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Mar 28, 2002 · Milton Berle, the acerbic, cigar-smoking vaudevillian who eagerly embraced a new medium and became "Mr. Television" in the dawn of the video age, died Wednesday. He was 93. Berle died at 2:45 p.m ...
Feb 25, 2019 · Milton Berle publicity portrait, undated. Box 172 / Folder 4, Milton Berle Papers, Music Division. Milton Berle, who lived to be 94, did it all. He was a child actor and juvenile dancer who became a vaudeville emcee, stand-up comic, and Friars Club roastmaster. He acted on radio, stage, and screen. He wrote song lyrics, novels, short stories ...
Mar 28, 2002 · Milton Berle was born Mendel Berlinger on July 12, 1908, in New York City. He won a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest when he was 5 and followed that up with wins in several local amateur contests.
Mar 27, 2002 · BERLE, MILTON (formerly Mendel Berlinger ; 1908–2002), U.S. comedian, known as "Mr. Television" and "Uncle Miltie." Born in New York, Berle played in nightclubs, films, and Broadway shows, including the Ziegfeld Follies of 1943. From 1948 to 1956 he did a weekly variety show on television in modern slapstick style.
Jun 8, 2018 · Yet Milton Berle became known as Mr. Television because he was the reason most people back then bought their first TV sets. And he did that because he didn't just transplant the variety show from ...
May 12, 2002 · By Lillian Ross. May 12, 2002. About two hundred and fifty people packed the Friars Club the other day for a memorial tribute to Milton Berle, Abbot Emeritus of the ninety-eight-year-old fraternal ...
Mar 28, 2002 · Berle was the first of television’s great stars and its first and greatest salesman—of television and TV sets. There were fewer than 500,000 sets in use in America when Berle took to the air ...
