Soupy Sales Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Soupy Sales Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Milton Supman (January 8, 1926 â€" October 22, 2009), known

professionally as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor,

radio/television personality, and jazz aficionado. He was best known

for his local and network children's television show Lunch with Soupy

Sales (1953â€"1966), a series of comedy sketches frequently ending

with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark.

From 1968 to 1975 he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival

of What's My Line? and appeared on several other TV game shows. During

the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York

City.Milton Supman was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, to Irving

Supman and Sadie Berman. His father, a Jewish dry goods merchant, had

emigrated from Hungary in 1894. His was the only Jewish family in the

town; Sales joked that local Ku Klux Klan members bought the sheets

used for their robes from his father's store.Sales got his nickname

from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Ham Bone" and

"Chicken Bone." Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later

shortened to "Soupy". When he became a disc jockey, he began using the

stage name Soupy Hines. After he became established, it was decided

that "Hines" was too close to the Heinz soup company, so he chose

Sales, in part after vaudeville comedian Chic Sale. He graduated from

Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia in 1944. He

enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS Randall

(APA-224) in the South Pacific during the latter part of World War II.

He sometimes entertained his shipmates by telling jokes and playing

crazy characters over the ship's public address system. One of the

characters he created was "White Fang", a large dog that played

outrageous practical jokes on the seamen. The sounds for "White Fang"

came from a recording of The Hound of the Baskervilles.Sales enrolled

at Marshall College, where he earned a master's degree in journalism.

While at Marshall, he performed in nightclubs as a comedian, singer

and dancer. After graduating, Sales began working as a scriptwriter

and disc jockey at radio station WHTN (now WVHU) in Huntington. He

moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1949, where he worked as a morning radio

DJ and performed in nightclubs. Sales began his television career on

WKRC-TV in Cincinnati with Soupy's Soda Shop, TV's first teen dance

program, and Club Nothing!, a late-night comedy/variety program.
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