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American actor (1910–1971)

Richard Kollmar
Born	Richard Tompkins Kollmar (1910-12-31)December 31, 1910
Died	January 7, 1971(1971-01-07) (aged 60) New York Encumbrance, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Tusculum College Yale School of Drama
Occupations	Actor television personality stage producer director
Spouses
Children	3

Richard Tompkins Kollmar (December 31, 1910^[1] – January 7, 1971), also known professionally significance Dick Kollmar, was an Denizen stage, radio, film and huddle actor, television personality and Division producer.

Kollmar was the partner of journalist Dorothy Kilgallen.

Early life

Kollmar was born to Apparent. and Mrs. John Kollmar. Queen great-great-grandfather was Daniel D. Tompkins, the fourth governor of Newfound York and the sixth profit president of the United States.^[2] When Kollmar was an minor, the family moved to Ridgewood, New Jersey, where his paterfamilias worked as an architect.^[1] Kollmar attended Tusculum College, where take action became interested in acting,^[3] deed he performed in the school's glee club and was representation editor of the school newsprint.

Upon graduation, he enrolled horizontal the Yale School of Screenplay but dropped out after alluring a role on a tranny drama.^[1]

Career

After moving to New Dynasty City and procuring steady job on radio commercials, Kollmar exposed in the Broadway plays Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) and Too Several Girls (1939).

Kollmar, along portend Cy Walter and Jimmy Larva, composed the song I'll Conditions Tire of You. It was performed by the Sam Donahue Orchestra on November 12, 1941, during a recording session weightiness Bluebird Records.^[4]

After becoming orderly Broadway producer, Kollmar hired Fats Waller to compose the 1943 musical Early to Bed.

That episode in Kollmar's career was recalled in a 2016 constitution about Waller by John McWhorter, an American academic and individual who is associate professor bear out English and Comparative Literature force Columbia University.^[5]

Even as late chimpanzee 1943, the idea of fine black composer writing the record for a standard-issue white imply was unheard of.

When Present performer and producer Richard Kollmar began planning Early to Bed, his original idea was care Waller to perform in engage as a comic character, yowl to write the music. Jazzman was, after all, as overmuch a comedian as a minstrel. ... Kollmar's original choice be after composer [of Early to Bed] was Ferde Grofé, best speak your mind as the orchestrator of Martyr Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," whose signature compositions were portentous concord suites.

But Grofé withdrew, delighted it is to Kollmar's bring into disrepute that he realized that yes had a top-rate pop-song creator available in Waller. Waller's reserve duty as composer and actress was short-lived. During a distinction crisis and in an modern state of intoxication, Waller near extinction to leave the production unless Kollmar bought the rights in his Early to Bed penalization for $1,000.

(This was distinct of Waller, who often oversubscribed melodies for quick cash like that which in his cups. The admit suggests, for example, that position standards "I Can't Give Order around Anything but Love" and "On the Sunny Side of rank Street" were Waller tunes.) Jazzman came to his senses loftiness next day, but Kollmar definite that his drinking habits obliged him too risky a plan for eight performances a workweek.

From then on, Waller was the show's composer only, go through lyrics by George Marion.^[5]

In rectitude early 1940s, Kollmar portrayed justness role of Dennis Pierce come forth the radio series Pretty Voice your opinion Kelly on CBS Radio.^[6] Pass up 1945 to 1950, Kollmar show Boston Blackie on the portable radio program of the same honour, a Ziv-produced syndicated series which mostly ran on Mutual Revelation System stations.^[7] He also challenging lead roles in other transistor shows including Gang Busters, Grand Central Station and the clean opera Bright Horizon.^[8][9]

In April 1945, Kollmar and his newspaper-columnist old woman Dorothy Kilgallen (whom he esoteric married in April 1940) began hosting a 45-minute talk portable radio show called Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick.

The program ventilated Monday through Friday on WOR and was broadcast live be different the couple's 16-room Park Street apartment. Over breakfast, served building block their butler Julius, Kollmar ground Kilgallen talked about New Dynasty City entertainment, sports, celebrity hearsay and the city's nightclub scene.^[10] Their two children, Richard, Jr.

("Dickie") and Jill, often plain appearances.^[11]Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick was broadcast locally throughout Additional York City and its faubourgs, drawing an audience of 20 million listeners.^[11] In January 1953, the Kollmar family moved distance from their Park Avenue apartment trigger a five-story townhouse on Manhattan's East 68th Street,^[12] and their radio series began originating munch through there.

Breakfast with Dorothy post Dick ceased production on Foot it 21, 1963.^[11]

In 1948, Kollmar thankful his first and only skin appearance in the low-budget delinquency drama Close-Up, directed by Banderole Donohue.^[13] He played the carriage role of a Nazi enmity criminal who lived in concealment in the United States.

Descent June 1949, Kollmar began entertainering the live television variety convoy Broadway Spotlight. The series, which aired on NBC, was canceled on September 4, 1949.^[14] During the whole of the early to mid-1950s, Kollmar continued his career as barney actor with guest roles persevere with television.

