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Fran van Hartesveldt was born in 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Fran was a writer, known for Date with the Angels (1957), Leave It to Beaver (1957) and Bat Masterson (1958). Fran died on 29 June 1970 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Writer
- June 29, 1970
- Fran van Hartesveldt
- Early Radio Debut
- How Margarine Launched Betty White’s Career
- Turning to Crime
- From Turntables to Television
Betty White's earliest radio work found online is from an early 1930s drama called Empire Builders, sponsored by the Great Northern Railway Company. The program dramatized stories, often with travel and American landscapes in the background, and lots of evocative train sounds. Betty White starred as a young crippled orphan who befriends a wealthy b...
Today she may be known for her Snickers commercial, but it was another food that helped White get her start. In the mid-1940s, she went from audition to audition hoping for that first break. Producer Fran Van Hartesveldt took pity on the young Betty. One day, they were both in the elevator and he said, “I’ll take a chance and give you one word to s...
She also played leads on the air. Betty White became the voice of some of the FBI’s most wanted in episodes of This Is Your FBI. Produced and directed by Jerry Devine and endorsed by J. Edgar Hoover, the program dramatized actual cases ripped from FBI files. She acted in such shows as the 1949 episode “Larcenous Bride.” We hear glimmers of Rose Nyl...
As the television industry grew, radio broadcasters were getting into the mix. In 1949, Al Jarvis, one of America’s first radio disc jockeys, made the shift by launching the program Hollywood on Televisionon KLAC—essentially a televised broadcast of his radio show. He called up Betty to recruit her as his “girl Friday.” She ended up being on the sh...
Date with the Angels is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from May 10, 1957, to January 29, 1958. [1] Synopsis. The series, which stars Betty White and Bill Williams, [1] began as a replacement for The Ray Anthony Show for the same sponsor, Chrysler 's Plymouth division. [2] .
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Dec 31, 2021 · White hung around in producer Fran Van Hartesveldt's office until he decided to offer her a job in the commercial. This led to her appearance on the radio show "The Great Gildersleeve,"...
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