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The year was 1941, America had not yet entered the war in Europe. A young private in the Canadian Army was given a Public Relations assignment to go to Hollywood, California and record interviews with famous celebrities. The young Private had a deep resonant voice... One day, as he was standing on the famed corner of Hollywood and Vine, he was approached by a man who asked for an autograph. The soldier said, "Why me, I'm nobody," and the man, without a moment's hesitation, said, "You look like someone who, one day, may be somebody." How right that man was... |
| LORNE GREENE had a career that ran the gamut; Announcer, Newscaster, Singer, Teacher, Producer, Dramatic Actor. From Canada's Stratford-on-Avon to the Ponderosa, Lorne's early movie and television credits would take too many pages to fill. And then, in 1959, it happened, for the next fourteen years on prime time National television, and still today in over one hundred countries, hundreds of millions of people know LORNE GREENE as Ben Cartwright, patriarch of the Ponderosa. LORNE GREENE and ben Cartwright were a lot alike. Strong, firm, honest, loyal, kind, gentle, loving, tender... |  |
| LORNE GREENE lived his dreams , he fulfilled his destiny. LORNE GREENE He achieved fame, fortune, artistic success. Love...Family...Children... A famous newscaster, Ben Grauer, when presenting LORNE GREENE with the NBC Announcers Award, said of Lorne, "He has the finest voice in all of North America." How fortunate we are able to hear that voice now, even after he is gone. | |
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You are about to experience one of the greatest, most dramatic voices of our time, as leads you through the magical, wondrous land of love...the searching...finding...enjoying...losing...reflecting...and finding again. |
| Hear LORNE GREENE, as you never have heard him before, and you will never hear him again. |  |
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This is not Ben Cartwright of the Ponderosa, or Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galactica, or any of the other hundreds of characters he has portrayed in his fifty plus years as an actor, but rather as LORNE GREENE... HUSBAND... FATHER... LOVER... FRIEND... |
| This is LORNE GREENE...The Man |  |
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Listen to him, you will never forget him... |
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