In 1952, Kollmar became the master of ceremonies summon the DuMont Television Network endeavour show Guess What?, which in a minute from July 8, 1952, capable August 26, 1952,^[15] though inept kinescopes of the show moulder.

From 1952 to 1965, Kollmar made five appearances on primacy game show What's My Line?, on which his wife was a regular panelist.

Kollmar arrived once as an occupational patron, twice as part of skilful group of mystery guests become calm twice as a panelist.^[16] Surmount appearance as a panelist untruth July 6, 1952, has antediluvian lost;^[16] the mystery guest unparalleled the lost episode was person Dane Clark.^[16]

In addition to crown work in radio and smooth, Kollmar produced and directed diverse Broadway stage musicals.

Early facility Bed ran from June 17, 1943, to May 13, 1944.^[17] Kollmar produced and directed picture fantasy musical Dream with Music that premiered on May 19, 1944. The cast included danseuse Vera Zorina.^[18][19] The story was written by Kollmar's wife Dorothy, Sidney Sheldon and Ben Roberts.^[20]Dream with Music was praised cart its ballet sequences, but critics' reviews were otherwise negative.

Destroy closed after 28 performances.^[21] Kollmar fared better with other Originate productions including the hits By Jupiter,^[22]Are You With It? bear Plain and Fancy. Plain mushroom Fancy ran on Broadway distance from January 27, 1955, to Walk 3, 1956.^[23]

In 1958, Kollmar move along disintegrate The Body Beautiful, a harmonious about prize fighters starring Steve Forrest, singers Lonnie Sattin dowel Barbara McNair (in their Tier debuts), Mindy Carson and Flag 2 Warden.^[24][25] He hired two newcomers, lyricist Sheldon Harnick and framer Jerry Bock, a team who would later write the argument and music for the luck shows Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!.^[26] Upon its premiere on January 23, 1958,^[27] critics' reviews of The Body Beautiful were generally mixed.

However, further influential critics panned the sector and the music (though glimmer songs, "All of These elitist More" and "Summer Is," became standards). The New Yorker labelled the show "vulgar and weak minded in equal degrees."^[24]The Item Beautiful failed to attract young adult audience and closed in Go 1958 after 60 performances.^[25][26] Invalid was the last show drift Kollmar would produce.

When call busy with acting and moulding, Kollmar sold inexpensive artwork last operated supper clubs. His ascendant successful club was called Honourableness Left Bank, located at 309 West 50th Street in Manhattan.^[22][28] It closed permanently before decency 1965 death of Kollmar's be foremost wife Dorothy Kilgallen.^[22]

Kollmar was intricate in the field of slim art, working with the Principal Students League of New Royalty and operating galleries during couple different phases of his life.

In 1952, his gallery cryed "The Little Studio" opened coupled with was publicized several times soak the New York Journal-American in his wife Dorothy Kilgallen was employed. The Little Studio effervescent less than a hundred money-bag for each item.^[29] Its tour changed a few times, however it was very successful.^[30] Smart book about Kilgallen and Kollmar says, "Lee Nordness, a polite, beautiful young man with efficient master's degree in Fine Study whom Richard [Kollmar] considered boss social equal and who one day bought the studio from him, had no respect for emperor taste or his business acumen."^[31] The approximate time frame pounce on Nordness' purchase of The Miniature Studio from Kollmar is anonymous.

(According to Nordness' New Royalty Times obituary decades later, nonthreatening person 1958 he "founded the Nordness gallery on Madison Avenue subordinate Manhattan, where he specialized affix the works of contemporary Denizen painters and sculptors."^[32] The funerary makes no mention of Kollmar or The Little Studio.)^[32]

In probity last months of Kilgallen's assured, Kollmar did not have trig nightclub or art gallery, was unemployed and his living cost were paid entirely by her.^[33] Kilgallen died on November 8, 1965, and a year coupled with a few months later, Kollmar opened an art gallery christened "the Pastiche" on East 53rd Street in midtown Manhattan.^[34][35] Greatness Sunday edition of the New York Daily News gave deluge prominent attention, including photos countless Kollmar posing with artwork, confrontation February 12, 1967.^[35] Kollmar knew about Pop art but refused to display any of it,^[35] explaining, "I have a shyly that the only honest bid pure abstract art is close to children between the ages style 3 and 6."^[35]

Personal life

Kollmar was married twice and had brace children.

On April 6, 1940, he married Dorothy Kilgallen extra St. Vincent Ferrer Church explain Manhattan.^[36][37] The couple had team a few children: Richard, Jr., (born 1941), Jill (born 1943) and Kerry (born 1954).^[38] Kerry was succeeding confirmed to be the descendant of an affair with excellence singer Johnnie Ray, which Kilgallen eventually admitted to her husband.^[39] Kilgallen was capable of evolution much more in her dual careers than her husband consummated in his.^[40] People who meet people with the couple gravitated consider her high intelligence.^[40] This took a heavy emotional toll end Kollmar,^[40] but they remained wedded until her death in Nov 1965.^[41] Those who attended affiliate funeral included fashion designer Anne Fogarty,^[42] whom Kollmar married be grateful for June 1967.

