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Baker first appeared on Jack Benny's weekly radio program on November 3, 1935, [3] having been hired to replace singer Frank Parker. [4] Parker had been very popular on the Benny program, and with his departure, it was widely believed that Benny would lose a large part of his audience; however, Kenny Baker is said to have won audiences over almost instantly, even surpassing Parker in ...
Baker was born and educated in Birmingham, Warwickshire, and at a boarding school in Kent. [1] He was the son of Ethel (1906–1990), a pianist and dress maker, and Harold Baker (1908–1949), an artist, musician and draughtsman. [2] [1] He went to live with his father, stepmother, and half-sister in Hastings, Sussex.
He was introduced (with actress Verna Felton playing his overbearing mother) as a young (19-year-old), naive boy singer – a character he kept through his whole career. Mary Livingstone, Benny's wife, brought the singer to Benny's attention after hearing Day on the radio during a visit to New York. She took a recording of Day's singing to ...
British actor Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 in the first six Star Wars films has died at the age of 83, after a long illness. British actor Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 in the first six Star Wars ...
In 1939, Kenny Baker chose to leave the show and was replaced by Dennis Day. [ 11 ] In 1941, NBC celebrated Benny's 10th anniversary in radio in an unprecedented manner, broadcasting part of a banquet dedicated to him, in which the network conceded the Sunday 7:00 to 7:30 pm slot to Benny instead of the sponsor, as it was the custom during the ...
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Kenneth, Ken or Kenny Baker may refer to: Kenneth F. Baker (1908–1996), American professor of plant diseases; Kenny Baker (American performer) (1912–1985), American radio singer and actor; Kenny Baker (trumpeter) (1921–1999), British jazz trumpeter; Kenny Baker (fiddler) (1926–2011), American bluegrass fiddler with Bill Monroe
The movie, which features Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina, Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy), Andrea Leeds, Kenny Baker, Ella Logan, Helen Jepson, Bobby Clark and the Ritz Brothers, depicts a movie producer who chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evaluate his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.