Garry mentions at the start that Kitty
Carlisle’s husband Moss Hart has a new play, Climate of Eden, opening on Broadway that very night. The play was not successful, closing after
only twenty performances.
Charles Collins of NYC: “I am the father of
quadruplets”
Wacky childbirth. In the era before fertility drugs, multiple
births were much rarer than they are today.
On May 4, 1949, Ethel Collins went into delivery expecting three babies,
and ended up with four. They were the
first set of surviving quadruplets in New York City. The resulting media attention turned the
family into minor celebrities, and a generous public fascinated by the story
donated food, cribs, diapers and even a new home to the greatly expanded
family.
Mr. X: “I sat on and hatched an ostrich egg”
Jim Moran was a publicist whose
attention-grabbing stunts were well known even though his face was unfamiliar
to the panel, much less the general public.
The ostrich egg stunt was to publicize the 1947 film The Egg And I. Moran liked to poke at popular idioms for
some of his stunts. He sold a
refrigerator to an Eskimo, walked a bull through a New York City china shop,
spent ten days looking for a needle in a haystack, and, during the 1944
presidential campaign, in the middle of a Nevada river, he changed horses in
midstream.
Special Guest Barry Fitzgerald: “Pretty girls
make me nervous”
Barry Fitzgerald was an Irish stage
and film actor with several notable motion pictures to his credit, including The Quiet Man, Bringing Up Baby and How
Green Was My Valley. For Going My Way,
he was nominated for an Oscar for BOTH Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor,
winning the latter prize. The Academy
rules were later changed, so he remains the only actor with that distinction.
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