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02-15-2022, 01:53 PM   #1036
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Heideh was an Iranian singer, born in Tehran as Ma'soumeh Dadehbala. She began her professional career in 1968 on a Persian traditional music radio program, where she had her first hit, "Azadeh". She added Persian pop music to her repertoire and worked with several Persian songwriters. Shortly before the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, she moved to the UK, then Los Angeles in 1982. Her songwriters, lyricists and producers in the US were mostly Iranian emigrants. She regularly appeared on Los Angeles-based Iranian TV.


Leonie Flugrath acted, as Shirley Mason, in 113 silent film roles from 1911 through 1929, then retired. She was the sister of actresses Viola Mason and Edna Flugrath.

Sidney Lanfield directed dozens of movies including Hound of the Baskervilles, then got into TV directing with Wagon Train, Bachelor Father, McHale's Navy, and the Addam's Family, among others.


Terry was the daughter of actor Terrance Steve McQueen, and headed a production company in Malibu. She died of respiratory failure after a liver transplant.



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Actor David Landau studied at the High School for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Tech, and New York University. He was best known for his role of Andrew Helmut "Squiggy" Squiggman on TV's Laverne & Shirley from 1976 to 1982, which also included sidekick Lenny, played by Michael McKean. Lander and McKean developed the characters of Lenny and Squiggy years earlier at Carnegie Mellon Univ, were later in the LA-based comedy ensemble The Credibility Gap, and released an album as Lenny and the Squigtones in 1979 featuring Christopher Guest on guitar.


He did substantial voice work, including the "dramatic reproduction" of Elvis Presley quotations for the Pop Chronicles music documentary. Lander was a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, and had a small stake in the Portland Beavers. In 1997, he began working as a baseball talent scout for the Anaheim Angels, and later for the Seattle Mariners. His 2002 autobiography is entitled Fall Down Laughing: How Squiggy Caught Multiple Sclerosis and Didn't Tell Nobody.


Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an actor, director, and producer. In highschool, Reynolds was named First Team All State and All Southern playing football as fullback. He hoped for a career in pro football, but in college he injured his knee, and later lost his spleen and injured his other knee in a car accident.

Reynolds' first big acting break came in the TV series Riverboat (1959–61). Reynolds quit after only 20 episodes. On Gunsmoke, Reynolds announced he would stay on the show "until it ends. I think it's a terrible mistake for an actor to leave a series in the middle of it", though Reynolds left in 1965. Reynolds later become an entertaining talk show guest, making jokes at his own expense, calling himself America's most "well-known unknown" who only made the kind of movies "they show in airplanes or prisons or anywhere else the people can't get out". Reynolds' better movies include Deliverance, White Lightning, and The Longest Yard. He directed Gator, the sequel to White Lightning, and starred in and directed The End. Reynolds appeared in the hit film Boogie Nights (1997), which was considered a comeback role for him and he received 12 acting awards and 3 nominations for the role.

He posed naked in the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan. Reynolds was voted the world's number one box office star for five consecutive years from 1978-82. He co-authored the 1997 children's book Barkley Unleashed: A Pirate's Tail. In 1973, Reynolds released the country/easy listening album Ask Me What I Am. Reynolds co-owned a NASCAR Winston Cup Series team which ran the No. 33 Skoal Bandit car with driver Harry Gant. Reynolds was married to actresses Judy Carne from 1963-65 and Loni Anderson 1988-1994, and had relationships with Dinah Shore, Tammy Wynette, Sally Field, and a cocktail waitress with whom he later traded lawsuits.


Paul Wendkos is best-known for his "Gidget" films and as a prolific director of made-for-TV movies. He was brought to Hollywood by Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn on the strength of The Burglar (1957), a low-budget film noir.

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Harry Cheshire was an actor, frequently playing bankers, western townsmen, and occasionally outlaws. He is perhaps best known for his role as Judge "Fair and Square" Ben Wiley in the syndicated western TV series, Buffalo Bill, Jr. Other TV included The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Maverick, and 15 episodes of Lawman.


Tory Damon was a cabaret singer and life-partner of Howard Greenfield, who composed the theme music for TV's The Wackiest Ship in the Army, Hazel, Gidget, Love on a Rooftop, Occasional Wife, The Ugliest Girl in Town, Bewitched, and A Year at the Top. Greenfield co-wrote four pop songs that reached #1: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" with Neil Sedaka; "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" and "Breakin' in a Brand New Broken Heart" with Connie Francis; and "Love Will Keep Us Together" with The Captain & Tennille. In 1991, Greenfield was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Damon and Greenfield both dies of AIDS less than a month apart, and are interred next to each other.


