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book		Whatever became of ... ? : fifth series / Richard Lamparski New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1974. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.5 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1974 PhysDes: 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ? ISBN: 0517516853 LON: 75001372; 379859 Contents: -- Kirk Alyn -- Amon 'n' Andy -- Heather Angel -- Corliss Archer -- Henry Armstrong -- Nils Asther -- Baby sandy -- John Barrymore, Jr. -- Matthew Beard, Jr. -- Lee Bowman -- "Pappy" Boyington -- Hilary Brooke -- Tom Brown -- Jane Bryan -- John Bubbles -- May Sutton Bundy -- Sue Carol -- "Captain Midnight" -- "Nick Carter, Master Detective" -- Florence Chadwick -- Lita Grey Chaplin -- Mickey Cohen -- Anita Colby -- Viola Dana -- Gail Davis -- Frances Dee -- Philip Dorn -- Ruth Etting -- "Front Page Farrell" -- Edith Fellows -- Virginia Field -- "The First Nighter" - Ditra Flame, "The Lady in Black" -- Jane Frazee -- Jane Froman -- Tony Galento -- William Gargan -- "The Great Gildersleeve" -- Virginia Grey -- Jean Hagen -- Neil Hamilton -- Russell Hayden -- Louis Hayward -- Darryl Hickman -- Jose Iturbi -- Adele Jergens -- Allan Jones -- "Lorenzo Jones," Karl Swenson --Allyn Joslyn -- Beatrice Kay -- Ricky Keith -- Miliza Korjus -- Kurt Kreuger -- June Lang -- Jack La Rue -- Mary Livingston -- William Lundigan -- Jeffrey Lynn -- Dorothy McGuire -- Guy Madison -- Margo -- Marion Marlowe -- The Mauch Twins -- Vaughn Meader -- Perle Mesta -- Miss America of 1942 -- Miss America of 1943 -- Archie Moore -- David Nelson -- Jimmy Nelson -- Ray Noble -- Anita Page -- Cecilia Parker -- Gail patrick -- Jean parker -- Lee Patrick -- Herbert A. Philbrick -- Jimmy Piersall -- Francis Gary Powers -- Gene Raymond -- Donna Reed -- Betty Rowland -- Lili St. Cyr -- Olga San Juan -- The Seven Little Foys -- Anne Shirley -- Larry Simms, "Baby Dumpling" -- Charles Starrett -- Linda Stirling -- Gale Storm -- Gloria Stuart -- Gene Tierney -- Martha Tilton -- "Vera Vague", Barbara Jo Allen -- "Vic and Sade" -- Burt Ward -- Michael Whalen -- Michael Wilding -- Lois Wilson -- George "Foghorn" Winslow -- More info
book		Whatever became of ... ? : second series / Richard Lamparski New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1968. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.2 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1968 PhysDes: 206 p. : ill.; 24 cm Series: Second series Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to more famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ?; Fifth printing LON: 68009092; 716356 Contents: Acknowledgements -- "Bud" Abbott -- Ted Atkinson -- Gene Austin -- "Axis" Sally -- Binnie Barnes -- Beverly Bayne -- Dave Beck -- Edgar Bergen -- Warren K. Billings -- John Boles -- William Boyd -- Joe E. Brown -- Viginia Bruce -- Madeleine Carroll -- Ezzard Char;es -- Ina Claire -- Betty Compson -- Billy Conn -- Katharine Cornell -- Ricardo Cortez -- Dolores Costello -- Glenn Cunningham -- Garry Davis -- Hazel Dawn -- Dizzy Dean -- Carol Dempster -- Andy Devine -- Thomas E. Dewey -- Billie Dover -- Eddie Dowling -- Morton Downey -- Ann Dvorak -- Faye Emerson -- Charles Farrell -- Brenda Frazier -- Janet Gaynor -- Billy Gilbert -- Leo Gorcey -- Hank Greenberg -- Corinne Griffith -- Dick Haymes -- Horace Heidt -- Eleanor Holm -- Tim Holt -- Darla Hood -- Maria Jeritza -- Annette Kellerman -- Evelyn Keyes -- Arthur Lake -- Frances Langford -- Laura La Plante -- Pinky Lee -- Lotte Lehmann -- Nathan Leopold -- Ted Lewis -- Harold Lloyd -- Jacqueline Logan -- Marjorie Main -- Giovanni Martinelli -- Jessie Matthews -- Victor Mature -- Butterfly McQueen -- Lauritz Melchior -- King Michael I of Rumania -- Mitzi -- Colleen Moore -- "Gorgeous Gussie" Moran -- Dennis Morgan -- Gertrude Niesen -- "Mrs. Nussbaum" -- Jack oakie -- Margaret O'Brien -- Ann Pennington -- Lily Pons -- Eleanor Powell -- William Powell -- Aileen Pringle -- Esther Ralston -- Jeanette Rankin -- Paul Robeson -- Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson -- Rubinoff -- Harold Russell -- Barbara Ann Scott -- Howard Scott -- Artie Shaw -- Johhny Sheffield -- Simone Simon -- Penny Singleton -- Smith and Dale -- Buffalo Bob Smith -- Gladys Swathout -- Sonny Tufts -- Mickey Walker -- Ethel Waters -- Weyerhauser Baby, The -- Ireene Wicker -- Esther Williams -- Claire Windsor -- Fay Wray -- More info
book		Whatever became of...? : All new tenth series : 100 profiles of the most-asked-about movie stars and TV personalities : hundreds of never-before-published facts, dates, etc., on celebrities : over 200 then-and-now photographs / Richard Lamparski New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. Call No: 802.27 WHA Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1986 PhysDes: viii, 214 p. : ports. ; 23 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES ISBN: 0517562294 Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 More info
