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You Bet Your Life was parodied on a live April 1955 episode of The Jack Benny Program. Benny pretended to be someone else ( Ronald Forsythe ) [ 24 ] to get on the quiz show (competing with a female contestant played by Irene Tedrow ), and continues to divulge information during an effort to say the secret word.
As a result, Pearson was hospitalized for nine months, having received a concussion, multiple broken ribs and other fractured bones. A fellow rider, Jackie Westrope gave him a book on quilts, telling him; "because it looks like you're going to spend the rest of your life sewing". The book actually triggered a fascination with quilts for him ...
Marx as main host of You Bet Your Life, 1953. You Bet Your Life debuted in October 1947 on ABC radio (which aired it from 1947 to 1949), sponsored by costume jewelry manufacturer Allen Gellman; [25] and then on CBS (1949–50), and finally NBC. The show was on radio only from 1947 to 1950; on both radio and television from 1950 to 1960; and on ...
Allen B. Gellman (April 19, 1906 – September 13, 1967) was an American jewelry manufacturer and first sponsor of You Bet Your Life, the radio (and later TV) program hosted by Groucho Marx. Gellman was elected to the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans in 1956.
Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers (Mario, Guido, Dante, Dino, and Louis) and one sister (Regina).His brother Mario Da Re (1933–2010) lettered in football at USC from 1952 to 1954 and appeared as a contestant on the May 12, 1955, edition of Groucho Marx's NBC-TV quiz show You Bet Your Life. [2]
Appearances on the cover of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton’s 1956 album “Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi,” and on the Groucho Marx-hosted game show “You Bet Your Life,” on which he won ...
Mesannie Wilkins on You Bet Your Life, with Groucho Marx. Journeying through Massachusetts, Wilkins was treated to a full Thanksgiving meal. In Springfield, the hotel where she stayed displayed a sign that read: "Washington Slept Here". When they left, the private box stall that Tarzan had slept in display a sign which read: "Tarzan Slept Here."
In her June 11, 1959 appearance on You Bet Your Life, Joanna Lee describes her career and also wins $3,000 in prize money. [citation needed] Her writing career stretched from 1962 until 1990, including many dozens of comedic and dramatic television series episodes before writing, producing, and directing various TV movies and "Afterschool ...