Profile
Tedi Thurman
Actress + Model
Female
Theodora "Tedi" Thurman was a fashion model and actress who found fame in the 1950s as Miss Monitor on NBC's Monitor, a 40-hour weekend radio show developed by Pat Weaver. Born in Midville, Georgia, the daughter of a banker, Thurman originally planned… Read More
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Tedi Thurman.
CHILDHOOD
1923
Birth
Born on June 23, 1923.
THIRTIES
1954
31 Years Old
She had film offers, but only one role, in the z-grade 1954 Ed Wood movie, Jail Bait.
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1955
32 Years Old
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With her alluring, breathy delivery heard against a background of lush, romantic music, Thurman gave NBC's sexy weekend weather reports from 1955 until 1961.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2004
81 Years Old
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 29 years after Monitor ended on NBC Radio; Thurman joined more than 40 former Monitor staff members who gathered in midtown Manhattan for the first Monitor reunion at Hurley's Tavern, a location made famous through many references on the Paar Tonight Show.
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2012
89 Years Old
Thurman, who lived in Palm Springs, California until her death on September 17, 2012, became one of the most familiar radio voices of the late 1950s in her role as Miss Monitor.
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