Una Mae Carlisle

Una Mae Carlisle (December 26, 1915 - November 7, 1956) was an American jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter. Fats Waller discovered Carlisle when she was still in her teens, while she worked as a local Cincinnati performer live and on radio.

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Ann Harding

Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.

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Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951) was a popular and influential American illustrated song model, comedian, singer, theater and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was portrayed on the Broadway stage by Barbra Streisand in the musical Funny Girl and its 1968 film adaptation.

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Vintage Radio

The Happy Gang was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio lunchtime variety show that ran from 1937 to 1959. The show began on CRCT, a CBC affiliate in Toronto, moved to the CBC network four months later, and ran for 22 years, totalling nearly 4900 broadcasts.

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Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero in his role as the Joker in Batman 

Tall, suave and sophisticated Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994)

was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years.

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Vintage Photo

Radio wouldn't have been "radio" without these guys. Center is Guglielmo Marconi. Left is Owen Young, board chairman of RCA, on the right is Ed Nally Jr., president of RCA. Owen Young, originally from GE, was instrumental in forming RCA from GE radio assets and with the acquisition of American Marconi in 1919. Ed Nally Jr. was former vice president of American Marconi and became the new president of RCA. RCA was officially created in November, 1919. This photo was taken on board Marconi's yacht, the "Elettra."

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) born Wong Liu Tsong, was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.

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Jane Froman

Jane Froman was an American singer and actress. During her thirty-year career, Froman performed on stage, radio and television despite chronic injuries that she sustained from a 1943 plane crash.

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Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 -April 25, 1995) was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri. She was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.

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Vintage Photo

Radio Stroller, Stroller equipped with a radio, including antenna and loudspeaker, to keep the baby quiet; USA, 1921. vintage

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Red Skelton

 Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer best known for being a national radio and television comedian between 1937 and 1971.

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