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Shari Lewis

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Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz (January 17, 1933 – August 2, 1998), better known as Shari Lewis, was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's entertainer and television show host. [1]

84 relations: A&M Records, Acrobatics, American Broadcasting Company, Arabian Knights, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, B'nai B'rith, Barnard College, BBC, Breast cancer, Captain Kangaroo, Car 54, Where Are You?, CBS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Chemotherapy, Cremation, Crusader Rabbit, David Westheimer, Emmy Award, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, Great Depression, Howdy Doody, Hysterectomy, Jews, John W. Cooper, Judith Krantz, Juggling, Kennedy Center Honors, Lamb Chop (puppet), Lamb Chop's Play-Along, Lamb Chop's Sing-Along, Play-Along, Los Angeles, Love, American Style, Mallory Lewis, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, NBC, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York (state), New York City, Owned-and-operated station, Parents' Choice Award, Parkinson's disease, PBS, Peabody Award, Piano, PrimeStar, Puppeteer, RCA Camden, RCA Records, Royal Variety Performance, ..., Sanford Meisner, School of American Ballet, Sesame Street, Shout! Factory, Show business, Sock puppet, Star Trek: The Original Series, Supersisters, TarcherPerigee, Ted Steele (bandleader), Television, The Banana Splits, The Bronx, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, The Ford Show, The Lights of Zetar, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Nanny, The New York Times, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, The Shari Lewis Show, The United States Steel Hour, Understudy, United States, Uterine cancer, Val Doonican, Variety show, Ventriloquism, Violin, Viral pneumonia, WNBC, Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards, WPIX, Yeshiva University. Expand index (34 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Acrobatics

Acrobatics (from Greek ἀκροβατέω akrobateō, "walk on tiptoe, strut") is the performance of extraordinary human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Arabian Knights

Arabian Knights is an animated segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

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Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts

Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (also known as Talent Scouts) was an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958.

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B'nai B'rith

B'nai B'rith International (from בני ברית b'né brit, "Children of the Covenant") is the oldest Jewish service organization in the world.

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Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City, New York, United States.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS from October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children's television program of its day.

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Car 54, Where Are You?

Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, and was about two New York city police officers based in the fictional 53rd precinct in the Bronx.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary 958-bed hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Crusader Rabbit

Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television.

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David Westheimer

David Westheimer (April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas – November 8, 2005) was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express which was adapted as a 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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Fiorello H. La Guardia

Fiorello Henry La Guardia (born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia) (December 11, 1882September 20, 1947) was an American politician.

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Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, situated near Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Howdy Doody

- Howdy Doody was an American children's television program (with circus and Western frontier themes) that was created and produced by E. Roger MuirHevesi, Dennis.

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Hysterectomy

Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John W. Cooper

John Walcott Cooper, Jr. (February 17, 1873 – 1966) was an African-American ventriloquist, entertainer, and singer with the Southern Jubilee Singers.

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Judith Krantz

Judith "Judy" Krantz (née Tarcher) (born January 9, 1928) is a Jewish-American novelist who writes in the romance genre.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture (although recipients do not need to be U.S. citizens).

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Lamb Chop (puppet)

Lamb Chop is a sock puppet anthropomorphic sheep created by late puppeteer and ventriloquist Shari Lewis.

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Lamb Chop's Play-Along

Lamb Chop's Play-Along! is an American half-hour preschool children's television series that was shown on PBS in the United States from January 13, 1992 to September 22, 1995.

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Lamb Chop's Sing-Along, Play-Along

Lamb Chop's Sing-Along, Play-Along was an album by Shari Lewis released on September 22, 1992.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Love, American Style

Love, American Style is an anthology comedy television series produced by Paramount Television that originally aired between 1969 and 1974.

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Mallory Lewis

Mallory Hurwitz Lewis (née Tarcher; changed her name legally in honor of her mother, Shari Lewis; born June 19, 1963) is an American writer, television producer, ventriloquist and puppeteer.

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National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) was created in 1955 to advance the arts and sciences of television.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre

The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre is a full-time professional conservatory for actors located at 340 East 54th Street in New York City, and is known as the home of the Meisner technique, developed by Sanford Meisner.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Owned-and-operated station

In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated.

