American Singer, Band Leader & TV Host "Mary Hartline"

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In 1946, she was cast in ABC radio's Teen Town (originally, Junior Junction) (or vice versa; references disagree). The cast of this show, produced by Harold Stokes, included Dick York as the mayor of a town inhabited only by teenagers. While appearing on this show, Mary was stricken with a severe case of polio, but quickly recovered. Soon thereafter, the twenty-one year old Mary married the forty-two year old Stokes.
In 1949, the ABC television network picked up the local show, Super Circus, which was also produced by Stokes. Mary moved to Super Circus where her looks and figure made her a national star and a sex symbol for thousands of boys, young and old. The show, starring former real-life circus barker Claude Kirchner, featured Mary as the band leader, the circus clowns Cliffy, Scampy, and Nicky, as well as Mike Wallace playing the circus barker peddling Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
Super Circus was a hit, on the cover of TV Guide, produced in Chicago through 1955, when the network moved it to New York, replacing Kirchner with Jerry Colonna and Mary with Sandy Wirth for what was the show's final season. Hartline, however, made the best of her years on the show, marketing her own line of dolls, clothes, boots, et cetera--- three dozen different Mary Hartline products. In 1951, she also hosted a short-lived Mary Hartline Show on ABC TV that failed to find a sponsor.
Following the network's decision to move Super Circus to New York, Mary returned to local Chicago TV in 1957 with Princess Mary's Magic Castle which aired for a year and a half. Thereafter, Hartline retired from show business. She was enshrined in Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications in 2012.

mailed photo 9-6-13
received 8x10 signed photo 10-13-13

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Hillsboro, IL

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