) Milton Berle also passed on the role.

It has also been said that Berle had less appeal with audiences outside the Borscht Belt as television expanded from big East Coast markets to smaller cities.

In 1941's Sun Valley Serenade they are major members of the cast, which also features comedian Milton Berle.

Berle supported separating commercial banking from other activities, but disagreed with the Winthrop Aldrich position, contained in Glass-Steagall ’ s Section 21, that this should also apply to “ private bankers .” Berle suggested that required a “ separate study .”

Wolfe also pulled strings with Adolph Berle ( 1895 – 1971 ), an official in the State Department.

* 1948-The Texaco Star Theater, starring Milton Berle, becomes the first major successful U. S. television program ; The Toast of the Town also debuts

In the U. S., shows featuring Perry Como, Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope, and Dean Martin also helped to make the Golden Age of Television successful.

Matthews went on to marry and divorce comedian Milton Berle, also twice, while Rose married Doris Vidor later in 1964.

Other voices were by Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Paul Lynde, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford, Danny Thomas, Margaret Hamilton ( also from the 1939 film, but now playing Aunt Em rather than the Wicked Witch of the West ), and opera singer Risë Stevens as Glinda.

Rydell was also a regular on The Milton Berle Show.

He had also appeared on the Broadway stage in Sailor Beware, All In Favor and Same Time Next Week where he first worked with Berle.

The show also featured many of the nation's most familiar radio stars, some of whom were beginning to shine on the medium the show was intended to help hold at bay: Gertrude Berg ( The Goldbergs ), Milton Berle, Bob Cummings, Joan Davis, Ed Gardner ( Archie from Duffy's Tavern ), Phil Harris, Garry Moore, Jan Murray, Ozzie & Harriet Nelson ( The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ), Phil Silvers, Danny Thomas, Paul Winchell and more.

Airing opposite NBC's highly popular Milton Berle show on Tuesday nights, Sheen was the only person ever to give " Mr. Television ", also known as " Uncle Miltie ", a run for his money.

While under contract to Fox, she also went on prearranged dates with Milton Berle and George Montgomery.

Before he had been given the offer, several stars such as Bobby Darin, Milton Berle and Dick Van Dyke were also approached, but declined.

At age 17, he married Susan Berle, also known as Toots, and they had a son named Sean in 1970.

This conference was held despite Stavropoulos' assurance to Adolf Berle, who was leaving the same day for Puerto Rico, that nothing would be done until his return on January 22, except that the Secretary General would probably order the list destroyed.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

Warner felt that Berle was not strong enough as a lead to carry a film and that people would not pay to see the man they could see on television for free.

Berle would revive the structure and routines of his vaudeville shows for his debut on TV.

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80 % share of the recorded viewing audience.

Berle is credited for the huge spike in the sale of TV sets.

Many of the show's plots were inspired by Reiner's experiences as a writer for Your Show of Shows, but though he based the character of Rob Petrie on himself, Rob's egocentric boss Alan Brady is less Sid Caesar ( host of Your Show of Shows ) than a combination of the more abrasive Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner himself.

Such is the case with performers Jackie Gleason and Milton Berle, for whom nearly complete program archives exist.

Sam Berman's caricature of Milton Berle for 1947 NBC promotional book

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

Part of the problem was variety shows becoming costlier to produce, compared to the Texaco days when, among other factors, name guest stars didn't mind the low appearance fees they got for appearing, because they could bank the exposure they got from even one appearance on the Berle show ; or, with Fred Allen and Ed Wynn in its earlier radio incarnations.

In academic literature, the phenomenon of regulatory competition reducing standards overall was argued for by AA Berle and GC Means in The Modern Corporation and Private Property ( 1932 ) while the concept received formal recognition by the US Supreme Court in a decision of Justice Louis Brandeis in the 1933 case Ligget Co. v. Lee ( 288 U. S. 517, 558 – 559 ).

In one of the more well-known revivals to modern audiences, a young comedian by the name of Milton Berle played one of the Florodora Boys in a production mounted for the 1920-21 Broadway season.

He argued against the extreme economic plans of Raymond Moley, Adolf Berle and Rex Tugwell, while clearly recognizing the need for major changes to deal with the inequalities of wealth distribution that had led to the devastating nature of the Depression.

According to Spinrad the episode was so well received by Roddenberry that he commissioned him to write another for comedian Milton Berle who planned to do a dramatic turn on the show entitled " He Who Walks Among Us ".

By this time, however, Ace began writing for other performers ; Milton Berle, Perry Como, Danny Kaye, Robert Q. Lewis, and Bob Newhart were some who engaged this witty man with a winking inability to take himself too seriously.

He continued to land work as a child model and actor in commercials, as well as landing small parts on a number of popular NBC variety shows of the 1950s, such as The George Gobel Show, The Eddie Fisher Show and The Milton Berle Show, before auditioning for the role that would eventually make him a star.

The Cowardly Lion ( voiced by Milton Berle ) puts on his best brave act when he tells Dorothy and the others he will slay the elephants, saying he will " snap off their tusks and use them for toothpicks ", but, like the Tin Man, he is too afraid after hearing the elephants are magical, and he suggests they go to find Glinda ( voiced by Rise Stevens ), the Good Witch of the North.

He arranged for Presley to appear on popular television shows such as The Milton Berle Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, acquiring fees that would make him the highest-paid star on television.

The other Warner brother, Jack, began his hatred of television with problems with Milton Berle being hired by the studio to make an unsuccessful film Always Leave Them Laughing during the peak of his television popularity.

The film starred comedian Milton Berle, dancer Ann Miller, and singer Harriet Hilliard ( later Harriet Nelson of Ozzie and Harriet ).

Milton Berle always claimed that he played the five-year-old paperboy in the film, but the role was actually portrayed by Gordon Griffith.

Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.