Remember when?

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Hey gang, when was the last time you heard someone say...Great day in the morning!???

That exclamation phrase of surprise rings such a bell in my memory. Yet I can't, for the life of me, remember the TV series or film series character from the 1940s and 1950s who always yelled it [[like a calling card) whenever he, or she, was surprised. He was a well known elderly character actor. It was similar to "Daily Planet" Chief Editor, Perry White, saying "Great Caesar's Ghost!"
That [[the former) saying was very popular among older folks in The African-American community back in The '40s and '50s. Maybe it was just some people who I knew when I was a kid? But, I think there was a TV or film character who said it a lot. I seem to remember that George Stevens [[The Kingfish) said it a lot.

Surely some other oldie [[who has a better memory than I) on this forum, can answer my question.

My answer to your question is: [[1) The last time I heard it in person was probably during the early 1960s. [[2) After that, I probably only heard it watching 1940s or 1950s American films [[which I still do quite often, although, I'm concentrating more on British, Irish, Australian, Canadian, Dutch and Danish films these days).