Sally Starr (TV hostess)

Sally Starr ( born January 25, 1923 as avenues Mae Beller in Kansas City, Missouri; † January 27, 2013 in Berlin, New Jersey) was an American show host, singer and radio presenter.

Life

Avenues Mae Beller married in 1941, at the age of 15 years, the country musician Jesse Rogers and changed its name to Sally Star. Both later moved to Philadelphia, where she hosted a country music broadcast on local radio. In 1950, she was host of the weekday afternoon cartoon show Popeye Theater, where she, dressed as a cowgirl, Popeye cartoons and presented short films of The Three Stooges. In the top of her mission had up to 1.5 million viewers. In 1958, she recorded the album Our Gal Sal with Bill Haley. Two singles were released, which only regional success had granted. In 1965 she had a cameo in the Three Stooges feature film The Outlaws Is Coming. Starr married in 1961 to cinematographer Mark Gray, already several years before her marriage was divorced with Jesse Rogers. Gray died in 1968 of a heart attack. After the TV station was sold to new owners in 1972, this, the children's show decided discontinued.

Starr then retired from show business to Florida back. After she had lost in 1987 by a fire her apartment, she returned to New Jersey, where he worked again as a radio presenter. In 1995, she was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame.

Starr died two days after her 90th birthday in a nursing home.

Filmography

1965: The Outlaws Is Coming