show (entitled simply Judy Splinters), which ran from June 13, 1949 to June 30, 1950 on NBC. It originated at KNBH in Los Angeles and was shown in the Midwest and East via Kinescope. In the years following, she had shows in both Chicago and New York City. Post-ventriloquism career In 1953, she embarked on the second phase of her life: retiring from show business, getting married and having two children. She remained married till her death. In 1958, she appeared as a guest challenger on the TV panel show "To Tell the Truth". In 1970, Dinsdale enrolled at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to study respiratory and cardiopulmonary therapy. She graduated class of 1972. Dinsdale served as the head of the Respiratory Therapy Department at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, New York from 1973 to her second retirement in 1986. Family On July 14, 1953, Dinsdale married Frank Layburn, a field engineer, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Death She died from cancer on May 9, 1999 at her home in Stony Brook, New York. Survivors included her husband, a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren. References External links 1926 births 1999 deaths American child actresses American radio actresses American television actresses Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Emmy Award winners Actresses from San Francisco Ventriloquists 20th-century American actresses