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Born in Burbank, California, USA on October 18, 1960, Erin Moran was the youngest daughter of Sharon and Edward Moran, who have five other children. She attended Walter Reed Junior High School for one year and North Hollywood High School for another year. Her first professional acting job was in a TV commercial. She played Richie Cunningham's baby sister, Joanie Cunningham, on ABC's Happy Days (1974); however, this was not Erin's first major TV series. She was a regular on the series, Daktari (1966). She has also made guest appearances on TV series such as The Waltons (1972), Family Affair (1966), My Three Sons (1960), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969), Gunsmoke (1955), The Smith Family (1971), and The F.B.I. (1965).
Erin Moran has worked on feature films with Debbie Reynolds in How Sweet It Is! (1968), with Godfrey Cambridge in Watermelon Man (1970), and with Wayne Newton in 80 Steps to Jonah (1969).
Like many other child actors, Erin had difficulty finding roles as an adult. Following the cancellation of Happy Days (1974) in 1984, she made occasional guest appearances on scripted and reality shows. She eventually moved away from Hollywood after her home was foreclosed on.
On April 22, 2017, she died in Corydon, Indiana, where she had been living with her husband of 23 years; she was 56 years old.- Actress
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Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a seven-year contract with Paramount. In 1943, she was wrongfully declared mentally incompetent and committed by her parents to a series of asylums and public mental hospitals, leading to a false rumor that she received a lobotomy. After seven years she was released, and spent some of the remaining years of her life tending the parents who had committed her and taking odd jobs. She appeared on This Is Your Life (1950), and then her own TV show, Frances Farmer Presents (1958) for six years. She died of cancer in 1970.- Actor
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Ken Kercheval was born on 15 July 1935 in Wolcottville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Dallas (1978), Network (1976) and The Secret Storm (1954). He was married to Cheryl Paris, Ava Ruth Fox and Judith Peters Launt. He died on 21 April 2019 in Clinton, Indiana USA.- Brunette French actress of Russian or Polish ancestry. A former model, she got her big break in films courtesy of an affair with the notorious womanizing mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast her as a member of the French Resistance in The Longest Day (1962). She played seven roles of diverse ethnicity in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965), but thereafter pretty much faded from the scene.
- Thomas Hill was born on 2 June 1927 in Landour, Mussoorie, India. He was an actor, known for The NeverEnding Story (1984), The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) and Firefox (1982). He died on 20 April 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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David Emge was born in 1946 in Evansville, Indiana. Emge studied drama at the University of Evansville and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While attending college David got drafted and served in the army during the Vietnam war. He began his acting career on stage at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 1971. Emge made his film debut in the lowbrow comedy "The Booby Hatch." In addition, he briefly lived in Washington, D.C., where he performed in dinner theater. Emge moved to New York City in 1976. David was working as a chef at a New York City restaurant when he was cast as the meek and bumbling helicopter pilot Stephen in George Romero's outstanding "Dawn of the Dead." Emge went back to acting in live theater following his "Dawn of the Dead" stint. David Emge has acted in only two other movies to date: he's grotesquely malformed freak Half Moon in "Basket Case 2" and activist reporter Robert in "Hellmaster."- Actress
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Dorothy Tristan was born on 9 May 1934 in Yorkville Heights, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Klute (1971), The Looking Glass (2015) and Scarecrow (1973). She was married to John D. Hancock and Aram Avakian. She died on 7 January 2023 in LaPorte, Indiana, USA.- Irene Vernon was born on 16 January 1922 in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Bewitched (1964), Fireside Theatre (1949) and The Sound of Fury (1950). She was married to Emmanuel Rosenberg. She died on 21 April 1998 in South Bend, Indiana, USA.
- Robert Swan was born on 20 October 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Natural Born Killers (1994), The Untouchables (1987) and Hoosiers (1986). He was married to Barbara. He died on 9 August 2023 in Rolling Prairie, Indiana, USA.