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Ridgley Powers was a Union officer in the Civil War. Afterward, he was a Mississippi cotton planter, sheriff, Lt. Governor, and then that state's acting Governor from 1871 to 1874 following Governor Alcorn's resignation to become a Senator.


Frank Rader served as the 22nd Mayor of Los Angeles from 1894 until 1896. He also was into real estate and he was one of the organizers and a director of the Southern California National bank. He was a 33rd degree Mason.


At 2:40 AM on a dark night with gale-force winds, thick fog and high seas, the 471-foot Scotsman ran aground off Newfoundland. The passengers were all in bed, but most ran up to the deck after the ship hit the rocks. Elizabeth was put in the first lifeboat but unfortunately the plug hadn't been placed in the bottom of the boat. The lifeboat quickly filled with water and sank, and 11 women and children drowned. In the morning light, remaining passengers, including Elizabeth’s husband, climbed across ladders to the edge of the cliff the ship had landed on, and were later rescued. The ship’s crew, a replacement collection of “wharf-rat” scabs filling in during a seaman’s strike, looted all the valuables from the passengers and more than 20 were arrested.



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Robert Fallon acted in 2 episodes of Flight in 1958, and produced St. Patrick's Day TV Special in 1969, and Mr. Blackwell Presents TV Movie in 1968.


Wendell Phillips Smalley began in vaudeville and acted in 200 films between 1910 and his death in 1939. He directed 300 films from 1911-21. A later and uncredited role was as a spectator with the wrong hat in the Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races in 1937. Smalley was first married to Lois Weber (the first female to direct a full-length movie in the US), but is interred with his second wife, Phyllis.


Leonard Sues was a composer, conductor, trumpeter and actor. He began conducting at age five and by age 6-1/2 he was touring vaudeville as a conductor and trumpeter. Later, he conducted for Eddie Cantor, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, and for 20 years was Milton Berle's musical director and performer. He had bit parts in 32 films, frequently as a trumpeter, band member or conductor.

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On Sep 17, 1946, Highway Patrol Officer Sodel was working alone in Playa Del Rey at safety checkpoint. When other CHP officers arrived, they found Sodel's patrol car with the keys in the ignition and the police radio on, but Sodel was not there. Behind his patrol car were heavy skid marks. The police suspected that Sodel had stopped a car, and had been kidnapped. A witness said he had towed a Chevy sedan which had been recently painted black and the license place had been partially painted over. Three days later, police found the bullet-riddled, blood-stained sedan near Las Vegas. The owner had reported it stolen by a man, Tony Adams, she had met at a wedding party, and who had left her at a nightclub and, unknown to her, taken her car. On Sep 22, boys playing at a construction site discovered Sodel's partially buried body, about four miles from where his abandoned patrol car was found. He had been shot five times and his skull was fractured. An intense nationwide search followed. On Oct 7, Adams was arrested in NYC, and his trial lasted less than 2 weeks before being found guilty on all counts.


British-born Harold Bucquet served in the US Army during WWI, then started in the film business as an extra then set designer. He became an assistant to director Allen Holubar, and later at MGM where he spent the rest of his career making shorts and directing screen tests. His first feature was 1938's Young Dr. Kildare. Though he made another "A" feature, Dragon Seed in 1944, his output was mainly "B" pictures. His 1937 film Torture Money won an oscar for the Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). He could not finish his last film, The Green Years (1946), due to illness, dying not long afterward.


Gladys McConnell was an actess and aviator. While with her sister, Hazel, on a visit to Universal for Hazel's screen test, McConnell went to the casting director's office to ask to appear in Westerns, citing her skill with horses. McConnell began acting in comedies and Westerns in 1924. Her film career lasted to the early sound era. She starred with Harry Langdon in Three's A Crowd (1927) and in The Chaser (1928), as Langdon's talkative wife. In 1930, McConnell and actor Hugh Allan sued producer Eska Wilson alleging that he abandoned them in Honolulu and failed to pay them four weeks' salary. Her second marriage, to Hollywood attorney A. Ronald Button, included William Jennings Bryan Jr., as the best man. Around 1924, McConnell became an aviator and began flying in Portland, logging more air hours than any woman in the film colony except Ruth Elder. She was once hostess on a Maddux Airlines passenger plane for an aerial breakfast party. McConnell also flew to various film locations.
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Henry Jackson Jr. was a professional boxer and a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. Armstrong's two popular nicknames were Hurricane Henry and Homicide Hank. He competed in featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight divisions, and Armstrong was the first boxer to hold world championships in three different weight divisions at the same time. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1937, and The Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1940. In 2007, The Ring ranked Armstrong as the second-greatest fighter of the last 80 years, and historian Bert Sugar also ranked Armstrong as the second-greatest fighter of all time, while ESPN ranked Armstrong as number 3 of the 50 greatest boxers. He later opened a nightclub, then became a minister and helped run a Boys Club. He was posthumously inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1990.


