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Hello and welcome back to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm Justeen Ward, your host and guide into the world of the supernatural in honor of Halloween. Suspense, "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" expanded to an hour format for about half a year in 1948. Today we have present one of those hour long shows for your enjoyment. Robert Montgomery hosts the show. The hour consists of two half hour radio plays tied together by weather, first rain and then heat. Both are set in England. The second story, August Heat, has been singled out as one of the best plays of the Suspense series. Enjoy Suspense "Wet Saturday" and "August Heat" broadcast March 20, 1948 on CBS
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Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward. Each year as Halloween draws near we treat our listeners to chills and thrills. We select tales of mystery, horror and suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat. After all, your imagination can create the best special effects! This week we have a radio version of a famous film noir mystery, Double Indemnity. It features the original stars from the movie, Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. They both were among the record holders for appearances on Lux, Stanwyck 23 times and MacMurray 26 times. The films story was co-written by it's director Billy Wilder and the famous mystery writer Raymond Chandler. You will enjoy Lux Radio Theater "Double Indemnity" broadcast October 30, 1950 on CBS. The Old-Time Radio Hour is broadcast each week over the World Wide Web through iTunes and RSS. Thank you so much for listening and please join us again next week as we bring you a real ghost story.
Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and this week we continue our tribute to Norman Corwin with another high point of his career. President Franklin Roosevelt suggested that radio should do a special broadcast to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Radio's "poet laureate" Norman Corwin seemed to be the natural choice. It was a big job, a 60 minute special that aired on all four networks simultaneously. "We Hold These Truths" turned out to have special meaning. The attack on Pearl Harbor happened only a week before the broadcast and 60 million listeners tuned in, riding a swelling national movement of patriotism. The cast is stellar, with James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter Huston, Marjorie Main, Edward G Robinson, Rudy Vallee, and Orson Welles. You will also hear the voice of President Roosevelt. Bernard Herrman conducted in Hollywood with cutaways to the East Coast where Leopold Stokowski lead the New York Philharmonic. Norman Corwin's words touched the hearts of Americans as they headed into a war that was to demand great sacrifice. This is Columbia Workshop "We Hold These Truths" broadcast December 15, 1941 on all four national networks. The Old-Time Radio Hour is broadcast each week throughout the World Wide Web. Please join us again next week as we bring you more wonderful shows from Radio's Golden Age.
Hello and welcome to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and this week we bring you more of the creative genius of Norman Corwin. First we have a radio play by Corwin based on a story by Lucille Fletcher called "My Client Curley". It was originally broadcast on the Columbia Workshop in March of 1940. We are presenting another production done by The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater six years later that is in excellent sound. This wonderful comedy makes fun of popular culture in a way that still seems fresh 75 years later. It stars Robert Montgomery as the agent. Sit back and enjoy The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater "My Client Curley" first broadcast February 4, 1946 on CBS. The Old-Time Radio Hour broadcasts each week over the World Wide Web. I'm Justeen Ward your host and next we have a unique comedy in verse by Norman Corwin. It became a Christmas favorite with Corwin's imaginative rhymes describing Roman Emperor Nero leaving hell to try and sabotage Christmas. Orson Welles plays Nero with just the right amount of humility. Edward R Murrow compared Corwin's script to the best of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first heard on Corwin's series "Words Without Music" on Christmas of 1938 but this is a recording of a production broadcast six years later. Enjoy "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" by Norman Corwin broadcast December 19, 1940 on CBS. We appreciate your finding us on RSS, iTunes or throughout the World Wide Web. Next week we treat you to a patriotic tour de force by Norman Corwin that I know you will find entertaining.
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