Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #185
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Date: 6/25/2007 8:14 AM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 185
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Movie Actors on Radio                 [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
      GAME SHOWS                            [ "CHET" <voxpop75@[removed]; ]
      Gosden and Correll transition         [ Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed]; ]
      [removed]                             [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
      Best on Radio                         [ "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed]; ]
      John Tracy                            [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      Another Clueless Person Takes Eddie   [ seandd@[removed] ]
      Re: Movie actrors with the Best radi  [ Joemartelle@[removed] ]
      Re: OTR/OTM & Hollywood Squares       [ "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed]; ]
      Re: Garbo                             [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
      Challenge of the Yukon broadcast day  [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
      6-25 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      HV mimic on Benny show                [ Michael Berger <makiju@[removed]; ]
      The SHADOWY origins of Batman!        [ Anthony Tollin <SanctumOTR@earthlin ]
      OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@c ]

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:40:42 -0400
    From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Movie Actors on Radio

    No body has mentioned Ronald Coleman, a great movie actor, and his wife
    Bonita in "The Halls Of Ivy" I think they were great. Coleman was also
    great when he appeared in dramatic  shows in plays like "If I Were King"
    or "Lost Horizon". He and wife were terrific as Jack Benny's next door
    neighbors.

    Has any one noticed that many movie stars appeared as guests on many
    programs. If you look at  log that lists the guests you should notice
    that they very seldom appear more than once per show. Singers and
    comedians may appeared several tines over the years.

    Frank McGurn

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:41:04 -0400
    From: "CHET" <voxpop75@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  GAME SHOWS
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    hi
    michael gwynne mentioned he had never been on any game shows and
    neither had i. however i did audition for 'dating game' and when
    they asked me what i would do if i were out on a date with TWIGGY
    i said "use her for a bookmark"

    never heard back
    chet norris

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:41:55 -0400
    From: Bhob Stewart <bhob2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Gosden and Correll transition

    The post about the AMOS 'N' ANDY recording segment on HISTORY
    DETECTIVES [[removed]
    [removed]] reminded me of the following:

    At the Museum of Television & Radio/Paley Center, when a selection is
    made, you're given a slip of paper which assigns a three-digit number
    to the show you've selected. Then you sit at a monitor and enter the
    number on the screen with a keyboard.

    One day I accidentally entered an incorrect number and discovered
    that it was possible to bring up the shows other people in the room
    were watching. After that,  on my visits to MT&R, I would idly type
    in random numbers when I was ready to leave. The shows that came up
    were usually of no interest to me, but one day I was fascinated to
    see a half-hour I never knew about. This was a film or kinescope,
    presumably made in 1951, in which Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll
    stood in the center of a stage before a live studio audience and
    introduced, for the first time, the cast members of the forthcoming
    AMOS 'N' ANDY television show. Each costumed actor, when introduced,
    walked onto the stage to enthusiastic applause and stood there
    without speaking as Correll and Gosden continued talking.

    My question: Is there any background info to what I saw? What was the
    title of this show and when did it air? Was it part of the series? If
    not, did it air immediately before the first episode? A week before?
    What?

    Bhob @ [removed]

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:27:37 -0400
    From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  [removed]

    Jim Burns wrote:

>     Imagine what Bogart, and Clark Gable's careers might have been like, the
>     types of movies they would have appeared in, had they lived through the
>     [removed]

    An interesting thought.  They were both nearing the end of thier potential
    leading man days at the time of their deaths.  Would they have accepted
    character roles, or like their comtemporary, Cary Grant, just called it a
    career?  I can imagine Bogart, especially, doing some great character work
    in his 70s.

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:26:58 -0400
    From: "Donald" <alanladdsr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Best on Radio

    Pamela Gitta is quite correct and there is no arguement as to who was the
    best movie actor on radio. Alan Ladd, of course.

