Proving that she’s always had what it takes to be a star, Oprah Winfrey released her initial audition tape for her amazingly successful talk show.
The clip, which was shared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2005, was just posted on Own’s YouTube channel this week and it shows a young TV personality vying for a gig in Chicago.
Winfrey begins her tape stating, "Hi, there. My name is Oprah Winfrey. Oprah, spelled O-p-r-a-h, and if you notice, it's Harpo spelled backwards. My folks did not really like Harpo Marks. We did not even have a television set for a number of years.”
Oprah continued, “Originally, I was named from the Bible by Aunt Ida, who named me from Ruth, the first chapter at the fourteenth verse, Orpah, but no one knew how to spell in my home, and that's why I ended up being Oprah."
The tape landed...
The clip, which was shared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2005, was just posted on Own’s YouTube channel this week and it shows a young TV personality vying for a gig in Chicago.
Winfrey begins her tape stating, "Hi, there. My name is Oprah Winfrey. Oprah, spelled O-p-r-a-h, and if you notice, it's Harpo spelled backwards. My folks did not really like Harpo Marks. We did not even have a television set for a number of years.”
Oprah continued, “Originally, I was named from the Bible by Aunt Ida, who named me from Ruth, the first chapter at the fourteenth verse, Orpah, but no one knew how to spell in my home, and that's why I ended up being Oprah."
The tape landed...
- 5/7/2014
- GossipCenter
How did Oprah Winfrey first nab the job of hosting A.M. Chicago back in 1984? By sending in an audition tape that was compiled overnight, and details how the would-be media mogul came to have a name that's somewhere between a biblical reference and Harpo Marx. Photos: The Resurgence of Oprah Winfrey Earlier this week, the Own channel posted a YouTube clip of Winfrey's original 1983 audition tape, which she introduced as a reel she put together overnight with an editor, since she didn't keep track of her stories as well as she should have. Wearing a black-and-cream
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- 5/7/2014
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oprah Winfrey's original audition for The Oprah Winfrey Show (then called A.M. Chicago) surfaced online this week, 30 years after the host first filmed it.
The tape, filmed in 1983, features a young Winfrey explaining the origins of her unusual name. "Originally, I was named from the Bible by Aunt Ida, who named me from Ruth, the first chapter at the fourteenth verse, Orpah, but no one knew how to spell in my home, and that's why I ended up being Oprah," Winfrey quipped.
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The tape, filmed in 1983, features a young Winfrey explaining the origins of her unusual name. "Originally, I was named from the Bible by Aunt Ida, who named me from Ruth, the first chapter at the fourteenth verse, Orpah, but no one knew how to spell in my home, and that's why I ended up being Oprah," Winfrey quipped.
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- 5/7/2014
- by Sadie Gennis
- TVGuide - Breaking News
The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show will be taped Tuesday afternoon in front of over 10,000 fans at Chicago’s United Center. Oprah Winfrey’s last show will air on Wednesday, closing out her 25-year run in one last celebrity-filled bash.
For her final set of tapings, Oprah Winfrey has pulled out all the stops, dancing on stage with John Travolta and giving surprise trips to Australia to her entire audience. The final day of the show promises to be seriously outrageous, according to all the hype. We’ll just have to wait until tomorrow to see!
“Surprise, Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular” has featured a slew of celebrity well-wishers giving their props and thanks to Oprah Winfrey for her amazing career. The celebs aren’t shy about sharing their love for Oprah off the air either. Madonna, for example, said she likes it a lot that Oprah just “doesn...
For her final set of tapings, Oprah Winfrey has pulled out all the stops, dancing on stage with John Travolta and giving surprise trips to Australia to her entire audience. The final day of the show promises to be seriously outrageous, according to all the hype. We’ll just have to wait until tomorrow to see!
“Surprise, Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular” has featured a slew of celebrity well-wishers giving their props and thanks to Oprah Winfrey for her amazing career. The celebs aren’t shy about sharing their love for Oprah off the air either. Madonna, for example, said she likes it a lot that Oprah just “doesn...
- 5/24/2011
- by Laura Vess
- SnarkFood.com
Next year, life as we know it will end. Oprah Winfrey will be ending her successful show.
Oprah’s program grew out of her stint as host of A.M. Chicago. The local program was so successful that after two and one-half years it went national to the other ABC-owned stations, and to general syndication. Now that Oprah’s sailing off into the fog, her host station Wls-dt has decided what to do with the valuable time slot between Good Morning America and The View. They’re going to do a live, local morning news show.
No big deal, right? Lots of teevee stations have news shows following the endless network morning “news” show. But this one has a difference. This one has a live audience.
Just like Howard Beale, central character of the movie Network.
Like all of the better news shows, this new thing will be “local and fun,...
Oprah’s program grew out of her stint as host of A.M. Chicago. The local program was so successful that after two and one-half years it went national to the other ABC-owned stations, and to general syndication. Now that Oprah’s sailing off into the fog, her host station Wls-dt has decided what to do with the valuable time slot between Good Morning America and The View. They’re going to do a live, local morning news show.
No big deal, right? Lots of teevee stations have news shows following the endless network morning “news” show. But this one has a difference. This one has a live audience.
Just like Howard Beale, central character of the movie Network.
Like all of the better news shows, this new thing will be “local and fun,...
- 7/20/2010
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
"The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air, Winfrey's production company said Thursday night.Winfrey plans to announce the final date for her show during a live broadcast on Friday, Harpo Productions Inc. said, bringing an end to what has been television's top-rated talk show for more than two decades, airing in 145 countries worldwide and watched by an estimated 42 million viewers a week in the U.S. alone.A Harpo spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday on Winfrey's future plans except to say that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will not move to cable television.Winfrey, 55, is widely expected to start up a new talk show on Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a much-delayed joint venture with Discovery Communications Inc.
- 11/19/2009
- Filmicafe
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