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When was "What's My Line?" guest panelist Sue Oakland born?

Question #144631. Asked by serpa.
Last updated Sep 23 2017.
Originally posted Sep 20 2017 1:04 AM.

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...Dr. Sue Cott (born Suzanne Oksman in 1935) who, in the 1950s and 1960s, appeared in many TV shows, including What's My Line, as Sue Oakland, and for many years afterward, was Director of Editorials for WCBS-TV in New York.

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Sep 20 2017, 2:12 AM
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The US Census of 1940 lists her as 5 year old, born in NY, ethnicity American. Her parents, Jack Oksman and Lilliam Oksman, were also born in NY, ethnicity American. No luck finding her birthdate. As the census was on held 2nd April 1940, she could've been born in either late 1934 or early 1935.

link http://www.archives.com/1940-census/susan-oksman-ny-62256845
link https://1940census.archives.gov/about/

At college she used the name Suzanne Oksman. She graduated from Barnard College NY in 1953 aged 18, and in the January 1955 alumni magazine she gave her age as 20; which presumably means she was born in 1934.

To Suzanne Oksman '53, it means a radio and TV contract, for Miss Oksman (whose stage name is Sue Oakland) is associated with renowned TV and radio stars Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg in the role of a Junior Jinx. She has a year's contract with Tex and Jinx, and appears regularly on their daily video and audio shows. Her assignments have included attending first nights with John Chapman, drama critic for the "New York Daily News," and interviewing personalities like Brooks Atkinson on the radio and President Millicent C. McIntosh on TV. Miss Oksman rates Mrs. McIntosh as "the best interviewee I ever had." Her first interviewees: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ... Miss Oksman is something of an anomaly in the theatrical and TV world. A government major at college, she was graduated at eighteen, and until May of her senior year had all intentions of entering law school. She had no training or yen for a stage career. But during the summer of 1953 circumstances steered her into a modeling career. That led to appearances on TV and, in the spring of 1954, a screen test offer from Paramount ...

Now 20, she was graduated from the Franklin Lane High School in Brooklyn when she was fifteen, and had her B.A. three years later. She has a reputation for being a disarming combination of sharp mind and amiable personality ... Miss Oksman continues her modeling career. She can be seen in winter issues of "Bride," "Guide for the Bride," and "Modern Bride." And that's not all. For the past year she has been taking drama lessons with Stella Adler. Currently she has a total of seven hours of classes a week - three of drama, two of dance, and 2 of body mechanics. She finds the exacting study routine, piled on top of her full-time junior- jinxing, "exciting, frustrating, nerve-wracking - but never dull."

link https://archive.org/stream/barnardalumnaema442barn#page/10/mode/2up

Sep 21 2017, 7:12 AM
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