1. Don Quinn was an American comedy writer who started out as a cartoonist based in Chicago.
14 Facts About Don Quinn
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Don Quinn was best known as the sole writer of the popular old-time radio show Fibber McGee and Molly for 17 years and as the writer for the program's stars Jim and Marian Jordan for 20 years.
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Don Quinn was born in November 1900 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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However, what little is known is that after discovering that, even though his drawings were thrown away by magazines, his captions were kept, Don Quinn found a job at WENR in Chicago writing for some of the up-and-coming comedians there.
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Don Quinn was hired to write scripts for The Smith Family.
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Don Quinn was famous for delaying the actual writing of the scripts.
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In 1943, Phil Leslie became Don Quinn's writing assistant on the show.
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In 1945, Don Quinn created The Beulah Show for CBS Radio.
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In 1950, Don Quinn created The Halls of Ivy a lighthearted comedy about a professor, William Todhunter Hall, the president of Ivy, a small Midwestern College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees.
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The Colmans reprised their roles from the radio series, and Don Quinn wrote for the television series as well.
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Don Quinn broke into television in 1953 as a story editor for the Four Star Playhouse.
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Don Quinn would write an episode of the series in 1956.
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Don Quinn remarried several years later to Edythe Quinn.
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Edythe Don Quinn was a former reporter with the Chicago American.