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Born: 31 October 1926 Died: 9 May 1999
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Shirley Dinsdale grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. When she was a child, she was severely burned when a kettle tipped over on her and she spent a year in a hospital recovering. During that time a puppet named "Judy Splinters" kept her company. After she returned home, her father bartered for ventriloquist lessons and by the age of 14 was appearing on San Francisco radio shows. Soon she moved to Los Angeles and became a regular on Eddie Cantor's radio program. She also appeared in a number of local benefits for the war effort where she was spotted by a KTLA-TV staffer. In the new medium of television, Shirley, by t
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