Bishop sheen roasts milton berle biography
The El Paso-born archbishop, ordained as a priest in Peoria before rising to fame as America's first televangelist, remains a candidate for....
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In Sheen began his broadcast career, hosting the Sunday evening Catholic Hour program on NBC Radio.
In the s he performed some religious services on television, and in he was guest speaker on the television program Television Chapel on WPIX in New York. Director Edward Stasheff remembered for Television Quarterly, "His whole technique was the magnetic effect of the way he looked into the camera.
In the s, this was still a country in which Bishop Fulton Sheen could take part in the Friars Club roast of Milton Berle, and Tom Lehrer.
I hate to use a cliché, but the word is 'telegenic.' He was made for the medium."
In Milton Berle owned Tuesday night television with his 8 p.m. show, Texaco Star Theatre. The small DuMont network decided to put Sheen on the air opposite Berle as something of a sacrificial lamb, thinking a program with no potential may as well be on in a time slot with no chance.
Life is Worth Living premiered on February 12, , with the Bishop Fulton Sheen