'' As a celebrity, he had a conundrum with game theory and psychology aspects named after him: the Monty Hall problem. Behind the scenes, Hall also carried on an active life of philanthropy. Early life Hall was born as Monte Halparin in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on August 25, 1921, to Orthodox Jewish parents Maurice Harvey Halparin, who owned a slaughterhouse, and Rose (née Rusen). He was raised in Winnipeg's north end, where he attended Lord Selkirk School (Elmwood, Winnipeg), and, later St. John's High School. Hall graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
