She became the West Coast’s first female TV newscaster when she joined LA’s KNXT.
Born April 1922
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Doris Day was one of the most popular stars of her era: first as a singing sensation in the 1950s and then as the top female box office star in …
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Actress Barbara Hale, who won an Emmy Award for playing legal secretary Della Street on the long-running “Perry Mason” television series, died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, at her home in …
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Toots Thielemans, a legendary jazz harmonica player, died Aug. 22, 2016, according to multiple news sources. He was 94. The Belgian jazz musician died his sleep at a hospital in …
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On screen as Quincy and in real life, Jack Klugman rallied support for a law to facilitate the creation of drugs that treat orphan diseases leading to the Orphan Drug …
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On the fourth anniversary of Gale Storm’s death, we look back at the sunny singer and TV star – and the talent competition that started it all…
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From 1950 until his death in 2012, Jack Klugman enjoyed an acting career that just wouldn’t quit…
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I didn’t get Charles Mingus. As a 14-year-old burgeoning music freak and neophyte bassist making the slow transition from rock to jazz, the ever-tuneful Miles Davis made sense to me. …