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:17:10 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  John Tracy

    I know that the old time radio connection is tenuous, but John Ten
    Broeck Tracy died. He was the deaf son of Spencer Tracy and Louise
    Treadwell Tracy. He was 82 years old. He was born in Milwaukee,
    Wisconsin on June 26, 1924 and he died at his son's ranch in Acton,
    California on June 15, 2007.

    Ron Sayles

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:18:28 -0400
    From: seandd@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Another Clueless Person Takes Eddie Anderson's
     Name in [removed]

    My Google Alert for Jack Benny pulled up this article about a black football player's trouble with the law.

    In it, he makes the case the athlete "Makes us [black people] all look like nothing more than Rochester from the Jack Benny show."

    Hey, if you write for the mightly "[removed]" maybe you better not diminish the performance of the most successful black comedian of his era - who was a fully realized character and not (as Benny writer Milt Josefsberg wrote in his book on the show) either a racial sterotype (at least not purely so and certainly no more than Mr. Kitzel or Dennis Day was) or a subservient character.

    [removed]

    On the plus side, Jack Benny continues to be part of our national conversation, averaging several "hits" per week in the search.  On the minus side is stuff like this.

    Sean Dougherty
    SeanDD@[removed]

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:17:45 -0400
    From: Joemartelle@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Movie actrors with the Best radio presence
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    I believe the actors with the best radio presence are those who had their
    roots firmly planted in [removed]

    DON [removed] [removed]  [removed] CHANDLER (from radio's Our
    Miss Brooks)
    AND LET'S NOT FORGET the fabulous radio performer, BILL CONRAD, who later
    made numerous appearances on television and starred in two of his own TV
    series,
     CANNON and JAKE AND THE FAT MAN.

    As a huge fan of LUX RADIO THEATER,  superb radio performances by major film
    stars , for my money,
    were given by LORETTA YOUNG, CALUDETTE COLBERT, BARBARA STANWYCK, ROBERT
    TAYLOR, CARY GRANT, JIMMY STEWART, BILL BENDIX, FRED MACMURRAY and so many
    other
    Hollywood stars.

    As stated here before, one of my all time favorite movie, TV and  radio
    actors is Jimmy  [removed]
    talk about a delivery made for radio! His acting and particularly his
    narration on the short-lived radio series, THE SIX  SHOOTER is as fine a
    performance
    given by anyone,  anytime! Episodes are available--listen for yourself:)

    JOE MARTELLE
    MESA, COLORADO

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:19:27 -0400
    From: "Brian L Bedsworth" <az2pa@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Re: OTR/OTM & Hollywood Squares

>     Question - Something you will never hear on  TV?
>     Answer - "I'll take Greta Garbo to  block."

    Which was a bit sad in its own way, as Garbo was known by insiders to be a
    fan of the show. However, nobody with the show thought that she would ever,
    in a million years, consent to appear, so nobody ever even tried. Peter
    Marshall, in his autobiography, wonders ruefully what might have happened if
    they had.

    Plenty of the film and radio stars of her era -- or the era immediately
    following -- =did= do turns on the original Squares, though: Bob Hope,
    Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson, Betty Grable, Groucho Marx, Dorothy LaMour,
    Milton Berle, Agnes Moorehead, Howard Duff, Vincent Price, Glenn Ford, Cesar
    Romero, Ann Miller, Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, and literally hundreds more. (*)

    If the current holder of broadcast rights (GSN) ever realizes what a
    treasure it's been sitting on for the last couple of years and starts
    showing these again -- particularly the 1960s shows -- OTR fans are in for
    quite a treat.

    (*) I hope fellow lister Dixon Hayes will forgive my use of some info from
    his amazing HS site,
    <[removed];.

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:12:06 -0400
    From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Garbo
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    In a message dated 6/23/07 10:14:15 PM Central Daylight Time,
    [removed]@[removed] writes:

>     Question - Something you will never hear on  TV?
>     Answer - "I'll take Greta Garbo to block."

