Drama X Theater

Radio City Playhouse with the drama titled, Whistle Daughter Whistle . This episode aired July 31, 1948. Featuring: Mildred Clinton, Leonore Garland, Ernest Kinoy, Jean Tatum Sunday mornings the New York Times has several pictures with stories, the wedding announcements! In Peggy Marks' house the Sunday society pages are carefully saved by her mother who is desperate for her to appear in those pag...

The Exile is featured on, Screen Directors Playhouse . This episode aired January 23, 1949. Story: In 1660, Charles Stuart (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), deposed as king of England by Oliver Cromwell and the Roundheads, is in exile in the Netherlands with a few loyalists. During his exile he meets Katie, a Dutch farm owner and flower seller. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Raymon...

Scarlet Pimpernel is featured on Vick's Matinee Theater . This episode aired November 20, 1944. Starring: Victor Jory The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903. : : : : : You can donate to show your support fo...

Hollywood Star Playhouse with their drama titled Exhibit A . This episode was sponsored by Bromo Seltzer and aired Monday, November 13, 1950. Featuring: Mel Ferrer, William Conrad, Rosalind Russell, Herbert Rawlinson, Maurice Zim (writer) Story: A blonde lady is murdered after getting off a bus. An arrest is made, the man confesses then recants. Now, the jury must decide if the arrested man is gui...

Lux Radio Theatre adapts the 1936 film, The Voice of Bugle Ann , starring Lionel Barrymore and Anne Shirley. This episode aired July 6, 1936. Storyline: Jacob Terry moves to the county to raise sheep and installs a wire fence. This upsets the neighbors, as they worry their dogs will enter his fence to terrorize the sheep. Jacobs vows to shoot any dogs or people that enter his land. Then Jacob...

Columbia Workshop with their experimental drama, Cartwheel . This is the third episode from CW. This episode aired August 1, 1936. A short play considered one of the best experimental radio dramas. It contains 23 scenes and 9 actors playing 34 different roles with a time lapse of 50 years in 15 minutes of playing time. Featuring: Ray Collins, Arlene Francis, Frances Fuller, Vic Knight (producer, d...

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs on Academy Award Theater . This episode aired April 27, 1946. Academy Award Theater aired on CBS Radio from March 30, 1946 to December 18, 1946. Sponsored by: Squibb. The famous fairy tale based on the Disney movie with the Disney songs. Walt Disney won the 1937 Special Academy Award. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put in...

Theater Guild on The Air presents The Guardsman . This episode aired September 30, 1945. Starring: Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt Story: A jealous and insecure stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty. Based on the 1911 play, Testör , by Ferenc Molnár. The movie was released, November 7, 1931, also with Lynn Fontanne and Alfre...

Lux Radio Theatre adapts the musical play and later movie, Irene . This episode aired June 29, 1936. Irene was a successful broadway play in 1919, then a movie in 1926. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Regis Toomey Plot: Irene is a humble but ambitious, hard-working Irish girl from the West side of Manhattan, who runs a little music store with her widowed mother. Irene is sent to tune a piano f...

The Screen Guild Theater puts on Can We Forget . This episode aired January 22, 1939. Plot: You are invited to a gay party at an exclusive hotel in Park Avenue where the most photographed, the most discussed, the most envied debutante of the season Hilda Rutherford is having her coming out party. Among her many admirers in the stag line is a young man named Alan Barker. Cast: Oscar Bradley, Frank...

The Ford Theater adapts the popular theater production of Carmen Jones to radio. Carmen Jones with an all black & brown cast. It was, turned into a popular movie with Dorothy Dandridge , Pearl Bailey and Harry Belafonte in 1952. This episode aired November 16, 1947. Radio Cast: Irving Barnes, Valerie Black, Maurice Ellis, Oscar Hammerstein (narrator), Juano Hernandez, Howard Lindsay (host), Lu...

The Skippy Hollywood Theatre episode this week is, Goodbye My Love . This episode aired April 18, 1947. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- SCI FI...

