The Danny Thomas Show: The Persistent Cop
09:00 am - 09:30 am, Friday, January 2 on WNYW Catchy Comedy (5.5)
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The Persistent Cop
Season 11, Episode 30
A policeman persuades Danny to audition a combo from a slum area. Officer: Allan Melvin. Beau-Jives: Joel Warren, Harvey Shapiro, Leon Owens, Johnny Kelly. Charley: Sid Melton. Kathy: Marjorie Lord. Rusty: Rusty Hamer. Louise: Amanda Randolph. Pierre: Vito Scotti.
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1964
English
Comedy
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Marjorie Lord
(Actor)
.. Kathy O'Hara Williams
Rusty Hamer
(Actor)
.. Rusty Williams
Amanda Randolph
(Actor)
.. Louise
Sid Melton
(Actor)
.. `Uncle Charley' Halper
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Did You Know..
Marjorie Lord
(Actor)
.. Kathy O'Hara Williams
Born:
July 26, 1918
Died: November 28, 2015
Died: November 28, 2015
Trivia:
While still of high-school age, Marjorie Lord was a contract ingenue at RKO, playing the deadpan leading lady in two Wheeler and Woolsey comedies: Off Again On Again (1937) and High Flyers (1937). She moved to Universal Pictures in the 1940s, where she was decorative (and little else) in the studio's serials, westerns, and "B" pictures (notably 1942's Sherlock Holmes in Washington). Her best role during this period was opposite James Cagney in Johnny Come Lately (1943); she later had the chance to essay a villainous characterization in the independently produced The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948). Full stardom eluded Lord until 1957, when she replaced Jean Hagen as Mrs. Danny Williams on TV's The Danny Thomas Show (aka Make Room for Daddy). She played Kathy Williams until the series' cancellation in 1964, then re-created the role in the 1969 "revival" series Make Room For Granddaddy. She continued acting until the mid-1980s. The mother of actress Anne Archer, with whom she appeared in the 1978 TV movie Harold Robbins' The Pirate., Lord died in 2015, at age 97.
Rusty Hamer
(Actor)
.. Rusty Williams
Born:
February 15, 1947
Died: January 18, 1990
Died: January 18, 1990
Amanda Randolph
(Actor)
.. Louise
Born:
January 01, 1896
Died: August 24, 1967
Died: August 24, 1967
Trivia:
The older sister of actress Lillian Randolph, Amanda Randolph worked her way up the black vaudeville circuit as a singer and comedienne. She made her first screen appearance in the Vitaphone two-reeler The Black Network (1935) as the supposedly untalented wife of a radio sponsor; ironically, she sounded better than the film's official leading lady Nina Mae McKinney. After appearing in a handful of all-black feature films she established herself as a character actress on network radio. In the 1950s she was generally cast as maidservants in films, with the notable exception of her performance as Sidney Poitier's mother in 1950's No Way Out. On television, Amanda Randolph was seen to excellent advantage as the Kingfish's domineering mother-in-law on The Amos 'N' Andy Show (1951-1953) and as Louise the maid on Make Room for Daddy (1954-1964).
Sid Melton
(Actor)
.. `Uncle Charley' Halper
Born:
May 23, 1920
Trivia:
Diminutive, jug-eared comic actor Sid Melton cut his acting teeth in the touring companies of such Broadway hits as See My Lawyer and Three Men on a Horse. Though he once listed his film debut as being 1945's Model Wife, Melton showed up onscreen as early as 1942, playing one of the students in Blondie Goes to College. Mostly showing up in bits and minor roles in big-studio features, Melton enjoyed starring assignments at bargain-basement Lippert Studios, notably the 1951 "sleeper" The Steel Helmet. His film career extended into the 1970s, when he was seen in a sizeable role in the Diana Ross starrer Lady Sings the Blues (1975). Sid Melton's TV credits include the cult-favorite roles of Ichabod Mudd ("with two D's!") on Captain Midnight and nightclub owner Charley Halper on The Danny Thomas Show.
