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Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle , she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation 's New York Evening Journal .
In April 1945, Kollmar and his newspaper-columnist wife Dorothy Kilgallen (whom he had married in April 1940) began hosting a 45-minute talk radio show called Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick. The program aired Monday through Friday on WOR and was broadcast live from the couple's 16-room Park Avenue apartment.
The death certificate of Dorothy Kilgallen (52) states that she died on 8 November 1965 from "acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication / circumstances undetermined." She was famous throughout the United States as a syndicated newspaper columnist and radio/television personality, most notably as a regular panelist on the longest running game ...
After Kilgallen's death in 1965, she was similarly not replaced with a permanent panelist, and for the show's final two years, the panel consisted of Cerf, Francis and two guests. At various times, a regular panelist might take a vacation or be absent from an episode due to outside commitments.
She told me Richard Kollmar is buried in the very same burial plot as his first wife, Dorothy Kilgallen. They are not side by side. He is above her. The grave marker does not indicate that he is there. The cemetery office has a record of him being there. Dorothy died first. She was a lifelong Catholic. Gate of Heaven is Catholic.
Dorothy Kilgallen (1913–1965), journalist and television personality; Richard Kollmar (1910–1971), Broadway producer; T. Vincent Learson (1912–1996), IBM chairman and Ambassador at Large for Law of the Sea Matters; Ernesto Lecuona (1896–1963), composer and songwriter; Augustus C. Long (1904–2001), chairman of Texaco
The actress and Playboy star was murdered by her estranged husband on Aug. 14, 1980. She was 20.
In the 1960s, Mehle appeared often as a guest panelist on the game show What's My Line?, perhaps an attempt by the producers to replicate the perky newspaper columnist persona of regular Dorothy Kilgallen, who’d died mysteriously several months prior to Knickerbocker’s first guest shot. She also appeared as the mystery guest on October 23 ...