Corporal Trustrim Connell was an American soldier who enlisted into the 138th Pennsylvania Infantry and fought in the Civil War. Connell received the Medal of Honor for bravery during combat at the Battle of Sayler's Creek in Virginia on 6 April 1865, where he captured the enemy flag. His updated marker faces his old one, in front of the family block marker.


Jessie Ann Benton Frémont was an American writer and political activist. She was the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the wife of military officer, explorer, and politician John C. Frémont. She wrote many stories that were printed in popular magazines of the time as well as several books of historical value, as memoirs of her time in the American West. A strong supporter of her husband, who was one of the first two Senators of the new state of California and a Governor of the Territory of Arizona, she was outspoken on political issues and a determined opponent of slavery.



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Buck Henry, born Henry Zuckerman, was an American actor, writer, comedian, and filmmaker. He began on TV with The New Steve Allen, co-created Get Smart with Mel Brooks, and hosted Saturday Night Live 10 times. Henry shared an Oscar nomination with Calder Willingham for the screenplay of The Graduate, in which he also appeared as a hotel concierge. Henry's cameo in The Player (1992) had him playing himself pitching a sequel to The Graduate. Other screenwriting credits include the sex farce Candy, the romantic comedies The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) and What's Up, Doc? (1972), the satire Catch-22 (1970), the thriller The Day of the Dolphin (1973), the comedy Protocol (1984), and the dark crime dramedy To Die For (1995). In several of these, he appeared as an actor. He co-directed Heaven Can Wait (1978) and appeared in the film as an officious angel, and he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Director. During a SNL episode, Henry was injured in the forehead by John Belushi's katana in the samurai sketch. He began to bleed and was forced to wear a large bandage on his forehead for the rest of the show.


Barbara Eiler was an actress on radio and TV from the 1940s through the '60s She started acting as a teenager and appeared regularly on the radio programs The Life of Riley, A Day in the Life of Dennis Day, The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy and Glamor Manor. On TV, she was in many series, including Dragnet, Wagon Train, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and several Disney programs.


Art Todd and his wife Dotty were a singing duo, who had two one-hit wonders - one in the UK and one in the US. In 1953, their number-one hit in England was "Broken Wings", and during 1956 in the US, "Chanson d'Amour" reached number six and remained on the charts for 11 weeks. They appeared twice on the Ed Sullivan Show, had a radio show, and performed in Las Vegas until retiring in 1980.


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Wesley Lau was an actor, best known for his role on TV's Perry Mason as Lt. Andy Anderson. After serving in the Air Corp in WWII, Lau studied playwriting and earned a MA at Yale Drama School. He continued his studies at The Actors Studio in NY. He wanted to be a writer, but found more acting jobs in NY. Lau first appeared on Perry Mason as a defendant, then made 81 appearances as Lt. Anderson. Other TV includes Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke, Have Gun-Will Travel, Peter Gunn, The Twilight Zone, The Time Tunnel, The Big Valley, Mission: Impossible, Cannon, Wagon Train, and The Six Million Dollar Man. He reunited with Raymond Burr in an episode of Ironside. Movies include I Want To Live!, and The Alamo.


Robert Edwin Lee was a playwright and lyricist. With his writing partner, Jerome Lawrence, Lee worked for Armed Forces Radio during World War II, and they became the most prolific writing partnership in radio. They turned to live theater in 1955 with Inherit the Wind, and wrote Auntie Mame and First Monday in October. In 1965, Lawrence and Lee founded the American Playwrights' Theater which produces their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. With James Hilton, they created the 1956 musical adaptation of Hilton's novel Lost Horizon, entitled Shangri-La. They also adapted Auntie Mame into the hit musical Mame with composer Jerry Herman. Lee was married to actress Janet Waldo, who provided the voice of many well-known cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson.


John Thomas Lenox was a production manager and assistant director, known for Splash (1984), Ishtar (1987) The Long Hot Summer (1985), TV's Happy Days, and Laverne & Shirley, plus TV movies Rescue from Gilligan's Island, The Brady Girls Get Married, and The Executioner's Song.
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Bernie West was an actor, comedian, and TV writer. TV shows included All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Three's Company, and The Ropers. He appeared on screen on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Phil Silvers Show, and Gomer Pyle USMC. West and his wife were contributors to the LA Free Clinic, and donated $500,000 towards dental care for impoverished children.


