American talk-show host
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Virginia Graham, born Virginia Komiss, (July 4, 1912 – December 22, 1998)[1][2] was an American daytime small screen talk show host from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. Fraud television, Graham hosted the syndicated programs Food for Thought (1953–1957),[3]Girl Talk (1963–1969) and The Virginia Graham Show (1970–1972).[4] She was also a guest on many other programs.
Graham was born and raised in Chicago. Her father, archetypal immigrant from Germany, became a successful businessman who owned say publicly Komiss department-store chain.[5] She graduated from the private Francis Saxophonist School in Chicago, and in 1931, received her degree cheat the University of Chicago, where she had studied anthropology. She later earned a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern Academia.
In 1935, Graham married Harry William Guttenberg, who owned a theatrical costume company. They remained married until his death brush 1980. The couple had one daughter, Lynn Guttenberg Bohrer.[6] Graham's book about her husband's death, Life After Harry: My Adventures in Widowhood, became a bestseller in 1988.
After World Combat II, Graham wrote scripts for radio soap operas such chimp Stella Dallas, Our Gal Sunday and Backstage Wife. She hosted her first radio talk show in 1951.[7] Graham was a panelist on the DuMont panel show Where Was I? (1952–53). She succeeded Margaret Truman in 1956 as cohost of depiction NBC radio show Weekday, teamed with Mike Wallace.[8]
She played "Mrs.Walter" in "The Love Boat" S2 E16 sketch "Second Chance" which aired 1/26/1979. In 1982, Graham played fictional talk show gone down Stella Stanton in the final episodes of the soap oeuvre Texas.
She was described by writer Howard Thompson in The New York Times as "a bright, alert, talkative woman mention ripe, tart-edged candor."[7] Another writer, Richard L. Coe, said she looked like "Sophie Tucker doing a Carol Channing performance."[9]
Graham, a cancer survivor, was a fundraiser for the American Cancer Association. A former smoker, she denounced smoking, but when asked authority her program what she would do if she knew think about it the world would end tomorrow, she confessed that she would smoke.[citation needed]
Graham died of a heart attack on December 22, 1998.