Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor, whose comic persona was a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type.
Stang once claimed he got his break in radio by sending a postcard to a New York station requesting an audition, was accepted, and then bought his own ticket to New York from Chelsea, Massachusetts, with the money set aside for his mother's anniversary gift. True or not, Stang worked on New York-based network radio shows as a boy, appearing on children's programs such as The Horn and Hardart Hour and Let's Pretend. By 1940, he had graduated to teenaged roles, appearing on The Goldbergs. Director Don Bernard hired him in October 1941 to do the commercials on the CBS program Meet Mr. Meek but decided his voice cracking between soprano and bass would hurt the commercial so he ordered scriptwriters to come up with a role for him. He next appeared on the summer replacement show The Remarkable Miss Tuttle with Edna May Oliver in 1942 and replaced Eddie Firestone Jr. in the title role of That Brewster Boy when Firestone joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943.
Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger, July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age.
Milton Berlinger was born into a Jewish family in a five-story walkup at 68 W. 118th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. He chose Milton Berle as his professional name when he was 16. His father, Moses Berlinger (1873–1938), was a paint and varnish salesman. His mother, Sarah (Sadie) Glantz Berlinger (1877–1954), eventually became stagestruck and changed her name to Sandra Berle when Milton became famous.
Berle entered show business at the age of five when he won an amateur talent contest. He appeared as a child actor in silent films, beginning with The Perils of Pauline, filmed in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The director told Berle that he would portray a little boy who would be thrown from a moving train. In Milton Berle: An Autobiography, he explained, "I was scared shitless, even when he went on to tell me that Pauline would save my life. Which is exactly what happened, except that at the crucial moment they threw a bundle of rags instead of me from the train. I bet there are a lot of comedians around today who are sorry about that."
Soupy Sales (January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009) was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark.
From 1968 to 1975, he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City.
Sales was born Milton Supman, in Franklinton in Franklin County, North Carolina to Irving and Sadie Supman. His father, a dry goods merchant, had immigrated to America from Hungary in 1894. Sales had two siblings, Leonard Supman (deceased) and Jack Supman (born 1921). His was the only Jewish family in the town; Sales joked that local Ku Klux Klan members bought the sheets used for their robes from his father's store.
Sales got his nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone." Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later shortened to "Soupy." When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name Soupy Hines. After he became established, it was decided that "Hines" was too close to the Heinz soup company, so he chose the Sales, in part after vaudville comedian Chic Sale.
Gary Owens (born May 10, 1936) is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens is equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and is frequently heard in television, radio, and commercials. He's best known as the voice of Space Ghost on Space Ghost. He also played himself in a cameo appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1998. Gary Owens was the voice of Roger Ramjet on The Roger Ramjet Cartoons. He is currently the voice of the over-the-air digital network Antenna TV.
Owens was born Gary Altman in Mitchell, South Dakota, the son of Venetta (née Clark), an educator and county auditor, and Bernard Joseph Altman, a county treasurer and sheriff.
Owens started his radio career at KORN, Mitchell, South Dakota in 1952 where he served as News Director. In 1956, he left KORN for a job at KMA, Shenandoah, Iowa before moving on to KOIL, Omaha, Nebraska. He also worked in Dallas, New Orleans, St. Louis and Denver where he got his first television experience. He made the move to California in 1959 working at KROY in Sacramento, and KEWB in Oakland, finally setting in Los Angeles.
VINTAGE 1956 SKIT - MILTON BERLE & ARNOLD STANG (CHUNKY CANDY COMMERCIALS & T.C. FROM TOP CAT)
What's My Line? - Arnold Stang; Betty White [panel] (Jun 19, 1955)
Rapid T. Rabbit interviews Arnold Stang
What's My Line Arnold Stang 19 June 1955
Uncle Miltie Gets Told Off
Nestlé - Chunky - Stang Get's A Partner - Vintage Commercial - 1955 - 1960
R.I.P. SOUPY SALES & ARNOLD STANG FOR BABY BOOMERS ONLY
Arnold Stang - Where 'Ya Calling From, Charlie?
