Virginia Graham

[CO Liberal]

Anyone remember her "Girl Talk" talk show? She was a TV pioneer.

Virginia Graham

Age: 86

a pioneer of the television talk-show format, Graham hosted Girl Talk, among other programs, from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Died: Dec. 14, 1998.

Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0771339.html

[Richardo]

1. She was doing a talk show in Palm Springs in the 60s and 70s

While I was growing up there. Funny, I always thought she was just some local. Same with Don Wilson, Jack Benny's old announcer.

[Mistra_Know_It_All]

2. Way before my time. Those kinds of people are irrelevant

If it was before cable it's dust

[CO Liberal]

4. Hardly Irrelevant

The pioneers are the ones who laid the steps for the present. If there had been no Virginia Graham, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sally Jesse Raphael, etc, the current people working in TV would have had a harder time.

[Mistra_Know_It_All]

5. I guess but I never heard of her - shows how big an influence

she was

[CO Liberal]

7. It All Depends

How old are you? Since she retired sometime in the '70s (and they don't show reruns of talk shows the was they do sitcoms or game shows), I can understand you're not knowing her if you weren't around back then.

But there are many people who made contributions you may not be aware of. For example, in the early days of TV, modt shows were done live. Desi Arnaz developed the process of filming a show with three cameras before a live audience - the method that is most used today. he made the rerun possible.

[Mistra_Know_It_All]

10. I suppose you could be right

I have read about Edward R Murrow and the impact he had on news reporting today. It just seems to me that, if I may use the Edward R Murrow analogy again, that the work of the great radio and TV reporters of old (I'm thinking of Walter Cronkite) that the state of modern news media is pathetic and even harmful, despite Murrow and Cronkite's best efforts.

[Left Is Write]

8. There are many people who have had influences on the

things and people that came after them that not all of us have heard of. It does not mean they weren't influential.

[J-Lo Biafra]

6. Sally Jesse Raphael????

We have her to thank for the red glasses phenomenon!

[The empressof all]

3. I loved her when I was a child.

A daytime talk show pioneer. She had panache and style. She also seemed to be a whole lot more fun than Dina Shore.

[flamingyouth]

9. My mom, grandmother and I went to hear her speak in the '70s

She was dealing with breast cancer at the time, and so was my grandmother. Virginia was very inspirational and I remember feeling very grown up after going. She was a lot of fun. :hi: