A sweet story from the Midland Reporter-Telegram, where a retired doctor talks of meeting Red Skelton when Red was 77, and performing at Harrah’s: “When Gosney asked Red about the braces he was wearing, the… Temple doctor has last laugh after meeting Red Skelton
Red Skelton stars as Ben Dobson, a freelance writer who no sooner starts working full-time as a rewrite man at a magazine than his wife (Jean Hagen) decides that they should have their first child. Afterward, she pushes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs. Here he is nickel and dimed to the verge of bankruptcy. Until his boss gives him his first chance at writing his own article for this national magazine. An article talking about the “slums of tomorrow” — the suburbs
Half a Hero (1953)Brian Hoffman’s Remembering Red – A Tribute to Red Skelton: Traveler Reviews (Editor’s note: I’ve never met Brian, although he’s a Facebook friend who I’ve interacted with – he clearly has a great love for… Brian Hoffman’s Remembering