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In the 1960s, Linkletter started a dance school, the Art Linkletter School of Jazz, Tap, and Ballet, in Pomona and Claremont, California. After three public meetings in 1967, an eight-member Los Angeles City Council committee cleared Linkletter and City Council Member Tom Shepard of charges that they were linked in a scheme to influence city ...
House Party is an American radio daytime variety/talk show that aired on CBS Radio and on ABC Radio from January 15, 1945 to October 13, 1967. [1] The show also had a long run on CBS Television as Art Linkletter's House Party and, in its final season, The Linkletter Show, [2] airing from September 1, 1952 to September 5, 1969.
Kids Say the Darndest Things is an American comedy series that was based on a feature segment of the same name on Art Linkletter's radio and television program, House Party. [1] [2] Linkletter hosted the segment on the program's CBS television adaptation from 1959 to 1967.
In 1970, Art and Diane Linkletter won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for their record "We Love You, Call Collect". The record, which was released in November 1969—just a few weeks after her death—sold 275,000 copies in eight weeks, peaking at #42 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Linkletter was born Arthur Jack Linkletter in San Francisco. [1] He was the oldest of Lois and Art Linkletter's five children. [1] He was said to have been inspired to enter show business by his father's show House Party. [1] As a boy, Mr. Linkletter inspired one of his father's most famous "House Party" routines: interviewing young children.
On October 1, 1943, Baker was replaced by Art Linkletter, who continued for the rest of the series. For a memorable stunt of 1945, Linkletter announced that $1,000 would go to the first person to find one of 12 plastic balls floating off California. Two years later, an Ennylageban Island [2] native claimed the prize. [1] [3]
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John Guedel, (October 9, 1913 in Portland, Indiana – December 14, 2001 in Los Angeles, California) was a radio and television producer who co-created and produced Art Linkletter's and Groucho Marx's most important and successful broadcast properties, including You Bet Your Life, House Party and People Are Funny. [1]