    ..which is funny considering Greta (no kidding) wrote Paul Lynde a fan letter
    in care of "The Hollywood Squares"/NBC Burbank, and told Peter Marshall's
    sister she watched the show every day.

    Dixon

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:48:25 -0400
    From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Challenge of the Yukon broadcast day
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    The Challenge of the Yukon log by Terry Salomonson and radiogoldindex shows
    that episodes in August 1943 like "Caught by a Button" were broadcast on
    Thursdays, but the end of the episodes indicate the shows were being
    broadcast on Saturdays. Does anyone know why this is?

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    Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:48:32 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  6-25 births/deaths

    June 25th births

    06-25-1886 - Edna Wheeler Ballard - d. 2-10-1971
    harpist: WBBM Chicago, Illinois
    06-25-1887 - George Abbott - Forestville, NY - d. 1-31-1995
    broadway producer: "Stagestruck"
    06-25-1891 - Cliff Soubier - d. 9-xx-1984
    host: Howard B. Thurston "Thurston the Magician"; Dwight Twentysixer
    "Vic and Sade"
    06-25-1893 - Charlotte Greenwood - South Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-18-1978
    comedienne: "Life with Charlotte Greenwood"; "Charlotte Greenwood Show"
    06-25-1895 - Donald Gallagher - Quincy, IL - d. 8-14-1961
    actor: P. Wallace Carver "Houseboat Hannah"; Humble Dickinson "Joan
    and Kermit"
    06-25-1897 - Wilkie Mahoney - d. 7-1-1976
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show:
    06-25-1898 - Jack Roth - d. 2-12-1980
    drummer: (Memphis Five) "The Jimmy Durante Show"
    06-25-1899 - Arthur Tracy - Kaminetz-Podolski, Russia - d. 10-5-1997
    singer: (The Street Singer) "Street Singer"; "Music That Satisfies"
    06-25-1903 - Anne Revere - NYC - d. 12-18-1990
    actor: "Cavalcade of America"
    06-25-1903 - Earl Ebi - Hollister, CA - d. 1-24-1973
    director: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre";
    "Vic and Sade"
    06-25-1908 - Hawley Ward Ades - Bloomington, IL
    arranger: "The Fred Waring Show"
    06-25-1908 - Larry Berns - Philadelphia, PA
    producer: "Jack Carson Show"; "Our Miss Brooks"; "Lum and Abner"
    06-25-1911 - Martin Gosch - d. 10-20-1973
    producer, creator, writer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Amazing Mr.
    Smith"
    06-25-1911 - Reed Hadley - Petrolia, TX - d. 12-11-1974
    actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"; Chad Remington "Frontier Town"
    06-25-1913 - John Pickard - Lascossas, TN - d. 8-4-1993
    actor: Grant Thursday "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Bruce Barrett "My Son and I"
    06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
    actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
    06-25-1918 - Ken Mayer - California - d. 1-30-1985
    actor: Robbie Robertson "Space Patrol"
    06-25-1919 - Bill Manhoff - Newark, NJ - d. 6-xx-1974
    writer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "Hollywood Showcase"
    06-25-1924 - Phil Nowlan - d. 4-20-2002
    writer: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century based on Nowlan"s comic strip
    06-25-1924 - Sidney Lumet - Philadelphia, PA
    actor: "Let's Pretend"
    06-25-1925 - June Lockhart - NYC
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
    06-25-1925 - Virginia Welles - Wausau, WI
    actor: Cosette (Older) "Les Miserables"
    06-25-1966 - Bogus Wednesday Sayles - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-11-1980
    my beloved whippet

