Tom Breneman
Birth Name:
Thomas Breneman Smith
Birth Place:
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession
Actor
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