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Dotty Mack, 1950s Cincinnati TV Star, Dies In Florida

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Cincinnati native Dotty Mack, an early 1950s TV star who hosted an ABC TV network show, died in Miami, Fla., early on Monday, Nov. 11, says her nephew, Steve Beckman. She was 90.

Born and raised Dorothy Macaluso in Price Hill, the 1947 Mother of Mercy High School graduate pantomimed to records with Paul Dixon, Bob Braun and Wanda Lewis shortly after WCPO-TV started broadcasting in 1949. She would emote on live TV to popular songs by Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, Dinah Shore and others.

She was such a hit that WCPO-TV gave Mack her own shows - Your Pantomime Hit Parade, Girl Alone and the Dotty Mack Show, which was picked up nationwide by ABC (1953-56) and the old DuMont networks.


Dotty Mack let me have this photo made when we met during her visit to Cincinnati in November 2012.

"The camera would start on the record spinning, and then fade to my lip-syncing,” Mack told me in 2012 while in town visiting family. "They said, 'Bring it to life.' So that's what I did. I was called the Queen of Pantomime."
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At one point Dotty Mack had a show on WCPO-TV.
 
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