Soupy Sales

Soupy Sales, 83, a loose-limbed comedian whose goofy skits, slapstick antics and pie-tossing shenanigans made him one of the country's most popular television stars of the 1950s and '60s, died Oct. 22 at a hospice in the Bronx, N.Y. He had a...

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...on his show. "I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right,'' Mr. Sales said in a 1985 interview. Mr. Sales was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family in town. The family later...

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...everybody was a Soupy Sales fan. Some kids even turned off the TV and went outside and played. I was a Soupy Sales fan. I loved Soupy Sales, who died Thursday at age 83. He invaded my consciousness for what seemed like an instant a long...

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...comedian on his television show. "I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview. Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family...

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Detroit -- Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died Thursday. He was 83. Sales died at Calvary...

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He was known for his long-running children's show "Lunch With Soupy Sales" Fans of the show anticipated his trademark pie-in-face gag Sales also seen on "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line?" CNN) -- Soupy Sales, a comedian from...

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...with Sales and lip-sync to goofy songs. And Sales donned a blonde wig and dress to play his own girlfriend, Peaches. Sales, born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., took his first pie to the face when he started his...

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...comedian on his television show. "I'll probably be remembered for the pies, and that's all right," Sales said in a 1985 interview. Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in North Carolina and grew up in Huntington, W.Va. His...

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