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Richard(Red)Skelton (July 18, 1913 - September 17, 1997) Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Richard Bernard Skelton, son of a circus clown, was an American comedian who was best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while silently pursuing another career as a painter. Skelton got one of his earliest tastes of show business when he went to work for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus as a teenager, the same circus his father worked for. Red's father Joe, passed away in a tragic accident shortly before Red was born. Red caught the show business bug at 10 years of age from entertainer Ed Wynn, who spotted him selling newspapers in front of the Pantheon Theatre, in Vincennes Indiania. After buying every newspaper Skelton had, Mr Wynn invited him to see the show. In 1945 he married Georgia Davis. They had two children, Richard and Valentina. Richard died when he was a small boy, from leukemia, which devastated the household. Red and Georgia divorced in 1971 and he remarried. In 1976, Georgia committed suicide by gunshot. Deeply affected by the loss of his ex-wife, Red abstained from performing for the next decade and a half, finding solace in painting clowns. Here is a partiallist of the movies Red Skelton performed in *Having Wonderful Time (1938) * Flight Command (1940) * The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) * Whistling in the Dark (1941) * Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) * Lady Be Good (1941) * Ship Ahoy (1942) * Maisie Gets Her Man (1942) * Panama Hattie (1942) * Whistling in Dixie (1942) * DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) * Thousands Cheer (1943) * I Dood It (1943) * Whistling in Brooklyn (1943) * Bathing Beauty (1944) * Ziegfeld Follies (1946) * The Show-Off (1946) * Merton of the Movies (1947) * The Fuller Brush Man (1948) "Goodnight for now and may God Bless" |
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