Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada on July 17th, 1912 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 97, Art Linkletter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Arthur Gordon Kelley, born Arthur Gordon Kelly or Gordon Arthur Kelley (sources differ), May 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was a Canadian-born American radio and television star.
He was the host of House Party, CBS radio and television, for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which aired on NBC radio and television for 19 years.
In 1942, he became a naturalized United States citizen. The Kids Say the Darndest Things segments were one of his House Party's most popular sections.
Following was a series of books that included the children's amusing remarks on air.
Early life
In Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, a linkletter was born. He confessed to having no contact with his biological parents, sister, or two brothers after he was abandoned when he was only a few weeks old. Mary (née Metzler) and Fulton John Linkletter, an evangelical preacher, adopted him.
When he was five years old, his family moved to San Diego, California, where he graduated from San Diego High School at age 16. He rode trains around the country in the early years of the Great Depression, working odd jobs and meeting a large number of people. He earned a bachelor's degree in teaching from San Diego State Teachers College (now San Diego State University), where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity in 1934. While attending San Diego State, he was a member of the basketball team and was a member of the swimming team. He had intended to attend Springfield College but decided against it due to financial reasons.
He met Lois Foerster in 1935. They were married at Grace Lutheran Church in San Diego on November 28, 1935. Their union lasted until Linkletter's death, 74 years later.
Personal life
At nearly 75 years old, Linkletter was one of the longest marriages of any well-known person in America. It was the longest Hollywood marriage of all time (prior to his death) and it now ranks as the third longest Hollywood marriage of all time. Arthur Jack, Dawn, Robert, Sharon, and Diane married Lois Foerster on November 25, 1935, and they had five children: Arthur Jack, Dawn, Robert, Sharon, and Diane. Lois Foerster Linkletter lived to the age of 95 in 1981, surviving by sixteen months. Three of their five children died before they were born.
Diane, a 20-year-old woman from Quebec, died after leaping out of her sixth-floor kitchen window on October 4, 1969. Her death was attributed to heroin, or a flashback from an LSD trip, according to the linkletter (toxicology tests later determined there were no drugs in Diane's system at the time of her death). Following Diane's death, Linkletter spoke out against opioids to discourage children from drifting into a drug use. "Anyone who has advised my daughter to try LSD is unintentionally a perpetrator of my daughter's murder," he said on October 24, 1969. "We Love You, Call Collect," Robert's album that was released before his death, featured a discussion of permissiveness in modern society as well as a Diane rebuttal titled "Dear Mom and Dad." The album received the "Best Spoken Word Recording" award in 1970.
On September 12, 1980, Robert Linkletter died in a car accident. Arthur, his uncle, died of lymphoma in 2007.
Linkletter had a mild stroke in early 2008. He died on May 26, 2010, at the age of 97, in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California.
"Art Linkletter would have been 98 years old, a life of fun and goodness, and an orphanage that made it to the top," Phyllis Diller said after his death. What a guy. He was raised by his wife Loise Griffin, son Dawn Griffin and Sharon Linkletter, as well as seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Alexis Linkletter, his eldest grandchild, has devoted himself to broadcasting and producing a number of popular crime podcasts and television.
Career
After receiving his teaching degree, Linkletter decided to work as a radio announcer at KGB San Diego, because radio paid better than teaching. In the mid-1930s, he supervised radio services for fairs and expositions. After that, he migrated to San Francisco and continued his radio work. In 1943, Linkletter pleaded guilty to falsely claiming US citizenship; instead, he was fined $500 and allowed to apply for citizenship. In the 1940s, Linkletter co-star John Guedel on their pioneering radio show People Are Funny, which featured audience participation, games, and gags. The series served as a prototype for future radio and television game shows. People Are Funny first appeared on television in 1954 and then continued into 1961.
Life With Linkletter (1969–1970), and Hollywood Talent Scouts (1965–1966) were among Linkletter's early television shows. He appeared in two films, People Are Funny (1946) and Champagne for Caesar (1950). Following an appearance in No Greater Love (1960), Linkletter will no longer be seen in feature films.
Due to Linkletter's reservations regarding the park's prospects, Linkletter declined the opportunity offered to invest in the Disneyland theme park project by his friend Walt Disney. However, Linkletter volunteered to assist ABC in coordinating ABC's coverage of the Disneyland opening in 1955 on what was his 43rd birthday out of a love for Disney. Ronald Reagan and Bob Cummings, in addition to being an on-air host, recruited his two co-hosts. Disneyland's opening experience persuaded Linkletter that the park would be a huge success. Linkletter asked for Disneyland's camera and film concession for the first ten years when Disney asked what he could do to show his appreciation for the broadcast's success in the park's debut, a request that was quickly granted. It turned out to be very lucrative.
Art Linkletter and the Kids, a 15-minute series for syndication in the 1950s, was seen locally on Saturday mornings in some cities.
Linkletter and his son Jack Linkletter appeared together in "The Bible Man," one of Dick Powell's last episodes of his Zane Grey Theatre, which aired on CBS for five seasons. In the storyline, Linkletter is depicted as the Reverend Albert Pierce, a traveling evangelist who is estranged from his grown son, Jimmy (Jack Linkletter), because he had to prevent Jimmy from knowing the truth of Jimmy's mother's death. The son accused his father of causing the mother's death by destroying her house. However, she was already dead before the fire because a paramour had beaten her to death. The episode comes to an end with the father's return to his son. Jack Linkletter's only dramatic acting appearance was on "The Bible Man." It was the first of two spectacular television appearances by Art Linkletter. He made his second appearance in episode 16, season 6 of the series Wagon Train in 1962 with Nancy Reagan. He also played himself on television when he was on television.
In 1962, Linkletter appeared on two weeks as a guest host of The Tonight Show and Johnny Carson's as the show's new host.
Linkletter, a major investor and promoter of the hoop in the 1950s, became a major investor and promoter of the hoop. Linkletter became Milton Bradley's endorser and spokeswoman for The Game of Life in 1963. His image appeared on the game's $100 bills and also on the box, framed by the phrase "I wholeheartedly endorse this game."