Tag: Prize Movie

Bell-Hansen, Rita (nee Connolly)

Jun 28, 2023

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by

Terry Pochert

in Home, Journalism, Obituary, Personnel, WXYZ – Detroit, MI

WXYZ: Host of ‘Prize Movie’. Prize Movie ran every weekday morning for 21 years starting in 1960. During the breaks, Rita would receive phone calls from viewers who tried to guess song titles. Rita was born in 1925 and passed on December 9, 2003. She was married to Jerome Frederick Hansen who was a Sgt.…