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(Even though comics such as Red Skelton and W.C. Fields regularly portrayed irresponsible drinkers, they weren't supposed to portray irresponsible smokers.)
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Getty Images The cast of 'The Brady Bunch' in the family living room around 1970 Mr. Schwartz was a veteran comedy writer who had already spent decades with Bob Hope and Red Skelton when, in 1963, he pitched CBS Chairman William Paley on the idea for a show about life after a shipwreck: A pleasure boat with five passengers and a two-man crew is grounded on an uncharted island.
Six Kids, Seven Castaways and Millions of TV Fans Stephen Miller 2011
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Betty Garrett, a comic actress who played the man-hungry love interest of Frank Sinatra and Red Skelton in movie musicals of the late 1940s and decades later had recurring roles in the TV sitcoms "All in the Family" and "Laverne & Shirley," died Feb. 12 of an aortic aneurysm at a Los Angeles hospital.
Comedienne Betty Garrett, '40s co-star of Frank Sinatra, dies at 91 Emma Brown 2011
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As the great comedian Red Skelton used to say, "May God bless."
Pat Gallagher: Boomer on Board: May-December Marriages Pat Gallagher 2012
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As the great comedian Red Skelton used to say, "May God bless."
Pat Gallagher: Boomer on Board: May-December Marriages Pat Gallagher 2012
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UPDATE: Just think how convenient it would have been for comics in TV days gone by -- comics like the great Jackie Gleason, and Red Skelton, and even Johnny Carson -- if when one of their gags curled up an died, could have simply tweeted to viewers who did not appreciate their art: "Smile or 'Go ****a duck'."
'American Idol': Season 10, episode 5 (Austin auditions) UPDATED Lisa de Moraes 2011
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In other films, she shared billing with white entertainers such as Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, Mickey Rooney and Red Skelton but was segregated onscreen so producers could clip out her singing when the movies ran in the South.
Lena Horne dies at 92; dynamic singer and activist broke barriers in Hollywood 2010
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"I was late for the Emmy's last year and Red Skelton gave away my seat," a story Lane finally finds noteworthy.
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It's amazing that most of the actors - and Rod Serling - agreed to play themselves because nobody really comes off looking good... except maybe Red Skelton.
THE 2009 TOOBITS AWARDS (PART SEVEN) Toby O'B 2010
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"I was late for the Emmy's last year and Red Skelton gave away my seat," a story Lane finally finds noteworthy.
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