Joe Franklin
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Joe Franklin (March 9, 1926 – January 24, 2015), born Joseph Fortgang, was an American radio and television host, comedian, and actor from New York City.
His television show premiered on January 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV), and then moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV), which was one of the longest running uninterrupted careers in broadcasting history.
Early life
Joseph Fortgang was born in The Bronx, New York, in 1926, the elder of two children, to Austrian Jewish parents Anna (Heller) and Martin Fortgang. He admitted in his memoirs, Up Late With Joe Franklin, that R. J. Marx wrote, that his newspaper records had long stated that he was born in 1928, but he wanted to reveal his true birth date. Franklin "followed around" Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor, the former of whom acquired a gaggle of the youthful Franklin and whose Carnegie Hall show he later produced. Franklin was drafted into the United States Army and served in World War II at the age of 18.
Personal life
Lois Meriden, a one-time performer with Sally Rand's burlesque-style "fan dancers," married Franklin. Bradley, the boy, had a brother. Jodi Fritz, Franklin's longtime companion, died later.
On January 24, 2015, Franklin died of prostate cancer at a Manhattan hospice, aged 88.
Career
Franklin began writing skits for The Kate Smith Hour at 14 years old, and at 16, he began his entertainment career as a record picker in Martin Block's Make Believe Ballroom, where he was dubbed "The Young Wreck with the Old Records." By the time he was 21, he had embarked on a radio career. He was also considered to be an authority on popular culture of the first half of the twentieth century, including silent films. For focusing on old-time show-business personalities, he was dubbed "The King of Nostalgia" and "The Wizard of Was" to describe the old-time show-business personalities. On the air, Franklin was also a pioneer in promoting Hoffman Beverages and Canada Dry ginger ale. The A&E's documentary It's Only Talk, The Real Story Of America's Talk Shows honors Franklin as the show's producer. Franklin was ranked in the Guinness World Record as the longest running on-air TV talk show host for more than a decade than Johnny Carson's tenure.
Franklin opened Joe Franklin's Memory Lane Restaurant on West 45th Street in Broadway's theater district in 1999. Producer Steve Garrin and Restaurant Mogul Dennis Riese collaborated with him to open Joe Franklin's Memory Lane Restaurant. "Joe Franklin's Comedy Club" reopened on West 50th Street the following year. Many name comedians came to the club and performed on stage to debut in their latest material, and many aspiring comedians attended their first stage appearance. In 2005, the company was closed.
Franklin, who died from his television show, concentrated on his overnight radio show, juggling old records on WOR-AM on Saturday evenings and training thousands of young aspiring entertainers who coveted an audience with him at his notoriously cluttered Times Square office for decades. "Nostalgia Moments," Franklin's celebrity interviews, on the Bloomberg Radio Network, lasted every day until mid-January 2015, just before his death.