    June 25th deaths

    02-03-1925 - John Fiedler - Platteville, WI - d. 6-25-2005
    actor: Homer Brown "The Aldrich Family"
    04-29-1918 - Tom Rogers - d. 6-25-2005
    writer: Wrote for radio in the 1940s
    05-12-1924 - Tony Hancock - Birmingham, England - d. 6-25-1968
    comedian: "Hancock's Half Hour"
    05-26-1914 - Ziggy Elman - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-25-1968
    trumpet: "Benny Goodman Orchestra", "The Tommy Dorsey Show"
    08-09-1903 - Maurice Wells - Nebraska - d. 6-25-1978
    actor: Donald Putnam "Your Family and Mine"; Warren Biggers "Lawyer
    Tucker"
    09-17-1907 - Warren Burger - St. Paul, MN - d. 6-25-1995
    chief justice of the supreme court: "We Hold These Truths"
    11-10-1891 - Gary Breckner - Illinois - d. 6-25-1945
    announcer: "Al Pearce and His Gang"; "Gateway to Hollywood"
    11-17-1922 - Jack Farren - NYC - d. 6-25-1997
    announcer: "Under Arrest"
    11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
    singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore
    Show"
    11-29-1900 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars - Portland, ME - d. 6-25-1988
    propagandist: Radio Berlin "Vision of an Invasion"
    12-13-1901 - Jay Jostyn - Milwaukee, WI - d. 6-25-1976
    actor: Max Tilley "Life of Mary Sothern"; Mr, District Attorney "Mr.
    District Attorney"
    12-19-1916 - Owen Babbe - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 6-25-1996
    announcer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"

    Ron Sayles
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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    Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:49:56 -0400
    From: Michael Berger <makiju@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  HV mimic on Benny show
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    Listening to the Benny show about the $85,000 bet [ 10/28/45 ] heard a superb
    imitation of the famed newscaster HV Kaltenborn that cracked up the audience,
    and me, too. Wonder who that was? Dennis Day, who was a great mimic, was
    still in the service at the time. Anyone know who the talented fellow was?

    Michael Berger

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    Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:50:13 -0400
    From: Anthony Tollin <SanctumOTR@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The SHADOWY origins of Batman!

    If anyone is interested in discovering where the plot of the first
    Batman story came from, I'm interviewed about a recent historical
    discovery at:

    [removed]

    --Anthony Tollin (in the shadows)

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    Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:59:11 -0400
    From: "Jerry Haendiges" <jerryhaendiges@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK

    Hi Friends,

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    Fake Sponsor is Meal-O-Wheat Bread

    FOLLOW THE MOON
    06-29-37    "County Shakeup"
    NBC RED WOODBURY FACIAL SOAP
    Stars: Elsie Hicks, Nick Dawson

    MYSTERY IS MY HOBBY
    Episode 42    1949    "Radio Comedians Feud"
    Stars Glen Langen

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    "THE CHASE AND SANBORN HOUR"
    Episode 5    6-13-37    Guests: Joan Blondell, Richard Rogers & Larry Hart
    NBC Chase and Sanborn Coffee Sundays: 8:00 - 9:00 pm
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    HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

    THE SEALED BOOK
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    THE CREAKING DOOR
    So. African Broadcast    1950's   :Alive In His Grave" - A horror Classic !

    RADIO PREVIEWS THE MOVIES
    1935    MGM   LEO IS ON THE AIR presents "Broadway Melody of 1936" Starring:
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    THE GLOWING DIAL

     Dragnet - # 175 "The Big Number"
    originally aired October 26, 1952 on NBC
    Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Whit Connor, Jack Kruschen, Harry
    Bartell, Jonathan Hole, Virginia Gregg, George Fenneman announcing the show,
    Hal Gibney announcing the commercials.
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    originally aired January 18, 1953 on NBC
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    announcing the commercials.
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    originally aired March 8, 1953 on NBC
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    Kruschen, Lillian Buyeff, George Fenneman announcing the show, Hal Gibney
    announcing the commercials.
    Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes

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    originally aired June 28, 1953 on NBC
    Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Virginia Gregg, Vic Perrin, Joyce
    McCluskey, Harry Bartell, George Fenneman announcing the show, Hal Gibney
    announcing the commercials.
    Sponsor: Chesterfield Cigarettes

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    ==================================

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         Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
         The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
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