Dennis Wolfberg was a school teacher before launching a full-time comedy career in 1979. Wolfberg began his comedy career at the Comic Strip, though he auditioned as a singer and sang "American Pie". Wolfberg appeared on The Tonight Show and other talk shows. He had his own half-hour comedy special in 1990, and played Gooshie on TV's Quantum Leap. In April 1993, Entertainment Tonight aired "A Day in the Life of Dennis Wolfberg". He was twice named America's top male comic and he won an American Comedy Award as best male stand-up. Wolfberg was diagnosed with melanoma but worked for at least two more years. At the time of his death, he was negotiating a deal for his own TV show.


Darrell Zwerling was an actor whose best-known role was Hollis Mulwray, the unfortunate Water Authority Commissioner (the husband of Faye Dunaway's character) in Roman Polanski's Chinatown. Other films include Capricorn One, High Anxiety, And Justice For All, and Grease. He portrayed Mr. Charney, a voice-over applicant with laryngitis, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Other TV included Mannix, Columbo, and Kojak.
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Jules Levy was a TV and film producer. His television series include The Rifleman, The Detectives, and The Big Valley. Films include Clambake, White Lightning, McQ, Brannigan, and Smokey and the Bandit.


Sidney Korshak's law practice in Chicago brought him into contact with many mobsters, such as Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo and Moe Dalitz. His services were used by the upper ranks of both legitimate and illegitimate business in the US. Korshak was successful in labor consulting and negotiations, and his client list included Hilton Hotels, Hyatt Hotels, MGM, Playboy, MCA/Universal, and Diner's Club.


Abraham Lastfogel was one of the first employees and a long-time President of the William Morris Agency, a large diversified talent agency. The William Morris Agency hired Abe Lastfogel in 1912 as an office boy. Finding success in the rapidly growing firm, Lastfogel ultimately moved to Hollywood in 1932 to manage WMA's Los Angeles office. He was Chairman of William Morris while William Morris Jr served as President. During WWII, Lastfogel served as President of the USO camp Shows which produced wartime entertainment events featuring more than 7,000 performers seen by audiences of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world.
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Joseph Pasternak was a Hungarian-born film producer. He was successful in Germany and Austria, working for Universal Pictures in Europe, making German-language musicals for the international market. He moved to the US during the rise of the Nazis. Pasternak cast 14-year-old singer Deanna Durbin in Three Smart Girls (1936), which reputedly saved Universal from bankruptcy. Pasternak produced a string of Durbin musicals, and also discovered Gloria Jean, who began her own series in 1939. Other popular Pasternak films include Destry Rides Again (1939) and Seven Sinners (1940). After moving to MGM, he produced The Great Caruso (1951), and other musicals featuring Elvis Presley, Doris Day and Connie Francis. He also produced three Academy Award shows in the mid-60's.


Joseph Ruttenberg was a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer. He was nominated for the Best Cinematography oscar for Waterloo Bridge (1940), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), Madame Curie (1943), Gaslight (1944), Julius Caesar (1953), and Butterfield 8 (1960). He won for The Great Waltz (1938), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), and Gigi (1958). In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for the film Brigadoon. His first film was The Painted Madonna (1917) and his last was 1968's Speedway.


Bernard Schwab operated the four brothers’ pharmacies and was active in the Wisdom Masonic Lodge 202, Scottish Rite Temple, Al Malaikah Temple and the Peace Officers Shrine Club.


