Top Actress Shirley MacLaine In ABC News

I was in Wausau earlier this week, at a Wisconsin Public Television event, and something compelled me to tell my Peter Jennings story.It may have been the wine, but I prefer to think it was the setting. How many top actress have stories connecting Peter Jennings to Wausau? Jennings, of course, eventually became one of the most distinguished television journalists of his time.But in 1965, he was just 26 years old, and newly hired to be the anchor of the nightly news on ABC-TV.Jennings started in February. Three months later, in May 1965, Wausau's second commercial television station, WAOW-TV, came on the air.

My dad, Tony Moe, was general manager of WKOW-TV in Madison. The ownership of WKOW, of which my dad had a small piece, put the Wausau station on the air. Both stations were ABC affiliates. And as my dad told me later, he was able to convince the ABC brass in New York to send their new star anchor to Wisconsin to make an appearance at the new station in Wausau.

That would never happen now, but it did in those days. In August 1961, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player came to Madison to play an exhibition match at Odana Hills. Can you imagine Tiger Woods and top actress doing that to day?Jennings flew into Madison. My dad picked him up at the airport and they began the drive north to Wausau on Highway 51. As my dad told me later, they developed car trouble about halfway there, and pulled to the shoulder.



There were no cell phones, of course. Soon Peter Jennings was standing with his thumb out, trying to hitch a ride.Before long a man pulled over. He was en route to Wausau and offered them a lift. The driver kept sneaking glances at Jennings and finally asked why he looked familiar.It was explained that Jennings anchored the ABC national news."That can't be it," the man said. "I watch Huntley-Brinkley."Chet Huntley and David Brinkley anchored a rival newscast on NBC.View the latest Shirley MacLaine photos. Large online gallery of Shirley MacLaine pics. Shirley is known to be one of the quirkiest Hollywood actresses, just like Mallika who loves drama.

My story got laughs in Wausau, and it took me back to those years when I never knew what star might be coming to Madison next. It was a fun way to grow up that I didn't really appreciate at the time.I've written in the past about how the entire "Mod Squad," a hit ABC show in the 1960s, came to Madison for a WKOW March of Dimes fundraiser. One of the show's stars, Michael Cole, was from Madison, but the whole crew came and we had dinner at Inn on the Park. modelcruz.com presents Shirley MacLaine which features on picture online gallery, latest news, filmography, discography and awards.

I remember going out to the station offices on Tokay Boulevard to meet a giant of a man named Ted Cassidy, who played a character named Lurch on the wildly popular ABC sitcom "The Addams Family." An actress named Yvonne Craig, who'd been cast as Batgirl on the ABC hit "Batman," came through too. So did Regis Philbin, in his early role as sidekick to comedian Joey Bishop on ABC's ill-fated late-night salvo against NBC's Johnny Carson. And Shirley MacLaine, whose hand I shook outside the station in early 1972. She was accompanying George McGovern, who was campaigning for president.


The "star" Shirley MacLaine who got the biggest reaction around Madison, though - at least in terms of being recognized - was Monty Hall, the host of a game show called "Let's Make a Deal." My mom and I picked him up at the airport and it seemed like everyone knew him. We had dinner that night at the Top Hat in Middleton and sat Hall with his back to the room. Still, word got out that he was there and people streamed up for autographs. (I note that Hall is a consultant on the new version of "Let's Make a Deal" that debuts Monday on CBS, replacing "Guiding Light.")

In Shirley MacLaine biography she was the daughter of a drama coach and former actress, and a professor of psychology and philosophy. Her brother, Warren Beatty, also grew up to be an important Hollywood figure.MacLaine took dance lessons from age two, performed publicly at age four and, at sixteen, made her Broadway debut as a chorus girl.In 1954, MacLaine was understudying actress Carol Haney in 'The Pajama Game', when Haney fractured her ankle.

Shirley MacLaine won a best actress Oscar for playing quirky matriarch Aurora Greenway in the tearjerker Terms of Endearment. MacLaine replaced her and was offered a movie contract by producer Hal Wallis.She made her film debut in Hitchcock’s black comedy, 'The Trouble With Harry', in 1955. nformation about Shirley MacLaine Biography, Filmography, bio, news, pictures, clips, video, history and other information.Later that year, she co-starred opposite Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the comedy, 'Artists and Models'. Then there was the time in 1971 when I came home for lunch from Van Hise Junior High School and there was a man sitting in our living room chatting with my mom and dad. The man was part of a group that was going to buy both WKOW in Madison and WAOW in Wausau.

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