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unusual facts about press agent



A. B. MacDonald

After he was assigned to interview evangelist Billy Sunday, he took a leave from the Star to go to New York to work as Sunday's publicity agent.

Palouse Falls

Bradt's media agent released the video footage of him dropping over the falls to Sports Illustrated, who carried it on their website.


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Jean Bell Thomas

She then held a variety of jobs, including work as a script girl for Cecil B. de Mille's film The Ten Commandments, as secretary to the owner of the Columbus Senators baseball team, and as press agent for Ruby "Texas" Guinan, the notorious entertainer and owner of prohibition-era speakeasies.

Jerry Berger

He was also a press agent and publicist with such personalities as Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson, Leonard Bernstein, Liza Minnelli, Arthur Rubinstein, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Betty Grable, Vincent Price, Charlton Heston, and Rudolf Nureyev, among others.

Joseph F. Holt

She had to determine which of the three men on stage was the real member of Congress, between a Chevron service station attendant/owner from the San Fernando Valley named Earl Sager and a press agent for Ringling Brothers Circus named Norman Carroll.

Lui

Lui (French for "Him") is a French adult entertainment magazine created in November 1963 by Daniel Filipacchi, a fashion photographer turned publisher, Jacques Lanzmann, a jack of all trades turned novelist, and Frank Ténot, a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic.

Reuben sandwich

A version of that story is related by Bernard Sobel in his book Broadway Heartbeat: Memoirs of a Press Agent and claims that the sandwich was an extemporaneous creation for Marjorie Rambeau inaugurated when the famed Broadway actress visited the delicatessen one night when the cupboards were particularly bare.

Richard Erdman

From 1953 to 1954, Erdman co-starred with Ray Bolger in ABC sitcom, Where's Raymond? Erdman was cast as the pessimistic Pete Morrisey, Ray's landlord and press agent.

Shirley Chambers

She was notable for playing 'dumb blonde' roles in musical comedy films, having been discovered by press agent Harry Reichenbach.

Subways Are for Sleeping

Producer David Merrick and press agent Harvey Sabinson decided to invite individuals with the same names as prominent theatre critics (such as Walter Kerr, Richard Watts, Jr. and Howard Taubman) to see the show and afterwards used their favorable comments in print ads.