Miriam Seegar
Started doing British films then early Paramount films.
    • 1909
    09/01 - Born in GREENTOWN, IN. Daughter of Frank F. (hardward merchant) and Carrie Seegar.
    Greentown High School (Played the role as 'a Moving Picture Star' in a 1923 play).
    1924
    Father died.
    1925
    Grad MARION High School.
    Petersburg School for Girls in Virginia.
    Did films in England.
    Paramont contract.
    1928
    The Price of Divorce.
    1929
    The Love Doctor. Seven Keys to Baldpate. Fashions in Love.
    1930
    Clancy in Wall Street. Movietone Follies of 1930. What a Man. The Dawn Trail (w/ BUCK JONES). Such is the Law. Big Money.
    1931
    04/11 - Wed Tim Whelan. The Woman Between. The Lion and the Lamb.
    1932
    Starngers of the Evening. Out of Singapore. False Faces. The Famolus Ferguson Case.
    2000
    I Used to Be in Pictures.
    Family: Sister - Dorothy Seegar Hatch (Washington DC). Sister - Helen (Mrs. Dr. J. C. Stone of Kokomo). Sister - Sara (see below).
    Hoosiers in Movieland.

    Sara Seegar or Seeger
    SeegarSara.jpg 30*30 Comic actress that was the 2nd 'Mrs. Wilson' on Dennis the Menace. Married radio star Ezra Stone.
    • 1914
    07/01 - Born Sarah Frances Seegar in GREENTOWN, IN.
    Hollywood High School.
    Los Angeles City College.
    Movies in England.
    1937
    The Last Curtain.
    1939
    Dead Men Tell No Tales.
    1941
    Larceny Street 'Miss Quincey'. Mystery of Room 13 'Lila'.
    1942
    Wed Ezra Stone.
    1946
    Stone Meadows Farm, Newton, PA.
    1949
    03/08 - At War with the Army (B'way).
    1957
    "The Reluctant Debutante" (Avondale Playhouse).
    1960
    (12/10) Perry Mason "The Case of the Red Riding Boots".
    1962
    The Music Man 'Maud Dunlop'. Dennis the Menace 'Mrs. Wilson'.
    1965
    (12/23) Bewitched "A Vision Of Sugar Plums".
    1966
    Occasional Wife.
    1967
    (11/09) Bewitched "That Was No Chick, That Was My Wife". A Boy Called Nuthin' 'Mrs. Wampler'.
    1968
    (03/28) Bewitched "Tabatha's Cranky Spells". (11/07) Bewitched "Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall".
    1969
    (01/30) Bewitched "Samantha, The Bard". (03/27) Bewitched "Samantha Twitches For Unicef".
    1970
    (01/29) Bewitched "Tabitha's Very Own Samantha". (04/16) Bewitched "Make Love, Not Hate".
    1972
    (01/15) Bewitched "Samantha Is Earthbound". (03/25) Bewitched "The Truth, Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me Sam". (12/22) Brady Bunch "Everyone Can't Be George Washington".
    1979
    Retired to Newtown, PA.
    1990
    08/12 - Died (brain hemorrhage) in Langhorn, PA.
    Family: Son - Joseph (Newtown, PA). Daughter - Francine (Wallingford, England).
    Indiana's Laughmakers. Greentown Public Library. Old Time Radio Digest, 11-12/1994.

    Norman Selby Kid McCoy
    1873
    10/13 - Born in MOSCOW, IN.
    1894
    Wed Lottie Piehler.
    1897
    Wed Charlotte Smith. Wed Julia Woodruff Crosselmire.
    1899
    Divorced Julia Woodruff Crosselmire.
    1900
    Jan - Remarries Julia Woodruff Crosselmire.
    1902
    01/12 - Divorced Julia Woodruff Crosselmire. 04/11 - Remarries Julia Woodruff Crosselmire.
    1903
    06/09 - Divorced Julia Woodruff Crosselmire. Annulled marriage to Indianaola Arnold.
    1905
    Wed Estelle Ellis.
    1910
    Divorced Estelle Ellis.
    1911
    Wed Edna Valentine Hein.
    1917
    Divorced Edna Hein.
    1920
    Wed Dagmar Dahlgren.
    1921
    Divorced Dagmar Dahlgren.
    1937
    Wed Sue Cobb Cowley.
    1940
    04/17 - Died by swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills in Detroit.
    The Real McCoy by Robert Cantwell.     Bill Shirley
    Child singer in films became singer for Disney and Repulic Pictures.
    1921
    07/06 - Born in INDIANAPOLIS (Irvington).
    Shortridge High School.
    1941
    Doctors Don't Tell. Sailors on Leave. Rookies On Parade.
    1942
    Flying Tigers. Ice-Capades Revue. Hi, Neighbor.
    1944
    Three Little Sisters.
    1949
    Oh, You Beautiful Doll (Dub voice).
    1952
    I Dream of Jeannie . Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd.
    1953
    Sweethearts on Parade.
    1959
    (01/29) Sleeping Beauty (Julie's).
    1964
    (10/22) My Fair Lady (Dub voice).
    1989
    08/27 - Died (Lung cancer). Buried in Crown Hill, Indianapolis.
    AMG

    Helene Stanley
    Model for some of Disney's princesses. SBmodel1.JPG *
    1928
    Los Angeles, CA? or GARY, IN.
    Asphalt Jungle. Diplomatic Courier. Snows of Kilimanjaro.
    1953
    RKO contract.
    1990
    12/27 - Died.
    AMG. Indpls News 11/22/1949 (This source says she was born in Gary). Prevue 08/1953.

    Jay Stewart

    Annoucer for Monty Hall's Let's Make a Deal and other game shows.
    Born Jay Fix. From INDIANAPOLIS, IN.
    Arsenal Technical High School.
    1939
    Butler University.
    1989
    09/17 - Died from shooting himself.
    Indiana's Laughmakers.

    Hugh Studebaker

    Radio soap actor and on Fibber McGee and Molly.
    1900
    05/31 - Born in RIDGEVILLE, IN.
    Georgie and Porgie-The Breakfast Food Boys (Kansas City radio).
    1933
    Chicago radio.
    ( -1939) Fibber McGee and Molly 'Silly Watson'.
    1940
    (1940-46) Captain Midnight 'Ichabod Mudd'.
    1947
    (1947-49) Guilding Light 'Rev. Dr. Charles Matthews'.
    1978
    05/06 - Died.
    Heavenly Days! Indiana's Laughmakers.

    Valeska Suratt
    SURATTP.JPG 100*150One of the original silent Vamps.
    1884
    Born in OWENSVILLE, IN.
    1889
    Move to Terre Haute.
    1905
    New York.
    1906
    Gibson Girl
    (?) Beauty and Skin column and stored costumes at 1634 North 9th St.
    1915
    Parmount Vamp. The Immigrant.
    1927
    Sued C.B. DeMille for the screenplay of The King of Kings.
    1962
    (07/03) Died in Washington D.C. Buried in Terre Haute, IN.
    Indiana's Laughmakers.