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Why not listen to radio comedian Joe Penner on your new Crosley? Wanna buy a duck? Joe was an American 1930s-era vaudeville, radio and film comedian. He was an ethnic Hungarian born as József Pintér in Nagybecskerek, Hungary, now Zrenjanin, Serbia. He passed through Ellis Island as a child when his family emigrated to New York City. Joe Penner was voted radio's top comedian in 1934, but a 1935 dispute with the ad agency over the show's format resulted in Penner quitting "The Baker's Broadcast " on June 30, 1935. A year later, he returned with The Joe Penner Show which began airing October 4, 1936 on CBS, sponsored by Cocomalt. His films include College Rhythm (1934), New Faces of 1937 (1937), The Day the Bookies Wept (1939) and Millionaire Playboy (1940).

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