Louise Winslow

Louise Winslow Hutaff (August 19, 1917 – May 16, 2001), called the Martha Stewart of early daytime television, Richard Irvin, The Early Shows: A Reference Guide to Network & Syndicated Prime Time TV Series from 1944 to 1949. Atlanta, Georgia BearManor Media, 2018 wrote, directed, and starred in radio and TV programs in the United States from 1938 to 1960."'But wait! There's more.' Papa Bernard and the first TV Infomercial." ACADEMIA Letters 
She became a nationally known home economist in 1950 when her Adventures in Sewing June Bundy, "Adventures in Sewing TV series," The Billboard, April 15, 1950, p. 11 and "New Show on Television: Adventures in Sewing," The Wittier News (Wittier California), Match 11, 1950, p. 7 and Food Is Fun TV seriesA.G.A. Offers Gas Industry a Television 'Scoop,' American Gas Association monthly, 1950-12 (December), vol. 32, issue 12, p. 28 were nationally syndicated. These programs led to print and TV appearances sponsored by Westinghouse Electric, Sherwin Williams, Kroger Supermarkets, Wear-ever Aluminum Foil, and Scotch Tape. Jack York, "Aerial Housekeeper," The Indianapolis Star Magazine, Sunday, Feb. 13, 1949, p. 13 and Sidney Lohman, "News and Notes of Television," New York Times, May 1, 1949.
==Early Life ==
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1917Louise Marjorie Otterman Winslow Hutaff Family Tree, Ancestry.com and raised in Indiana and Michigan, she married Morris Winslow in 1937. Ohio U.S. County Marriage Records, Morris W. Winslow, July 11, 1937, Wood, Ohio #541, p. 270 Though she divorced and remarried, she kept the Winslow name as her stage name for her broadcast career.
Winslow joined the Women's Army Corps shortly after America entered World War II. In 1943, she was the Commanding Officer of the Allied Service Women's Club in Caserta, Italy. She was known as "Ruffles" Winslow throughout the European theatre when she insisted that servicewomen deserved ruffled bedspreads and curtains even in wartime. "'Ruffles' Winslow Helps TV Draw Audience in Daytime," Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 25, 1950
== TV and Radio Career ==
In 1948, Winslow originated and starred in Through the Kitchen Window, " a live program for homemakers broadcast on WNKB-TV (now WKYC) in Cleveland."The Kitchen Window: Radio and Television Program Reviews," The Billboard, August 27, 1949., p. 13
In 1949, she originated At Home and How, a weekly 30-minute daytime program WNBT TV in New York City. The series ran opposite Arthur Godfrey and His Friends on Wednesday nights.Sidney Lowman, News and Notes of Television, New York Times, May 1, 1949, Also in 1949, her sewing program called Domestic Designs aired on WNBK-TV in Cleveland."Winslow, Louise," Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University 
In the early 1950s, her syndicated Adventures in Sewing TV series, sponsored by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company, aired nationally. The series was modeled after the Domestic Designs program she developed for the Cleveland TV market."New Show on TV 'Adventures in Sewing,'" The Whittier News (Whittier, California), March 11, 1950, p. 7 
In 1950 Winslow created Food Is Fun, a TV series sponsored by the American Gas Association.A.G.A. Offers Gas Industry a Television 'Scoop,' American Gas Association monthly, 1950-12 (December), vol. 32, issue 12, p. 28 Produced and distributed on film by Cinécraft Productions, the Adventures in Sewing and Food Is Fun programs were filmed using an early multiple camera setup Cinécraft developed called Cinescope.Business Screen magazine, v. 12, no. 2 (March/April 1951), p. 45 
From 1955 to 1959, Winslow hosted the morning radio program Brunch Time on WERE in Cleveland. The show was broadcast from the Tea Room of the Halle Brothers Department Store. "Radio-TV Backstage: Louise Winslow Heads WERE Audience-participation Show," Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 16, 1955 June Bundy, "D.J. Exec., Format Switches Upheave Local Radio Scene," The Billboard, July 13, 1959, p. 1 
In 1960, Winslow hosted the TV show Louise Winslow for WEWS in Cleveland her last regular TV series."Winslow, Louise," Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University
==Winslow Made-for-TV programs==
* Food Is Fun (1950) sponsored by the East Ohio Gas Company 
* Adventures in Sewing series: Episode 3. Custom Tailoring a Skirt (1950) sponsored by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company
* Kitchen Chats series: How to Broil Meat (1950) sponsored by Wear-ever Aluminum Foil
* The Easiest Iron You've Ever Used (1951) sponsored by Westinghouse Electric
==Personal life==
Winslow married Charles Hutaff (1916–1998), an advertising executive, in 1950."Louise Winslow Is Bride of Charles Hutaff," The Bronxville Reporter, September 7, 1950. 
Louise Winslow and Charles Hutaff are buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver, Colorado. They had two children.Louise Marjorie Otterman Winslow Hutaff Family Tree, Ancestry.com
Category:1917 births
Category:2001 deaths
Category:People from Indianapolis, Indiana