Word: skeltons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Red Skelton, 34, rubber-faced, baby-talking radio and cinema comic, and second wife Georgia Maureen Davis Skelton, 26, retired starlet: their second child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Richard Freeman. Weight...
...Fuller Brush Man (Columbia), an eager boob played by Red Skelton, attracts trouble as infallibly as he repels sales prospects. When one of the latter is murdered, Red is suspected. He spends the rest of the picture chin-deep in gunmen, detectives and pretty girls. One of the girls, Janet Blair, is about the prettiest sweater model in movies; Skelton, given half a chance, can be quite funny; the scripters have given him better-than-average chances...
...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...
...chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
...Howard Fuller, 34, plump president of the joke-haunted Fuller Brush Co., was also coming right along. To impersonate him in a Red Skelton comedy, The Fuller Brush Man, Columbia Pictures asked for-and got-A. Howard Fuller...