300 August 27, 1958
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Betsy
Terri Rhiner from Winter Park, Florida: "I can swim"
Little Terri is nineteen months old. The show set up a small pool in the orchestra pit to demonstrate her talent, but under pressure and in unfamiliar surroundings, the tyke refused to get in the water despite her father standing in the pool and coaxing her. A clip of the incident is featured on the ninth anniversary program (
E438
).
Special Guest Marie Wilson
Wilson is an actress whose best known role -- by far -- was as the scatterbrained main character in My Friend Irma, a role she played on the radio (1947-1954), on television (1952-1954) and in two feature films (1949, 1950). The first film was also the screen debut of the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The duo proved so popular that they became the primary focus of the 1950 sequel. Irma even inspired a comic book that ran from 1950 until 1955. Many of Irma's silly comic book adventures were written by Stan Lee, years before he co-created (with various artist colleagues) most of the enduring superheroes of the Marvel universe.
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