book		Whatever became of...? : first series / Richard Lamparski ; Introduction by Cleveland Amory New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1972. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.1 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1972 PhysDes: 207p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Introduction by Cleveland Amory; Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ?; Ninth printing ISBN: 0517501147 Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Beverly Aadland -- Larry Adler -- Amos 'n' Andy -- Annabella -- John J. Anthony -- Eddie Arcaro -- Richard Arlen -- Adele Astaire -- Charles Atlas -- Mischa Auer -- Gene Autry -- Baby Peggy -- Elaine Barrie Barrymore -- Freddie Bartholomew -- Elisabeth Bergner -- The Boswell Sisters -- James J. Braddock -- Bobby Breen -- John W. Bricker -- Donald Budge -- Judy Canova -- Primo Carnera -- Georges Carpentier -- Irene Castle -- Chester Conklin -- Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan -- Charles E. Coughlin -- Larry "Buster" Crabbe -- Bebe Daniels -- Martin Dies -- Helen Gahagan Douglas -- Jessica Dragonette -- Irene Dunne -- Gertrude Ederle -- Hamilton Fish -- Paulette Goddard -- Dagmar Dogowsky -- "Red" Grange -- Fred A. Hartley -- Gabriel Heatter -- Sonja Henie -- Alger Hiss -- Libby Holman -- Carl Hubbell -- Helen Hull Jacobs -- Ray H. Jenkins -- Johnny -- Bobby Jones -- Christine Jorgensen -- Leatrice Joy -- Hubert F. Julian -- Ruby Keeler -- Patsy Kelly -- Rockwell Kent -- Alexander Kerensky -- William F. Knowland -- Veronica Lake -- Alfred M. Landon -- Lila Lee -- Joan Leslie -- John L. Lewis -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Ella Logan -- Lum 'n' Abner -- Magda Lupescu -- David Manners -- Ilona Massey -- Patsy Ruth Miller -- Helen Wills Moody -- Miss America of 1919 -- Miss America of 1941 -- Pola Negri -- Ramon Novarro -- Gerald P. Nye -- Jesse Owens -- Larry Parks -- Jack Pearl -- Luise Rainer -- Sally Rand -- Anne Revere -- Irene Rich -- Harry Richman -- Lanny Ross -- Evelyn Rudie -- Max Schmeling -- John T. Scopes -- Norma Shearer -- Gerald L. K. Smith -- Gale Sondergaard -- Phil Spitalny -- Anna Sten -- Stepin Fetchit -- Blanche Sweet -- Constance Talmadge -- Arthur Tracy: "The Street Singer" -- Gene Tunney -- "Jersey Joe" Walcott -- Johnny Weissmuller -- Bert Wheeler -- Burton K. Wheeler -- More info
book		Whatever became of...? : third series / Richard Lamparski New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1973. Call No: 802.27 WHA v.3 Author: Lamparski, Richard Source: US Place: New York, NY Publisher: Crown Publishers PubDate: 1973 PhysDes: 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Subject: STARS; ACTORS; CELEBRITIES Summary: "The story of what has happened to more famous personalities of yesteryear"-BOOK JACKET Notes: Based on the author's radio program, Whatever became of ... ?; Fourth printing ISBN: 051750443X Contents: -- Sherman Adams -- The Andrews Sisters-- Lew Ayres -- Kenny Baker -- Busby Berkeley -- Sally Blane -- Betty Blythe -- Evelyn Brent -- Betty Bronson -- Louise Brooks -- Earl Browder -- Johnny Mack Brown -- Spring Byington -- James F. Byrnes -- Corinne Calvet -- Mary Carlisle -- Hoagy Carmichael -- Linda Christian -- Dorothy Collins -- Jerry Colonna -- Joyce Compton -- Dick Contino -- Cheryl Crane -- Laraine Day -- Dolores Del Rio -- The Dionne Quintuplets -- Ruth Donnelly -- Ray Dooley -- Fifi D'Orsay -- Vivian Duncan -- Cliff Edwards -- Ralph Edwards -- Andre Eglevsky -- Clifton Fadiman -- Peggy Fears -- Jimmy Fidler -- Shep Fields -- Susanna Foster -- Rudolph Friml -- Peggy Ann Garner -- Charles Gehringer -- Max Gordon -- Jack Haley -- Jon Hall -- Billy Halop -- June Haver -- "Helen Trent" -- "Henry Aldrich" -- Sterling Holloway -- Rochelle Hudson -- Jackie "Butch" Jenkins -- "Just Plain Bill" -- Christine Keeler -- John F. Kieran -- Otto E. Kruger -- Hal Le Roy -- George Liberace -- "Ma Perkins" -- May McAvoy -- Mary Margaret McBride -- Joel McCrea -- Spanky McFarland -- Fibber McGee -- "The Mad Russian" -- Una Merkel -- Robert Montgomery -- Dickie Moore -- Mantan Moreland -- Arthur Murray -- Anna Q. Nilsson -- Elliott Nugent -- Helen O'Connell -- John Payne -- George Raft -- Duncan Renaldo -- Mandy Rice-Davies -- Charles "Buddy" Rogers -- Will Rogers, Jr. -- Mike Romanoff -- Lillian Roth -- Lizabeth Scott -- Randolph Scott -- Vivienne Segal -- Jack Sharkey -- Sylvia Sidney -- Ginny Sims -- Ethel Smith -- "Stella Dallas" -- Senator Glen H. Taylor -- "Tokyo Rose" -- Alexandra Tolstoy -- "Tonto" -- Peter Townsend -- Myrtle ("Myrt and Marge") Vail -- Evelyn Venable -- King Vidor -- Jerry Voorhis -- Marie Wilson -- Tony Zale -- Vera Zorina -- More info

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