11 Facts About Lee Bowman

Lee Bowman was an American film and television actor.

Lee Bowman was spotted by a Paramount Pictures agent and went to Hollywood in 1934, but was not used at first.

Lee Bowman eventually made his film debut in I Met Him in Paris for Paramount.

Lee Bowman worked at that studio for a while, then RKO, before moving to MGM where he appeared in Bataan a film that follows the fates of a group of men charged with destroying a bridge during the doomed defense of the Bataan Peninsula by American forces in the Philippines against the invading Japanese.

Lee Bowman was a much in-demand radio actor, and worked on Broadway.

Lee Bowman was the original actor who played Lucille Ball's husband in the audition program serving as a pilot for My Favorite Husband, airing on CBS Radio July 5,1948; however, he was not available for the full series after CBS approved it, so when it debuted later that month it starred Ball and Richard Denning as the leads.

Lee Bowman was responsible for developing the 'conversational' approach to spoken communication, which is recognized today as the only successful model for business and political presentations and media interviews.

For fifteen years Lee Bowman was communications consultant for Bethlehem Steel.

Lee Bowman died from a heart attack in Brentwood, Los Angeles, on Christmas Day 1979, three days before his 65th birthday.

Lee Bowman was married to Helene Rosson, Victor Fleming's step daughter.

Lee Bowman had a stepdaughter from an early marriage by Rosson.