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Cecil B. DeMille was a legend, a trailblazer, and a person of ambition and talent. In this episode, DeMille talks with others like him, movers and shakers who have risen to the top of their chosen fields. Greatness, talking with greatness on the Lux Radio Theater. DeMille's guests include: Father Flanagan H.V. Kaltenborn Grand Duchess Marie The Daughter of William Jennings Bryant General Hugh Samu...

History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. Curated clips of live broadcasts from popular radio shows of the day. In today's soundscape: Mary's Springtime Poem! Ed Sullivan wants to know! Is Jack Benny the real Jack Benny?! And more! This episode features: Orson Welles Laurence Olivier Noah Beery Cecil B DeMille Clark Gable Claudette Colbert Eddie "Rochester" Anderson J...

  In 1939 Dorothy LaMour was the leading lady on a show that was neck and neck with Jack Benny for number 1 in the ratings. Not bad for a lower class girl who dropped out of school at 14 to support her family. Now, at only 25 years old, her ambition and talent had paid off handsomely. Also Featuring Don Ameche and Rudy Vallee. Charlie and Edgar also make an appearance. Popular songs and Novelty Tu...

History through the eyes of people as they lived it, reported by radio. In today's soundscape: Baby Snooks and Daddy visit the 1939 New York's World Fair! An Irish Ghost Story entitled "Faith is Not always a Lady"!! A Gentle Reminder to Always Remember to Lux your Stockings!! This episode features: The Family Doctor Cecil B DeMille Jimmy Cagney Fibber McGee The Merry Macs Jimmy Stewart Robert Youn...

  These Interviews were a regular feature of The Lux Radio Theater, a show that presented radio versions of current Hollywood films.  At act break host Cecil B. Demille and an expert guest would comment on the radio play so far. Sometimes the guest would be from the rich, famous and powerful classes, we'll hear those in part 2. This episode presents the common working men who did the jobs that wee...

I had thought Dorothy Lamour to be just another pretty face who had a technically good voice but was somewhat interchangeable with the other bright, young, pretty songstresses of old time variety radio in that Dorothy's songs were good enough but stylistically the same you heard on other popular shows. Then I discovered this musical treasure trove and was forced to completely re-think my opinion....

1939 was a year where everything changed. An uneasy peace became all out war.   Society and culture and government were questioned as never before. The evil inside the human race made itself known that year, as ferocious as in the past but applied with an improved efficiency. Radio was there to witness it.   And I got to Live 1939 second hand through these radio voices from the past. In my OTR col...

Charlie McCarthy   was created by Edgar Bergen based on a wise cracking newsboy named Charlie from the neighborhood.   High Schooler Edgar Bergen sketched the design for Charlie. More than a little obsessed,   Bergen decided to bring his Charlie to life. Bergen built Charlie's movable body but paid woodworker Theodore Mack $35 to carve Charlie's head. Edgar named his completed dummy Charlie McCart...

1939 was the year the country woke up to the horrific scale of the death to come on land, sea, and in the air   Seems obvious now, but at the time lots of people thought the first great war   had been so terrible it could never happen again. I wish they had been right.   The Soundscapes for 1939 series is the story of optimism to pessimism, of hope to resignation, compromise to confrontation throu...

Connee Boswell was one of the first white artists to integrate the jazz and swing experimentations of black New Orleans musicians into popular music. The tempo, rhythm and pitch changes she and her sisters introduced to close harmony arrangements fused together Classical , Jazz, Swing, and Blues as never before. The work she did on the radio and on the screen as well as behind the scenes as writer...

For the Previous 2 episodes, The Year 1939 – Politics and the year 1939 – Culture and Technology, I listened to almost 1000 hours of OTR in chronological order. I got to hear 1939 unfold through broadcasts from the day and learn what the podcasts should be about. As I go, I create a best of collection of clips I might possibly use in the podcast that isn't written yet. This results in a rather lar...

There was no happy ending for 1939. The whole decade was spent clawing our way out of financial disaster, now we got a humanitarian disaster beyond imagining as slaughter continues world wide. But Life doesn't hold still! This episode features the cultural, technological, and social changes that occurred over the noise of the war in 1939! FEATURING Dick Powell The Teddy Powell Orchestra Orson Well...

