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...Harriet Hawk of Tulsa won the Sooner State Business and Professional Women's Club purse-cramming championship by pulling 218 separate articles out of her handbag. Her prize: a flashlight to facilitate future purse-mining...
Although handy with a megaphone, Ozzie was never a great singer. So he hired Harriet Hilliard to share the bandstand spotlight. Harriet couldn't sing much better than Ozzie, but she was considerably prettier. Together they improvised a "talky-type song-a "back & forth, boy & girl" exchange that the customers loved. They were married...
...decade the Nelsons played second fiddle to various radio stars (Robert Ripley, Joe Penner, Feg Murray). Briefly, Harriet was a successful cinemactress (Follow the Fleet, New Faces). They joined Red Skelton in 1941, and when Red went into the Army, they finally got a program of their...
...show-a situation comedy-gave the Nelsons a brand-new career. Most of the show's charm can be credited to Ozzie's sweating thoroughness, and doing what comes naturally. Ozzie & Harriet are Mr. & Mrs. Average Family-on & off the air. The show's children, Ricky, 7, and David, 11, are named and characterized in the image of the Nelsons' own two sons. For accuracy, Ozzie checks all lines with the originals. Emmy Lou, the show's bobbysoxer, was discovered in a Hollywood swimming pool. Harriet's radio mother is a direct steal from...
...four writers and hammers the program together himself, down to the musical bridges, which he whistles over the telephone to his bandleader. He dramatizes the final script in a last-minute soliloquy at home, supplying chuckles and belly laughs which are supposed to come from the audience. Says Harriet: "It's quite a sight to hear...