Raphael Mendez ACETATE Universal Records JOHN GUEDEL
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Raphael Mendez ACETATE Raphael Mendez ACETATE Universal Records LOT LP NM RARELOT LP NM RARE....All records made of Metal and in Near Mint Unplayed Type condition........
First Picture is LP....Universal Records...a few sleeve smears ...Awesome condition....12" 33rpm....
....1st side: Raphael Mendez
Rush Adams
J.Courtland
Marjorie Good
2nd side:J M Fitzgerald
Herb Griffin
Clark Dennis
Hal Derwin
3ND Picture....12" 33rpm Childrens Part...I think these kids belong to the Stars...3/29/51..(writtin faint Dennis) Recorded on One side only
4th Picture Universal Records 10" 78rpm ....House Party ..John Guedel..Hawaiin Duet...11-4-55....Recorded on 1 side only.....VERY RARE LOT....Thank you and Good Luck.....
One of radio and television's most inventive independent packagers in the '40s and '50s, Guedel created "You Bet Your Life" for Marx in 1947, including having a duck drop down and deliver a $100 bill whenever a contestant uttered the "secret word."
"John really devised a program that allowed Groucho to do the thing he did best, which was improvise," said Robert Dwan, who worked with Guedel for almost 20 years as a writer on "People Are Funny" and as a director on "You Bet Your Life."
Guedel created "People Are Funny" and "House Party" with longtime partner Linkletter. The two men formed Guedel and Linkletter Productions in 1941, a business relationship that ended only a few years ago.
"We've been partners all those years, and it was a partnership distinguished by the fact that we never had a signed contract and never had a disagreement," Linkletter told The Times Monday. "John and I were the perfect match for two people: We were both creative, we both had original ideas; he liked to produce, and I liked to star."
Guedel was born in Portland, Ind., on Oct. 9, 1913. His father owned a factory that made dashboards for Ford Motor Co. After a tornado destroyed the factory, the family moved to Los Angeles when Guedel was 8.
The family moved into a home in Bel-Air, and Guedel's father purchased various properties throughout Los Angeles, including the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
A graduate of Beverly Hills High School, where he served as student body president and sports information director, Guedel enrolled at UCLA in 1931 but left after a year. By then, the family's fortunes had disappeared in the 1929 stock market crash.
"His dad lost everything," said Guedel's wife, Valerie. "They even auctioned off their canned goods and his sister's dollhouse."
Guedel dug ditches for the New Deal's WPA program, and worked as a door-to-door salesman while attempting to break into magazines as a writer. He amassed more than 100 rejection slips before going to work for the Hal Roach Studios in 1933 as a writer on Laurel and Hardy
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