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Parents' Choice Award

The Parents' Choice Award is an award presented by the non-profit Parents' Choice Foundation to recognize "the very best products for children of different ages and backgrounds, and of varied skill and interest levels." It is considered a "prestigious" award among children's products, and has been described by the Cincinnati Enquirer as the industry equivalent of an Academy Award.

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Peabody Award

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards) program, named for American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in television, radio, and online media.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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PrimeStar

PrimeStar was a U.S. direct broadcast satellite broadcasting company formed in 1991 by a consortium of cable television system operators (TCI Satellite Entertainment Group, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Comcast and MediaOne) and GE Americom, the satellite arm of General Electric, collectively referred to as the PrimeStar Partners.

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Puppeteer

A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object that might be shaped like a human, animal or mythical creature, or another object to create the illusion that the puppet is "alive".

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RCA Camden

RCA Camden was a budget record label of RCA Victor, created by 1953 to reissue recordings from earlier 78-RPM releases.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Royal Variety Performance

The Royal Variety Performance is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which Queen Elizabeth II is life-patron).

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Sanford Meisner

Sanford Meisner (August 31, 1905 – February 2, 1997), also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique.

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School of American Ballet

The School of American Ballet (SAB) is an American classical ballet school and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an American home video and music company founded in 2003.

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Show business

Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.

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Sock puppet

A sock puppet is a puppet made from a sock or similar garment.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Supersisters

Supersisters was a set of 72 trading cards produced and distributed in the United States in 1979 by Supersisters, Inc.

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TarcherPerigee

TarcherPerigee is a book publisher and imprint of Penguin Group (USA) focused primarily on mind, body and spiritualism titles.

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Ted Steele (bandleader)

Ted Steele (July 9, 1917 – October 15, 1985)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996).

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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The Banana Splits

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour is an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Charlie Horse Music Pizza

The Charlie Horse Music Pizza is an American children's television show that was shown on PBS in the United States from January 5, 1998 to January 17, 1999.

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The Ford Show

The Ford Show (also known as The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show) is an American variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired on NBC on Thursday evenings from October 4, 1956, to June 29, 1961.

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The Lights of Zetar

"The Lights of Zetar" is a third season episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, first broadcast on January 31, 1969, and repeated on August 26, 1969.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC.

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The Nanny

The Nanny is an American television sitcom which originally aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashion queen from Flushing, New York who becomes the nanny of three children from the New York/British high society.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom

The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom is a half-hour variety show that aired on ABC-TV from October 3, 1957 to June 23, 1960, starring the young singer Pat Boone and a host of top-name guest stars sponsored by Chevrolet.

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The Shari Lewis Show

The Shari Lewis Show is a children television program that first appeared on NBC from 1960 to 1963, when it was dropped.

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The United States Steel Hour

The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963.

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Understudy

In theater, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor or actress in a play.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uterine cancer

Uterine cancer, also known as womb cancer, is any type of cancer that emerges from the tissue of the uterus.

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Val Doonican

Michael Valentine Doonican (3 February 1927 – 1 July 2015) was an Irish singer of traditional pop, easy listening, and novelty songs, who was noted for his warm and relaxed style.

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Variety show

Variety shows, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts including musical performances, sketch comedy, magic, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism.

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Ventriloquism

Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) changes his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy".

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Viral pneumonia

Viral pneumonia is a pneumonia caused by a virus.

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WNBC

WNBC, virtual channel 4 (digital channel 36 (sharing with WNJU)), is the flagship station of the NBC television network, licensed to New York City and serving the New York City metropolitan area. It is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal and operates as part of a television duopoly with WNJU (channel 47). WNBC's studios are co-located with NBC's corporate headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is located at One World Trade Center. WNBC holds the distinction as the oldest continuously operating commercial television station in the United States. In the few areas of the eastern United States where an NBC station is not receivable over-the-air, WNBC is available on satellite via DirecTV. It is also carried on certain cable providers in markets where an NBC affiliate is unavailable and Dish Network. DirecTV also allows subscribers in Greater Los Angeles to receive WNBC for an additional monthly fee.

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Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards

The Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards—first presented in 1977 by the now–Los Angeles chapter of the Women in Film organization—are presented to honor women in communications and media.

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WPIX

WPIX, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is a CW-affiliated television station licensed to New York City and owned by Tribune Broadcasting.

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Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private, non-profit research university located in New York City, United States, with four campuses in New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shari_Lewis

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