Angela Martin: Wunderkind Vent
Were she not untimely taken from us, ventriloquist Angela Martin (Angel Mignanelli, 1942-2004) would be turning 80 today. Martin was a child prodigy from Astoria, Queens. She was still a tween when she appeared on the TV variety show Startime Talent Scouts (the same show that discovered Connie Francis). A 1968 item in the Daily […]