Radio-TV mirror (July-Dec 1952)

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who's who \jjyouA CoW^ Raised on radio scripts instead of Mother Goose tales, Larry Robinson, heard as Brad on The Second Mrs. Burton, started his air career at the age of three. He gave his first performance on the children's program, Coast to Coast On A Bus, singing "The Old Farmer" in fluent Danish, taught him by his actress mother. Larry was born in New York City, where his father was a lawyer. When the young star was five, his father died, Mrs. Robinson moved Larry and his elder brother to Manhattan from their suburban home. Larry began to attend Professional Children's School at about the same time that he got his first Broadway role as Pud in "On Borrowed Time." His performance received high praise from the critics, and after the play ended its run he was cast as Harlan in that longest-run hit, "Life With Father." Even while playing on Broadway, Larry continued his radio work and, when he made his first appearance as Sammy on the radio version of The Goldbergs, he had already been cast more than 5,000 times in different radio roles. Until a few years ago, Larry considered radio and TV parts mere bread-andbutter means to the end of attending medical college some day, but now he has decided on radio and TV as a career. Larry is still unattached, seldom dates actresses, they always talk "theatre." '(jikKloM^L QpjpkodL Gerrianne Raphael started her show-bizing a year later than Larry Robinson, but she has more than made up for that year she missed. Starting her career at the grand old age of four, Gerrianne was one of the Let's Pretenders. She combined an amazing memory (enabling her to act before she could read scripts) with a child's sense of whimsy. She, too, went to the Professional Children's School in New York, while acquiring practical experience on the Broadway stage in plays like "Solitaire," when she was nine; "Guest in the House," at eleven; and at sixteen in "Goodbye My Fancy." Most of Gerrianne's summers were spent in the straw-hat circuit, and one vacation to Bermuda landed her a job in a night club. Her creative ability is not limited to the stage — Gerri is an expert cook, and makes all of her own clothes. She found this necessary, since she wears a size seven dress and finds it very difficult to buy appropriate garb for her one-hundred-pound, fivefoot-four frame. In her present role on Our Gal Sunday. Gerrianne portrays a girl of her own age, whose family's theatrical background creates a heartbreaking problem (see page 51). Gerrianne's actual home-life is completely opposite, though. Her own parents, a former actress and a pianist, have given Gerri much encouragement. 66