<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 02:14:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>what's my line</category><category>jack ruby</category><category>Arlene Francis</category><category>Dorothy Kilgallen</category><category>jfk assassination</category><category>lee harvey oswald</category><category>old time radio</category><category>1950s pop music</category><category>Anna Antonio</category><category>Bennett Cef</category><category>Betty White</category><category>Boston Blackie</category><category>Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick</category><category>Command Performance</category><category>David Welsh</category><category>Deborah Kerr</category><category>Dick Kollmar</category><category>Dimension</category><category>Dorothy Kilgallen and Johnnie Ray</category><category>Dorothy Kilgallen's Autopsy</category><category>Dorothy Kilgallen's Funeral</category><category>FBI</category><category>Frank Sinatra</category><category>Information Please</category><category>Jill</category><category>Jimmy Cannon</category><category>John Charles Daly</category><category>Johnnie Ray</category><category>Johnnie Ray and Miss Kilgallen</category><category>Joseph Dunninger</category><category>Leave It to the Girls</category><category>Lee Israel's Kilgallen: a Biography of Dorothy Kilgallen</category><category>O.O. 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64JOoHfY0Qjm1jGdEAlw1KyIonL4YhxjgWYb3cZU_NrVTNx10OaGcKN4I9VqF19Ua3jbUxjCy9wZWy4n1y49s_-m6ffwi9hk1yqQP3KhBvIQXoGb6zjb1tVxzBgLkjoh_3BSynQZQVa-1/s1600/dorothykillgallen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64JOoHfY0Qjm1jGdEAlw1KyIonL4YhxjgWYb3cZU_NrVTNx10OaGcKN4I9VqF19Ua3jbUxjCy9wZWy4n1y49s_-m6ffwi9hk1yqQP3KhBvIQXoGb6zjb1tVxzBgLkjoh_3BSynQZQVa-1/s640/dorothykillgallen.jpg" width="496" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journalist, game-show panelist, wife, mother. &nbsp;Investigator of the <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/john-f-kennedy">Kennedy assassination</a>; friend of <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/frank-sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> and confidante of Johnnie Ray, Dorothy Kilgallen was as enigmatic as she was versatile. &nbsp;What exactly did she know about Jack Ruby? &nbsp;And how did she die?</span></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-09b876f5-1bfb-05d5-3c98-132977b26e1f" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Start in the Newspaper Field</span><span style="line-height: 1.15;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRMmbU_DnHUNl3393r4mx0jjHsk2tIEotbOTaT0TecrekdQSiL6KaNr3zia7POJnbqlSamJfBy0zurgqjSYxxa-3mVHxZwsvy2pDClxHLKZ70CmhEeovwlqMbW57f9tSs8z1v9XfpnfYk/s1600/Newspaper_clipping_(newspaper_and_date_not_shown_-_presumably_late_1959)_indicating_that_Elvis_Presley_will_receive_a..._-_NARA_-_299790.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRMmbU_DnHUNl3393r4mx0jjHsk2tIEotbOTaT0TecrekdQSiL6KaNr3zia7POJnbqlSamJfBy0zurgqjSYxxa-3mVHxZwsvy2pDClxHLKZ70CmhEeovwlqMbW57f9tSs8z1v9XfpnfYk/w280-h320/Newspaper_clipping_(newspaper_and_date_not_shown_-_presumably_late_1959)_indicating_that_Elvis_Presley_will_receive_a..._-_NARA_-_299790.jpg" width="280" /></a> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen was born in Chicago on July 3, 1913. &nbsp;Her father was a newspaperman--she had reporting in her blood. &nbsp;Therefore, it didn't take her long to decide on the life of a reporter as at least her first career. &nbsp;She left college--the College of New Rochelle--to work for a Hearst paper, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Evening Journal.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;She ventured out to Hollywood and penned a column out there briefly, then returned to New York, where she began her column "The Voice of Broadway," in Hearst's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Journal American.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This column would be a mainstay in the work of Kilgallen--in it she would offer many strong opinions, and not just about Broadway.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1959, via her column, Kilgallen ventured that the CIA had partnered with the mafia to assassinate Castro. &nbsp;A few years later, she was one of the members of the press to receive a sneak preview of the Warren Commission Report, before its full-length publication. &nbsp;In "The Voice of Broadway," she was critical of many of the report's findings.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallens-radio-appearances_5.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgQPd8_vZEK_cUH3OYRSWqBa6xmAcZOucHa6RYqhpXirq04ONYSLVdLW0k-MT1lDjke7uZDay-MY1sBmIt6pMUy8RmMe_2Yu9A8HMTc0-smcwREWCsCAR8ezsuSmeFEShwrOcnT1p8xmu/s1600/tumblr_m7sjqpuzWH1r69cn1o1_400.gif" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgQPd8_vZEK_cUH3OYRSWqBa6xmAcZOucHa6RYqhpXirq04ONYSLVdLW0k-MT1lDjke7uZDay-MY1sBmIt6pMUy8RmMe_2Yu9A8HMTc0-smcwREWCsCAR8ezsuSmeFEShwrOcnT1p8xmu/w277-h250/tumblr_m7sjqpuzWH1r69cn1o1_400.gif" width="277" /></a> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For someone so ahead of her time in solving parts of the Castro assassination, guessing the line of work of a guest wasn't such hard work for Kilgallen, but it was something Kilgallen approached with great enthusiasm. &nbsp;Throughout her tenure on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallens-radio-appearances_5.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> she was known by her fellow panelists, Bennett Cerf, <a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/john-charles-daly_5.html" target="_blank">John Charles Daly</a>, and <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/arlene-francis">Arlene Francis</a>, as a spirited competitor. &nbsp;She also contributed an urbane wit. &nbsp;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her appearances were mostly on the television version of the show, running from 1950, 'til her 1965 death. &nbsp;She appeared from time to time on the radio version.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Woman of Controversy</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No biography of Dorothy would be complete without saying that she was outspoken and opinionated. &nbsp;Many of her most celebrated controversial remarks dealt with the Kennedy assassination and the Warren Commission's report on it. &nbsp;She also was the first person to report about Marilyn Monroe's relationship with the president. &nbsp;It happened two days before the actress's death. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">She also claimed to have interviewed Jack Ruby during his trial for the murder of Oswald. &nbsp;She took to her grave the secret of what he'd revealed.</span></div> <div><br /></div><br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/the-death-of-dorothy-kilgallen.html" target="_blank">Mysterious Death</a></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWr9MphPonOchUxZfl_8g5TP5cWeluXlQ-qhGpnuE922VCgNsOvqQa5ec3rVbRsvx48e4vG2cqfoKon87NwSrjPeS6Uw_zS48boKtsTGyL5ghL3ESFMOThhC5zvMUrO93w4Vz_rYOsR5Z/s1600/download.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkWr9MphPonOchUxZfl_8g5TP5cWeluXlQ-qhGpnuE922VCgNsOvqQa5ec3rVbRsvx48e4vG2cqfoKon87NwSrjPeS6Uw_zS48boKtsTGyL5ghL3ESFMOThhC5zvMUrO93w4Vz_rYOsR5Z/w278-h320/download.jpg" width="278" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy Kilgallen died on Nov. 7, 1965, with the cause being ruled an overdose of barbiturate and alcohol. &nbsp;It didn't take long before the first ripples of innuendo about possible foul play to begin to spread, and they would soon become wider concentric circles. &nbsp;Much of the speculation centered around Kilgallen's journalistic investigation of and commentary on the JFK assassination. &nbsp;The conspiracy theory goes that a lot of people associated with <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/john-f-kennedy">Kennedy</a>--or just those who had some information about the assassination--tended to turn up dead before long. &nbsp;Dorothy died not long after writing about the Warren Commission report, and some conspiracy theorists felt that some parties who wanted the president dead would want Dorothy dead for the same reasons.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were some anomalies and discrepancies with the coroner's report, and also with various circumstances surrounding the death. &nbsp;The mystery has never been solved.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen left behind three children. &nbsp;Her husband, Dick Kollmar, took his own life in 1971.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen's biography is one intelligence, wit, and courage. &nbsp;She spoke her mind on several difficult issues, and will always be known for this.</span></div> <br /></description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallen-biography.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64JOoHfY0Qjm1jGdEAlw1KyIonL4YhxjgWYb3cZU_NrVTNx10OaGcKN4I9VqF19Ua3jbUxjCy9wZWy4n1y49s_-m6ffwi9hk1yqQP3KhBvIQXoGb6zjb1tVxzBgLkjoh_3BSynQZQVa-1/s72-c/dorothykillgallen.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-5869635075939904072</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-16T13:31:39.440-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Boston Blackie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Command Performance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dick Kollmar</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Joseph Dunninger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Leave It to the Girls</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen's Radio Appearances: Part I: Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick and the early years</title><description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/z/dorothy-kilgallen2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/z/dorothy-kilgallen2.jpg" height="608" width="640" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">A behemoth of a building, squatting down on an entire city block, stood at 131 Market Street in Newark, New Jersey. &nbsp;It was the flagship store of the Bamberger Department Store franchise.