BLOSSOM DEARIE -- JAZZ PIANIST, JAZZ SINGER, CABARET PERFORMER *** 1924 was a good year. I bet most of you are way too young to remember either. In and out of mental institutions during his last two decades; his final film, Cobweb (1955), directed by Vincente Minnelli , starring Richard Widmark , Lauren Bacall , and Gloria Grahame , is ironically set in a sanitarium.

In January 1964 on his show The Jack Paar Program, ... American poet and satirist Dorothy Parker, who was known for her wit and wisecracks, and was a charter member of famed Algonquin Round Table, dies of a heart attack at age seventy-three. These guests ran the gamut from those who’d been part of the Algonquin literary crowd to such upcoming … She regularly appeared on the most prominent of television and radio shows, and headlined prestigious venues such as: The Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles; The Sands in Las Vegas; and The Copacabana, The Persian Room, The Blue Angel and The Algonquin in New York City. ... For me, it was a little like being an onlooker at the old Algonquin Round Table. Paar, in later years, would sign off by saying: Good night, Oscar Levant, wherever you are. IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Late-Night TV Icon Jack Paar Dies. In her will, she bequeaths her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. foundation. Jack Paar died in January (nt) Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top .

It was the year-of-birth of two icons in the tradition of jazz piano players and singers. Find exactly what you're looking for! Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Marc Connelly, Writer: I Married a Witch. With a warm, unaffected vocal tone sometimes reminiscent of Doris Day, singer Betty Johnson got her start with the Johnson Family Singers, a gospel group lasting from the late '30s through the '40s. Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, is best known as being one of the leading wits of the Algonquin Round Table and for being a collaborator with George S. Kaufman, with whom he wrote many plays, including Merton of the Movies (1947).

In the '50s, she had a string of solo hits beginning with 1954's "I Want Eddie Fisher for Christmas," though 1956's "I Dreamed" proved to be her biggest chart success. Downs was a host of the "Today" show on NBC, worked on the "Tonight" show when Jack Paar was in charge, and hosted the long-running game show "Concentration."