RIP.
“Radio’s Sweetheart.” That’s what they’re calling Toledo’s Shirley Mitchell in Hollywood these days …
Usually cast as the ingenue romantic interest, Shirley is now one of the busiest microphone performers on the west coast. Not only that, she is one of the best liked and best known. Only last week she was the subject of a two-page illustrated spread in the kilocycle publication, Radio Life Weekly. And the article by Coy Williams is very flattering in its praise of the local miss.
“There’s an ever-smilin’ blonde around town who’s gone and built herself the doggonest monopoly we’ve come across,” Mr. Williams writes. “She’s cornered the market on long term romance and won the unique title of ‘Radio’s Sweetheart’.”
They just don't make 'em like they used to...
Her husband Jay Livingston wrote Silver Bells, Que Sera Sera, the theme music for Rocky and Bullwinkle, and his crowning achievement the theme to Mr Ed
Marion????
It was Fred and ETHEL MERTZ.
Rest in peace.