Efrem zimbalist sr biography of michael jackson
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The Original “F.B.I.”
For the birthday of Efrem Zimablist Jr. (1918-2014), a look at his best known show The F.B.I. (1965-1974).
The show is a fascinating artifact itself, but the life of Zimbalist is also plenty interesting.
Efrem zimbalist sr biography of michael jackson
For he comes from a surprising background of high culture. His father Efrem Zimbalist, Sr was a concert violinst; his mother Alma Gluck was an opera singer, whom we wrote about here. Both parents were immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe but converted to Christianity (Episcopalianism) when they moved to America, and Efrem Zimablist was raised a Christian, and always remained a pretty serious one.
When Gluck died in 1938, the elder Zimbalist married Mary Louise Curtis, the daughter of the founders of Ladies Home Journal, and the previous wife of its second editor Edward Bok, author of The Americanization of Edward Bok (1920).
Curtis herself was the founder of the Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia.
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