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PUBLIC DOMAINEleanor Roosevelt cuts cake at FDR Birthday Ball at Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C., with Red Skelton, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Lucille Ball, John Garfield and Maria Montez (1944).

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Red Skelton: The 'Energizer Bunny' of celebrity comedians
June 16, 2019 1 a.m.

Red Skelton: The 'Energizer Bunny' of celebrity comedians

No celebrity could have packed more into one lifetime than comedian Red Skelton. He was born to make people laugh, and began his journey to becoming America’s Clown Prince at age 12 when Doc Lewis’s Patent Medicine Show came to town.