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Art Linkletter was an author, radio & TV host from the 1950s to the 2000s. Some of his works include: the long-running radio and TV show "House Party" (and the famous segment of that show called "Kids Say the Darnedest Things"), radio's "People Are Funny", and he had an appearance in the movie Champagne for Caesar AND Ronald Reagan was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s and who later became the 40th President of the United States! Some of his movies include: Knute Rockne: All American, Kings Row, Dark Victory, and scores of others, but he is far better remembered for his later political career and for his "Reagan Revolution" which transformed politics and brought the Republican party on an equal footing with the Democratic party, after having been dominated by the Democrats for many years! AND George Burns was a legendary comedy actor in radio and film from the 1930s to the 1990s. He is well known for his radio show with his wife Gracie Allen (The Burns & Allen Show) from 1934 to 1950, which moved to TV in 1950, and ran until 1958, and was one of the most creative and innovative TV shows ever! He appeared in in a number of movies with Gracie in the 1930s and 1940s. Gracie passed away in 1964, and he had a successful solo career in such movies as Oh God!, The Sunshine Boys, and Going in Style AND Phil Silvers was born Philip Silver in Brooklyn, New York in 1911, to a poor Russian/Jewish family (he was the youngest of 8 kids!). He began singing in theaters when he was 11, and two years later he quit school and went to work, first singing, and then as a vaudeville comic. He got a part in a Broadway show, and then wrote a comic show of his own, but it wasn't until 1940 that he was in his first movie, Hit Parade of 1941. In 1942 he wrote the lyrics for a song, Bessie (with the laughing face) for a friend's wife, and it went over so well he started performing it at every female birthday party he attended, with the appropriate girl's name added. When he performed it at Frank Sinatra's house for his daughter Nancy's birthday, Frank thought it had been written for her, and Frank recorded it, and it became a hit record! Phil spent the 1940s working as a comic in many movies, but always in secondary roles. He finally got a big break in 1952 in the lead in a Broadway show called Top Banana, loosely based on Milton Berle. Silvers won a Tony for the show, and starred in the movie version two years later. In 1955, he got the part of a lifetime, as Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko in You'll Never Get Rich (later called The Phil Silvers Show). It was one of the huge hits of early TV, and deservedly so, for it is a wonderful ensemble comedy, and the shows hold up very well today! After the show went off the air in 1959, Silvers mostly returned to secondary roles, and continued on TV and in the movies and on the stage (two of his most memorable appearances were in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and on the Gilligan's Island show, which Silvers produced). He turned down the lead role in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and when it was turned into a movie he took a secondary role. When the show was revived on Broadway, Silvers finally got to play the lead, and he won a Tony, the first time an actor won for a revival. Phil Silvers was a wonderful fast talking comedian who was perfectly cast as Sgt. Bilko, and if you have never seen this great show (or if it has been many years since you have, I highly recommend you find some episodes, for you will surely be very entertained!).

Important Added Info: Note that we don't know what the event was that brought these four great celebrities together! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that this still measures 8 1/4" x 10" [21 x 25 cm].

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