The recent death of Chicago`s own George Gobel takes me back to the night of December 19, 1967. It was my mother`s 90th birthday, and my wife and I had picked her up to take her to the Edgewater Beach ...

George introduces himself, then his orchestra leader, John Scott Trotter to his audience, then his guest, Fred Mac Murray, saxophone in hand, who wants something to do, but George refuses. Next he ...

GEORGE GOBEL, the sad-eyed comic with the flat-top haircut whose battles with his television wife, “Spooky Old Alice,” added a dimension to domestic warfare in the 1950s, died yesterday. Sam Honigberg ...

In the first week of October 1954, comedian George Gobel hosted the first episode of “The George Gobel Show.” This weekly comedy-variety program ran on NBC for about five years and later moved to CBS ...

George Gobel’s sudden TV popularity is as baffling as a common cold: everybody gets it, but nobody can explain it. A mild-voiced, crewcut, anonymous sort of a man, he says: “The trouble with me is, ...

With many a TV set, viewers are still subject to double vision. Now both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk’s Wednesday show (ABC) was ...

A recent article I wrote about some of the famous people with Chattanooga connections prompted several e-mails mentioning others in the entertainment industry with local roots. Larry Blanks pointed ...