Important years & events

1950- 1959

1950 - 1955
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1950

Painting: Girl Sailor

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1950

Film: Yellow Cab Man

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1950

Film: Three Little Words

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1950

Film

The Fuller Brush Girl. Starring Lucille Ball. Red Skelton cameo.

Laserdisc, 1995

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1950

Watch the Birdie

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1950

Stage: Loew’s State (Hollywood, CA) with Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald, Lane Brothers, Kitty Kallen and Bonnie Ross orch.

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1951

Film: Excuse My Dust

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1951

In Rome shopping for a Borsalino Hat with Frank Dellaria.

Email from Frank Dellaria, 11/15/2023.

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1951

Stage: London Palladium, 4 weeks.

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1951

Stage: Warner Theatre (Lawrence, Mass) Benifit of St. Mary’s Schools1

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1951

Texas Carnival

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1952

Film: Lovely to Look At

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1952

Radio

I Bought a Fighter.

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1953

Film: The Clown

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1953

Family

Birthday party for Red's children with Ken Murray and Ed Wynn. Tells Ed Wynn Story.

The South Bend Tribune 29 May 1953, Fri ·Page 8

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1953

Half a Hero

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1953

Award

Outer drive in Gregg Park (Vincennes) named Skelton Drive.

VSC, 10/27/1953. "Skelton Happy as Vincennes Names Street After Him", Muncie Evening Press, 11/27/1953

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1953

Film: Great Diamond Robbery

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1954

Print

Red Skelton appeared in a British comic strip. Published annual in a hardback book to 1957.

Film Fun Annual 1954

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1955

Doc Lewis’ wife and daughter will appear on TV “Place the Face”.1

1. “Local Woman, Daughter to Be on TV Show”, The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, 7/29/1955

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1955

Whistle Stop in Kansas City.2 “Red Arrives in Style”3

2. Truman Library. 3. Sept 14, 1955

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1955

TV: “I hear America Singing” Four Star Jubilee, guest star.4

4. Photos RSM Arc2016.052

1956 - 1959
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1956

TV: “Old Vaudeville” GS: John Carradine1

1. Photos RSM Arc2016.067

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1956

TV: “The Mad Scientist” GS: Vincent Price2

2. Photos rehearsal, Arc2016.052

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1956

TV: “The Magic Shoes” GS-Sally Forrest3

3. Photo with Nancy Kulp, ballet dancers, witch, RSM Arc2016.067

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1956

TV

Playhouse 90 “The Big Slide”

RSM Arc2016.067

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1956

TV: “The First Thanksgiving”4

4. RSM Arc2016.067

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1956

TV: “The Atomic Sailor” GS: Boris Karloff4

4. RSM Arc2016.067

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1957

Award

Nominated Best Single Performance by an Actor - Playhouse 90: "The Big Slide"

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1957

Film: Public Pigeon No. 1

1. by Bill Davidson, Saturday Evening Post, 06/17/1967

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1958

“Getting along fine” from an asthma attack but still in St. John’s Hospital for tests.2

2. Citizen-News, Hollywood, CA Jan 8m 1958

https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1O0WGERQ?WS=SearchResults&DetailTab=Custom_X0CND000000001347
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1958

TV: Bing Crosby and His Friends. The first telecast of the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament. Bing presented a live variety show.3

3. The Chronological Bing Crosby on Television – BING magazine

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1958

“Red Skelton on Live TV Program Tonight”4

4. The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), Jan 28, 1958

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1958

TV: The Steve Allen Show

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1958

“Man of Year” Award Annual United Jewish Welfare Fund Banquet

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/examiner-m15443.html?x=1282431878797
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1958

“Red Skelton: A Father’s Hardest Test”6

6. by Andre Fontaine, Redbook, 04/1958

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1958

“King of Clowns”7

7. TV Radio Mirror, 05/1958

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1958

TV Radio Mirror award “TV Comedian”, “TV Comedy Program”

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1958

Death

Died: Son, Richard Skelton

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1958

Richard’s funeral

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1958

TV: “Some Real Pros Went to Bat for Their Friend Last Night”. Red Skelton Show hosted by Milton Berle.8

8. Albuquerque Tribune, Albert M Colegrove, 05/14/1958

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1958

Richard Skelton Memorial Fund with George Jessel in New York. City of Hope leukemia research and treatment center in California.9

