Word: dannay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ellery Queen, as the vast U. S. crime club well knows, is the pen name of two quirky fictioneers named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, cousins who look as much alike as oboe players. Ten years ago Manny was a movie publicist, Fred an ad agency man. Now their Ellery Queen's published adventures stack 16 volumes high, he has been in the movies, on the stage, on the lecture platform, and this year in radio he has been both actor (on MBS's Author, Author) and writer...
...Adventures hour Lee and Dannay write a $350 mystery a week. Ellery, represented as a William Powell-style detective by a radiogenic actor named Hugh Marlowe, with a photogenic actress named Marion Shockley as his secretary, Nikki, leads the way through such adventures as those of the Gum-Chewing Millionaire, Napoleon's Razor, George Spelvin's Murderer, The Three...
...Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman (Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge), who manfully keeps gagging while a collection of fictioneers ad lib stories to fit mystery-tale situations contributed by listeners. Sample situation Why did Little Nell scorn Dick Goodfellow to marry Squire Sourpuss? Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds, Author, Author has pepped up considerably...