Happy birthday to 1917: Dinah Shore, remembered for songs such as "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", and her talk shows which made her the heart-throb for many years, although she's now forgotten, and those few who remember her remember that she was a southern accented brunette bleached blonde Jew. She was born as Frances Rose Shore in Winchester but raised in the singing capital of Nashville, both in the state of Tennessee. Although people she knew called her by her nickname -- Fanny -- when she began singing at a local night club at age 14 in 1931, by the time she began going to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, she had her own radio show titled "Our Little Cheerleader of Song", at the local radio station WSM-AM (It's a kinky name, since the first 'W' stands for "World", but it is the home of the Grand Ole Opry.) and used the song that Ethel Waters sang as her own stage name and radio show theme song, "Dinah". Since tape recorders weren't perfected in US at this time, she had her own small orchestra headed by Beasley Smith. Once she graduated with a degree in sociology in 1938, she went to New York City, where she was a starving artist for the first six months until January 1939, when she sang once for Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Strand Theater. Given one break, she sang for a short time with Peter Dean's orchestra before she sang with the Xavier Cugat Band, where her debut song was "The Breeze and I". Although they were brief jobs, at least she could eat, and it also gave her radio singing jobs. By that summer, RCA (Radio Corporation of America) Victor also offered her a contract. By 1940, NBC (National Broadcasting Company) hired her for a two months contract for The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street radio program which was a big success, that led Eddie Cantor to hire her for his radio show in 1941, which also led General Foods to sponser her radio program by 1943. (She also married George Montgomery from 1943 till their divorce in 1962, and a brief marriage to Maurice Fabian Smith from 1963 to 1964.) Getting regular exposure made her popular enough to get her own radio show, which also made 70 hit songs that earned her nine gold records such as Dear Hearts, "Blues in the Night", and "It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House", as well as a movie-making contract with Warner Brothers. Her movies didn't become hits (But she appeared in some noteable movies such as John Denver starring "Oh God" [1977] where she appeared as herself, and George Burns was God.), but television was grabbing the audience, so she moved to television, starting in 1950 when she appeared in Bob Hope's first NBC television special. In 1951, NBC then gave her her own 15 minutes long (7:30 PM - 7:45 PM, Eastern Time) twice-a-week (Tuesday and Thursday) "The Dinah Shore Show" till 1956. She entertained without saying or doing anything controversial like Howard Stern and the rest of the current host/hostess gang, which was regarded as appropriate during that era when Communists were presumed to be everywhere. Then it became the one hour long Sunday night variety "Dina Shore Chevy Show" till 1963. (That's not "Chevy" as in the actor Chevy Chase, but the abbreviation for the Chevrolet car made by General Motors that sponsered her show. The show never won the rating game against CBS' General Electric Theater that Ronald Reagan hosted.) From 1970 to 1974, it became the 30 minutes long "Dinah's Place", and then from 1974 to 1979, it was the 90 minutes long syndicated "Dinah!" (Or were the last two titles reversed?). In the 1970's also, she was remembered as Bert Reynolds' older girlfriend. Like Lucille Ball's persistent shows that kept airing under varying circumstances, she also did "Dinah and Her New Best Friends" in 1976, then "Dinah and Friends" from 1979 to 1984, before also doing "A Conversation with Dinah" from 1989 to 1991. After that, her cancer made her too weak to continue, and she died on February 24, 1994 in Beverly Hills, California.
Happy birthday to 1936: Burt Reynolds, born in Waycross Georgia, movie star. He grew up in West Palm Beach where his half Cherokee father, Burton Leon Reynolds Senior, was a policeman. By the time he went to the Florida State University in Tallahassee, he was a halfback and was drafted by the Baltimore Colts professional football team, but a knee injury in 1955 ended his sport career, so he tried acting, just like Dean Cairn (aka Dean Tanaka, aka Superman). After playing a blacksmith in "Gunsmoke" (1955), and by 1956, his own show, "Hawk". He went on to do movies such as, "Riverboat" (1959), "Angel Baby" (1961), "Armored Command" (1961), "Operation C.I.A." (1965) as well as more well-known movies such as "Deliverance" (1972) and "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" (1972), "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977), "The Cannonball Run" (1981), "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (1982) and "Striptease" (1996). But as far as audacity was concerned, that began when he married "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"'s Judy Carne in 1963, the "sock it to me" character, who was socked and punched and beaten really bad until she called it quits by divorcing him in 1965. (That's nothing like Dean.) He next had a relationship with Inger Stevens, who was born Inger Stensland in Stockholm, Sweden on October 18, 1934 and then went to US at age 13 after her parents divorced. She ended up in burlesque and making movies. While she was often depressed and tried to kill herself, she was jovial about a new job on April 29, 1970 when she cooked dinner at home for Burt. The next day, she was found dead. Her carpet in the bedroom was pulled back for some reason, there wer abrasion marks on her arm and an autopsy showed that she took some asthma pills even though she was not asthmatic. She also had over 20 tranquilizers and a huge amount of alcohol in her blood, but Burt was never charged with anything despite the suspicious nature of her death. The next audacious case came about when he posed in the nude in 1972 for the Cosmopolitan magazine for women, not to mention his girlfriend, Dinah Shore, who was 19 years older than him at the time and hence old enough to be his mother. There were rumors that he had AIDS, but then so many Hollywood stars seem to be gay or lesbians and dying left and right from AIDS that that counts as more the norm than unusual. In comparison, his April 29, 1988 marriage to Loni Anderson was mild, although his divorce from Loni in in June 1993 was met by strong disapproval by the public and hence the lack of job made him declare bankruptcy in 1996 with a debt of $10 million, with the sale of his dinner theater and ranch. Movies that he made since then have not kept pace with his spending patterns so that he is now a dwindling star, at least until something else comes up.
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