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to entering the history of America's commerce and enterprise, the hulking building played a huge part in American broadcasting as well. &nbsp;It was on its sixth floor that </span><a href="http://radio.about.com/od/unitedstatesradiohistory/a/A-Short-History-of-Radio-Station-WOR-AM-A-Long-And-Winding-Road-Since-1922.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on Feb. 22, 1922</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, WOR AM radio, New York's oldest radio station, first signed on.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/z/dorothykilgallen-advertisement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/z/dorothykilgallen-advertisement.jpg" height="229" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Louis Bamberger, the store's owner, also owned the radio station, which accounts for the not-quite-NYC location. &nbsp;By 1923, though, the station had opened a studio in the city.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How, otherwise, could it have aired </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a morning gossip show steeped in the New York City scene?</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/breakfast-with-dorothy-dick-dorothy-kilgallen-dick-kollmar-p-49170.html" target="_blank">Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Dick Kollmar</a> were quintessential New York City theatre scenesters, with ties to all elements of society life.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To some extent, the show prefigured some of today's reality series such as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The World According To Paris, Keeping up With the Kardashians, My Fair Brady </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">et al, that take viewers into the mundane lives of celebrities. &nbsp;While Kilgallen and Kollmar were not lovely celebutantes, rappers, or other hip young mega-stars, they did have entree into New York society life, and to tune into their morning breakfasts was--in a way that early radio listeners nationwide hadn't been able to before--to be as close as possible to being a fly on the wall in this milieu.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A picture exists of the couple entering New York's exclusive Stork Club, all smiles under the black awning, seeking out the camera. &nbsp;A reader of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Variety</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> who saw the photo presumably felt he or she could find out what happened just after the shutter closed by listening to the program, which, with no evidence contradicting this, is said to have originated from the couple's actual dining room.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/breakfast-with-dorothy-dick-dorothy-kilgallen-dick-kollmar-p-49170.html" target="_blank">Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> began airing in 1945, with episodes known to have aired as late as 1963. &nbsp;It is a bit of a curiosity in not leaving nearly the sort of trail of episode synopses and guest lists as other shows. &nbsp;Perhaps no inventory was ever taken as it aired--since it was daily and not weekly, the task may have been too daunting.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know its airtime was the curious 8:15-8:55, Monday through Saturday. &nbsp;This encyclopedia entry asserts that throughout the show's run, plays, films or TV shows would tender payment to have their works mentioned on air.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Kilgallen's Other Early Appearances</b></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/z/dunninger2-otrcat.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/z/dunninger2-otrcat.com.jpg" height="286" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen's first trip to the microphone was on June 15, 1944, when she graced </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Kemtone Hour.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;This now-obscure radio show was hosted by the<a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dunninger-the-mentalist-p-48746.html" target="_blank"> mentalist Joseph Dunninger</a>, who opened each cavalcade with a feat of mind-reading.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From there it was on the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/command-performance-p-2132.html" target="_blank">Command Performance</a>, the Voice of Broadway </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Raleigh Room. &nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She also appeared on an episode of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/leave-it-to-the-girls-p-48728.html" target="_blank">Leave It To The Girls</a>,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fielding questions submitted in advance by listeners.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last appearance that could be considered "early" for Kilgallen allowed her to branch out into acting. &nbsp;A few years before, Dick had become the title character on the kitschy crime series </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.bostonblackie.org/" target="_blank">Boston Blackie</a>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;In January of 1949, she made her sole appearance on the <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/boston-blackie-p-1131.html" target="_blank">Boston Blackie</a> show, in an episode called "Broken Clock Murder." &nbsp;She played a character named Dorothy.</span></div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/images/cd_dorothykilgallen2.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" target="_blank">The Dorothy Kilgallen Collection has 26 recordings of&nbsp;</a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" target="_blank">her various appearances during the golden age of radio.</a></div> <br /></description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallens-radio-appearances_5.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-1346033464885817883</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-05T14:30:12.246-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arlene Francis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bennett Cef</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Betty White</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Deborah Kerr</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dimension</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Peggy Lee</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Steve Allen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">what's my line</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Winston Churchill</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen's Radio Appearances: Part II: What's My Line and later years</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMOcOxwPrdF_BTUyHEDNyf7NdE9OnOBUcTs3z7EbXaBk3BgskaONE_7QCxIId7Db6ueP1jtwZS1TdQKQsICQs8k2CYvMIPXJugbxODsYVpCc5yqrLPcZyoMyzmnqoPPzck3Z7VMd0lRJj/s1600/dorothy-kilgallen-radio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMOcOxwPrdF_BTUyHEDNyf7NdE9OnOBUcTs3z7EbXaBk3BgskaONE_7QCxIId7Db6ueP1jtwZS1TdQKQsICQs8k2CYvMIPXJugbxODsYVpCc5yqrLPcZyoMyzmnqoPPzck3Z7VMd0lRJj/s1600/dorothy-kilgallen-radio.jpg" height="640" width="528" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What's My Line</b></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/quiz/whats-my-line" target="_blank">What's My Line</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a rare bird that lived as a television series before making the move to radio. &nbsp;It started on the tube in 1950, the airwaves in 1952.</span></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-a65a36bf-1c10-1c4d-d4ee-f50bc6218987" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/z/young-betty-white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/z/young-betty-white.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen was there from day one, appearing on the TV show's inaugural episode, and she was a regular on the radio iteration, too. &nbsp;Monday nights were for shooting the TV version, Tuesdays for radio. &nbsp;However, while the radio show proper ran just until July 1953, CBS sporadically ran radio simulcasts of the TV version. &nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The latest-known</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of these on which Dorothy appeared was April 10, 1961.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What radio listeners missed from the televised version was the evening gowns and suits worn, respectively, by the women and men panelists.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the gentlemanly, gentle womanly manner was still present, and the radio show was a success. &nbsp;Flanked by publisher <a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/bennett-cerf.html" target="_blank">Bennett Cerf</a>, and actress <a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/arlene-francis.html" target="_blank">Arlene Francis</a>, Dorothy sat on the show's panel. &nbsp;Steve Allen was a panelist every so often, and there was usually a fourth slot set aside for a guest panelist, a slot filled by the likes of Deborah Kerr and <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/betty-white-collection-p-49062.html" target="_blank">Betty White</a>.