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===Early Life=== Alice Ghostley was born 14 Aug 1926 in a train station in a place called "Eve" in Vernon County, [[Missouri]] as the second child of [[#Harry F Ghostley|Harry F Ghostley]] and his wife [[#Edna M Rooney|Edna M Rooney]]. Her father was at that time, a telegrapher at this "whistle stop", and shared quarters in the building. Wikipedia reports her middle name as "Margaret", but I don't know on what authority. By 1930, the family had moved to Siloam Springs, [[Benton County, Arkansas|Benton County]], [[Arkansas]] where her father Harry was buried in 1933 having died at a hospital in Missouri that year. She attended school in Siloam Springs through the sixth grade, and then the family moved to Henryetta, Okmulgee County, [[Oklahoma]] where Alice finished growing up and graduated from high school. Afterwards Alice went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she majored in English and drama, but dropped out, to move with her older sister Gladys to New York City. Gladys got a job as a secretary at Columbia University, while Alice got her first job as an usher at the Imperial Theatre for $11.88 a week. She studied singing, aiming for a career in that area, but at her 648th audition, as she relates, she was accosted by pianist-composer George Wood. (George hated his first name and so he was always credited as "G. Wood".) He persuaded her, that what she really was, was a comedienne. The two of them begun doing comedy in small venues where she was spotted by [[Imogene Coca]]. Alice performed in summer stock in Maryland in a "new musical revue by G Wood" called ''Of Suger And Spice'', Jul 1950
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