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Life of Riley
Tom D'Andrea Many thanks to Jim D'Andrea for these four vintage pictures of Tom D'Andrea. |
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Jim Gillis (Tom D'Andrea) and Chester A. Riley (William Bendix)
on the set of "The Life Of Riley" |
| NBC trading card of Tom D'Andrea |
| Errol Flynn and Tom D'Andrea on the set of "Silver River" (1948 movie) |
| In 1955, Jim and Honeybee (Tom D'Andrea and Gloria Blondell) left the "Life of Riley". Tom was moving on to a new series with Hal March called "The Soldiers" (Hal on the left, Tom on the right). During a few months of 1955, Hal March was on 2 live shows, "The Soldiers" on Saturday and the "$64,000 Question" on Sunday. "The Soldiers" only lasted from June-September 1955. |
| This enabled Tom's return to "Life Of Riley" in 1956, as well as Gloria's, in the episode "Buttering Up A Millionaire". As you can see, the Gillises are overjoyed to see the Rileys after the absence. Riley thinks Gillis has big money. |
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