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other Radio Appearances</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy Kilgallen made just a couple more radio appearances in her career after </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She hosted a short, six-episode series called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dimension,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which should not be confused with the famed sci-fi series </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dimension-x-p-1177.html" target="_blank">Dimension X</a>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;Rather than telling tales of the fantastic, Kilgallen told perhaps fantastical tales about celebrities such as <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/peggy-lee-p-1716.html" target="_blank">Peggy Lee</a>, and <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/churchill-winston-recordings-p-2112.html" target="_blank">Winston Churchill</a>, once against enacting her split and stretch between the worlds of serious journalism and society gossip.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; white-space: normal;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/images/cd_dorothykilgallen2.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank">The Dorothy Kilgallen Collection has 26&nbsp;</a><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank">recordings of&nbsp;</a><span style="line-height: 1.15;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/dorothy-kilgallen-collection-p-50243.html" style="line-height: normal;" target="_blank">her various appearances during the golden age of radio</a>.</div> </div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallens-radio-appearances.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGMOcOxwPrdF_BTUyHEDNyf7NdE9OnOBUcTs3z7EbXaBk3BgskaONE_7QCxIId7Db6ueP1jtwZS1TdQKQsICQs8k2CYvMIPXJugbxODsYVpCc5yqrLPcZyoMyzmnqoPPzck3Z7VMd0lRJj/s72-c/dorothy-kilgallen-radio.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-5302856314630766921</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-05T14:31:31.075-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">boris karloff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dan golenpaul</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorothy Kilgallen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Information Please</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">old time radio</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">orson welles</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen, Information Please</title><description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/z/whatsmyline1-otrcat.com.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While Dorothy Kilgallen was a panelist on the guessing game </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> she in fact did not take part in the somewhat analogous program </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/information-please-p-1411.html" target="_blank">Information Please</a>.</span></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-fb0a145e-1c08-2e71-b063-512a3e98185d" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This program invited listeners to write in with difficult questions in the areas of literature, history, poetry, sports, etc., and attempt to stump a panel of experts. &nbsp;It was first sponsored by Canada Dry, and then Lucky Strike. &nbsp;The Encyclopedia Britannica was among prizes doled out to successful stumpers. &nbsp;</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/quiz/information-please" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Information Please</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Almanac was related to the show--its first edition was edited by creator and host Dan Golenpaul. &nbsp;</span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cavalcade of able panelists included <a href="http://www.orsonwelles.org/" target="_blank">Orson Welles</a>, <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/boris-karloff-collection-p-1130.html" target="_blank">Boris Karloff</a>, Leonard Bernstein, and Dorothy Parker.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/images/cd_info1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/images/cd_info1.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/information-please-p-1411.html" target="_blank"><b>Information Please</b> - old time radio collection contains over 200 episodes</a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallen-information-please.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2U2EHOmhiR0Ome3pNxv0FRsF9RaUo9Gz7b6PsL3oM9mMMIVH3rTY9cPC8sx3kv_KyJ2MZo3pfcStfSCwWoGL5w-zM63L9DdL4TVFjoAVsikDHpG4kXjdLd-23HeUhBO7lWtaBPn8s6wq/s72-c/information-please-ad-otrcat.com.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-1720115930948611459</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-06-15T16:14:40.599-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">books about kilgallen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Johnnie Ray and Miss Kilgallen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Lee Israel's Kilgallen: a Biography of Dorothy Kilgallen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Tallulah Bankhead</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">What's My Line?: The Inside History of TV's Most Famous Panel Show</category><title>Biography of Dorothy Kilgallen Books</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3K_9TA2bqi-488oPJAkLUAf01OBBiCjcar9mrOAQWVJA2TFpf8kbFTLziY5kb12uYBCLS-3NINyDcPvDT24Dm_pmcSzxuc1IkGq6Wp2t2Qz04mPhNHRvVjZ4fJ2S1vgaN5rVhxL0epVO/s1600/download+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3K_9TA2bqi-488oPJAkLUAf01OBBiCjcar9mrOAQWVJA2TFpf8kbFTLziY5kb12uYBCLS-3NINyDcPvDT24Dm_pmcSzxuc1IkGq6Wp2t2Qz04mPhNHRvVjZ4fJ2S1vgaN5rVhxL0epVO/s1600/download+(1).jpg" height="320" width="224" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is one definitive biography of Dorothy Kilgallen: Lee Israel's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440045223/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0440045223&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=old-time-radio-20&amp;linkId=EBNOTPIFRTA2TF45" target="_blank">Kilgallen: a Biography of Dorothy Kilgallen</a>,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> brought out by Delacorte Press in 1979.</span></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-25ad7378-1bfb-bf7d-5ede-5b0feac422d3" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lee Israel was a freelance writer living in New York. &nbsp;She hadn't amassed much of a reputation by the time she began working on Kilgallen's life, but she had published a biography of <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/tallulah-bankhead-p-48852.html" target="_blank">Tallulah Bankhead</a> and would later publish a biography of Estee Lauder.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of Israel's chief projects was investigating Kilgallen's death. &nbsp;Her interest and the fair amount of material in her book devoted to the topic are much of the force behind the propagation of the various conspiracy theories positing that Kilgallen's death was a murder.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other books of Interest to Kilgallen Fans</span></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtOswFQLfCEQXm8h9xKeeIx0reRq4xCwZqmhlhFPaLo68Q4RB1pzceqJ8LAA_WTnaAR5TcpqPQSc2Zpw9oiMV02I7INCT0Dl3uRP89Ktgd8kApous8zgjqN2lpuD76K38o8RgsO5WvXLpi/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtOswFQLfCEQXm8h9xKeeIx0reRq4xCwZqmhlhFPaLo68Q4RB1pzceqJ8LAA_WTnaAR5TcpqPQSc2Zpw9oiMV02I7INCT0Dl3uRP89Ktgd8kApous8zgjqN2lpuD76K38o8RgsO5WvXLpi/s1600/download.jpg" height="320" width="217" /></a><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1979, a year before Lee Israel's biography of Dorothy, Gil Fates published </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0139551468/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0139551468&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=old-time-radio-20&amp;linkId=WXMT5JEGYKVVNMSN" target="_blank">What's My Line?: The Inside History of TV's Most Famous Panel Show</a>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;The 239-pager didn't burn up the best seller list, but does provide some scuttlebutt about the various panelists, Kilgallen included.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then we have the novel </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IK3FAH2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00IK3FAH2&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=old-time-radio-20&amp;linkId=NC3FN7Z6C2X37TSV" target="_blank">Johnnie Ray and Miss Kilgallen</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IK3FAH2/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00IK3FAH2&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=old-time-radio-20&amp;linkId=NC3FN7Z6C2X37TSV" target="_blank"> by Bonnie Hearn Hill and Larry Hill</a>, whose cover features a cigarette-filled ashtray, a highball glass, and skyscrapers. &nbsp;The book posits a love affair between the title characters, and there's a lot of sex.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/biography-of-dorothy-kilgallen-books.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_3K_9TA2bqi-488oPJAkLUAf01OBBiCjcar9mrOAQWVJA2TFpf8kbFTLziY5kb12uYBCLS-3NINyDcPvDT24Dm_pmcSzxuc1IkGq6Wp2t2Qz04mPhNHRvVjZ4fJ2S1vgaN5rVhxL0epVO/s72-c/download+(1).jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-6392824602071694030</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-04-19T13:22:03.858-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">all that glitters</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">angel island</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arlene Francis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">body beautiful</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cavalcade of america</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">columbia workshop</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">horse eats hat</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mercury theater</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">old time radio</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">radio actress</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the women</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">What's My Line?