Screen Director's Playhouse helps us bring in the month of June with their drama titled, Let's Live A Little . A radio production of the comedy film of the same name (1948). This episode aired January 16, 1949. Plot: Bob Cummings reprises his original film role of a stressed out advertising executive, Duke Crawford, whose most important client has already changed her mind three times on their curr...

This week is the Of Unsound Mind episode from Radio City Playhouse . Stars: Jeanne Tatum, Casey Allan, and Phyl Sterling. This episode aired July 17, 1948. A woman thinks her husband is insane. But gradually we find that she is the one with the "twisted, little mind." : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are...

My Favorite Wife, starring Victor Jory, on Vicks Matinee Theater . This episode aired November 05, 1944. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- SCI F...

Lux Radio Theatre episode 86 is this weeks post, The Dark Angel . The cast includes Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall. An adaptation of the 1935 film of the same name, also starred Merle and Herbert. This episode aired June 22, 1936. Plot: Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Both Alan and Gerald are in love with Kitty, who in turn has been infa...

Hollywood Star Playhouse is this weeks program, let's listen to 22nd episode titled, A Question of Time . Sponsored by: Bromo Seltzer. The cast includes: Anne Baxter, William Powell, Herbert Rawlinson, and written by Maurice Zim. This episode aired September 18, 1950. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are...

This week the from the series, Columbia Workshop , with their episode titled, Broadway Evening . The story follows a couple walking down Broadway during an evening, written by Leopold Proser. The cast includes: Brewster Morgan, Irving Reis. This episode aired July 25, 1936. Columbia Workshop  aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS Radio) from 1936 to 1943, and 1946...

Paul Muni stars in Academy Award Theater drama, The Life of Louis Pasteur . This episode aired April 13, 1946. A dramatization about the scientist and his fight against ignorance and disease and his invention of pasteurization. It stars Paul Muni revitalizing his Academy Award Best Actor winning lead role in the film, The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936). : : : : : You can donate to show your support...

This week is Jacobowsky and the Colonel drama from Theater Guilde on The Air . Starring: Louis Calhern, Annabella (Suzanne Charpentier), and Oscar Karlweis. This episode aired September 16, 1945. This was adapted from the play Jacobowsky Und Der Oberst , by Czech-born Franz Werfel, which was later adapted into the movie Me and the Colonel in 1958. The film starred: Danny Kaye, Curd Jürgens&nb...

Miss Brown of Worcester is this weeks drama, from The Screen Guild Theater . Starring: Herbert Marshall, Fred Astaire, Loretta Young, Franklin Pangborn, Tina Colotto. This episode aired January 15, 1939. Plot: In this musical comedy Alice Brown and her former love Jerry Gale the famous orchestra leader have been doing the town for past two weeks with a man she is engaged t...

This week is Ah, Wilderness from The Ford Theater . A comedy/drama starring: Alan Bunch and Elsie Hicks. This episode aired November 11, 1947. : : : : : : website: https://otr.duane.media | email: info@otr.duane.media social media: Instagram @duane.otr | Twitter @duane_otr Subscribe to receive new post notifications and if inclined -- leave a brief review or rating on your podcast provider. Thank...

More than just delicious peanut butter the Skippy Hollywood Theatre episode of the week is Strictly Business . Starring, Julie Bishop. This episode aired April 11, 1947. : : : : : : Twitter @duane_otr Subscribe to receive new post notifications and if inclined -- leave a brief review or rating on your podcast provider. Thank you for your support.

This week is Let's Live A Little , a romantic comedy adapted for Screen Director's Playhouse . Starring Robert Cummings, Virginia Gregg, and John Dehner. This episode aired January 16, 1949. This radio production is from the film of the same name. The film was only a moderate success, and the first and last film produced by United California Productions. Let's Live A Little was later renamed to He...

Welcome folks, let's enjoy the series Radio City Playhouse and their production of Ground Floor Window . Written by Ernest Kinoy; starring Joe DeSantis, Bernard Grant, Marilyn Erskine, Anna Karen, and Arthur Q. Bryan. This episode aired July 10, 1948. Radio City Playhouse was a live half-hour series that aired on NBC Radio from July 1948 to January 1950. The series presented origina...