- Tiffany Leigh Smith was born on 31 October 1979 in Greenfield, Indiana, USA. Tiffany Leigh died on 2 January 1987 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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Mark Dodson was born on 1 February 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). He was married to Teresa Kay Willey and Tanya Lee Christopherson. He died on 2 March 2024 in Evansville, Indiana, USA.- Actor
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Giorgio Tozzi was born on 8 January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1971), South Pacific (1958) and Amahl and the Night Visitors (1978). He was married to Monte Amundsen and Catherine Dieringer. He died on 30 May 2011 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.- Actor
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Otis Harlan was born on 29 December 1865 in Zanesville, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Show Boat (1929), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and Nine and Three-Fifths Seconds (1925). He was married to Nellie Harvey. He died on 21 January 1940 in Martinsville, Indiana, USA.- Actor
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Peter Spellos was born on 1 March 1954 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for City of Angels (1998), Men in Black II (2002) and Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). He was married to Linda Hautala. He died on 19 November 2023 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.- The son of the governor of Indiana, Lew Wallace lived in Indianapolis as a young boy. He served in the Mexican War, and afterwards became a lawyer and was elected to the state Senate. He served again in the Union army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major general. He was noted for repulsing an attempted raid by Confederate Gen. Jubal Early on Washington, DC, in 1864. After the Civil War, Wallace was appointed governor of New Mexico Territory and later minister to Turkey. He was a prolific author, although he is most famous for "Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ", which was turned into a play that was produced on Broadway and later filmed several times, the most famous one being Ben-Hur (1959).
- Tony Spilotro was born on 19 May 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Nancy Stuart. He died on 14 June 1986 in Indiana, USA.
- Sylvia Likens was born on 3 January 1949 in Lebanon, Indiana, USA. She died on 26 October 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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Tex Terry was born on 22 August 1902 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Death Valley Days (1952), Sweethearts on Parade (1953) and Rough Riders of Cheyenne (1945). He was married to Isabel Draesemer and Dorothy Peters. He died on 18 May 1985 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.- Ryan White was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1971. A hemophiliac, Ryan regularly needed injections of blood products to survive. In 1985 at the age of 13, it was discovered that Ryan contracted the AIDS virus, sometime during the previous year, from tainted blood. His case got national attention when his school expelled him when they learned about his disease. Not wanting to lie down and die that easily, Ryan and his parents took the school to court, where they won the right for him to return to class. As a result of Ryan's courage and outspokenness to take on his own school board, be became one of the USA's most visible spokesperson on the AIDS crisis. During 1985-1989, he appeared at schools and AIDS fundraisers throughout the country and gave moving testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS. He was befriended by many celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Elton John, Phil Donahue and Elizabeth Taylor, AIDS activists themselves. Despite overwhelming international attention, Ryan never lost his sense of priorities with his schoolwork or life in general. AIDS finally claimed Ryan's life on April 8, 1990 at the age of 18.
- Kent Poole was born on 9 December 1963 in Lebanon, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Hoosiers (1986) and Fresh Horses (1988). He was married to Judi Johnson. He died on 11 September 2003 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA.
- Carl Erskine was born on 13 December 1926 in Anderson, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Geisha Boy (1958), Hoosier Legends (2013) and 1949 World Series (1949). He was married to Betty. He died on 16 April 2024 in Anderson, Indiana, USA.
- Gloria Dorson was born on 25 May 1931 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Total Recall (1990), Hoosiers (1986) and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997). She was married to Richard M. Dorson. She died on 19 January 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Anna Mitchell-Hedges was born on 1 January 1907 in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. She died on 11 April 2007 in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA.
- William Dudley Pelley was born on 12 March 1890 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Come Across (1929), One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day (1919) and As a Man Lives (1923). He was married to Helen Hansmann and Marian Stone. He died on 30 June 1965 in Noblesville, Indiana, USA.
