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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article should be cited as:<blockquote>"Alice Ghostley", by Will Johnson, [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], at CountyHistorian.com, professional genealogist copyright 2007-8, all rights reserved.</blockquote></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This article should be cited as:<blockquote>"Alice Ghostley", by Will Johnson, [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], at CountyHistorian.com, professional genealogist copyright 2007-8, all rights reserved.</blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This page is the '''most complete and thorough''' biography of Alice Ghostley which exists.  It's however not finished.  So if you have something to add let me know.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>This page is the '''most complete and thorough''' biography of Alice Ghostley which exists.  It's however not finished.  So if you have something to add let me know.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Afterwards Alice went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she majored in English and drama, but dropped out, to move with her older sister Gladys to New York City.  Gladys got a job as a secretary at Columbia University, while Alice got her first job as an usher at the Imperial Theatre for $11.88 a week.  She studied singing, aiming for a career in that area, but at her 648th audition, as she relates, she was accosted by pianist-composer George Wood.  (George hated his first name and so he was always credited as "G. Wood".)  He persuaded her, that what she really was, was a comedienne.  The two of them begun doing comedy in small venues where she was spotted by [[Imogene Coca]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Afterwards Alice went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she majored in English and drama, but dropped out, to move with her older sister Gladys to New York City.  Gladys got a job as a secretary at Columbia University, while Alice got her first job as an usher at the Imperial Theatre for $11.88 a week.  She studied singing, aiming for a career in that area, but at her 648th audition, as she relates, she was accosted by pianist-composer George Wood.  (George hated his first name and so he was always credited as "G. Wood".)  He persuaded her, that what she really was, was a comedienne.  The two of them begun doing comedy in small venues where she was spotted by [[Imogene Coca]].</div></td></tr>
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