Arthur Godfrey Overview:

Actor, Arthur Godfrey, was born Arthur Morton Godfrey on Aug 31, 1903 in New York City, NY. Godfrey died at the age of 79 on Mar 16, 1983 in New York City, NY .

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He was honored with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Television, Radio and Recording. In addition, Godfrey was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame .

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Was thought to have been at least the partial inspiration for the character of Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes in Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957). The character of Rhodes was that of a popular TV personality whose folksy image covered up the fact that he was a vicious, manipulative bully privately.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 323-325. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

He once remarked on his television show that, when told they had booked Tommy Leonetti, he thought that it was a trio called "Tommy, Lee and Eddie.".

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