Kathi Norris
Kathi Norris (June 1, 1919 – June 15, 2005 in London) was an American television hostess.
Career
Norris hosted the first daytime talk show on WABD, the DuMont Television Network flagship TV station in New York City. The show was known by the alternate titles TV Shopper or Your Television Shopper, which ran on DuMont from 1 November 1948 to 1 December 1950, and as The Kathi Norris Show which ran from 1950 to 1955 on DuMont, and on ABC from 1955 to 1957.
Norris also was host of the DuMont game show Spin the Picture (9 June 1949 -4 February 1950), and was host of the syndicated TV series True Story (1957–1961) produced by her husband Wilbur Stark (1912–1995). Norris also appeared in the TV series Modern Romances (NBC, 1954) and did occasional women's segments for The Today Show with Dave Garroway. Model and film actress Koo Stark is her daughter with Stark. Norris was married to 1950s TV host Carl Caruso from 1979 until her death. She and Caruso had co-hosted Spin the Picture.
See also
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
- Weinstein, David (2004). The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 228. ISBN 1-59213-245-6.
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Bibliography
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1