</category><title>Arlene Francis</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A long-time friend and colleague of Dorothy Kilgallen, <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/arlene-francis">Arlene Francis</a> figured into the multi-faceted life of the journalist-television-radio personality as a co-panelist on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html" target="_blank">What's My Line</a>?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;</span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-6b440c9f-dcfe-0c57-ed7e-5f287404b2db" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhXl3g_ACSbbJIg_2TLAPd0tso7RTcxNfSkVrTIQOdj_T3mgmRKo8g6TTfPFxLa6lnzHCEFNuOdn9dZ0RWpHE3CqgwScgSwhJBqKBTQTnwHU9XdXyWMpmqTtmefnIhD9jsMulr64FuSDPW/s1600/arlene-francis.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhXl3g_ACSbbJIg_2TLAPd0tso7RTcxNfSkVrTIQOdj_T3mgmRKo8g6TTfPFxLa6lnzHCEFNuOdn9dZ0RWpHE3CqgwScgSwhJBqKBTQTnwHU9XdXyWMpmqTtmefnIhD9jsMulr64FuSDPW/s1600/arlene-francis.jpg" width="393" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But her story begins far from twinkling New York City studios, in Turkey, under the Ottoman Empire. Tyrannical head of the empire, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, instituted Pan-Islamism as a state ideology toward the end of the 19th century. &nbsp;As part of this campaign, he mounted a brutal, protracted massacre of Armenians, a Christian minority in the region.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During this genocide, Arlene's paternal grandparents were cruelly murdered. &nbsp;At that time, her father was in Paris, and when he learned of the death of his mother and father, he fled to the United States. &nbsp;He found sanctuary in Boston, bringing in some money as a portrait photographer. &nbsp;He married Leah Davis, and on Oct. 20, 1907, Leah gave birth to Arline Francis Kazanjian, who we would later cherish as Arlene Francis. &nbsp;Arlene grew up mostly in New York City, where so much of her career would be based.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like Kilgallen, Francis was a vivacious, confident college student who wasted no time pursuing her career goals. &nbsp;She appeared in the Broadway play </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La Gringa</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at just 21. &nbsp;</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1932, she played a small part (that of a hooker) in the Bela Lugosi film </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Murders in the Rue Morgue.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From there, it was a spate of </span><a href="http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=41109" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Broadway performances</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in productions of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Body Beautiful, Horse Eats Hat, The Women, Angel Island, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All That Glitters.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beginning at the end of the 30's, she continued Broadway work, but also worked steadily as a radio actress,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> before hosting her own show. &nbsp;She followed in the footsteps of big Broadway stars by appearing on well-written radio drama programs such as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/cavalcade-of-america-p-2054.html" target="_blank">The Cavalcade of America</a>, <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/columbia-workshop-p-2127.html" target="_blank">The Columbia Workshop</a>, <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/mercury-theater-p-48487.html" target="_blank">The Mercury Theatre</a>,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/campbells-playhouse-p-2032.html" target="_blank">The Campbell Playhouse</a>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1940, Arlene joined the cast of the long-running soap opera </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Betty and Bob.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;It was in 1942, though, that her radio career took a turn that would make her a household name. &nbsp;She began hosting the <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/blind-date">game show </a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/blind-date">Blind Date</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a forerunner of popular television shows like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dating Game, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Love Connection.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The format of this show might sound slightly comical today, or at least would be played up for maximum intrigue if aired today. &nbsp;It aimed to pair up--not ordinary couples--but furloughed servicemen and professional women. &nbsp;They would talk via telephones on either side of a partition. &nbsp;A recording of the show reveals Francis to sound slightly jittery and awkward, yet still somehow charming, with an attractive, sparkling voice.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She later hosted the television version of the show.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking of game shows that flourished on both radio and TV, we come to </span><a href="http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/quiz/whats-my-line">What's My Line</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;Arlene appeared on the show's second episode and continued as a regular for the show's entire run. &nbsp;</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She and Kilgallen were reportedly close, and one interesting detail about the night of Kilgallen's death comes from Francis. &nbsp;Arlene says that after the performance of Dorothy's fateful last episode of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WML?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> she didn't kiss Arlene on the cheek when saying goodnight--a first for that omission.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the time Francis was on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://p/whats-my-line">What's My Line</a>?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, she was also on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Show of Shows</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/blind-date">Blind Date</a>,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which meant that every network carried an Arlene Francis program. A few years later, she would again turn to radio for one of her life's major projects, one that probably doesn't get enough recognition: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Arlene Francis Show.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> &nbsp;This was a one-hour interview show on which she garnered celebrity guests. &nbsp;No flash in the pan, it ran from 1961 til 1990.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arlene was twice married, once to Paramount Pictures staffer Neil Agnew, and the second time to producer-actor Martin Gabel. &nbsp;Near the close of her long, full life, she began a battle with Alzheimer's Disease, succumbing on May 31, 2001, at the age of 93.</span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She's remembered as a sharp wit, a pioneer among women broadcasters, and a versatile radio and television personality.</span></description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/arlene-francis.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhXl3g_ACSbbJIg_2TLAPd0tso7RTcxNfSkVrTIQOdj_T3mgmRKo8g6TTfPFxLa6lnzHCEFNuOdn9dZ0RWpHE3CqgwScgSwhJBqKBTQTnwHU9XdXyWMpmqTtmefnIhD9jsMulr64FuSDPW/s72-c/arlene-francis.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-666346292005689620</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-03-22T13:08:19.172-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Anna Antonio</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorothy Kilgallen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">FBI</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jack ruby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jimmy Cannon</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">O.O. McIntyre</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Warren Commission</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">William Randolph Hearst</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen and JFK</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHBxaSJPEf8CNEGmjjB_2-ajRfjnr6sDc365Akrk7FQDUB425FyhyPYUcHKZG7olDak8f1pTVSdAt_wP2AFVFvBcLso6ZNWdw7UNHme3u60KqqU3KVZpXLWgSc3Y9SCveRZno4je3hv7X/s1600/william-randolph-hearst.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHBxaSJPEf8CNEGmjjB_2-ajRfjnr6sDc365Akrk7FQDUB425FyhyPYUcHKZG7olDak8f1pTVSdAt_wP2AFVFvBcLso6ZNWdw7UNHme3u60KqqU3KVZpXLWgSc3Y9SCveRZno4je3hv7X/s1600/william-randolph-hearst.jpg" width="500" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New York Journal American</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was William Randolph Hearst's baby, a roaring juggernaut of a newspaper, the very one to carry Richard F. Outcault' comic </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Yellow Kid,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is responsible for the immortal phrase "yellow journalism." &nbsp;Hearst staffed his paper with writers now familiar to any cub reporter or journalism student: Jimmy Cannon, O.O. McIntyre, and Dorothy Kilgallen.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen, who began her journalism career as a sort of wunderkind, having left college to begin as a reporter, had a strange, bifurcated lifer as a journalist. &nbsp;Under Hearst, she developed both as a gossip columnist and a crime reporter. &nbsp;Some of her early work included covering </span><a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKkilgallen.