Pop Culture Category
Dorothy McHugh
Born August 14, 1907, McHugh was a Ziegfield Follies dancer, but she is probably best known for her line “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. The line was originally spoken in a television commercial for a med...Read More
Clara Peller
Clara Peller was a retired manicurist in 1984 when American viewers watched her demand Where’s the Beef?! in Wendy’s fast-food commercials. Born on August 4, 1902, the firey octogenarian was an overnight success, inspiring mil...Read More
the voice of the Jolly Green Giant
Dresslar was an entertainer and singer for nearly six decades. But his voice rang through millions of households when he sang the simple refrain, Ho, Ho, Ho in an ad jingle for Green Giant Foods....Read More
Afghan Girl
She was the unknown, unnamed subject of one of the most riveting National Geographic photos ever. Taken in 1986, this teenage refugee was photographed at a refugee camp in Pakistan and known only as the “Afghan girl”....Read More
Morton Downey, Jr.
One of the protypical “shock jocks” of talk radio and front running right-wing loon, Morton Downey, Jr. made the transition to television with The Morton Downey Jr. Show in 1987. After an incident allegedly involving &...Read More