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Bill Goodwin (July 28 1910 - May 9 1958) was for many years the announcer and regular character of the Burns and Allen
Burns and Allen

Burns and Allen, an American double act consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved substantial success over three decades....
 radio program, and subsequently The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television from 1950-51. Upon his departure, he was replaced by Harry von Zell
Harry von Zell

Harry von Zell , born in Indianapolis, made his mark as an announcer of radio programs and an actor in films and television shows.His family moved to California, where von Zell studied music and drama at UCLA and worked at a variety of jobs....
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win was known for frequently promoting the item sold by the sponsor of the show (Swan Soap
Swan Soap

Swan was a brand of soap marketed by Lever Brothers Company in the 1940s and 1950s. Like its competitor Ivory , it was a floating soap. Swan was advertised as a soap that could be used in the kitchen as a hand soap or in the bathroom to bathe the baby....
 or Maxwell House Coffee
Maxwell House

Maxwell House is a brand of coffee manufactured by a like-named division of Kraft Foods. It is named in honor of the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennesee....
, among others, on radio; Carnation
Carnation (trademark)

Carnation is a brand of evaporated milk created in 1899, then called Carnation Sterilized Cream and later the widely known Carnation Evaporated Milk....
 Evaporated Milk
Evaporated milk

Evaporated milk, also known as dehydrated milk, is a shelf stable food canned milk product with about 60% of the water removed from fresh milk. It differs from condensed milk, which contains added sugar....
 on television).






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Bill Goodwin (July 28 1910 - May 9 1958) was for many years the announcer and regular character of the Burns and Allen
Burns and Allen

Burns and Allen, an American double act consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved substantial success over three decades....
 radio program, and subsequently The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on television from 1950-51. Upon his departure, he was replaced by Harry von Zell
Harry von Zell

Harry von Zell , born in Indianapolis, made his mark as an announcer of radio programs and an actor in films and television shows.His family moved to California, where von Zell studied music and drama at UCLA and worked at a variety of jobs....
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Goodwin was known for frequently promoting the item sold by the sponsor of the show (Swan Soap
Swan Soap

Swan was a brand of soap marketed by Lever Brothers Company in the 1940s and 1950s. Like its competitor Ivory , it was a floating soap. Swan was advertised as a soap that could be used in the kitchen as a hand soap or in the bathroom to bathe the baby....
 or Maxwell House Coffee
Maxwell House

Maxwell House is a brand of coffee manufactured by a like-named division of Kraft Foods. It is named in honor of the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennesee....
, among others, on radio; Carnation
Carnation (trademark)

Carnation is a brand of evaporated milk created in 1899, then called Carnation Sterilized Cream and later the widely known Carnation Evaporated Milk....
 Evaporated Milk
Evaporated milk

Evaporated milk, also known as dehydrated milk, is a shelf stable food canned milk product with about 60% of the water removed from fresh milk. It differs from condensed milk, which contains added sugar....
 on television). He was very effective on radio in doing 'integrated commercials,' in which the advertisement was deftly woven into the show's storyline. Goodwin was best known for his amiable and fun-loving personality, for his persona on air as a 'ladies' man,' and for joking around about Burns's appearance and age. Ironically, he died over 35 years before Burns.

Goodwin occasionally hosted other TV and Theatre shows, including Penny to a Million
Penny to a Million

Penny to a Million was a primetime United States television game show that aired on American Broadcasting Company from May 4 to October 19, 1955 on Wednesday nights....
 and Dollar a Minute. His last job as announcer was for NBC Radio's
NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City Rockefeller Center. It is sometimes referred to as the Peacock Network due to its stylized peacock logo....
 The Bob Hope Show
Bob Hope

Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
 (1953–1955). He also acted in several movies, including The Jolson Story
The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" , William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson....
 (1946) and The Big Beat
The Big Beat

"The Big Beat" is a song from the musical Over Here!, which opened on Broadway theatre at the Shubert Theatre on March 6, 1974. The song was written by Robert B....
 (1958) with fellow Burns and Allen regular, Hans Conried
Hans Conried

Hans Conried was an American comedian character actor and voice actor....
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He played the role of Sherman Billingsley
Sherman Billingsley

Sherman Billingsley was an United States nightclub owner and ex-bootlegger who "ruled with a velvet fist."Originally coming to Manhattan from Enid, Oklahoma to find his brother, he found that he liked the city....
 in The Stork Club (1945) and appeared with Doris Day
Doris Day

Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
 in Tea for Two
Tea for Two (film)

Tea for Two is a United States musical film directed by David Butler . The screenplay by Harry Clork and William Jacobs was inspired by the 1925 stage musical No, No Nanette, although the plot was changed considerably from the original book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, and the score by Harbach, Irving Caesar, and Vincent Youmans...
 (1950). His last major role was as the narrator for the animated television cartoon Gerald McBoing-Boing
Gerald McBoing-Boing

Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on January 25, 1951....
.

Goodwin died on 9 May, 1958, following a heart attack
Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the Blood flow to part of the heart is interrupted. This is most commonly due to occlusion of a coronary artery following the rupture of a Vulnerable plaque, which is an unstable collection of lipids and white blood cells in the wall of an artery....
 occurring in Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
, at age 47.

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