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the trials of Richard Bruno Haptmann</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Eva Coo, and Anna Antonio.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some thirty years into her career, having become a star of radio and television, Kilgallen still wrote for the paper. &nbsp;On Sept. 30, 1964, she penned a column that would become immortal. &nbsp;In it, she discussed the Warren report, which was charged with investigating the <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/john-f-kennedy">assassination (a year earlier) of John F. Kennedy</a>. &nbsp;One passage of her somewhat scathing indictment of the report reads</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At any rate, the whole thing smells a bit fishy. It's a mite too simple that a chap kills the President of the United States, escapes from that bother, kills a policeman, eventually is apprehended in a movie theater under circumstances that defy every law of police procedure, and subsequently is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, Kilgallen didn't draw the ire of the FBI for criticizing them or the report. &nbsp;Instead, she apparently received a copy of Jack Ruby's testimony to the Warren Commission well before the commission's report was published. &nbsp;Further, she claimed she'd interviewed him, yet never released the content of their conversation. &nbsp;In Sept. '64, just before the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">column, FBI agents visited Kilgallen's home to get her to reveal her source for the Ruby transcripts. &nbsp;But she held firm.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kilgallen died one year later, with an FBI file still open. &nbsp;Because of the slightly odd circumstances of her death, <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/conspiracy">conspiracy </a>theories began to develop. &nbsp;Her involvement with JFK, particularly the at-large information she supposedly had on Jack Ruby, caused some to speculate that some of the sinister parties responsible for the <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/john-f-kennedy">JFK assassination</a> also stood to gain from her death.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/dorothy-kilgallen-and-jfk.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAHBxaSJPEf8CNEGmjjB_2-ajRfjnr6sDc365Akrk7FQDUB425FyhyPYUcHKZG7olDak8f1pTVSdAt_wP2AFVFvBcLso6ZNWdw7UNHme3u60KqqU3KVZpXLWgSc3Y9SCveRZno4je3hv7X/s72-c/william-randolph-hearst.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-1760056433743718141</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-08-13T18:44:10.197-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">and Kerry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jill</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Richard</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen's Children</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIN6uTLz9NZfLKQXez5VJhyphenhyphencWLtCfSLE6ST8V_AiI11QyOMltYrNM_AyGTJtRakKajXxht9n6BQILKvLAjdFoneFEaphmQ5Z8hFgh3pzp5l6JhHW0ZGZOux92d-4ykqDuDFEj1NTe3R4O/s1600/dorothy-kilgallen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIN6uTLz9NZfLKQXez5VJhyphenhyphencWLtCfSLE6ST8V_AiI11QyOMltYrNM_AyGTJtRakKajXxht9n6BQILKvLAjdFoneFEaphmQ5Z8hFgh3pzp5l6JhHW0ZGZOux92d-4ykqDuDFEj1NTe3R4O/s1600/dorothy-kilgallen.jpg" height="640" width="494" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy and her husband Richard Kollmar had three children, Jill, Richard, and Kerry. &nbsp;Jill was born in 1941, Richard (Dickie, Jr.) in 1943, and Kerry in 1953.</span></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-1ead1098-dcfc-ee9c-e320-6b71248f3de7" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While very little is known about the oldest children Jill or Dickie, Jr., they did appear as mystery guests on the TV version of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 1954, with Dickie turning in a particularly funny performance. </span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerry, like his siblings, chose not to follow his parents into careers in the media or to be part of the New York social scene. &nbsp;After being credited as </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391256/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Little Boy</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the Tommy Kirk/ Annette Funicello movie </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pajama Party,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Kerry felt he'd had enough of the acting business. He is now reportedly the President of Martial Hearts, Inc., which aims to teach self-defense and end violence against women and children.</span></description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/dorothy-kilgallens-children.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIN6uTLz9NZfLKQXez5VJhyphenhyphencWLtCfSLE6ST8V_AiI11QyOMltYrNM_AyGTJtRakKajXxht9n6BQILKvLAjdFoneFEaphmQ5Z8hFgh3pzp5l6JhHW0ZGZOux92d-4ykqDuDFEj1NTe3R4O/s72-c/dorothy-kilgallen.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>14</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-4889733662790635963</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2016-10-05T16:32:59.387-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bennett cerf</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">what's my line</category><title>Bennett Cerf</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">The history of publishing owes an awful lot to Bennett Cerf. &nbsp;Yet it also allows a lot to Horace Liveright, who plays a pretty big role in the Cerf story.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQgTAZWRfNzx5UNFlcYK4EOjadNYZCP94py5iH45-OyELsxLTlAleLKDpnIZPtlwe9uumQcOo0GyjZp0Ddxc22qLeOWN_pw307EsRHyJzuo8ytOhIK7gd5ut_avvm1afi2P0YIB4X9DD6/s1600/bennett-cerfs-quotes-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQgTAZWRfNzx5UNFlcYK4EOjadNYZCP94py5iH45-OyELsxLTlAleLKDpnIZPtlwe9uumQcOo0GyjZp0Ddxc22qLeOWN_pw307EsRHyJzuo8ytOhIK7gd5ut_avvm1afi2P0YIB4X9DD6/s1600/bennett-cerfs-quotes-5.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Roaring Twenties, Liveright became well-known &nbsp;as a Broadway stage producer, producing the 1927 smash </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dracula,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> starring Bela Lugosi--this was a few years before the film.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But a decade earlier, he did something just as important, at least to our story. Liveright had as his goal marketing literature in a way that was similar to newer media such as film and plays. &nbsp;He felt that books could be sold inexpensively and could be a big part of popular culture. &nbsp;</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To this end, along with his partner Albert Boni, he founded the Modern Library, buying the rights to published European books. &nbsp;They sold paperback versions of these for 60 cents.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enter Bennett Cerf. &nbsp;Cerf was born on May 25, 1898, the son of a lithographer and tobacco heiress. &nbsp;In 1919, he received his B.A. from Columbia's School of Journalism and began writing for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The New York Herald Tribune.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, he soon took a job as the vice-president of Liveright's <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/otr-library">Modern Library</a>. &nbsp;The two went out for drinks one night and Liveright began talking about his unpaid debts. &nbsp;Unblinking, Cerf suggested that selling him Modern Library would be a way for the older man to settle his debts.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So it was that, along with partner Donald Klopfer, Cerf bought Liveright's Modern Library. &nbsp;The two actually made the purchase on Cerf's birthday, May 25. Designer Lucian Bernhard birthed the famous torch bearer that became the logo for the publishing line.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The series became a sort of canon of previously-published works, and from its success, the duo was able to found Random House books. &nbsp;The logo for Random, just as well known as ML's torch, was drawn by Cerf's friend Rockwell Kent. &nbsp;The company scored a major coup by being able to publish James Joyce's </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ulysses</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, for which it had to go to court. &nbsp;The book had been declared obscene had previously been denied entry to the states.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, this is America. &nbsp;So if you publish serious literature and bring one of the greatest books of all time into the country, what's left? &nbsp;Why, become a regular on a game show, of course!</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a stint on the game show </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who Said That?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Cerf moved to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 1951. &nbsp;All kidding aside, this program was a much more dignified and intelligent game show than many we are used to today, one that called for brains and articulation on the part of its panelists. Cerf joined the likes, not only of Dorothy Kilgallen, but also talk show host and actress <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/arlene-francis">Arlene Francis</a>. &nbsp;Other luminaries who appeared on the show from time to time included psychiatrist Richard Hoffmann, poet Louis Untermeyer, and former New Jersey governor Harold Hoffman. &nbsp;Guessing the "line" of the panelist, through a 20-questions-type format, was considered a display of cunning and intelligence.