1939 part 1 is about crisis, murder, cruelty and destruction through the radio broadcasts of the day. Hitler, chaos and some really hot Jazz licks. FEATURING Mary Livingston Jack Benny Fibber McGee and Molly Orson Welles Pearl Buck Anna Mae Wong Franklin Roosevelt Daddy and Snooks Cecil B Demille H.V. Kalternberg Winston Churchill Nelson Eddy The Artie Shaw Orchestra And More!!

We've got both reassuring fantasy and unsettling reality in this episode. On one hand we'll hear old friends Donald Duck and the Seven Dwarfs in a fairy tale setting, and we'll hear our soon to be enemy, Nazi Germany take over the real world Austria. Starring: Orson Welles Don Wilson Jack Benny Mary Livingstone Phil Harris Kenny Baker Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Mickey Mouse Minnie Mouse Goofy Walt...

This Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live December 25 through December 29, 1938.   Starring: Don Wilson Mary Livingstone Jack Benny Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Kenny Baker Andy Devine Phil Harris Joan Bennett Cecil B. DeMille Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Walt Disney Robert Young Bill Stern Frank Morgan   Featured Songs Include: Whistle While...

This Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live December 11 through December 22 , 1938.   Starring: The Cast of Family Doctor Fred Allen Santa Claus Robert Young Lionel Barrymore Reginald Owen Jack Benny Eddie "Rochester" Anderson Don Wilson Mary Livingstone Phil Harris Kenny Baker Andy Devine Hanley Stafford Fanny Brice In this episode: Fred Allen i...

My personal OTR collection contains thousands of hours of old time radio I use   in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen to each episode I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits to create a best of reel as a reference for when writing the scripts. And that's what you are about to hear, part of that best of reel, a one hour chunk of...

My personal OTR collection contains thousands of hours of old time radio I use   in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen to each episode I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits to create a best of reel as a reference for when writing the scripts. And that's what you are about to hear, part of that best of reel, a one hour chunk of...

My personal OTR collection contains thousands of hours of old time radio I use   in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen to each episode I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits to create a best of reel as a reference for when writing the scripts. And that's what you are about to hear, part of that best of reel, a one hour chunk of...

The Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live November 2 through November 6, 1938.   Starring: Fred Allen Harry Von Zell Portland Hoffa Orson Welles Don Wilson Jack Benny Phil Harris Mary Livingstone Kenny Baker Bill Goodwin Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Ray Noble Jean Arthur And The Merry Macs   In this episode: Fred Allen's Tribute to November! So...

My personal OTR collection contains thousands of hours of old time radio I use   in order to create the year by year historical When Radio Ruled documentaries, and as I listen to each episode I extract the most interesting and entertaining bits to create a best of reel as a reference for when writing the scripts. And that's what you are about to hear, part of that best of reel, a one hour chunk of...

The Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live October 16   through October 23, 1938.   Starring: Adolf Hitler Don Wilson Jack Benny Mary Livingstone Phil Harris Kenny Baker Andy Devine Winston Churchill Orson Welles Robert Young Judy Garland Fanny Brice Hanley Stafford and Joan Crawford FEATURED SONGS INCLUDE Zing Went the Strings of my Heart – Judy...

The Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live September 15 through October 10, 1938.   Starring: Cast of Blair of the Mounties Cast of Columbia Workshop Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom Frank Morgan Fanny Brice Cast of Family Doctor Cecil B. DeMille Ephraim Zimbalist Neville Chamberlain Phil Harris Kenny Baker Mary Livingstone Don Wilson Eddie "Rochester" An...

The Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live August 28 through September 13, 1938. Starring: Edward Arnold Charlie McCarthy Edgar Bergen Robert Young Meredith Wilson Fanny Brice Hanley Stafford Alice Faye Frank Morgan Father Flanagan Cast of Family Doctor Orson Welles Judy Garland Cast of Family Doctor Cast of Blair of the Mounties   Featured Songs...