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Boston Blackie's Restaurant [54] was a bar and grill with locations in Chicago and Deerfield, Illinois. In a 1967 episode of Bewitched ("Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember", Season 4, Episode 12), "Boston Blackie" is mentioned in fond remembrance by Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne), who confuses him as attending the First Thanksgiving with famous ...
From 1945 to 1950, Kollmar portrayed Boston Blackie on the radio program of the same name, a Ziv-produced syndicated series which mostly ran on Mutual Broadcasting System stations. [7] He also had lead roles in other radio shows including Gang Busters, Grand Central Station and the soap opera Bright Horizon. [8] [9]
On July 11, 1993, in Chicago, Jones shot and killed the blues artist Boston Blackie, following a heated dispute over payment that began a month earlier when both performers appeared at the Chicago Blues Festival. Jones claimed he acted in self-defense, but was convicted of second-degree murder and was incarcerated for 17 months of a four-year ...
John Chester Brooks Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor. He had some prestigious film roles early in his career, and received an Academy Award nomination for Alibi (1929).
Boston Blackie helps get prisoners with needed skills released on parole to help in the machine and tool plant of his friend, Arthur Manleder. Those chosen want to support America's war effort. All of the parolees have to stay in Blackie's apartment, all except robber Dooley Watson. Blackie allows him to see his wife and son.
Boston Blackie & Otis 'Big Smokey' Smothers – Chicago Blues Session, Volume 1 (1998, Wolf #120.847). Boston Blackie and Smothers did not play together on the record; rather it is a compilation, consisting of half Boston Blackie tracks and half Smothers tracks.
Columbia then used him in another Boston Blackie film, Blackie's Rendezvous (1945), in which he played a villain, and in The Gay Senorita (1945) with Jinx Falkenburg. Goldwyn then used Cochran in another Danny Kaye movie with Mayo and Vera-Ellen, The Kid from Brooklyn (1946).
Bob Custer (born Raymond Anthony Glenn, [1] October 18, 1898 – December 27, 1974) was an American film actor who appeared in over 50 films, mostly Westerns, between 1924 and 1937, [2] including The Fighting Hombre, Arizona Days, The Last Roundup, The Oklahoma Kid (1929; not the Cagney/Bogart version), Law of the Rio Grande, The Law of the Wild and Ambush Valley.