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  • Category: Television
  • Star rank: 1202
  • Address:
    6796 Hollywood Blvd
  • Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
  • GPS location:
    34.101428, -118.338416

Dorothy Kilgallen

Next star: Victor Mature
Previous star: Jay Leno

Biography

Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American journalist and television game show panelist. She started her career early as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation’s New York Evening Journal after spending only two semesters at The College of New Rochelle in New Rochelle, New York. In 1936, she began her newspaper column, The Voice of Broadway, which was eventually syndicated to over 146 papers. She became a regular panelist on the television game show What’s My Line? in 1950.

Fact file

  • Born: Dorothy Mae Kilgallen July 3, 1913 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
  • Died: November 8, 1965 (aged 52) New York City, U.S.
  • Occupation: Journalist
  • Spouse(s): Richard Kollmar (1940-1965)

Read more about Dorothy Kilgallen at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

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