Sally Starr

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Sally Starr (born January 25, 1923 as Alleen Mae Beller in Kansas City , Missouri , † January 27, 2013 in Berlin , New Jersey ) was an American show host , singer and radio presenter .

Life

Alleen Mae Beller married country musician Jesse Rogers in 1941, at the age of 15, and changed her name to Sally Star . Both later moved to Philadelphia , where she hosted a country music show on local radio. In 1950, she was host of the weekday afternoon cartoon -Show Popeye Theater , she dressed in a cowgirl, Popeye - cartoons and short films of The Three Stooges presented. At its peak, your show had up to 1.5 million viewers. In 1958 she recorded the album Our Gal Sal with Bill Haley . Two singles were released, but they were only granted regional success. In 1965 she made a cameo in the Three Stooges feature film The Outlaws Is Coming . Starr married cameraman Mark Gray in 1961, several years earlier her marriage to Jesse Rogers had been divorced. Gray died of a heart attack in 1968. After the television station was sold to new owners in 1972, they decided to discontinue the children's program.

Starr then retired from show business to Florida . After losing her apartment there in a fire in 1987, she returned to New Jersey and worked there again as a radio host. In 1995 she was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame .

Starr died in a nursing home two days after her 90th birthday.

Filmography

1965: The Outlaws Is Coming

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personal data
SURNAME Rigid, Sally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beller, Alleen Mae (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American show host and radio host
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2013
Place of death Berlin , New Jersey , United States