Word: jeeter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Henry Hull, 86, character actor who appeared in 46 movies and created the role of Tobacco Road's Jeeter Lester on Broadway; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England. Though the critics panned the Erskine Caldwell play when it opened in 1933, Hull believed it to be an honest, if disturbing, portrait of rural poverty. He refused to be paid until word of mouth made the play a hit; it was performed 3,182 times, the third longest run in Broadway history...
...world turns on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman this season, the eight-year-old Rev. Jimmy Joe Jeeter, boy evangelist, comes to a sorry end when a television set rigged up over his bathtub falls in and electrocutes him. "He died for the 6:30 news, Lord. For the sins of the 6:30 news," wails Mary's friend Loretta Haggers, who happened to be out of the room at the crucial moment, hunting for the reverend's rubber duck. Meanwhile, Loretta's oversexed husband Charlie-shot in the groin in a tussle with Jimmy...