Word: heidt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gusty Emotions. As a child, she spent Saturday afternoons listening to Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. She decided to become a singer. "When I was ten, Horace Heidt held an amateur talent show in Lyons," Knight recalls. "My mother bought me a new dress from Sears for the show." Shirley sang In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, but her younger sister Gloria won the contest with a rendition of On a Slow Boat to China. Says Shirley: "I cried...
Each Carney performance is full of such remembered observations. One of six sons of a newspaperman, Art grew up in a New York City suburb, perfecting a talent for mimicry. His first gig was imitating F.D.R. in comedy bits for the Horace Heidt band. "It was pure dynamite," he recalls. His skill won him a job in radio. "Acting on the radio gave me my first experience in a lot of different character parts. It was the only training I ever had." After war service and bit parts on television, Carney was picked to play Jackie Gleason's sidekick...