Gordon Connell(1923-2016)

Met wife Jane Connell when he played piano for a college melodrama. They wed in 1948 and began their careers working in such night clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area as The Purple Onion and The Hungry "I". They gained early experience on radio and toured in stock. When their "Straw Hat Revue" did well at summer theaters in the Northeast, they eventually relocated to New York.