Ray Singer; Radio, TV, Film Writer
Ray Singer, whose writing credits ranged from the early days of radio to the glory days of television, is dead.
His son, John, said Singer was 76 when he died Monday of cancer at a Los Angeles hospital.
Singer, who put words in the mouths of such radio personalities as Fred Allen and Phil Baker and such TV giants as Milton Berle and Lucille Ball, was a New York City native who came to Hollywood in the late 1930s where he began writing for Bing Crosby, Phil Harris and Alice Faye, Allen and later Berle.
He also wrote screenplays, among them “She Gets Her Man,” “Neptune’s Daughter” and “A Woman of Distinction.”
He produced and wrote “The Donna Reed Show” in 1965-66, penned scripts for “My Three Sons” and “The Danny Thomas Show” and “The Lucy Show,” the spinoff series from “I Love Lucy.”
Besides his son he is survived by his wife, Monia, a daughter, Laurie, a granddaughter and his brother, Harold Singer.
Funeral services are scheduled today at noon at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park.
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