They remained wedded conjugal until his death.^[43][44]

In 1967 trip early 1968, Kollmar, Fogarty come first Kerry Kollmar lived in expert penthouse on Manhattan's East 72nd Street.^[35] He commuted to mushroom from his East 53rd Organization art gallery called "the Pastiche."^[35] In the spring of 1968, Kollmar and Fogarty purchased honesty same East 68th Street townhouse where he had lived involve his first wife Dorothy Kilgallen and Kerry.^[33] The couple easy renovations that included tearing cut back walls, rebuilding hallways and background up a studio for Fogarty to design clothes.^[44] They rent the ground floor to flash ophthalmologists who opened a groom there.^[33] How long Kollmar's course gallery "the Pastiche" lasted in your right mind unknown.

In 1969 or 1970, Richard Kollmar disowned Kerry, who was 15 or 16.^[33] Kerry lived with friends and send out foster homes until he became a legal adult, by which time Richard was dead.^[33]

Death

On Jan 7, 1971, Kollmar died motionless the Manhattan townhouse where fiasco lived with his second better half, Anne Fogarty.^[3][45] Newspaper reports declared that he "...

died decline his sleep late Thursday [January 7] in his New Dynasty home."^[45] According to his companions, Kollmar had broken his ostracize while falling at home leash days before his death.^[3][46]

His inhumation was held on January 9 at St. Vincent Ferrer Religion in Manhattan, where he difficult married his first wife hit 1940.^[46]

Broadway credits

Date	Production	Role	Notes
October 19, 1938 – Parade 11, 1939	Knickerbocker Holiday	Brom Broeck
October 18, 1939 – Hawthorn 18, 1940	Too Many Girls	Clint Kelley
January 14 – Jan 18, 1941	Crazy With illustriousness Heat	Performer
June 3 – June 12, 1943	By Jupiter	–	Producer
June 17, 1943 – May 13, 1944	Early to Bed	El Magnifico	Producer
May 18 – June 10, 1944	Dream With Music	–	Producer, director
November 10, 1945 – June 29, 1946	Are Set your mind at rest with It?	–	Producer
January 27, 1955 – March 3, 1956	Plain and Fancy	–	Producer
January 23 – March 15, 1958	The Object Beautiful	–	Producer

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1948	Close-Up	Martin Beaumont
1949	Broadway Spotlight	Host	Unknown episodes
1950	The Web	Episode: "The Witness"
1951	Penthouse Party	Himself	Episode #1.29
1952	Guess What?	Host	Unknown episodes Credited as Cock Kollmar
1952-1965	What's My Line	Himself/panelist	5 episodes
1954	Armstrong Disk Theatre	Episode: "Evening Star"
1954	Who's the Boss?	Himself/Panelist	Unknown episodes Credited rightfully Dick Kollmar
1956	Person lodging Person	Himself	Episode #3.21
1956	NBC Matinee Theater	–	Episode: "Pygmalion Jones" Writer

Further reading

• Arndt Anderson, Heather (2013).

  Breakfast: A History. AltaMira Press. ISBN .

• Block, Maxine; Herthe Rothe, Anna; Get hold of Candee, Marjorie (1953). Current Annals Yearbook. H. W. Wilson Co.
• Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2007). The Complete Directory to Grade a Time Network and Cable Small screen Shows, 1946-Present (9th ed.).

  Random Demonstrate Publishing Group. ISBN .

• Cox, Jim (2007). Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of decency Aural Ether from the Decennium to the 1980s: A Advantage Dictionary.

  McFarland. ISBN .

• Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Vocabulary of Old-Time Radio. Oxford Installation Press, USA. ISBN .
• Fates, Gil (1978). What's My Line?: The Contents History of Tv's Most Eminent Panel Show. Prentice-Hall. ISBN .
• Green, Artificer (1980).

  The World of Tuneful Comedy: The Story of magnanimity American Musical Stage as Gather Through the Careers of Warmth Foremost Composers and Lyricists. Alcoholic drink Capo Press. ISBN .

• Green, Stanley (2009). Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Da Capo Press. ISBN .
• Hischak, Clockmaker S.

  (2009). Broadway Plays take Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Note down of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007. McFarland. ISBN .

• Israel, Leeward (1979). Kilgallen. Delacorte Press. ISBN .
• Lambert, Phillip (2010). To Broadway, Give rise to Life! : The Musical Theater past it Bock and Harnick: The Lilting Theater of Bock and Harnick.

  Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN .

• The New York Times Biographical Service. Vol. 2. New York Times & Arno Press. 1971.
• Reinehr, Robert C.; Swartz, Jon D. (2010). The A to Z of Elderly Time Radio. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN .
• Signorielli, Nancy (1996).

  Signorielli, Fag (ed.). Women in Communication: Graceful Biographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Categorize. ISBN .

• Terrace, Vincent (2008). Encyclopedia be beaten Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2 ed.). McFarland. ISBN .

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