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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: geno57 on July 06, 2016, 03:05:19 PM
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Just stumbled onto this, and thought it might be interesting. I knew about the 1944 fire, but I didn’t know about the part in parentheses.
On July 6, 1944, some 168 people died in a fire that broke out during a performance in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Connecticut. (One of the survivors of the blaze was future actor Charles Nelson Reilly, who was 13 at the time.)
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...was this the reason they played "Stars and Stripes Forever" on Match Game occasionally?
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You (or anyone who didn't know that particular fact) should seek out "Life of Reiily," the filmed version of Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man show about his life. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be streaming on Netflix at present.