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cerf would go on to make a few guest appearances on TV shows. &nbsp;He authored the books </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try and Stop Me, Shake Well Before Using, Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles, Bennett Cerf's Bumper Crop, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot;arial&quot;; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and others. &nbsp;He also founded the Famous Writers School, a correspondence course for writers.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/bennett-cerf.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQgTAZWRfNzx5UNFlcYK4EOjadNYZCP94py5iH45-OyELsxLTlAleLKDpnIZPtlwe9uumQcOo0GyjZp0Ddxc22qLeOWN_pw307EsRHyJzuo8ytOhIK7gd5ut_avvm1afi2P0YIB4X9DD6/s72-c/bennett-cerfs-quotes-5.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-244099683438907385</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-05T14:28:45.468-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">John Charles Daly</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">journalist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">newscaster</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">what's my line</category><title>John Charles Daly</title><description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/z/whatsmyline-otrcat.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.otrcat.com/z/whatsmyline-otrcat.com.jpg" height="418" width="640" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On December 7, 1941, John Charles Daly, CBS radio news reporter, interrupted a music program (specifically, a slightly lachrymose piano number) to announce that Japanese forces had attacked a U.S. base at Pearl Harbor. &nbsp;Daly would later break the news of the death of FDR to the nation (April 12, '45).</span></div> <span id="docs-internal-guid-6c0b9135-1c01-b980-ebd0-331fff397fcd"><br /></span> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeB062Jhpyb8HIpzJEYxM-E7-VkyfAZghUdGIC2CdsMudq4gjfbVeUA85XuHvQmGMUhbkySYnGd2T5UOSJpVWKsFgi0b5tHglQSnyylHPup-T-raP_Qvb2I9MzJbOsOQcmPdce1O5TLoy/s1600/220px-John_Daly_1952_It's_News_to_Me%2B(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeB062Jhpyb8HIpzJEYxM-E7-VkyfAZghUdGIC2CdsMudq4gjfbVeUA85XuHvQmGMUhbkySYnGd2T5UOSJpVWKsFgi0b5tHglQSnyylHPup-T-raP_Qvb2I9MzJbOsOQcmPdce1O5TLoy/s1600/220px-John_Daly_1952_It's_News_to_Me%2B(1).JPG" height="400" width="323" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daly was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, a middle child in a family of all boys. &nbsp;However, he grew up in Boston, after his father died.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His broadcasting career began at NBC radio, then took him to WJSV in Washington, DC, where he quickly became the presidential correspondent. &nbsp;</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since Dorothy Kilgallen, our heroine and panelist on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a journalist, it only makes sense that another, more prominent journalist be the show's host. Daly was the host of the serious, slightly-formal game show during its entire television run. &nbsp;He helped set the tone of polite, New York supper-party repartee.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Much of his TV career involved a very odd combination of duties, overseeing </span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the news duties at ABC while hosting game shows at CBS. &nbsp;For his troubles, he won Peabody awards in '54, '56, and '57, an Emmy in '55, and a Golden Globe in 1962.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. Daly died on Feb. 24, 1991, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/john-charles-daly_5.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeB062Jhpyb8HIpzJEYxM-E7-VkyfAZghUdGIC2CdsMudq4gjfbVeUA85XuHvQmGMUhbkySYnGd2T5UOSJpVWKsFgi0b5tHglQSnyylHPup-T-raP_Qvb2I9MzJbOsOQcmPdce1O5TLoy/s72-c/220px-John_Daly_1952_It's_News_to_Me%2B(1).JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>9</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-5451250030180280794</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-16T11:33:18.092-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">1950s pop music</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorothy Kilgallen and Johnnie Ray</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Frank Sinatra</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Johnnie Ray</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">what's my line</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen and Johnnie Ray</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc9ALkDKoofH_pJ_9cpKrmg6Qc6RfqK_wwSWEXyS0nlp1n_Dm04quEj7OvVxQ2QTklK_M3fldvMCo6zkynbIY615RoBqoMuToVbxxAtqwqhRWapcKxydungQ_ChSeNRr02XzgnXn9PgWR/s1600/johnny-ray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc9ALkDKoofH_pJ_9cpKrmg6Qc6RfqK_wwSWEXyS0nlp1n_Dm04quEj7OvVxQ2QTklK_M3fldvMCo6zkynbIY615RoBqoMuToVbxxAtqwqhRWapcKxydungQ_ChSeNRr02XzgnXn9PgWR/s1600/johnny-ray.jpg" height="342" width="400" /></a><div style="line-height: 1.15;"> Johnnie Ray was a hit machine at the dawn of the 50's, in the small expanse between the pop era and the explosion of rock and roll.</div> <br />He appeared as the mystery guest on <a href="http://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallens-radio-appearances.html">What's My Line?</a> and struck up an intense relationship with Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Ray was very openly homosexual, some say that his relationship with Dorothy was a romance. Dorothy's infidelity to her husband Richard was well-known, with an affair with Ron Pataky being common knowledge.<br /><br />One interesting wrinkle in the coalition of Dorothy and Johnnie was that both of them had no love lost for Frank Sinatra. After Dorothy made a critical remark or two about the Chairman of the Board in her column, not only did he start calling her the "chinless wonder," but also began to ridicule her during his nightclub act. Fuel to these flames was her closeness with Johnnie, who had displaced Sinatra on the charts for a few weeks in 1951. <br /><br />Biographers report that Dorothy's 1964 death threw Johnnie into an emotional tailspin. Theirs was a close friendship, with Dorothy providing valuable support to the singer.</div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/dorothy-kilgallen-and-johnnie-ray.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVc9ALkDKoofH_pJ_9cpKrmg6Qc6RfqK_wwSWEXyS0nlp1n_Dm04quEj7OvVxQ2QTklK_M3fldvMCo6zkynbIY615RoBqoMuToVbxxAtqwqhRWapcKxydungQ_ChSeNRr02XzgnXn9PgWR/s72-c/johnny-ray.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>12</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-310195052909424235</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-03-22T13:07:06.215-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">alcohol barbiturate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">conspiracy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">death of dorothy kilgallen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">hairdresser</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jack ruby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lee harvey oswald</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marc sinclaire</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">medical exainer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">vodka tonic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Whats My Line</category><title>The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMYX-JXFPdWTQs5DjSouOio2CuTjYdMoexpJ-joP6XTp8_zOZ3dye2yrih55kE9tvVuAcUjBksxImnBKsnCnOaKhy345VH-u5s99elH8UQqmq_XMilm7FndI5oTL-qzuACT6PfhGPylaO/s1600/whats-my-line.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMYX-JXFPdWTQs5DjSouOio2CuTjYdMoexpJ-joP6XTp8_zOZ3dye2yrih55kE9tvVuAcUjBksxImnBKsnCnOaKhy345VH-u5s99elH8UQqmq_XMilm7FndI5oTL-qzuACT6PfhGPylaO/s1600/whats-my-line.jpg" width="531" /></a></span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marc Sinclaire was not only Dorothy Kilgallen's hairdresser, but also a close friend, a listening ear. &nbsp;On the night of November 7, 1965, he found her, while he styled her hair, in a somber mood. &nbsp;In 2007, he'd tell </span><a href="http://www.midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html" style="line-height: 1.15; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midwest Today</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"she was subdued, but no more than usual," adding she was bushed from a hectic work week. &nbsp;</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy asked Marc if he'd like to get together later in the night, after she'd taped </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In a move that one might consider fateful--or at least regrettable--however mundane it was at the time, Marc declined in favor of catching a movie.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC19TmMiqPB4TjwHfbeplQqudOHjFzQXSrsypWbbIxDxV4WMrYJ-j4yA3iDX0tKlqXZEwLVPQKMZubDLBQschFX_8fDL8dvSNEzEqR4omnId3GEGr5-kbzTgugMT_EsUnKZ2xq4Dq16SuY/s1600/kilgallen-dorothy-desk.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC19TmMiqPB4TjwHfbeplQqudOHjFzQXSrsypWbbIxDxV4WMrYJ-j4yA3iDX0tKlqXZEwLVPQKMZubDLBQschFX_8fDL8dvSNEzEqR4omnId3GEGr5-kbzTgugMT_EsUnKZ2xq4Dq16SuY/s1600/kilgallen-dorothy-desk.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next morning, Kilgallen was found dead--by Sinclaire--in her brownstone, with the cause of death being large doses of alcohol and barbiturate.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Footage of the episode of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WML?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> shows Kilgallen to be roughly herself, if a little staid or glum. &nbsp;She was the one to guess the person's occupation, and came through with a few witticisms. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the show, Dorothy met with her producer Bob Bach for a drink--she ordered a vodka and tonic.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Sinclaire found Dorothy in the morning, she was sitting up in bed, dressed in a peignoir and robe. &nbsp;He went to her and immediately ascertained she was dead.</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzh_dJW3IFKUFOwxYsY5s2MhZhfYgSQTZGjTmxSuPtlG1iUs7OtU6YUpUhZY4ae5wI6dCum3XM16L4a1GSqBcf5IFoW0WIXSWAp1KQ8DH_rAdCpGIuh57qYUzQkf05Fb1ltRPyIGQPbZFT/s1600/marilyn-monroe-doorthy-kilgallen.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzh_dJW3IFKUFOwxYsY5s2MhZhfYgSQTZGjTmxSuPtlG1iUs7OtU6YUpUhZY4ae5wI6dCum3XM16L4a1GSqBcf5IFoW0WIXSWAp1KQ8DH_rAdCpGIuh57qYUzQkf05Fb1ltRPyIGQPbZFT/s1600/marilyn-monroe-doorthy-kilgallen.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The medical examiner declared to be from "acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication, circumstances undetermined."</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thousands of people lined up to view her coffin.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 1970's and 80's, theories were developed that Kilgallen's death was a murder. &nbsp;She had done extensive and controversial reporting and writing about the Kennedy assassination. &nbsp;A bombshell was her claim that she had undisclosed information from an interview with Jack Ruby during his trial for the slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald. &nbsp;That and other controversies in which she was embroiled, became fodder for many rumors and conspiracy theories about a possible murder.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/the-death-of-dorothy-kilgallen.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMYX-JXFPdWTQs5DjSouOio2CuTjYdMoexpJ-joP6XTp8_zOZ3dye2yrih55kE9tvVuAcUjBksxImnBKsnCnOaKhy345VH-u5s99elH8UQqmq_XMilm7FndI5oTL-qzuACT6PfhGPylaO/s72-c/whats-my-line.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>10</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-1260584039786261029</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-03-22T13:07:18.123-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jfk assassination</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">john f kennedy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lee harvey oswald</category><title>Assassination of John F. Kennedy</title><description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5EEHn8y5_miWjfuBS-1DZtORyL36yX6iBicRRO1AHZIAo4IvE_uqhweepVFOdvyLLeGTphOTK3xsw9uOC8VWWbXPyZcRa2fXV71eI6ewCn5pr9YtGksyYtnnqqsEWh48_oO8z1297zRP/s1600/John_F__Kennedy,_35th_US_President-otrcat.com.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5EEHn8y5_miWjfuBS-1DZtORyL36yX6iBicRRO1AHZIAo4IvE_uqhweepVFOdvyLLeGTphOTK3xsw9uOC8VWWbXPyZcRa2fXV71eI6ewCn5pr9YtGksyYtnnqqsEWh48_oO8z1297zRP/s1600/John_F__Kennedy,_35th_US_President-otrcat.com.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">The assassination of the beloved president John F. Kennedy has, of course, had immense effects on American history, as well as on the country at the time of its occurrence. &nbsp;It was the quintessential "I remember where I was when it happened" moment.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But it also played a role in one particular story, that of Dorothy Kilgallen. &nbsp;The assassination was one of the key factors in the development of theories that Kilgallen's death had been a murder.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The assassination took place on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. &nbsp;Lee Harvey Oswald was convicted, while ever since, a debate has raged as to whether or not he acted alone. &nbsp;Kennedy was traveling as part of a motorcade en route from Love Field to the Trade Mart, where he was to have a luncheon with local dignitaries. &nbsp;The assassination was captured by the eerie Zapruder film, which has been viewed millions of times since.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Several entities proceeded to mount protracted investigations into the assassination, and debates about multiple scenarios behind <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/john-f-kennedy-p-1453.html" target="_blank">JFK's death </a>have been a popular pastime since the assassination. &nbsp;While the Warren Commission report concluded that Oswald had acted alone, the House Select Committee on Assassinations said that there was probably a conspiracy of some kind. &nbsp;Just what kind has been widely speculated upon. &nbsp;The CIA, right-wing military-industrial complex parties, &nbsp;anti-Castro Cubans, and the mafia have all been named as possible conspirators.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy Kilgallen claimed to have interviewed Jack Ruby during his trial, but hadn't released the information by the time of her 1965 death. &nbsp;She'd also criticized the Warren Commission report and had been the first to comment on Kennedy's relationship with Marilyn Monroe. &nbsp;Therefore, some parties sought fit to speculate that some of those wanting JFK dead may have wanted her dead for the same reasons.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/assassination-of-john-f-kennedy_5.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI5EEHn8y5_miWjfuBS-1DZtORyL36yX6iBicRRO1AHZIAo4IvE_uqhweepVFOdvyLLeGTphOTK3xsw9uOC8VWWbXPyZcRa2fXV71eI6ewCn5pr9YtGksyYtnnqqsEWh48_oO8z1297zRP/s72-c/John_F__Kennedy,_35th_US_President-otrcat.com.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-1876865393978194399</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2022-03-22T13:08:00.774-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">charles umberger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">David Welsh</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">died 11-08-1965</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dr. james luke</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ehanol barbiturate</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">false eyelashes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">foul play</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jack ruby</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jfk assassination</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">master bedroom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">murder</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ramparts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">robe</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">what's my line</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">William Turner</category><title>Was Dorothy Kilgallen Murdered?</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <div style="line-height: 1.15;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; line-height: 1.15; text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ-roy_qWf9w9Pe3Y8ToN_hfrHpu6eK3XtPFB827nNvFF4CYt3XAxJ0hpyiN71wM1fXoHtWqQRkkpAx8z9qJHY46bBXevU18KwA3tkc_X_DxFYVMficID6JbDpB2lrIsDpdZr-dUzmRWc/s1600/dorothy-kilgallen-tombstone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ-roy_qWf9w9Pe3Y8ToN_hfrHpu6eK3XtPFB827nNvFF4CYt3XAxJ0hpyiN71wM1fXoHtWqQRkkpAx8z9qJHY46bBXevU18KwA3tkc_X_DxFYVMficID6JbDpB2lrIsDpdZr-dUzmRWc/s1600/dorothy-kilgallen-tombstone.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div> <div style="line-height: 1.15;"> <br /></div> <br />Dorothy Kilgallen died on Nov. 8, 1965, several hours after taping an episode of What's My Line? Medical examiner Dr. James Luke established the cause of death as "acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication," but added, "circumstances undetermined." Though her death was sudden and not associated with any illness, the possibility of murder was firmly ruled out.<br /><br />The suspicion that Kilgallen may indeed have been murdered has not been at a fevered pitch; hasn't been constant or consistent; and hasn't unearthed much new information. But there are parties who carry in their hearts the belief that Ms. Kilgallen neither committed suicide nor accidentally overdosed. <br /><br />The conspiracy theories emerged not long after Kilgallen's death. The first known published speculation about a murder came from an article the Nov.1966 issue of Ramparts by David Welsh and William Turner. The article focused on anyone who'd recently died who was in any way connected with the assassination of <a href="https://www.otrcat.com/p/john-f-kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> (Kilgallen's reporting of the event will be discussed below).<br /><br />That article was reprinted in the February 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. Not much happened until 1975, when Dorothy Kilgallen's son Kerry Kollmar began assisting Lee Israel in that author's biography of Kilgallen. Israel was interested in the cause of death, but didn't find or publish any strong evidence. From there, the issue popped up a few times as a tenuous conspiracy theory.</div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Found By Hairdresser</span></div> Much of the existing information concerning the circumstances of Kilgallen's death comes from Marc Sinclaire, Kilgallen's hairdresser and the man who found her body on the morning of her death.<br /><br />Sinclaire styled Dorothy's hair on the evening of Nov. 7, for her appearance on <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/whats-my-line-p-48782.html">What's My Line</a>, finding her to be subdued but not excessively so. He did invite her to join him for a movie afterward but she declined.<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suspicious Details</span></div> Anomalies, out-of-place details, and discrepancies are the life's blood of conspiracy theories. A few of these exist regarding the death of Kilgallen.<br /> <ul> <li>She was found in the master bedroom-- Sinclaire made much of the fact that he found Kilgallen in her master bedroom, strange since she usually slept in a different room, on the fifth floor.