Arnold Stang on IGaS (11/4/59, 3 of 3)
Arnold Stang on "I've Got a Secret"
Arnold Stang--"Where Ya Callin' From, Charlie?"
Broadside with Arnold Stang "Three Wishes" (1 of 3)
Broadside with Arnold Stang "Three Wishes" (2 of 3)
Broadside with Arnold Stang "Three Wishes" (3 of 3)
VINTAGE 1956 SKIT - MILTON BERLE & ARNOLD STANG (CHUNKY CANDY COMMERCIALS & T.C. FROM TOP CAT)
What's My Line? - Arnold Stang; Betty White [panel] (Jun 19, 1955)
Rapid T. Rabbit interviews Arnold Stang
What's My Line Arnold Stang 19 June 1955
Uncle Miltie Gets Told Off
Nestlé - Chunky - Stang Get's A Partner - Vintage Commercial - 1955 - 1960
R.I.P. SOUPY SALES & ARNOLD STANG FOR BABY BOOMERS ONLY
Arnold Stang - Where 'Ya Calling From, Charlie?
Arnold Stang on IGaS (11/4/59, 3 of 3)
Arnold Stang on "I've Got a Secret"
Arnold Stang--"Where Ya Callin' From, Charlie?"
Broadside with Arnold Stang "Three Wishes" (1 of 3)
Broadside with Arnold Stang "Three Wishes" (2 of 3)
Broadside with Arnold Stang "Three Wishes" (3 of 3)
Arnold Stang - Beezy, The Sneezy Bee
1986 Nerfuls commercial. Featuring the voice work of Arnold Stang.
Arnold Stang - Schloimy, The Subway Train (1950) - Rocking Horse Records
The Name's The Same (1954)--In Memory of Arnold Stang
Nestlé - Chunky - Arnold Stang Get's Rich Quick - Vintage Commercial - 1955 - 1960
1970's Kava Instant Coffee Radio Commercial with Gary Owens & Arnold Stang?
Arnold Stang - Harry The Horse (Parts 1 and 2)
Arnold Stang - The Clock That Went Tock Tick
Arnold Stang - The Hippy Hippo
What's My Line? - Arnold Stang; Betty White [panel] (Jun 19, 1955)
BOB (The Movie Satire That Arnold Schwarzenegger May Not Want You To See)
Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast with Frankie Avalon
The Buick Milton Berle Show - October 1953
"School House" (1949)
The Milton Berle Show - May 1956
Bonanza S03E07 The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch
Marco Polo Junior - Full ORIGINAL Movie
Mathnet | The Case of the Unkidnapping
The Milton Berle Sho - Salute To The Great Outdoors
Peter And The Wolf
9/44: The Magnificent Montague - Montague's Father
6/44: The Magnificent Montague - $1000 Prize
1/44: The Magnificent Montague - Starring Role In Radio
The Magnificent Montague - To Shave Or Not To Shave
5/44: The Magnificent Montague Agnes Quits
3/44: Magnificent Montague - To Play Romeo
7/44: The Magnificent Montague - A Child Visits
2/44: The Magnificent Montague - Aunt Agatha
Emergency Operating Centers: The Basic Concepts
CBSRMT ~ The Public Avenger 376
Arnold Stang - The Elephant Who Forgot.
1970s CREST ANIMATED TOOTHPASTE COMMERCIAL ARNOLD STANG
Arnold Stang - Harry The Horse.wmv
Nestlé - Chunky - Shorty's Candy Craving - Vintage Commercial - 1955 - 1960
Pick an Arnold: Stang or Schwarzenegger
the Lil and Arnold Stang
Top Cat And The Beverly Hills Cats (Preview Clip)
KICKIN IT "THE STANG"
Esther Williams with Milton Berle (1956)
Arnold Schwarzenegger Vintage interview 1999 part 1 of 4