Tom Breneman Biography

Fast Facts

• Created his first daytime radio program, "Feminine Fancies," in 1935
• Started out as a member an act called Tom and Wash before becoming a radio announcer
• Owned a restaurant in Hollywood called Tom Breneman's
• Best known radio personality who hosted the popular ABC program "Breakfast in Hollywood․"
• Sponsors for "Breakfast in Hollywood" included, fittingly, Ivory Flakes and Kellogg's Shredded Wheat
• Would present an orchid to the oldest woman in the audience of each of his live shows and awarded prizes to the woman with the strangest hat
• Breakfast in Hollywood started out as "Breakfast at Sardi's" in January 1941