He had an uncle, Harry Mathias, who was the first entertainer in the family ... to audition for the English actor Major Maurice Evans and a man named Captain Allen Ludden, who were there to entertain ...

After meeting on the game show Password, it took television host Allen Ludden two proposals to finally get actress Betty White to agree to marry him! The two said “I do” in 1963, two years after their ...

The game show host was “surrounded by family and his beloved wife of 49 years ... in 1965 when he learned that “Password” MC Allen Ludden would “go in two days a week and tape five ...

His second wife, Sandy ... Inspired by the work schedule of Password host Allen Ludden, Martindale set his sights on game shows. He got his first big TV break in 1964 with NBC’s What’s ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor The friendly Martindale, who had a 74-year career, was known for his resonant voice, vivid sport coats and, especially, his curious first name. “When I was a kid in ...

Gavin MacLeod (news writer Murray Slaughter) met his first wife ... Actor, Emcee and Game Show Host Allen Ludden (1917-1981) and his wife Actress Betty White in a publicity shot from the American ...

Myriad hurdles make breaking even during the first year cause for uncorking Champagne ... was presented posthumously to her husband, Allen Ludden, during ceremonies inducting him into the ...

They were married for decades, until Allen Ludden died from cancer in 1981. While they had no children together, she is a stepmother to three of his children from his first marriage, which had ended ...

Then, in 1947, she tied the knot with Lane Allen, an actor turned ... she was seeing another man and Ludden, 44, was newly widowed, having lost his first wife (and mother of his three children ...