&nbsp;</li> <li>She was made up and wearing a robe-- Sinclaire found his client and long-time friend in a strange state. While, like many women, she usually slept in comfortable sleeping attire, she was on this morning wearing a peignoir and robe. Further, she was wearing the false eyelashes she wore on the town, as well as make-up. She was sitting up in bed.&nbsp;</li> <li>An ominous phone call-- A managing editor of two small movie magazines, Mary Brannum, received a call the morning of Kilgallen's death, saying simply that Dorothy Kilgallen had been murdered--the caller then hung up.&nbsp;</li> <li>Slightly strange behavior from the medical examiner-- The medical examiner at the scene was Dr. James Luke. Luke was with her for forty-five minutes, though some reports state an hour and fifteen minutes. He added the word "undetermined" to his conclusion that alcohol and barbiturates were the cause. When asked in what form she'd taken the barbiturates, he answered, "we don't want to give that out because...well, just because." What adds to the slight strangeness on the medical front is that the death certificate was not signed by Luke, but by a Dr. Dominick DiMaio, who would later tell <a href="http://www.midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html">Midwest Today</a> he doesn't believe he signed the certificate and says he was in Brooklyn at the time. Further, Dr. Charles Umberger, toxicology director at the New York City Medical Examiner's office, later said he privately suspected a murder.</li> </ul> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where There's JFK, There's a Conspiracy Theory</span></div> Let's remember that Kilgallen was a far cry from being just a gal about town or a game show panelist. She was a big-time journalist. In fact, she was the first reporter to reveal in print Marilyn Monroe's relationship with the president. 48 hours later, Monroe was dead, and Kilgallen wrote a column asking very pointed questions and charging that there was foul play.<br /><br />But she also covered the <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/john-f-kennedy-p-1453.html">JFK assassination</a>. As an experienced crime reporter, Kilgallen had a mind for asking critical questions about investigations. Thus, she asked, in print some tough questions about the actions of Dallas police officers at Dealey Plaza. She accused chief Jesse Curry of lying to reporters about his initial reactions to the shooting.<br /><br /><div> Some say that information she may have had about the JFK assassination, about which she was very coy, may have posed a threat to those responsible for the president's death. She claimed to have had a meeting with Jack Ruby and wouldn't reveal its content. Further, she criticized the Warren Commission's work, implying she had information, and thus a reason to doubt the commission's findings.<br /><br />Since drugs were involved, the medical investigator's work involved a hiccup or two, and several odd occurrences dotted the circumstances of her death, those pursuing the murder angle have something to chew on, if not much in the way of conclusive proof.</div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/was-dorothy-kilgallen-murdered.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcZ-roy_qWf9w9Pe3Y8ToN_hfrHpu6eK3XtPFB827nNvFF4CYt3XAxJ0hpyiN71wM1fXoHtWqQRkkpAx8z9qJHY46bBXevU18KwA3tkc_X_DxFYVMficID6JbDpB2lrIsDpdZr-dUzmRWc/s72-c/dorothy-kilgallen-tombstone.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-554419106248085114</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2014-12-05T14:26:25.491-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorothy Kilgallen's Funeral</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen's Funeral</title><description><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5JdHwSWnjzWlJC9tPfyRtMKT1nfgJGUE95-hxS4uC5wgtJVPNsHzi5nWqojc8Rjidmlzz1GS1BXxVMN0b62Avh35CRBeCTY_jqzc8ucke9VBR2z6ujXIkki9QBlFfFOcgeuvth4nhG59/s1600/JFKkollmar1+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5JdHwSWnjzWlJC9tPfyRtMKT1nfgJGUE95-hxS4uC5wgtJVPNsHzi5nWqojc8Rjidmlzz1GS1BXxVMN0b62Avh35CRBeCTY_jqzc8ucke9VBR2z6ujXIkki9QBlFfFOcgeuvth4nhG59/s1600/JFKkollmar1+(1).jpg" height="384" width="640" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-0b0d980a-1c04-9f24-c80d-7010f41dd7c1" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorothy Kilgallen died on November 8, 1965, of an overdose of barbiturate and alcohol. &nbsp;The beloved journalist and game show panelist was buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, the cemetery just north of New York City, where Babe Ruth is also buried.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaJv8E9LHdCDkHMdyMVH1PwZnaZWWCIDJDIZUIqMwq5SpDBHEEWcf6_BW_IxftIoyyVcS5abYmjfTGxwZ4BtjaCreTnM4t_rOfQoologXNVz49hNlkSxEfLvM9OgoIYXMS5F9400b9gHv/s1600/mass-held.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; line-height: 18.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaJv8E9LHdCDkHMdyMVH1PwZnaZWWCIDJDIZUIqMwq5SpDBHEEWcf6_BW_IxftIoyyVcS5abYmjfTGxwZ4BtjaCreTnM4t_rOfQoologXNVz49hNlkSxEfLvM9OgoIYXMS5F9400b9gHv/s1600/mass-held.jpg" height="251" width="400" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her funeral drew a tremendous throng of mourners, many among the general public, who lined up to view her casket.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A conspicuous absence was Marc Sinclaire, Dorothy's hairdresser, the man who found her body the morning of the 8th. &nbsp;</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Kilgallen died unexpectedly, and her mother suspected foul play immediately, though the more widespread conspiracy theories were a few years off. &nbsp;According to </span><a href="http://www.midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midwest Today</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Dorothy's mother confronted <a href="http://www.otrcat.com/breakfast-with-dorothy-dick-dorothy-kilgallen-dick-kollmar-p-49170.html" target="_blank">Dick Kollmar</a>, accusing him of killing her daughter.</span></div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few days after the funeral, the next episode of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/quiz/whats-my-line" target="_blank">What's My Line?</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> closed with a reverent goodbye to Dorothy from each panelist in turn.</span></div> </description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2014/12/dorothy-kilgallens-funeral.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5JdHwSWnjzWlJC9tPfyRtMKT1nfgJGUE95-hxS4uC5wgtJVPNsHzi5nWqojc8Rjidmlzz1GS1BXxVMN0b62Avh35CRBeCTY_jqzc8ucke9VBR2z6ujXIkki9QBlFfFOcgeuvth4nhG59/s72-c/JFKkollmar1+(1).jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6097117187108494806.post-2534565203667343782</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2020-01-09T12:56:44.642-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">amobarbital</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Dorothy Kilgallen's Autopsy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pentobarbital</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">secobarbital</category><title>Dorothy Kilgallen's Autopsy</title><description><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1987, the defense team for infamous subway vigilante Bernard Goetz called to the witness stand a medical examiner named Dominick Dimaio. &nbsp;A photo from the trial shows Dimaio to be a thin man with a receding hairline, wearing metal-framed glasses. &nbsp;He wears a look of wary concentration.</span></div> <b id="docs-internal-guid-0193feb9-1c1a-9b7a-5a67-e9e9ce597dc1" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTYHLrPOsdj5LQrsjhahRpfH1jhngb00-ia8N1QIWTqX0mqClPE3SyFqXmfzUCDekOc9cA-eqsRgQUi5-7brlH4zB40_03vIlzphVFITFO0URh1mPbNDyl-HRF_8VPN5sptMBTZ9CWtXO/s1600/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTYHLrPOsdj5LQrsjhahRpfH1jhngb00-ia8N1QIWTqX0mqClPE3SyFqXmfzUCDekOc9cA-eqsRgQUi5-7brlH4zB40_03vIlzphVFITFO0URh1mPbNDyl-HRF_8VPN5sptMBTZ9CWtXO/s1600/download.jpg" height="320" width="277" /></a></div> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twenty-two years earlier, Dr. Dimaio's signature appeared on the death certificate for Dorothy Kilgallen, which would be unremarkable if not for the fact that he insists he did not perform her autopsy. &nbsp;Under the signature is the notation "for Dr. James Luke." &nbsp;When questioned later, Dr. Dimaio says he wasn't working in Manhattan at the time and doesn't understand how his signature came to appear on the certificate.</span></div> <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b> <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Luke did not deny performing the autopsy, and spoke openly about it later. &nbsp;His verdict at the time was "acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication, circumstances undetermined." &nbsp;Kilgallen was determined to have been in fairly good health, with no sign of a <A HREF="https://www.otrcat.com/p/heart-attacks">heart attack</A>, though she did have "minimal coronary arteriosclerosis."</span></div> <br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More detail would come out in 1968, at which time theories that Kilgallen may have been murdered were beginning to circulate. &nbsp;Doctors used remaining tissue samples to ascertain that Kilgallen had in her system three barbiturates: pentobarbital, amobarbital, and secobarbital. &nbsp;The presence of this deadly cocktail made some suspicious--why would she have taken this combination?</span></description><link>https://www.dorothykilgallen.com/2013/10/dorothy-kilgallens-autopsy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTYHLrPOsdj5LQrsjhahRpfH1jhngb00-ia8N1QIWTqX0mqClPE3SyFqXmfzUCDekOc9cA-eqsRgQUi5-7brlH4zB40_03vIlzphVFITFO0URh1mPbNDyl-HRF_8VPN5sptMBTZ9CWtXO/s72-c/download.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item></channel></rss>