Linkletter had one of the longest marriages of any celebrity in America. He married Lois Foerster on November 25, 1935, and they had five children.
Rest in peace!
Posted on 05/26/2010 1:05:28 PM PDT by Brugmansian
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Art Linkletter, who hosted the popular TV shows "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. He was 97 . . .
The primetime "People Are Funny," which began on radio in 1942 and ran on TV from 1954 to 1961, emphasized slapstick humor and audience participation — things like throwing a pie in the face of a contestant who couldn't tell his Social Security number in five seconds, or asking him to go out and cash a check written on the side of a watermelon.
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OUCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBMOhM31EyM&feature=player_embedded
He was a good man.
What more could any human being want as their epitaph?
Why couldn’t the rest of the entertainment industry have followed his example?
May he rest in peace and may his family and friends find consolation through this time.
If I correctly recall, he was conservative in his politics.
Godspeed, Art.
I met him when I was 8 at Tavern on the Green inNYC. He complimented me on my suit.
On a political note. Art had opined that he hoped he went before the Bush tax cuts, including the Death Tax could sack his estate.
Linkletter had one of the longest marriages of any celebrity in America. He married Lois Foerster on November 25, 1935, and they had five children.
Rest in peace!
Late 1960s commercial with his daughter, Diane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9n8q4YlGg
She unfortunately passed away just days after this commercial was taped (at the age of 20), due to a fall from her apartment building in Los Angeles. Some say it was murder, i.e., she was pushed out of the window, while others say she was tripping on acid and lost her balance.
Why couldn’t the rest of the entertainment industry have followed his example?
Because you either have self respect for yourself and respect for others along with a quality character and dignity or you don’t. “entertainment industry” does now. Art Linkletter did. Plain and simple.
How did America go from this:
Disneyland Opening day:
YouTube--Walt Disney, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Ronald Reagan and Art Linkletter
To radical lefties such as Norman Lear and those who followed him? I'll never get the attraction nor how fast American changed.
Make that “entertainment industry does NOT!”
RIP Very sorry to hear of his passing. Used to run home at lunch and watch him, when the World Series wasn’t on. (Yes, for the younger Freepers, the World Series was played in the daytime.)
Art was from San Diego.
He lived a nice, long life and deservedly so.
I liked him a lot. My mom really liked him and she won a lamp on his House Party TV show.
Wow. I’m surprised o hear that he’s around. I remember he authored a set of children’s encyclopedias that I had as a kid. Anytime I saw him on TV I thought he was the funniest adult ever.
BTW: Kids say the darndest things.
This is from a transcript of his appearance on the Larry King show back in 2000, in which he talks about the death of his daughter.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0006/30/lkl.00.html
KING: We’re having a lot of fun here tonight with an extraordinary man. But there has been tragedy in his life. The first time I met Art Linkletter was back in ‘60s. We did an interview and we talked about the loss of his daughter, a drug-related suicide. He had a son killed.
LINKLETTER: Yes. In the same two-year — three-year period.
KING: How do you get over something like that, or don’t you?
LINKLETTER: You never want to really get over it. But you have to make your life over again because the death of a child is the worst pain that a parent or anybody can — it’s like a stab in the heart, not just because you are losing a child, who means so much to you, but you’re losing their future. You say, gee, they didn’t live, 19 with her whole life ahead of her. And the son was 31. He was killed in a car crash.
You have to do something that John Wooden told me once upon a time. He says things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. You have other children. You have a life to live. You can’t be bitter and cynical and angry because it is going to spoil your life and the life of the family.
A generous supported of Springfield College. Their swimming complex was named for him.
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