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Goodman Ace

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Goodman Ace (15 January 1899 – 25 March 1982), born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humourist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist. [1]

70 relations: Al Jolson, Ancestry.com, Édith Piaf, Barefoot in the Park, Benny Goodman, Bob Hope, Bob Newhart, Comedian, CTV Television Network, Danny Kaye, Danny Thomas, Dave Garroway, DuMont Television Network, Easy Aces, Ed Wynn, Edie Adams, Educational Pictures, Emmy Award, Ernie Kovacs, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Merman, Ezio Pinza, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Fred Allen, George Axelrod, George Jessel (actor), Ginger Rogers, Golden Age of Radio, Groucho Marx, Henry Morgan (humorist), I Married a Woman, Jack Benny, Jane Ace, Jimmy Durante, Joan Davis, José Ferrer, Kansas City, Missouri, KMBZ (AM), Lauritz Melchior, Louis Armstrong, Malapropism, Metropolitan Community College (Missouri), Milton Berle, Monitor (NBC Radio), Montgomery Ward, National Radio Hall of Fame, NBC, Neil Simon, NPR, PDF, ..., Perry Como, Phil Silvers, Robert Q. Lewis, Roller skating, Saturday Review (U.S. magazine), Sherman Billingsley, Startime (TV series), Stork Club, Tallulah Bankhead, The Big Show (NBC Radio), The Danny Kaye Show (radio program), The Goodbye Girl, The Odd Couple (play), The Seven Year Itch, The Trouble with Tracy, Tim Brooks (television historian), Time (magazine), Walter Cronkite, You Are There (series), Ziv Television Programs. Expand index (20 more) »

Al Jolson

Al or Albert Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; May 26, c.1886 – October 23, 1950) was an American singer, comedian, and stage and film actor.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; nee Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.

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Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Bob Hope

Sir Leslie Townes Hope, KBE, KC*SG, KSS (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) known professionally as Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author.

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Bob Newhart

George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, noted for his deadpan and slightly stammering delivery.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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CTV Television Network

The CTV Television Network (commonly referred to as CTV) is an English-language broadcast television network in Canada launched in 1961.

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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician.

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Danny Thomas

Danny Thomas (born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz; January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian, singer, actor, and producer whose career spanned five decades.

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Dave Garroway

David Cunningham "Dave" Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American television personality.

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DuMont Television Network

The DuMont Television Network (also known as the DuMont Network, simply DuMont/Du Mont, or (incorrectly) Dumont) was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC and CBS for the distinction of being first overall in the United States.

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Easy Aces

Easy Aces is an American serial radio comedy (1930–1945).

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Ed Wynn

Isaiah Edwin Leopold (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966), better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.

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Edie Adams

Edie Adams (born Edith Elizabeth Enke, April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American comedienne, actress, singer and businesswoman.

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Educational Pictures

Educational Pictures (or Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. or Educational Films Corporation of America) was an American film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882–1962).

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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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Ernie Kovacs

Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.

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Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore (born Ethel Mae Blythe; August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.

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Ezio Pinza

Ezio Pinza (born Fortunio Pinza; May 18, 1892May 9, 1957) was an Italian opera singer.

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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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Fred Allen

John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian.

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George Axelrod

George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play, The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe.

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George Jessel (actor)

George Albert "Georgie" Jessel (April 3, 1898 – May 23, 1981) was an American illustrated song "model", actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer.

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Ginger Rogers

Virginia Katherine Rogers (née McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer.

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Golden Age of Radio

The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming in the United States during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium.

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Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star.

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Henry Morgan (humorist)

Henry Morgan (born Henry Lerner Van Ost Jr.; March 31, 1915 – May 19, 1994) was an American humorist.

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I Married a Woman

I Married a Woman is a 1958 American comedy film made in 1956, starring George Gobel and Diana Dors, produced by Gobel's company Gomalco Productions.

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Jack Benny

Jack Benny (born February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudevillian, radio, television and film actor, and violinist.

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Jane Ace

Jane Ace (October 12, 1897 – November 11, 1974) was the high-voiced, malaprop-mastering wife on legendary, low-keyed American radio comedy Easy Aces (1930–45).

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Jimmy Durante

James Francis Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor.

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Joan Davis

Joan Davis (born Josephine Davis, June 29, 1912 – May 22, 1961) was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television.

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José Ferrer

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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KMBZ (AM)

KMBZ (980 kHz; "Talk 980"), is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri.

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Lauritz Melchior

Lauritz Melchior (20 March 1890 – 19 March 1973) was a Danish-American opera singer.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Malapropism

A malapropism (also called a malaprop or Dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance.

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Metropolitan Community College (Missouri)

Metropolitan Community College (MCC) is a community college system in Missouri, United States.

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Milton Berle

Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor.

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Monitor (NBC Radio)

Monitor was an American weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975.

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Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward Inc. is the name of two historically distinct American retail enterprises.

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National Radio Hall of Fame

The National Radio Hall of Fame (NRHOF) is a United States organization that was created by the Emerson Radio Corporation in 1988.

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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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Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) credited as Neil Simon, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.

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Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers (May 11, 1911 – November 1, 1985) was an American entertainer and comedic actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah".

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Robert Q. Lewis

Robert Q. Lewis (born Robert Goldberg; April 25, 1920 – December 11, 1991) was an American radio and television personality, game show host, and actor.

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Roller skating

Roller skating is the traveling on surfaces with roller skates.

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Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)

Saturday Review, previously The Saturday Review of Literature, was an American weekly magazine established in 1924.

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Sherman Billingsley

Sherman Billingsley (March 10, 1896 – October 4, 1966) was an American nightclub owner and former bootlegger who was the founder and owner of New York's Stork Club.

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Startime (TV series)

Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color.

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Stork Club

The Stork Club was a nightclub in Manhattan, New York City, which during its existence from 1929 to 1965 was one of the most prestigious clubs in the world.

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Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen.

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The Big Show (NBC Radio)

The Big Show, an American radio variety program featuring 90 minutes of comic, stage, screen and music talent, was aimed at keeping American radio in its classic era alive and well against the rapidly growing television tide.

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The Danny Kaye Show (radio program)

The Danny Kaye Show is an American old-time radio comedy-variety program.

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The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film.

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The Odd Couple (play)

The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon.

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The Seven Year Itch

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod.

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The Trouble with Tracy

The Trouble with Tracy is a Canadian television series produced by CTV for the 1970–1971 television season, with intended distribution by the U.S.-based National General Pictures.

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Tim Brooks (television historian)

Tim Brooks (born April 18, 1942) is an American television and radio historian, author and retired television executive.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981).

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You Are There (series)

You Are There was an American historical educational television and radio series broadcast over the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks.

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Ziv Television Programs

Ziv Television Programs, Inc. was an American production company which specialized in productions for first-run television syndication in the 1950s.

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References

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

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