Walter Tetley

Walter Tetley

Februari 04, 2021
Alice Faye, Ann Blyth, cartoons, Frankie Remley, Harold Peary, Lillian Randolph, Phil Harris, radio shows, Walter Tetley, Willard Waterman

Walter Tetley was a giant in a world inhabited by scores of immensely talented colleagues.   He rose to success on his talent, but could onl...

Holiday Inn on the Radio with Gordon MacRae

Holiday Inn on the Radio with Gordon MacRae

November 26, 2020
Gordon MacRae, Holiday Inn, radio shows, Thanksgiving

Wishing you here in the U.S. a very peaceful and pleasant Thanksgiving, and to you, our neighbors in Canada, Mexico, and around the world......

Orson Welles and the Blessed Eloquence of Moral Outrage

Orson Welles and the Blessed Eloquence of Moral Outrage

September 03, 2020
Orson Welles, radio shows

Los Angeles Sentinel , August 15, 1946, p. 1. Orson Welles, famous for his War of the Worlds broadcast on radio in 1938, actually delivered...

Lionel Barrymore - The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present

Lionel Barrymore - The Spirit of Christmas Past and Present

Desember 20, 2019
A Christmas Carol (1938), Dr. Kildare series, Franklin Roosevelt, It's a Wonderful Life, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Louis B. Mayer, radio shows, Reginald Owen

Lionel Barrymore was Ebenezer Scrooge for a generation.  For another generation, he became Mr. Potter, perhaps a deeper, more disturbed, and...

Listen to THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - 1938

Listen to THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - 1938

Oktober 31, 2019
Orson Welles, radio shows, The War of the Worlds

Have a listen to my favorite Halloween tradition -- "The War of the Worlds" as heard on October 30, 1938 on the Mercury Theater ra...

Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur

Oktober 17, 2011
A Lady Takes a Chance, Fred Allen, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, radio shows

This is the 111th anniversary of the birth of Jean Arthur. The clips below might help to illustrate her unique quality of preoccupied self k...

Our Miss Brooks - 1956

Our Miss Brooks - 1956

Februari 10, 2011
Don Porter, Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Gloria McMillan, Jane Morgan, Jeff Chandler, Leonard Smith, Nick Adams, Our Miss Brooks, radio shows, Richard Crenna, Robert Rockwell, television

Our Miss Brooks (1956) is probably one of the earliest, if not the earliest, movie spinoff of a successful television show. It pales in com...