- Timothy McVeigh was born on 23 April 1968 in Lockport, New York, USA. He died on 11 June 2001 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
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Jack Rooney was born in Hammond, Indiana. The son of an Indiana Ironworker, Jack grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana, and after completing military service in the US Army, Jack returned to Terre Haute and attended Indiana State University, majoring in Philosophy and English. In 1976 Jack entered Graduate School at Northern Arizona University, majoring in English/Creative writing and American Literature. After completing Graduate studies, Jack returned to Indiana to begin his present career in filmmaking. To date, Jack has worked on and appeared in more than twenty feature films, at first as a crewmember and bit part player in large productions, such as, "Natural Born Killers", "The Negotiator", "I Love Trouble", "Blue Chips", "Rudy", and the highly rated television series, "The Untouchables". Armed with this extensive educational background and work experience, Jack quickly moved up the ladder of showbusiness to Writer/Director/Actor, and has starred in and directed a number of feature motion pictures, including "Deadly Discovery", "Our Burden Is Light", and the classic film, "Pushed Too Far" starring the late Claude Akins. Jack presently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.- Music Artist
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Cannonball Adderley was born on 15 September 1928 in Tampa, Florida, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Mindhunters (2004) and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). He was married to Olga James. He died on 8 August 1975 in Gary, Indiana, USA.- Bobby Knight was born in Massillon, Ohio, and grew up in Orrville, Ohio. He began playing organized basketball at Orrville High School. Knight continued at Ohio State in 1958 when he played for Basketball Hall of Fame coach Fred Taylor. Despite being a star player in high school, he played a reserve role as a forward on the 1960 Ohio State Buckeyes team that won the NCAA Championship and featured players John Havlicek and Jerry Lucas. After completion of graduation from Ohio State University in 1962, he coached junior varsity basketball at Cuyahoga Falls High School in Ohio for one year. Knight then enlisted in the United States Army and accepted an assistant coaching position. In six seasons at West Point, Knight won 102 games, with his first as a head coach coming against Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
In 1979 Knight guided the United States Pan American team to a gold medal in Puerto Rico. In 1984 Knight led the U.S. national team to a gold medal in the Olympic Games as coach of the 1984 basketball team. - Curley Myers was born on 1 April 1920 in Boone County, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Three Stooges Show (1960) and Harlow Hickenlooper (2010). He was married to Anne Gordon and Algilee Wright. He died on 19 May 2013 in Mulberry, Indiana, USA.
- Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. was born on 30 June 1951 in Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA. He died on 26 June 2019 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, USA.
- Lynn Fields was born on 18 July 1944 in Walterboro, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Annette (1958), Angel in My Pocket (1969) and Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969). She died on 17 November 2012 in Richmond, Indiana, USA.
- Ryan Rex was born on 5 July 1992 in Independence, Ohio. He was an actor, known for Bonnie & Clyde: Justified (2013), Underdogs (2013) and Speechless (2013). He died on 11 April 2014 in North Vernon, Indiana, USA.
- Maurice Leon Havis was born on 6 July 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Cooley High (1975). He died on 1 January 2017 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA.
- Sandra Elaine Allen was born on 18 June 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Casanova (1976), Side Show (1981) and Being Different (1981). She died on 13 August 2008 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA.
- Wally Bruner was born on 4 March 1931 in Ames, Iowa, USA. He was a producer, known for Wally's Workshop (1972), What's My Line? (1968) and He Said, She Said (1969). He was married to Natalie Bruner and Patricia Ray Thomas. He died on 3 November 1997 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright George Ade was first and foremost a self described Hoosier. Ade was born in Kentland, Indiana, one of seven children raised by John and Adaline Ade. While attending Purdue University, he met and started a lifelong friendship with cartoonist and Sigma Chi brother John T. McCutcheon and worked as a reporter for the Lafayette Call. In 1890, Ade was hired on by the Chicago Morning News (later known as the Chicago Record), where McCutcheon was working. He wrote the column, Stories of the Streets and of the Town. In the column, which McCutcheon illustrated, Ade illustrated Chicago-life. It featured characters like Artie, an office boy, Doc Horne, a gentlemanly liar, and Pink Marsh, a black shoeshine boy. Ade's well-known "Fables in Slang" was introduced in the popular column.
Ade's literary reputation rests upon his achievements as a great humorist of American character during an important era in American history. The 1890's marked the first large migration from the countryside to burgeoning cities like Chicago, where, in fact, Ade produced his best fiction. He was a practicing realist during the Age of (William Dean) Howells and a local colorist of Chicago and the Midwest. His work constitutes a vast comedy of Midwestern manners and, indeed, a comedy of late 19th century American manners.
Ade's fiction dealt consistently with the "little man," the common, undistinguished, average American, usually a farmer or lower middle class citizen (he sometimes skewered women too, especially women with laughable social pretensions).
Ade's followed in the footsteps of his idol Mark Twain by making expert use of the American language. In his unique "Fables in Slang," (1899) which purveyed not so much slang as the American colloquial vernacular, Ade pursued an effectively genial satire notable for its scrupulous objectivity. Ade's regular practice in the best fables is to present a little drama incorporating concrete, specific evidence with which he implicitly indicts the object of his satire-- always a type (e.g., the social climber). The fable's actual moral is nearly always implicit, though he liked to tack on a mock, often ironic moral (e.g., "Industry and perseverance bring a sure reward").