Guadalupe Natalia Tovar, known as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-American actress. She grew up during the Mexican Revolution and her family was very poor. Tovar was discovered by documentary filmmaker Robert Flaherty in Mexico City after performing in a dance class and being invited with other girls to do a screen test as part of a competition which she won. With the prize including a contract from Fox, she moved to Hollywood in November 1928 with her grandmother. At Fox, Lupita's future husband, producer Paul Kohner, initially used Tovar to dub films in Spanish, her first being The King of Jazz. In 1930, she made Drácula, which was produced by Kohner. In 1931, Tovar starred in La Voluntad del Muerto directed by George Melford and, like the Spanish-language version of Drácula, filmed at night using the same daytime sets. Also in 1931, Tovar starred in the film Santa, which was such a hit that the Mexican government issued a postage stamp featuring Tovar as Santa. "I tell you I could not walk on the streets when Santa came out. People tore my dress for souvenirs. It was something." In 1932 Tovar married Kohner and in 1936, the couple had a daughter, Susan, who later was an actress, and in 1939, a son, Paul Jr., who became a director and producer. The re-release of the Spanish-language Drácula on home video in the 1990s caused a revival of Tovar's films. "It's like a dream being invited to all of these festivals and showings of my films. Was that really me up there on the screen? I had almost forgotten I was an actress. It has been absolutely wonderful how people have been so nice. Usually people die and then they get the award, but to be alive and receive this honor is fantastic!" Tovar died at age 106 just one day after her daughter's 80th birthday.
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Thomas Edward Jackson started on Broadway in juvenile parts from 1899-1903, then gained experience as a theatrical director and producer. Jackson earned notoriety as a tough sarcastic detective in the 1926 hit show, "Broadway." The 43-year old actor was enticed to Hollywood, where he reprised his role in one of Universal's first "all talking pictures." He then was in demand in character roles, including as Thomas Flaherty in the classic "Little Caesar" (1930) as Edward G. Robinson's nemesis, and as a detective in Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (1944). He appeared on TV through the mid-1960s.


Tony Jay was an on-screen actor in through the 80's then moved to voice work as Claude Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Megabyte from ReBoot, and the Elder God (and the original Mortanius) from the Legacy of Kain series, Shere Khan in TaleSpin, The Legend of Prince Valiant, 2 Stupid Dogs, Virgil in Mighty Max, TMNT, the Draggit in Invasion America, Rugrats, and many others.


Howard "Si" Jenk was a character actor in over 180 roles. In "Captain January," he teaches Shirley Temple how to spit. In "Drums Along the Mohawk," Jenks attempts to get reluctant Edna Mae Oliver to go to the fort for protection from the Indians. In a "Day At The Races," he arrives with a telegram for horse doctor "Hugo Z. Hakenbush," (Groucho Marx). Jenks passes by Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in "Saratoga" and is the man gulled out of his money by Will Rogers in "Steamboat Around The Bend." In "Topper" Jenks is a surprised passerby finding Reginald Owen talking to a ghost that he, Jenks, cannot see. In "Stagecoach", Jenks is the bartender on the porch hoping to get a glimpse of Claire Trevor's petticoats. In "My Little Chickadee" with WC Fields, he plays a love struck deputy sheriff who Mae West manages to flatter and get the six guns out of his holster.
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June Gale, twin sister Joan and another set of twin sisters Jean and Jane were the Dancing Gale Quintuplets in vaudeville. June then acted in Poor Little Rich Boy, Moulin Rouge, Folies-Bergère de Paris, Sing and Be Happy, Pigskin Parade, Time Out for Murder, Pardon Our Nerve, Hotel for Women, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, The Escape, and The Honeymoon's Over. She had a radio show, and married Oscar Levant.


Robert Gottschalk was a camera technician and founder of Panavision, and earned 2 technical oscars. He was killed by his boyfriend.


Guy Green was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1946, he won an Oscar as cinematographer for Great Expectations. He began working in film in 1929 and became a noted film cinematographer and a founding member of the British Society of Cinematographers. Green became a full-time director of photography in the mid-1940s, and worked on Oliver Twist in 1948. He wrote, co-produced, and directed A Patch of Blue (1965). He also directed The Angry Silence (1960), The Mark (1961), Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough (1975), and The Devil's Advocate (1977).

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Griff Barnett was an actor known for Criss Cross (1949), Holiday Affair (1949) and Angel Face (1953). His last appearance was in 1957's The Spirit of St. Louis.


Harry Bedwell was an author of railroad fiction. Born in Iowa, he worked his way west as a telegraph operator, and eventually settled in Southern California. He became a stringer for the Saturday Evening Post. In his fiction writings, Bedwell's central character was an "op" named Eddie Sand. Eddie appears in a whole series of short stories, many of those later compiled in a paperback called The Boomer. When World War II caused a traffic surge on the rails, Bedwell took Eddie out of retirement as part of "The Old Soft Metal Gang" - gold in our teeth, silver in our hair, and lead in the "caboose".


Ken Carson was an American entertainer primarily known for singing Western music. He was an early member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and appeared with them in 22 Roy Rogers films. He voiced the animated wise old owl in Disney's 1948 live-and-animated film So Dear to My Heart. He mastered at least six instruments and was a skillful whistler. He was an excellent horseman and golfer, winning a NBC-sponsored golf tournament. Carson sang at the wedding of Tricia Nixon Cox, which he said was the highlight of his career.
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