9. Mansfield New-Journal, 1958/05/26

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1958

[Stage] Korea: At 43rd MASH with driver SP/4 Potter, Chief of Staff Section, GG’s motor pool Camp Red cloud.10

10. Photo by SP/4 William Jellison 51st sig BN corps) 07/23/1958 Returns from Korea 08/04/1958 Stage: Riviera, Las Vegas 09/30/1958 TV Season 08 October, 1958 “The Man Who Gives Himself Away” ((TV Picture Life ))

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1958

Korea

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1958

Stage: The Ritz Theatre with David Rose and the Modernaires 10/30/1958-11/18/1958 11. “Red Skelton Pleases in ‘Clown, Baton’ Revue”12 13

11. South Pasadena Review, Oct 28, 1958. 12. Los Angeles Examiner, Patterson Greene, 10/31/1958. 13. RSM Arc2017.005

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1958

TV

The Kraft Music Hall (Milton Berle Show) Guest: Red Skelton (Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kiddlehopper)14

14. The Paley Center

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1958

TV

The Jack Benny Program (cameo)

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1959

Award

TV Radio Mirror Award Winner 1958-1959. Favorite TV Comedian. Favorite TV Comedy Program1

1. TV Radio Mirror, May 1959

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1959

Print

“The Tragi-Comic World of TV” by Dora Albert1

1. TV Radio Mirror, May 1959

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1959

Stage

Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum, Omaha, Neb

Omaha World-Herald Sun, May 17, 1959 ·Page 76

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1959

Stage

The Clown and the Baton, Carter Barron Amphitheater, Buck Creek Park, Washington D.C. Patricia Berlin - Piano, Peggy Taylor - Singer, Rafael Medez - Trumpet, Chiquita and Johnson - Ballet.

Program.

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1959

Stage

Harrah’s South Shore Room.

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1959

Stage

Opening of Harrah's South Shore room.

Reno Gazette-Journal 22 Dec 1959, Tue ·Page 13

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1878

Birth

Joseph Elmer Skelton

Old Cathedral Records
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1879

Richardville vs. Skelton: Newton Skelton does not claim Joseph as his son.

J. H. Massey, Justice of the Peace, Knox County
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1880

Joseph Richardville Home: Lawrence County, Allison, IL.

Old Cathedral Records
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1881

Birth

Christopher Albert Eheart (Step-uncle)

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1898

Joe Eheart, High School baseball team, Ghosts

Daviess County Democrat April 23 1898
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1900

William Cochran shot stepson Chris Eheart

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1900

Age 19 Home: 111 W. South, Washington, Indiana.

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1900

Valparaiso University. Botany class.

Student Account Ledger 1899-1900. Prof. M. L. Weems roll book.
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1900

Marriage

Chris Eheart weds Catherine in Gibson Co., Indiana.

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1900

J. Eeart touchdown

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1901

Joe Ehart alocutionist, amateur night.

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1903

Joe Ehart International Electric Workers meeting in Indianapolis.

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1903

Baseball umpire

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1904

Joe Ehart (electrical worker) manage of ball club.

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1904

Chris Eheart wife drank poison and cannot recover. Acid burned and disfigured face and neck.

Waukesha Freenman, July 7, 1904
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1904

Divorce

Chris and Catherine Eheart

Lewis Library
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1905

Home: J. Eheart, 314 Lyndale av, Vincennes, Indiana. Lineman

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1905

Home: J Eheart, 111 W. Lyndale, Vincennes, IN

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1905

Home: J Eheart, 111 W. Lyndale, grocer 202 W Lyndale

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1905

Marriage

Skelton to Ida M. Fields

Index to Supplemental Records Marriage Transcript
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1905

Marriage

Chris Eheart and Mary E. Graig.

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1905

Birth

Uncle, (Denny) Raymond James Ishmail Erheart/Eheart, Vincennes, IN

Index to Birth Records 1882-1920 (other dates 08/15/1904, 05/20/1905)
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1906

Marriage

Skelton to Ida May Fields

Old Cathedral Records
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1906

Baptism

Joseph Ismael Skelton

Old Cathedral Records
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1907

Birth

(Brother Chris) Eheart, Vincennes, IN

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1908

Eheart Bros grocers, 202 Lyndale, Vincennes, IN

"Ehart Brothers Open New Store" Vincennes Capital
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1910

Birth

Uncle Paul Skelton

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1979

Baptism

Joseph Skelton

Old Cathedral Records

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