Allen Prescott (January 21, 1904 - January 27, 1978) was a radio and television performer and writer.
The life of this person has been researched by Esther Newton for her essay:
"Cherry Grove, Fire Island", published by Duke University Press.Partner Ray Mann
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Cherry Grove, Suffolk County, NY 11980
Allen Prescott (January 21, 1904 - January 27, 1978) was a radio and television performer and writer.
The life of this person has been researched by Esther Newton for her essay:
"Cherry Grove, Fire Island", published by Duke University Press.
Best known as the originator of “The Wife Saver” program, a light and humorous radio show offering household hints to housewives several mornings and afternoons a week, and “New York Tonight”. He was well known in Chicago, where he substituted for Don McNeil on “The Breakfast Show” several times a year; in Philadelphia over WFIL‐TV, he produced and was M.C. of a 5 times a week 1½ hour variety show, which ran for 1½ years. This was the forerunner of all thr daytime TV talk and variety shows. Prior to his hundreds of radio and TV appearances, he was a reporter on the N.Y. Mirror. He was an actor, known for The Wife Saver (1947), The Golden Twenties (1950) and Recipe for Happiness (1951).
Allen Prescott was born in St. Louis, but was brought to New York at an early age. He graduated from the New York Military Academy and the University of Penna. He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. During World War II, he was a Lt. Senior Grade attached to Fleet Air Wing 4 and saw service in the Aleutians.
Prescott began his radio career as a newscaster in New York, appearing on a WMCA news program with Walter Winchell in 1929 and covering special events for WINS in the early 1930s. The Wife Saver aired on New York radio stations WINS and WABC in 1929, moving to NBC's Blue Network in 1932. By 1941 the program's name and format changed to Prescott Presents; it was broadcast until 1943. Prescott also wrote two books and hosted several other radio and television programs.
The popular singer Johnnie Ray, and was a good friend of Allen Prescott.
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