1. Tedi Thurman had film offers, but only one role, in the z-grade 1954 Ed Wood movie, Jail Bait.
10 Facts About Tedi Thurman
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Tedi Thurman was one of the 22 who auditioned, but she lost the gig to two professional musicians.
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Tedi Thurman, who lived in Palm Springs, California, until her death on September 17,2012, became one of the most familiar radio voices of the late 1950s in her role as Miss Monitor.
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Tedi Thurman, she was an actress, she had done a little bit of radio, she had done some television, but she was a model.
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Tedi Thurman would come into the studios and be there virtually every hour of the 40-hour weekend with just a few breaks, and she would do weather with this lush music behind her.
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Tedi Thurman had to complete the segment by making up temperatures for each city.
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Tedi Thurman can be seen as Miss Monitor in the trailer for the movie Ten Thousand Bedrooms.
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Tedi Thurman was interviewed about her life on Fire Island for Crayton Robey's documentary film When Ocean Meets Sky.
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On Wednesday, July 14,2004,29 years after Monitor ended on NBC Radio; Tedi Thurman joined more than 40 former Monitor staff members who gathered in midtown Manhattan for the first Monitor reunion at Hurley's Tavern, a location made famous through many references on the Paar Tonight Show.
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On September 17,2012, Tedi Thurman died in her sleep at age 89 in Palm Springs, California.