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Famous People with connections to
Southbridge
JFK
in Southbridge - Sept 30, 1958
Come see the Display for Famous people & Southbridge at 310 Main
St
Famous people / Celebrities who have visited or have ties to Southbridge
William Leanard
Marcy "To the Victor Belong the Spoils", Born in Southbridge, Gov of New
York B- 1786
Sidney Clark (Born in Southbridge 1820)- Reformer, Moralist and first
Senator in Kansas
George
Thorndike Angell (Born in Southbridge in 1823 - Founder of Mass Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Frederick
Douglass - May 6, 1842 (Itinerary)
William
G. Putney (Born in Southbridge in 1842) -Civil War Veteran / Author
Bela Tiffany - Quoted in Hawthornes "Twice Told Tales"
Fr. Michael
Earls (1875-1937), author
P T Barnum visited
Southbridge
with his Greatest Show on Earth on May 29 1876 - some 6,000 people
were estimated to have attended the shows.
Frank
Parsons Political Scientist / Southbridge resident / Art Teacher -
1870's
March 10, 1892 Visit to Southbridge to talk at YMCA : widow of General
Custer: Mrs. Elizabeth Custer
Donald
J. Ross - Designer of Cohasse Country
Club - 1916
Frederick Law Olmstead- Architect (viewed Mary E Wells Bld 1919)
"The
Great Reno- escape artist (Southbridge Houdini) - July 4, 1910
Rudolph
Valentino -Actor 11-May-1923
Norman
Rockwell Artist (6 Paintings commissioned by AO)' 1920's
Neil Hamilton
(Actor) - 1932
Glenn
Miller- Band Leader 20-Jan-1939
Sir
Alexander Flemming (Inventor of Penicillin) visits AO in 1945
Richard Rodgers -Composer 1955
Oscar Hammerstein -Lyricist 1955
Mike Todd -Producer
/ Todd AO 1955
Elizabeth Taylor -Actress (Mike Todds Wife) 1955
Merrill
"Mezzie" Barber- Olympic Skier /Sonja Heine roll on slopes in Sun
Valley Serenade" / Worked at AO in 1950s
Big Bird
(Carroll Spinney) - 1950s to present
Ted Williams (Red
Sox baseball) - 1960
Jimmy
Piersall (Red Sox Baseball) - ~1960
Lorin
Hollander -Concert Pianist 1963
Grace Morley
Once married to Montel Williams / lived in Southbridge and in Gateway)
1975
Dorothy Hamil -Olympic
Gold Medalist - skating 1977
Dorothy Lamour -Actress Oct-51
Tex Benekee
-Sax Player (Glenn Miller) Jan-52
John F. Kennedy (President) -1958
Jackie Kennedy Onasis (First Lady) - 1958
Alfred Hitchcock - Movie Director 1960s
John Fitzgeraled (Dallas Cowboys football star, Southbridge Native)
Ted
Kennedy -Politician 1962/2000
Rudy Vallee -Singer 1962?
Eddie Feigner- Softball 1969?
Jackie Robinson
- Baseball player ~ late 1960s
Grace Morley
(Former Southbridge Resident in 1970's) and ex wife of Montel Williams
1970's
Arther Ashe -Tennis Pro 1976?
Bob Griese -Football
Star 1977?
Loren
Ghiglione - Author/Former Editor of Southbridge News
Montel Williams-
TV Star 1999?
Conan O'brien -Late Night TV 2000
Brian Dennehy -Actor 2000
Christa Delcamp-
7NEWS Anchor/Reporter started at WESO
Mish
Michaels - Reported on 50th Anniversary of the
Flood of 1955 - August 2005
Elizabeth
Letendre - American Idol (Season 3)
Bill Murray - Actor 2007
Gregory
McGuire -Author of book Wicked 2006
William
Mann -Author of book Kate 2007
Visitors to OSV:
Julie
Andrews - Singer / Actress Movie Hawaii 1965
Max Von Sydow- Actor Movie Hawaii 1965
Carroll O'Conner - Actor in Hawaii / All in the Family 1965
Torin
Thatcher - Actor Movie Hawaii 1965
Check
out Don Whitney Home movie
of Julie Andrews and Max Von Sydow at OSV in 1965
Merv Griffin TV Show 1967?
Arthur Treacher TV Show 1967?
Barbara Eden TV Actress - I Dream of Jeannie 1967?
Trish VanDevere Actress (Wife of George C Scott) - Summer Stock at
Merry Go Round Theatre 1967
Linda Hunt Actress (Voice of Granmother in Disneys Pocohontas) Merry
Go Round Theartre 1967
Other
John Tanner 54th Mass Regiment Mustered in southbridge
Jeff Hecht Author of City of Light, Fiber Optics began in Southbridge
St. Nicholas Church "First Albanian Orthodox Church in the world built
expressly for the worship of God in the Albanian tongue"
William Marcy "To the Victor Belong the Spoils", Born in Southbridge,
Gov of New York B- 1786
Printable
list of above names
Dick Whitney/ Margaret Morrissey list
(not fully updated with all of above)
