Tedi Thurman
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Tedi Thurman was a fashion model and actress best known for her appearances as Miss Monitor on NBC's Monitor. With an alluring, breathy delivery, she gave NBC's sexy weekend weather reports from 1955 until 1961.
In 1957 Thurman appeared with Jack Paar on The Tonight Show, and she also can be seen in the trailer for the movie Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957).
In "Fair-Weather Friends," Time (April 12, 1968) remembered Thurman:
- Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy. In the beginning, weathermen talked so much about "occluded fronts" and "thermal inversions" that viewers wondered if they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York is 46, and me, I'm 36-26-36"
Thurman was interviewed about her life on Fire Island for Crayton Robey's documentary film When Ocean Meets Sky (2003). Edge editor Steve Weinstein, reviewing the film June 4, 2006, noted:
- Robey traveled to Palm Springs to interview Tedi Thurman, the campy weather girl of Jack Paar’s "Tonight Show," who had a stormy longtime relationship with Peggy Fears. Fears, a former Broadway showgirl, built the original Yacht Club and the cinderblock hotel that still stands today, Ciel being its most recent incarnation.