As a moralist who does not overtly moralize, who is all too aware of the ironies of what in his day was the modern world, George Ade was perhaps our first modern American humorist, paving the way for people such as Will Rogers to follow. The United States, in Ade's lifetime, underwent a great population shift and transfer from an agricultural to an industrial economy. Many felt the nation suffered the even more agonizing process of shifting values toward philistinism, greed, and dishonesty. Ade's prevalent practice is to record the pragmatic efforts of the little man to get along in such a world.
Ade was a playwright (see "Other Works") as well as an author, penning such stage works as Artie, The Sultan of Sulu (a musical comedy), The College Widow, The Fair Co-ed, and "The County Chairman." He wrote the first American play about football.
After twelve years in Chicago, he built a home near the town of Brook, Indiana (Newton County). It soon became known for hosting a campaign stop in 1908 by William Howard Taft, a rally for Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party in 1912, and a homecoming for returning soldiers and sailors in 1919.
George Ade is one of the American writers whose publications made him rich. When land values were inflated about the time of World War I, Ade was a millionaire. The Ross-Ade football stadium at Purdue University was built with his (and David E. Ross's) financial support. He also generously supported his college fraternity, Sigma Chi, leading a fund-raising campaign to endow the Sigma Chi mother house at the site of the fraternity's original establishment at Miami University. Ade is also famous among Sigma Chis as the author of The Sigma Chi Creed, written in 1929, one of the central documents of the fraternity's philosophies.
While Ade's writings fell out of public favor as America struggled through the Great Depression and the onslaught of World War II, his legacy lives on. Ade populated his writings with comedic characters lifted from the streets and front porches of small Midwestern towns and peppered the language with witty slang; characters and situations that can still be found in movies and television sitcoms. Ade's comedic style is just as popular today as it was when he introduced it over a hundred years ago. While Ade was never considered a high-brow literary writer or a fashionably caustic social critic, he succeeded in what he had set out to do, he made America laugh.- Actor
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Gale Sayers was born on 30 May 1943 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Brian's Song (1971), Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie (2005) and Reggie's Prayer (1996). He was married to Ardythe Elaine Bullard and Linda Lou McNeil. He died on 23 September 2020 in Wakarusa, Indiana, USA.- Michael Peter Spilotro was born in Chicago on September 12, 1944 to parents Pasquale and Antoinette. He had five brothers, Vincent, Victor, Pasquale Jr, Tony, and John. Michael was the youngest of the six sons. His father owned a restaurant in Chicago where all the brothers were required to help out. However, most of the brothers preferred to hang with the wrong crowd, the petty thieves and hoodlums. In the following years Michael's brother Tony became involved in gambling, collecting and other criminal activity with people affiliated with organized crime. In later years his brother Tony became a "made" member of the Chicago La Cosa Nostra otherwise known as The Outfit and was sent to Las Vegas to oversee and control the mobs business there within the casinos. Michael was brought into the mob's activities by his brother as well as activities of Tony's that were forbidden by the Chicago Outfit. On June 13, 1986, Tony was called back to Chicago from Las Vegas to attend a "meeting" with some of the top brass of the mob. Michael who shuttled to and from Las Vegas but kept his main residence in Chicago, was also required to attend this supposed meeting.
On June 14, 1986, Michael and his brother Tony met with some of their people and were driven to what they originally thought was another members home in Indiana but instead were driven to an Indiana cornfield and beaten to a pulp with "bats, fists and feet" as the news reports stated when their bodies were found on June 23, 1986 in a shallow grave in the cornfield.
