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Famous People with connections to
Southbridge
JFK
in Southbridge - Sept 30, 1958
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
George
Thorndike Angell (Born in Southbridge in 1823 - Founder of Mass Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
William
G. Putney (Born in Southbridge in 1842) -Civil War Veteran / 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
Frederick Law Olmstead- Architect (viewed Mary E Wells Bld 1919)
Rudolph Valentino -Actor 11-May-1923
Norman Rockwell
Artist (6 Paintings commissioned by AO)' 1920's
Glenn
Miller- Band Leader 20-Jan-1939
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 - 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
Ted Kennedy -Politician 1962/2000
Rudy Vallee -Singer 1962?
Eddie Feigner- Baseball 1969?
Arther Ashe -Tennis Pro 1976?
Bob Griese -Football Star 1977?
Montel Williams- TV Star 1999?
Conan O'brien -Late Night TV 2000
Brian Dennehy -Actor 2000
Elizabeth
Letendre - American Idol (Season 3)
Bill Murray - Actor 2007
Gregory McGuire -Author
of book Wicked 2006
Willaim Mann -Author
of book Kate 2007
Visitors to OSV:
Julie Andrews
- Singer / Actress Movie Hawaii 1965
Max Von Sydow- Actor Movie Hawaii 1965
Torin Thatcher
- Actor Movie Hawaii 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)
