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Rolanda Watts

The Spelman College graduate began her long career as a talk show host on the Lifetime Network in 1987 with the short-lived show Attitudes. The following year, she was a correspondent on Inside Edition until 1993, when King World Enterprises (which syndicated Oprah), offered Watts her own show. Rolanda had a successful run from 1994 [...]

Betty Page

In 1950, 27 year old secretary Bettie Page was approached by NY Policeman Jerry Tibbs to model for him. When she found out how much modeling paid verus banging typewriter keys, she didn’t need a degree in rocket science (although she did have a BA in the arts) to pursue that. Throughout most of the [...]

Mr. Whipple

Best known as the fussy supermarket manager who was famous for saying, “Ladies, please don’t squeeze the Charmin!” While Mr. Whipple always chastised his customers for squeezing the Charmin toilet paper, he himself was an habitual offender. Wilson’s TV credits also included the recurring role of a local drunk on BEWITCHED for nine years.

Dr. Ruth

Best known simply as Dr.Ruth, the diminutive sex psychologist became a cultural phenomenon in the 1980s by making wide use of the mass media to change peoples’ ideas of sexual education and sexual literacy.

Morganna the Kissing Bandit

“Morganna the Kissing Bandit,” the big-breasted Ohio woman who spent more than two decades during the 70s and 80s running onto big-league fields and kissing unsuspecting ballplayers. Morganna Roberts-Cottrell performed as an exotic dancer when she wasn’t being an outlandish baseball fan.

Jack LaLanne

Referred to as the Godfather of Fitness, Jack LaLanne has been touting the benefits of exercise and nutrition since 1936, when he opened the nations first health studio in Oakland, CA. The Jack LaLanne Show premiered in 1951 and soon became nationally syndicated where millions watched Jack exercise until 1985. After his TV show ended, [...]

Sybil Dorsett

“Sybil Dorsett”became synonomous with multiple personality during the 1970s after the bestselling novel and TV movie about a woman with 16 personalities. Actually based apon the reports of 11 years of psychoanalysis of a woman named Shirley Ardell Mason. Mason was a long-term patient of Dr.Cornelia Wilbur who supplied author Flora Rheta Schreiber with historical [...]

Dorothy McHugh

Born August 14, 1907, McHugh was a Ziegfield Follies dancer, but she is probably best known for her line “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. The line was originally spoken in a television commercial for a medical service called Lifecall.  

Genie

National attention focused on Los Angeles Children’s Hospitalin Nov 1970 following the discovery of a tiny, mute, 13-year-old girl who’d been kept in isolation by her elderly, abusive father for over 11 years. Tied to a small “potty-chair” during the day and locked into a “chicken-coop” crib by night. The emaciated,diapered girl became the focus [...]

Beakman

Paul Zaloom played the irreverent, wacky, brilliant Beakman on the science-oriented kids show Beakman’s Worldin the 90s. Zaloom’s bizarre appearance and brilliant comic timing turned each episode into an amazing learning experience that combined equal parts Albert Einstein and Groucho Marx. Zaloom occasionally reprises his Beakman role in a touring demontration called Beakman Live!