Michael had been introduced to acting by his friend Robert Conrad whom he had met while managing a bar on the West side of Chicago. The movie Casino is the true story, with the real names changed, of his brother Tonys (portrayed by Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro) and everyone around him including Michael (portrayed by Philip Suriano as Dominick Santoro) and basically the entire Chicago Outfits rise and fall from power and control in Las Vegas. The final scene is a reenactment of the two brothers' final moments here on earth. - Composer
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J.J. Johnson was born on 22 January 1924 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a composer, known for Shaft (1971), Sea of Love (1989) and Cleopatra Jones (1973). He was married to Carolyn and Vivian. He died on 4 February 2001 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.- Booth Tarkington was born on 29 July 1869 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Presenting Lily Mars (1943) and Cameo Kirby (1914). He was married to Laurel Louise Fletcher and Susanah Robinson. He died on 19 May 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
- Dottie Collins was born on 23 September 1923 in Inglewood, California, USA. She was married to Harvey Collins. She died on 12 August 2008 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
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Melvin Simon started his career as one of the head executives at Columbia Pictures. In 1967 he founded a joint venture and independent motion picture and television company, AVCO Embassy Pictures, as a sister company to Columbia. Simon was the head executive producer and president for AVCO Embassy and produced a number of films through the 1970s and 1980s. Upon the collapse of AVCO Embassy in 1982, Simon sold it to television producer Norman Lear and Lear changed the name to Embassy Entertainment. Simon now works as one of the head associates for Columbia Pictures.- Matthew Gerdisch was born on 19 May 1999 in Zionsville, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Platoon of Power Squadron (2009), Crazy Horace (2013) and The Poker House (2008). He died on 14 December 2019 in Zionsville, Indiana, USA.
- Charles Einstein was born on 2 August 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for While the City Sleeps (1956), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Lou Grant (1977). He was married to Corrine McMillan Pendlebury. He died on 7 March 2007 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA.
- John Philliber was born on 6 July 1873 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Double Indemnity (1944), It Happened Tomorrow (1944) and A Lady Takes a Chance (1943). He was married to Fredalena Kline. He died on 6 November 1944 in Elkhart, Indiana, USA.
- Virginia Bradford was born on 7 November 1899 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Atta Boy (1926), Chicago (1927) and Two Lovers (1928). She was married to Thomas Prentice, Cedric Belfrage, Joseph Petrie Lyons and Frederick Minter. She died on 30 October 1995 in Indiana, USA.
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Bobby Helms was born on 15 August 1933 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Logan (2017), Vanilla Sky (2001) and Lethal Weapon (1987). He was married to Rita Jane Long, Doris Ann Young and Esther Jeanette Hendrickson. He died on 19 June 1997 in Martinsville, Indiana, USA.- Music Artist
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Wes Montgomery was born on 6 March 1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a music artist, known for Anything Else (2003), Husbands and Wives (1992) and Black Mass (2015). He was married to Serene. He died on 15 June 1968 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.- Hank Hankinson was born on 4 October 1909 in Lancaster, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Kid Galahad (1937). He died on 27 December 1943 in Muncie, Indiana, USA.
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Red Foley made his professional debut as a singer in Chicago. He was later discovered by a talent scout at Kentucky's Georgetown College. His mother and father operated a little store at the crossroads in Blue Lick, Kentucky. His father took an old guitar as part payment on an account and gave it to Red. By the time he was seven he was playing with the best of them. Later his family moved Berea, Kentucky while Red continued his "musical education'. In high school he played basketball and ran track. At this time he entered an Atwater-Kent amateur contest and reached the state finals in Louisville. Red was on his way. In the 1930's Red shared the stage on "National Barndance", with Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and a pint-size yodeling cowboy named George Goebel. He left there in 1937 and moved to Cincinnati, and joined the cast of a cross-the-board network show on which he starred with Red Skelton and singer Jeannette Davis. Red signed with Decca records in 1939 and had only ordinary success for several years. Red thought he needed greater exposure and in 1944, he headline R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Saturday night portion n Nashville "Grand Ole Opry. " From that time he was one of America's best loved country singers. Some of his all-time great hits included "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy", "Peace In The Valley", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee", and "Steal Away". After the death of his first wife, Eva, in 1952, he departed the "Grand Ole Opry", to care for his remaining three unmarried daughters. He remained in virtual retirement until 1954 when Razorback Productions of Springfield, Mo., then the nation's largest producers of country music shows, persuaded Red to star in a new quarter hour series. Sparking Red's interest, he wanted to produce an "Opry" type show. The result was "The Ozark Jubilee", which opened in Springfield's Jewell Theater on July 17, 1954. Only three weeks after the show debuted, the ABC radio network began carrying a 25 minute portion every Saturday night. It's immediate popularity led to the new ABC TV show "Ozark Jubilee". Red remarried to Sally Sweet and made his home in Springfield, Mo. Red sang in the Inaugural Ball for President Truman in 1949 and also in a federal court(as a witness to the ownership rights to "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy".